Can’t afford a boat? Well, a rising tide lifts dead bodies just as well. Until they drown, that is

Passed 25 laws? That’s wild

The black music scene is relatively opaque. There has long been speculation that black music has been an area of influence for political actors to influence the apartheid regime. There’s a relatively recent interview wherein an artist claims that the lyrics and song selections were steered towards violent crime by record company execs who had large financial interests in the prison system. The drug trade, that the CIA relies on so heavily, has a strong dependency on the apartheid regime and the behaviors of ghettoized subcultures.

I agree, it’s not the same situation as Epstein, but between the compramat factory, the murders, the constant references to Illuminati, etc, and now suicide watch, it reads a lot like a long running op.

I am pretty certain they need him dead. The allegations, including a monitoring room of the entire mansion and lots of compramat seems a lot like he’s a black Epstein, an asset for the CIA. They probably will kill him

I think the US will absolutely attempt it. I don’t think Taiwan will agree to it.

The US would have to get some true psychotics into Taiwanese leadership for them to agree to hosting nukes.

Jesus Christ. “Can we use nukes without destroying our country’s ability to feed people? Or if we use nukes do you think our people might starve and therefore revolt against us?”

It’s the judges job to review the arguments for congruence with law. In a contrived example, if you go to court for a speeding ticket and argue ignorance of the speed limit, the judge’s job is stop that shit from consuming court time because it’s not the job of the jury to determine whether ignorance is a valid defense. By the rules, it isn’t.

Yo, I am so optimistic it hurts.

Who the fuck cares

Oh don’t worry. We can leave it up to the anarchists to turn derelict commercial space into housing.

I do think the central planning does separate China from other countries that use market forces. It’s not the only thing that separates them, but it is a line of demarcation. My point was more nuanced which was that things like product quality and prices couldn’t be attributed to central planning directly because China is using markets to develop and coordinate those aspects of the economy. Without that direct attribution, we run the risk of saying “China product quality good and prices and low” and being met with libs saying “because market capitalism works”.

Pain, trauma, suffering, the need to be seen, the need to be heard, the anguish of alienation.

It’s a valid point. I would say there are two hypotheses - one is that running fulfillment out of those stores is cost effective. The other is that online ordering is a required customer experience to compete with Amazon despite it being less cost effective.

I think we’re seeing the death of retail, not its transformation. Retail still hold all of this real estate, so they’re trying to make a go of it, but drop shipping from centralized fulfillment centers with robotics and fit-to-purpose infrastructure and technology is going to beat Instacart and gig-economy serfs on a cost basis.

The only reason DG might try to turn a store into a mini-fulfillment center is to liquidate it’s inventory as cheaply as possible and then shutter the place. They are reporting themselves that their customers are literally running out of money. More than likely, when their customers can’t buy, they’ll just shutter the store and pay a Big Lots to just liquidate all the inventory.

All these shops are sitting on dying commercial real estate. That whole market is falling apart. In the end, it’s just gonna be bankruptcy proceedings and consolidations, because no one can make your local dollar general into a fulfillment center without a major capital investment and that’s highly unlikely to turn a profit.

I don’t understand why you are so belligerent.

The thread started when someone said that the move is to turn every retail Dollar General into a fulfillment center. Now you’re trying to establish that you are part the most oppressed class of workers - retail workers.

I’m done.

Retail is a fucking hell of work that should not exist, and its workers are treated like dogshit servants

As are warehouse workers. I understand that retail workers suffer. I just don’t think that you could convert every retail shop into a micro-fulfillment center. It just wouldn’t be cost effective.

also doing online order fulfillment without the customers shopping is literally what this is about. I was ALREADY DOING IT.

I mean, this is just silly on the part of the company and won’t last because, as you say, it won’t actually be cost effective to do it. Retail shops are not meant for warehouse operations and cannot be converted effectively. They’re not better off converting every retail location in a micro-warehouse, they’re better off closing 75% of locations and consolidating into larger warehouses with actual fulfillment infrastructure.

But the people working them are going to be abused, over worked, and underpaid all the same. It’ll be a different qualitatively, but trauma isn’t comparable. Both jobs are terrible under capitalism.

Uhhh, warehouses also have the exact same benefit of capital labor relations and low minimum wages and they still employ far more people than retail outfits do because, again, the customers do the picking. I don’t know what to tell you. Go work at an Amazon fulfillment center?

Have you seen what Amazon has to do to make their warehouses cost effective? It’s a massive endeavor that requires incredible infrastructure. They aren’t just converting random retail storefronts into fulfillment centers.

I think if you did the analysis, you’d see exactly why retail stores exist and why Piggly Wiggly was an innovator in creating a massively profitable model - picking is a laborious, time consuming, human activity. If you can make your customers pick their own orders, you save massively on labor.

The whole point of the reail shop was to make the shoppers do the labor of walking the storehouse, finding the items, picking them, colating them, and transporting them. Converting every store into a mini warehouse will increase labor costs. It will require consolidation to achieve the vision you have put forth.