True…but big business still needs us to buy their products, so we are of some use to them

You forgot the part where he blames the democrats

Israel builds their own weapons and have for many years. The US and many others but them though and that supports them.

That’s what I was thinking… Here come the bots

I’m sure government agencies buy commercially available products all the time. The problem is that we are no longer just consumers in the market, we are also unwillingly the product.

I might have gotten that if I had my glasses on.

I’ll see the same post on 2 or 3 subs and it will just be something I saw a year or more ago.

A lot of decriminalization has started with justice department changes. But honestly don’t we want something that will stick and not be taken away as soon as a different party is in charge?

I get that the FDA could reclassify marijuana, but the real issue i think is that Congress needs to get on the ball and deal with legalizing it . There are laws on the books that have to be dealt with regarding sale and distribution and banking issues.

I guess there is good and bad with either style. I generally prefer the self checkout because I can bag my own stuff

True. I remember thinking it was a load of crap, but it certainly got the message across that I’d be alone and out of a job if I tried to form a union.

And I also remember lessons in class where the textbook weren’t l went into great detail about the corruption and mob ties of some unions, but very little about anything positive. There has definitely been an effort on the part of powerful folks to denigrate unions.

I remember reading The Jungle in college and getting a much different perspective of labor laws and union value

Depending on where you lived you were plied with anti-union rhetoric. I remember back in the '80s and working at a department store and they had us watch “training” videos about how we were a big family and how unions broke up that family and made us adversaries. I thought it was a bunch of bull, but I’m sure there were plenty of folks that bought into it.

When has there not been a genocide going on there?

They act like there are actually fair elections in Russia. Stupid headline only tries to bring some sort of normalcy to an insane dictator

Developers won’t do it though. Otherwise, we’d already have this happening. What they do now is call it a loss and get a break on their taxes.

They are on the wrong sides of the bottle

I’ve been looking to replace my car this year. The used cars I’m looking at (2-3 years old) are almost as expensive as the new cars. Maybe I will save $5000-7000 on it. So why buy a used car with dubious history?

Maybe I’ll stop getting those “He Gets Us” ads if I cruise the atheist subreddits.

Lately it is getting more like we are not just the consumers, we are the product. It is very uncomfortable.

I hate to say it, but 90% of the articles on Gizmodo could be written by AI and we’d not know it.