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1) 3.50 is a reasonable price in Seattle for a non-poo poo chocolate bar. 2) Doing all my shopping with these bad boys now
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Sep 30, 2018 03:19
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Xand_Man posted:1) 3.50 is a reasonable price in Seattle for a non-poo poo chocolate bar. jesus, this one guy is going bug poo poo for everything, can we get more info on him?
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Sep 30, 2018 03:21
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Main Paineframe posted:are you the one person on the planet who has never, ever seen a white person Demand To Speak To Someone's Manager? Relations between service workers and customers are completely different in a socialist society because the worker's employment doesn't depend on whether or not people are "satisfied" with their service. Maybe they'll be "let go" from a firm or store, but the existential terror of destitution which enables that power disparity in market societies won't be there anymore.
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Sep 30, 2018 03:31
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this is why in Europe the waiters absolutely poo poo on you in some countries. it owns.
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Sep 30, 2018 03:32
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HEY NONG MAN posted:this is why in Europe the waiters absolutely poo poo on you in some countries. it owns. There's also an old adage about how awful the service was in the Soviet Union because store clerks were so rude. If they don't depend on you to live then the dynamics are completely different.
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Sep 30, 2018 03:33
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:There's also an old adage about how awful the service was in the Soviet Union because store clerks were so rude. If they don't depend on you to live then the dynamics are completely different. i remember hearing this a lot reading about politics as a teen and now that ive been working fast food i find myself wondering how many dead ukranians is worth openly telling a customer to gently caress off
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Sep 30, 2018 03:34
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Relations between service workers and customers are completely different in a socialist society because the worker's employment doesn't depend on whether or not people are "satisfied" with their service. Maybe they'll be "let go" from a firm or store, but the existential terror of destitution which enables that power disparity in market societies won't be there anymore. that's fair. my thinking's been colored by the big expansion of the service economy in the US and the rise of the gig economy, and how so much service work basically boils down to getting shat on for minimum wage it's still not the same as just engaging in ordinary social activities in public without any money changing hands, though. if people can't get their daily dose of social interaction without the existence of cashiers and receptionists, I feel like there's some deeper issue
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Sep 30, 2018 04:29
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Main Paineframe posted:are you the one person on the planet who has never, ever seen a white person Demand To Speak To Someone's Manager? so how does the bad outliers make all such behavior wrong. is marriage wrong because some spouses are abusive?
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Sep 30, 2018 04:41
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Krankenstyle posted:lol if you think emotions will exist in the future Didn't Camus say something about suicide being the only true philosophical question?
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Sep 30, 2018 05:08
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working several customer service jobs taught me to be very polite with other people in customer service
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Sep 30, 2018 05:14
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Empathy taught me to treat people as human beings.
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Sep 30, 2018 05:36
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shared experience is a hell of a drug
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Sep 30, 2018 05:43
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Ommin posted:Didn't Camus say something about suicide being the only true philosophical question? yea, he disagreed... thinks we should face the absurdity but honestly that's easy for him to say being dead for decades. Carthag Tuek has issued a correction as of 06:22 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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Sep 30, 2018 06:20
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i do second the emotion motion though & think we should all the empathy path, and more on my self-help interactive cdrom
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Sep 30, 2018 06:23
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:There's also an old adage about how awful the service was in the Soviet Union because store clerks were so rude. If they don't depend on you to live then the dynamics are completely different. There’s a part in “The Dispossed” that addresses it that always stuck with me. In short if you never read it (and you should) the main character who was born in communist world, goes to captialist world and one of the things that surprises him is how much the store clerks have to kiss his rear end.
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Sep 30, 2018 07:04
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thats a great book also i cant believe that bullshit still has legs. last year, in an interview about like "my favorite hangouts", danish microbrew success story dude was like "I miss America. Staff are so unfriendly here in dk, they have no fear of getting fired or losing out on tips. I wish unions were not a thing and I don't understand the world." Paraphrased, but literal. counterpoint: ive only met one unfriendly server and that was online
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Sep 30, 2018 08:09
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Socks4Hands posted:i like my cyberpunk dystopia photographs like i like my sexual partners: boundless and bare I really like that Moscow one that gets posted sometimes. Runner up is luxury condos/favelas
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Sep 30, 2018 08:50
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Ommin posted:Didn't Camus say something about suicide being the only true philosophical question? Albert Camus posted:There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest— whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories—comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer. And if it is true, as Nietzsche claims, that a philosopher, to deserve our respect, must preach by example, you can appreciate the importance of that reply, for it will precede the definitive act. These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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Sep 30, 2018 14:14
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SlothfulCobra posted:Congratulations, Amazon, you've invented the Automat. A big fancy invention from 1895. When I first watched Dark City I didn't realize that a Automat was a real retro invention. I thought it was just something they created for the bleak dystopian world shown in the film.
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Sep 30, 2018 14:35
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:There's also an old adage about how awful the service was in the Soviet Union because store clerks were so rude. If they don't depend on you to live then the dynamics are completely different. I'm actually pretty sure the Soviet Union didn't cause European store staff to be awful, but it sure as poo poo didn't incentivize them to do otherwise. Eastern Europe restaurant and store staff are still surly, even the 2nd generation immigrant ones that set up shop wherever they emigrated to. I've been told that the customer service experience in Paris is godawful as well.
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Sep 30, 2018 14:53
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my buddy was just in Vienna and he said a waiter at a restaurant made fun of him when he asked where the bathroom was.
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Sep 30, 2018 14:54
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HEY NONG MAN posted:my buddy was just in Vienna and he said a waiter at a restaurant made fun of him when he asked where the bathroom was. aw does baby have to make a boom boom?
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Sep 30, 2018 15:03
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HEY NONG MAN posted:my buddy was just in Vienna and he said a waiter at a restaurant made fun of him when he asked where the bathroom was. RIP Wong Kei in London https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/feb/24/rudest-restaurant-london-wong-kei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kei
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Sep 30, 2018 15:24
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i made the mistake of asking where the bathrooms in a parisian restaurant was in french
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Sep 30, 2018 15:29
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In Rome, everyone will make fun of you for any or no reason at all, all the time
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Sep 30, 2018 15:32
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etalian posted:RIP Wong Kei in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%27s_Last_Resort Americans paying a premium to receive extremely poor customer service for the sheer novelty of it. That's some late stage capitalism right there.  quote:In 1995, the company attempted to expand to Europe and opened a restaurant in London,[4] but the effort was abandoned and the restaurant was sold in early 1996.
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Sep 30, 2018 16:06
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Syd Midnight posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%27s_Last_Resort There's also the Weiner Circle https://www.timeout.com/chicago/blog/the-wieners-circle-welcomes-donald-trump-with-3-inch-chicago-hot-dog-031016 Also Chicago gets bonus points for chasing Trump and his Chud supporters out of town. quote:Chicago will not let up on Donald Trump.
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Sep 30, 2018 16:30
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the moon is anarchist in the dispossessed
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Sep 30, 2018 17:44
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:There's also an old adage about how awful the service was in the Soviet Union because store clerks were so rude. If they don't depend on you to live then the dynamics are completely different. it was def true to some extent, but with it came no expectation whatever of making small talk or pretending you cared about the cashier it took me a while to adjust and get over feeling stressed because I didn't want to talk in the checkout line
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Sep 30, 2018 21:22
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Syd Midnight posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%27s_Last_Resort Honestly, it's actually kind of refreshing to have your server call you a dumbass and make fun of your order. Given that late-capitalism drowns you with the most transparently bullshit type of pleasantness imagineable, going to a restaurant where it's their policy to insult the customers is almost therapeutic. Edit: clip is extremely relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9PSg0sQyfs MizPiz has issued a correction as of 22:24 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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Sep 30, 2018 22:19
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hackbunny posted:In Rome, everyone will make fun of you for any or no reason at all, all the time So they were laughing at me! The wife said I was being paranoid. I just wanted more than 3 cubes of ice for my water!
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Oct 1, 2018 04:54
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got any sevens posted:stores for decades have already altered layouts based on shopping patterns. it's why milk is usually in the back, for example does this mean that under socialism. milk and bread will finally, after all these long years of capitalist manipulation, be in the front
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Oct 1, 2018 04:58
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Yes
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Oct 1, 2018 04:59
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why do they put milk in the back. obviously they want someone who's just coming for milk to walk by everything else and decide to grab something else but why do that with milk and not like coffee or beer
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Oct 1, 2018 05:29
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oh let’s do this derail hell yeah “it’s because the cold storage has to be in the back because of how the store is built” or “the trucks load in the back of the store and the cold stuff should be right there”
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Oct 1, 2018 05:32
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Honestly it's waiters that get the worst deal labor-wise, because they're the ones who get half their pay dangled in front of them and rely on the kindness and social mores of strangers to be paid properly for their labor.HEY NONG MAN posted:oh let’s do this derail hell yeah People have been complaining about this alleged scheme to lure shoppers to the back of the store with precious milk for so long that stores have started putting mini-cold storage towards the front of the store.
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Oct 1, 2018 05:38
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iirc its literally to force people to walk to the back so they see all the poo poo and buy more stuff
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Oct 1, 2018 05:39
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it presumes everyone wants milk that poo poo makes my butt spew water
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Oct 1, 2018 05:48
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It's the canadian milk cartel's gravitational pull on milk production influencing store feung Shi. Id explain, but it's complicated 4d chess.
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Oct 1, 2018 05:57
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at my grocery store the milk is in the front next to produce? maybe shop somewhere other than walmart???
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Oct 1, 2018 06:06
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