What I Learned Today

[FirstBlood]

That's not stealing. That's dumbass cashiers.

Ringing up shiitakes as white buttons at the self checkout is stealing.

I mean unless you're unwrapping all the bunches and rewrapping them with one twisty tie. And if so, bravo.

[kedawa]

Today I learned some grocery shopping skills.
On a related note, when I was young boner, I used to tuck porn mags inside a newspaper and then buy the newspaper.

On the topic of the racist north, despite what most Canadians believe, or would have you believe, there was slavery here as well. Although it technically wasn't 'Canada' at the time, the french colonies permitted slavery of black folks.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I learned that given the right mood, you can get a thread locked instead of just getting carded.
I think it's an exception and not the rule though.

[Josh]

Why have I never liberated produce from the self checkout? holy shit.

if so, bravo.

It really wouldn't even be that hard.

[FirstBlood]

yeah but it would take some balls.

Punching in the wrong code at self checkout you even have an alibi. "What I don't even know what kind of mushrooms these are!"

[Cowutopia]

I learned about sudden hearing loss from NPR.

[A Robot Bit Me]

I learned the word "inveigle." It's a good one.

[Doc Holliday]

I found happiness today, not just for the interim, but forever.

[Doc Holliday]

I also discovered George W Bush likes to paint pretty pictures in the tub.


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[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

An excerpt from The Greening of America chapter 5: "Anatomy of the Corporate State" by Charles A. Reich

The American Corporate State today can be thought of as a single vast corporation, with every person as an involuntary member and employee. It consists primarily of large industrial organizations, plus nonprofit institutions such as foundations and the educational system, all related to the whole as divisions to a business corporation. Government is only a part of the state, but government coordinates it and provides a variety of needed services. The Corporate State is a complete reversal of the original American ideal and plan. The State, and not the market or the people or any abstract economic laws, determines what shall be produced, what shall be consumed, and how it shall be allocated. It determines, for example, that railroads shall decay while highways flourish; that coal miners shall be poor and advertising executives rich. Jobs and occupations in the society are rigidly defined and controlled, and arranged in a hierarchy of rewards, status, and authority. An individual can move from one position to another, but he gains little freedom thereby, for in each position he is subject to conditions imposed upon it; individuals have no protected area of liberty, privacy, or individual sovereignty beyond the reach of the State. The State is subject neither to democratic controls, constitutional limits, or legal regulation. Instead, the organizations in the Corporate State are motivated by the demands of technology and of their own internal structure...The legal system is not primarily concerned with justice, equality, or individual rights; it functions as an instrument of State domination, and it acts to prevent the intervention of human values or individual choices. Although the forces driving the State are impersonal rather than evil, they are wholly indifferent to man's needs, and tend to have the same consequences as would a system expressly designed for the purpose of destroying human beings and their society.