Sarmyth

This really is it. I managed a grocery store for years, and the problem these companies have is thinking that the self checkout can replace too many cashiers. Note that it can take the place of 1 or 2, but really, the boon of the self checkout is to really function as the best express lane ever. It should take the heat off your normal cashiers and provide an option best suited for quick purchases under 10 items.

But what ends up happening is schedulers drop their usual front end down from 4 cashiers to 1 and a self checkout host and completely nullify any gains their customers would have gotten from the enhanced service options. People really do like self checkouts but resent the hell out of being forced to use them as a blatant cash grab.

It's anecdotal, but also widely reported by pretty much everyone who's bought a car in the last couple of years. I bought mine a year ago. Literally nothing but full trim on the lot, and they just took delivery the day before. My friend works for the dealer group, and that's why I bought from him, but it's been that way for a while, apparently.

Of course, if the dealerships want to report what they are ordering to sell, I'm sure people would be interested. The car companies might have the data somewhere in their meeting notes since they are publicly traded, but that would just say what's ordered from them, not necessarily where it goes.

I think your interpretation is really just the consolidation of all the various different groups' flaws. I am an atheist but was raised Episcopalian. If Jesus died for your sins, you aren't going to hell for not believing in him, but you should thank him for the sacrifice. Really, the whole thing was to purge you of "original sin."

Obviously, it's all made up, and they are just solutions to problems they created in the first place, but its inaccurate to phrase it as "believe in me or burn in hell." For many Christians anyways.

Also, the only time I've ever heard of tithing being mandatory was in the Mormon faith as my uncle told me he would basically get a bill. I have to imagine the prosperity churches also are more direct in their tithing demands. Again, though, most churches are major providers of services in under-served areas of the world, including 1st world countries, and don't demand donations from the poor.

As for the LGBTQ relations, it's again a mixed bag. In 2003, Episcopalians elected the first openly gay bishop, which caused a big rift in their church. I personally had a lesbian pastor while I still attended, so it wasn't just a symbolic appointment but also represented the real church as it existed in the world.

Episcopalians aren't the only Protestants with these beliefs, just the group I'm most familiar with. Now, since Catholics make up 23% of Christians in the US, they are the largest single religion, followed by Baptists at 18%. These two groups have a bad track record, but I'd say the Catholic church is rapidly improving when taking into account how monolithic an organization it is.

I dunno I just think it's unfair to paint these guys all with the same brush and that it alienates potential future allies by making them dig their heels in when attacked.

Way to invalidate someone's personal life experiences there bud!

My first thought upon seeing this image was that it reminded me of tubgirl.

My brother sure does. His pro Hitler stance always amused me, seeing as he would have been purged upholding his own beliefs.

I'd like to see more rpgs with skilling systems based on use. Similar to what valheim and skyrim do but greatly expanded and pure. Like I don't want a single player level or skill point bottleneck. I want silly things like eating running and jumping to scale to absurd levels. I think you should be able to be one punch man if you really go hard on hand to hand.

And because I'm a gamer, and therefore hate myself, make progress slow. I liked how slow Outward felt when I first started and how little confidence the game gave me in my character at the start.

Fallout 76 has aspects of this.

I wasn't using the wireless functions of my router either.

They can sell them, they just don't want to order what people want to buy. It's actually them ignoring the legitimate intention of the phrase: "The customer is always right."

Whenever someone says that, this is actually what the author meant. If your customers keep coming in to buy size 8-11 shoes and you only want to stock sizes 12 and 13, you are wrong. The customer always knows what they are willing to buy. Some people can be coerced, but you can't make someone who doesn't want a truck for 100k buy one.

I had a similar issue in my home where I ran a nighthawk router at the back of my house connected to the ATT router/modem at the front of the house. I let them run as separate networks for a long time, and that prevented anything not connected to the same router as the jellyfin server from seeing it.

I recently got my act together and switched the router to "access point mode" and the house is all 1 network now. The jellyfin server is available on everything in the house as well. After the change, I felt silly I had it the other way for years because it sure helps many of the other wifi objects in my home as well.