MystikIncarnate

Yep, someone might get sick and therefore all this fresh food is going to waste. We can't make them sick like that, but we are okay with watching them slowly starve to death.

This reminds me of an anecdote that a friend used to explain the actual meaning behind the trolly problem. He said, forget the trolly, you go out to lunch at the local sandwich shop (hoagies or whatever), and you get a foot long, but only eat half. You walk past a homeless man begging for food. If you choose not to give him the food you are now carrying, and that person later dies from starvation, are you morally guilty/at fault for them dying because you could have helped but you didn't. On the flip side, you give them food, they later choke/vomit it up (aspirating it or choking on it), and that leads to their death. Since you gave them the food that they choked and died from, are you morally guilty of that persons death because they wouldn't have had anything to choke on if you didn't give it to them?

This situation with leftovers is the trolly problem made real. Are companies guilty of letting people starve and die, because they don't want to be found guilty of making them sick (and possibly dying)? Are they, or would they be guilty of either?

Corpos only know that if someone gets sick from the food given out at the end of the day, they can sue. Dead people don't sue you. So if they starve and die, then they're not going to sue, but if they get sick but live, they might.

Corpos see this as a very black and white thing. Giving the food away poses an "unnecessary risk" for little to no benefit to the company. So they don't do it.

Corpos are the worst.

I promise that the workers don't give a shit. They're not paid enough to care.

But they're being recorded 24/7 and if management sees them serving people who do not have cars in the drive thru, it'll be someone's ass.

Back in the day, cameras pretty much only existed for the cash register and entry/exit areas. Now, they need to put in laws to keep the companies from installing cameras in bathrooms... That shit is fucking everywhere.

The corpos at the top are mandating that anyone in the drive thru must meet a minimum requirement of a "vehicle" which cars and bikes are (at least in most places), but you, on foot, are not.

This is just them trying to avoid getting sued because you were standing in the drive thru waiting for food and some inattentive fuck pulls in after you've ordered and runs you down. It's really fucking stupid.

The idea that I think they were originally thinking is that people who are walking should go inside where they are reasonably safe from being run over to order/pick up/eat, then they started to keep the drive thru open later than the dining area, and here we are.

I get that they need to clean and whatnot, so they want to close the dining area, and that's fine, but close the dining area and leave the counter open so people can walk in and get take out FFS. It's basically just one strip of flooring that customers will walk into and out from while the seating area is closed, so not a big deal to run a mop over it and go home after closing time.

But nobody said corpos made sense.

This is entirely a corpo policy to limit liability. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that they want to prevent people from standing in the drive thru since that carries the risk of them being hit/injured/harmed while waiting in the line.

Its literally a problem because corpos don't want to get sued for an idiot driver gassing their way through a drive thru and mowing someone down.

Honestly, given how lawsuit happy many people are, I'm not terribly surprised. What does surprise me though, is that they don't have a walk-up window in a pedestrian safe area. I guess the logic is that the pedestrians can just go inside, but when the drive thru is open late, after the dining/walk in area closes, you end up with stupid situations like the OP.

I hate corpos.

Did you send them a map?

It's beanie babies 2.0

I stopped at "what's the fucking point of humanity then?"

.... Are you under the impression that there's a point to living? Some grand plan or purpose that drives people?

The only reason I'm not in the ground already is because when I thought about it, my death would cause suffering to people I cared about, so I'd rather take on that suffering myself than put it on them. If everyone I cared about died, I'd petition for medical euthanasia, if that was denied, I'd go find the nearest bride and swan dive into pavement.

The only reason we exist is to have babies so they can exist and have babies. Human life, indeed all life, lives to procreate, and make more of itself. That's it.

I've always questioned why we're worthy of survival, but all the species we've killed off due to climate change, or hunting them to extinction, or destroying their habitat where they die off because they can't survive in a different habitat, are not worthy of survival.

I'm not convinced that humans should continue to perpetuate themselves long term. Bluntly, I can't point to anything genuinely good that we've done for any creature other than ourselves. We address environmental issues sure, but we caused them. The only thing we go out of our way to do, at all, and with significant disagreement and debate, is fix shit we fucked up. That's it. Everything else has been a selfish pursuit of greed by humans.

What's been happening, has not changed my mind on any of this.

I'm not crazy, and I'm not going to try to exterminate anyone because I don't think humans should continue to exist. I'm still here to bring as much happiness and joy to the people I care about, and I don't have the mental capacity to feel anything but contempt for everyone screwing everything up. I can't spare the effort to hate anyone. It's exhausting.

At this point, I just want everyone to leave me alone so I can live my tiny comfortable life with the people I actually care about, grow old and die.... Hopefully in that order.

The tragedy, in my opinion, is that Americans have to do this stuff at all. You need a tactic to get the service you're literally paying for out of your own pocket.

One thing that I find as important on packaging for vape liquid is the flavor profile of the liquid.

Some brands use unique naming for their e-liquid. As an example, one popular brand illusions vapor makes products like Nirvana, taste of gods, and the prophet. None of those product names tell you anything about what flavor they are (illusions is by far not the only one, just one that I've seen most shops carrying).

For those curious, Nirvana is mango/peach, taste of gods is pineapple/coconut/black current, and the prophet is dragon fruit/berry/guava.

The names are nonsense, but the packaging will generally illustrate the flavors, by depicting the thing they're based on for the art on the product. Taking away the ability to have any art on the product, having a short description of the flavor profile can seriously help with selections when considering a new to you e-liquid.

Back in the day, before vaping was subject to the same restrictions about indoor use as cigarettes, testers were common. Shops would have relatively cheap vape pens and hand out single use tips for them (where you actually put your mouth), and fill them with 0 mg (no nicotine) versions of the e-liquid so people can just try it.

Since that's almost entirely illegal now, and every vape shop I know of is trying to abide by whatever laws are in place, the practice has gone extinct. Tragically, this opened the door wide for disposable vapes, which I really do not like.

Where I am there's also child resistant packaging laws, which is designed to make it harder for children to get access to the liquid inside the vape. This also fueled a disposable vape movement, since it's easier to deny access to the liquid if you have zero ability to fill, refill, empty, or otherwise access the liquid in the device. Disposables are a gigantic waste of resources and the single worst way to vape IMO. Juul was better, bluntly.

I'll get off my soap box. The point is, all those that are trying to be legit and legal about their use are going to be the ones suffering from additional legislation. Those doing illegal shit and giving this stuff to kids or whatever, don't care what laws are in place and will continue to do whatever the fuck they want. More legislation isn't the answer. Enforcing the laws we already have, is.

Where I am, that's already a thing.

There's mandates for packaging to make it less colorful/fancy.

I'm going to reinforce this by saying: the primary ingredients in vape liquid are also commonly found in fog machines. Vape devices use methods not dissimilar to fog machines to produce the "vape" that people inhale.

I'll also point out that with vaping, enforcement is generally the problem. A lot of governments have previously, currently are, or will be discussing some kind of bans that affect vaping in a massively negative way. 90% of the time they're going to claim it's for the good of the children because thing makes kids want to vape. If the law was actually enforced as it currently stands, they couldn't get access to the products by any legal means.

The lack of enforcement goes further than just nobody stopping vaping in places you shouldn't vape.

I get the feeling that it was very intentional that depose was written in the casing of the cartridge that was fired.

Depose can mean to "remove from office suddenly and forcefully" like when a government is over thrown, the leader is deposed.

In this context, the CEO was deposed by no longer being able to fulfill his role as CEO due to a severe and acute case of death.

The fact that "delay, deny, depose" is the general policy for insurance companies is the motivation for using that specific term over others. "Delay, deny and depose me? I'll depose you." Kind of thing.

I think it makes a very loud and very clear message.

I'd buy the album just based on this being the cover.

I also enjoy kmfdm in general....