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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Oscar Wild posted:

Ms. Monopoly should be just Monopoly but every time you pass go you get $164.
The real thing actually does that opposite way:

"Unlike the classic game, women will collect 240 Monopoly bucks when they pass "go," while male players will collect the usual 200. The idea is to create a game where women make more than men, the first game to do so, according to Hasbro.

It's "a fun new take on the game that creates a world where women have an advantage often enjoyed by men," the company said in a statement. "But don't worry, if men play their cards right, they can make more money too."
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/10/us/hasbro-ms-monopoly-trnd/index.html

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Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.
That's just gonna convince a bunch of dudes that sexism isn't a big problem because they were able to win Ms. Monopoly.

Pen Expers
May 3, 2006

Pillbug

Awesome, Thanks. Also lol at all the replies about how stealing is always wrong.

change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

https://twitter.com/DavidAgStone/status/1258965600434417664

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

https://twitter.com/fingerbiaster/status/1258894216698032128?s=21

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
lol

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Hard to pick a side here

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
kill the landlord. Funco tenant is already dead

One More Fat Nerd
Apr 13, 2007

Mama’s Lil’ Louie

Nap Ghost

SniperWoreConverse posted:

kill the landlord. Funco tenant is already dead

Yeah, without pops, life is not worth living.

HerniaFlange
Aug 4, 2013

You when you read my posts:
Gotta have my pops
And housing
Oh no this is a real dilemma

HerniaFlange has issued a correction as of 19:06 on May 9, 2020

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

r/loveforlandlords is some wild poo poo. I can’t tell if it’s making fun of landlords or if it’s landlords having fun by posting exaggerated edgy poo poo that they’re kind of on board with but know would be unacceptable to say out loud. It’s probably both isn’t it.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



not sure how doing free labor for a private company, which is used to replace workers, is Morally Correct.

i almost always put it back but i feel like a sucker, the grocery store is exploiting your desire to not be an rear end in a top hat to allow them to hire less workers, essentially.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003


Oh for fucks sake

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

not sure how doing free labor for a private company, which is used to replace workers, is Morally Correct.

Somebody still has to get the carts from the cart return. I really doubt that there's actually any substantial reduction in labor

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

not sure how doing free labor for a private company, which is used to replace workers, is Morally Correct.

i almost always put it back but i feel like a sucker, the grocery store is exploiting your desire to not be an rear end in a top hat to allow them to hire less workers, essentially.

Man when I was a kid pretty much every grocery store had a bagger who they made push your bags out to your car for you if you asked. I had friends who were still employed doing that when I was in high school in the late 90s but it was dying out by then.

Gripweed posted:

Somebody still has to get the carts from the cart return. I really doubt that there's actually any substantial reduction in labor

Nah. Baggers used to be way more of a thing

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

FacebookEmpathyMom posted:

Man when I was a kid pretty much every grocery store had a batter who the made push your bags out to your car for you if you asked. I had friends who were still employed doing that when I was in high school in the late 90s but it was dying out by then.

That was not a thing. The baggers just wanted to gently caress your mom

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Gripweed posted:

Somebody still has to get the carts from the cart return. I really doubt that there's actually any substantial reduction in labor

idk it seems like there would be a pretty big difference in a larger store. its just another small part of the neoliberal process including self checkout, etc where labor is transferred from the worker to the customer, screwing over both.

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Gripweed posted:

That was not a thing. The baggers just wanted to gently caress your mom

Nah like I said when I was in high school I had friends who worked at the local grocery store and they’d bitch about how they weren’t allowed to accept tips. It was dying by then but it was definitely a thing

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

idk it seems like there would be a pretty big difference in a larger store. its just another small part of the neoliberal process including self checkout, etc where labor is transferred from the worker to the customer, screwing over both.

I know it's hellworld and always assume we're getting hosed over, but I genuinely think the primary purpose of cart returns is so that people will put their carts there instead of leaving them in parking spaces and making it harder for future customers to park. Even back before cart returns, it's not like stores had somebody in the parking lot all the time to grab carts as soon as they became abandoned. They always would send someone out periodically. And now if they're getting them from the cart return instead of from all over, that doesn't seem like a huge reduction in labor for the store. Just a reduction in pain in the rear end for the employee and people trying to park

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

https://twitter.com/JaneOst_/status/1259178970957963264

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Gripweed posted:

I know it's hellworld and always assume we're getting hosed over, but I genuinely think the primary purpose of cart returns is so that people will put their carts there instead of leaving them in parking spaces and making it harder for future customers to park. Even back before cart returns, it's not like stores had somebody in the parking lot all the time to grab carts as soon as they became abandoned. They always would send someone out periodically. And now if they're getting them from the cart return instead of from all over, that doesn't seem like a huge reduction in labor for the store. Just a reduction in pain in the rear end for the employee and people trying to park

sure, and to fix that they could have hired more workers to collect carts. instead they put the labor onto their customers.

Comrayn
Jul 22, 2008

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

not sure how doing free labor for a private company, which is used to replace workers, is Morally Correct.

i almost always put it back but i feel like a sucker, the grocery store is exploiting your desire to not be an rear end in a top hat to allow them to hire less workers, essentially.

this guy is inside deliberately pissing all over the floor because he thinks the company will hire more janitors. a true job creator.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Comrayn posted:

this guy is inside deliberately pissing all over the floor because he thinks the company will hire more janitors. a true job creator.

:rolleyes:

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgmaZLQoIcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEwuD3EBIiI

Blendy
Jun 18, 2007

She thinks I'm a haughty!

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

sure, and to fix that they could have hired more workers to collect carts. instead they put the labor onto their customers.

I don't think all jobs need to be saved. The problem is people are compelled to take physically demanding unskilled labor jobs because they're forced to pay rent and buy food and other things they have to have to live. Demanding more humans fill the role of cart return doesn't make things better, it's the same poo poo as Walmart getting praised for hiring seniors to stand for hours at the front of the doors greeting customers. Pushing your cart from your car to the return likely is less than 30 feet round trip of walking for the individual, instead having one or more employees run all over a parking lot all day sounds like a poo poo view on progress for workers. We should be either be providing jobs that have a meaningful impact on society or be providing all basic needs for someone so unskilled they can't get a job to support themselves.

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?


https://twitter.com/DickCheneyFacts/status/1259022284284727296?s=20

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Blendy posted:

I don't think all jobs need to be saved. The problem is people are compelled to take physically demanding unskilled labor jobs because they're forced to pay rent and buy food and other things they have to have to live. Demanding more humans fill the role of cart return doesn't make things better, it's the same poo poo as Walmart getting praised for hiring seniors to stand for hours at the front of the doors greeting customers. Pushing your cart from your car to the return likely is less than 30 feet round trip of walking for the individual, instead having one or more employees run all over a parking lot all day sounds like a poo poo view on progress for workers. We should be either be providing jobs that have a meaningful impact on society or be providing all basic needs for someone so unskilled they can't get a job to support themselves.

I understand this point but I also think that in the absence of something better the busywork jobs make sense. Like let’s fix the structural problems before we automate and outsource away all the jobs. Businesses can get by. I live in one of the last states to still mandate full service gas and it provides a ton of people with income. I don’t see what benefit getting rid of it would have in the absence of an actual social safety net. I’m sure all the gas stations would love to repeal it because they’re forced to pay people $15/hour and staff twice as many people as they usually would but it’s not like gas is any more expensive here than in Washington so it can’t be hurting their margins that badly

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Blendy posted:

I don't think all jobs need to be saved. The problem is people are compelled to take physically demanding unskilled labor jobs because they're forced to pay rent and buy food and other things they have to have to live. Demanding more humans fill the role of cart return doesn't make things better, it's the same poo poo as Walmart getting praised for hiring seniors to stand for hours at the front of the doors greeting customers. Pushing your cart from your car to the return likely is less than 30 feet round trip of walking for the individual, instead having one or more employees run all over a parking lot all day sounds like a poo poo view on progress for workers. We should be either be providing jobs that have a meaningful impact on society or be providing all basic needs for someone so unskilled they can't get a job to support themselves.

in a socialist society, absolutely. in a capitalist society, having less workers is more profit going to the capitalists, higher unemployment, lower wages and thats it. and yes, this works because for the individual customer it is not a large amount of labor, but over the course of the day and thousands of customers it actually is a substantial amount that could employ workers. instead the customers are doing free labor for the company, and paying them for the privilege.

pumping gas is a minor amount of work, yet there is a reason where it is still legally required to be done by attendants it is defended by unions and labor activists.

this is not that big of an issue, but it is indicative of a bad thing, and i was just disagreeing with the dumb 4chan post that it was some absolute black and white thing.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

is this pro pizzagate

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

sure, and to fix that they could have hired more workers to collect carts. instead they put the labor onto their customers.

Shopping carts were originally invented because a grocery store owner noticed that the time people spent in his store had a hard limit of when their arms got tired from holding their shopping basket. To fix that he could've hired more workers to carry people's shopping for them. Instead he put the labor onto his customers.

Ogantai
Apr 21, 2003

Full of bologna

FacebookEmpathyMom posted:

r/loveforlandlords is some wild poo poo. I can’t tell if it’s making fun of landlords or if it’s landlords having fun by posting exaggerated edgy poo poo that they’re kind of on board with but know would be unacceptable to say out loud. It’s probably both isn’t it.

It's a troll op by /r/drama to milk lols from CTH posters.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Gripweed posted:

Shopping carts were originally invented because a grocery store owner noticed that the time people spent in his store had a hard limit of when their arms got tired from holding their shopping basket. To fix that he could've hired more workers to carry people's shopping for them. Instead he put the labor onto his customers.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.
That isn't me.

THS
Sep 15, 2017

i return my carts but i will say that when i worked for albertson’s as a teen i absolutely loved loving off and spending my time collecting all the scattered carts around the parking lot because it meant i didnt have to fuckin talk or interact with any of the awful goddamn customers

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Ogantai posted:

It's a troll op by /r/drama to milk lols from CTH posters.

Ah. Interesting. Ngl that’s a pretty disappointing origin story.

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

THS posted:

i return my carts but i will say that when i worked for albertson’s as a teen i absolutely loved loving off and spending my time collecting all the scattered carts around the parking lot because it meant i didnt have to fuckin talk or interact with any of the awful goddamn customers

i didn't mind it except in the summer where we weren't allowed to wear shorts (or non-black pants) and they had juuuuuuust redone the asphalt

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
https://twitter.com/elbusyo/status/1259162516598345728?s=20

Comrayn
Jul 22, 2008
when I go out to eat I flip the table over on my way out so the owner has to hire more wait staff to clean that poo poo up

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cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
i put my cart away because i dont want my car to get dinged up by rolling carts and i am the change i want to see in the world

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