LOL! Thought about Home Depot, but the local store is clearly in worse shape and so are the employees.

And here’s the thing, they don’t have to care about employees. Worker’s comp insurance is a big fucking deal, I know, worked for payroll place. One ding sets them back far more than 1,000 cases of water.

Just did a stint at Lowe’s and we had all the cold, bottled water we could drink. The cost is a no-brainer vs. even one heat-related issue. Use the words “worker’s comp insurance” at that meeting!

Got a laugh! OP, it’s been like this since I was a teenager, in the 80s.

Yes! In some cases you could make a point strong enough to call in enforcement. What I had in mind was the random crap pictured in the post.

So, are you finding that it stays cleaner? I don’t want it to be my imagination, but I seem to be making an impact. And the rare people who see my crawl out of those woods always see me with trash bags.

It’s private property, but I think of my self as the unofficial park ranger. Hopefully if anyone bitches I can point to my work. Also, I don’t want to lose the privilege of wandering around out there, figure if we don’t fuck it up, and in fact improve it, no one will complain.

I don’t think it used to be worse, it was way worse. I just find it amusing when people get bent over seeing someone toss trash out the window when it was a daily sight in the day.

By all means, keep up the outrage! How do you think we got so much better? Shout out to the crying Indian ad. I cannot overstate how impactful that was. We only had 3 or 4 TV stations so it was up in everyone’s grill, whole country. Can’t get a message out like that today, too many outlets to cover. :(

The government won’t do shit, and shouldn’t. Let’s say you and I are neighbors and I hate your guts. Guess where I’m going with this. All I need to do is get a letter out your trash and stuff it in couch.

Without video evidence, there’s no evidence, not the kind local authorities are qualified to track, or have the time and money to track.

Meh. It’s got far better in my lifetime. (My anecdotes span 3 states and 40 years.) Used to be the residential trash guys were picky bastards, never knew what refuse they would refuse. Now they pop the lid, no car batteries, sulfuric acid or tires? Good to go.

Used to be everything that didn’t fit in the can had to be burned or hauled. My guys will pick up about anything that fits in a 4’x 8’ space if you give a call. And they’ll do it 4 times a month. No charge.

Not so environmentally great, but we have 2 trash haulers in competition. Company A piss you off? Company B will take over the next day.

You would fucking DIE if I took you back to 70s America. I truly love how offended people get by littering, I really do!

Trash was piled on the side of every road, especially highways. People just chunked their McDonald’s bag when they were done, no big deal.

I’ve hauled a couple hundred pounds of crap out the woods surrounding our hood. About gave me a stroke on the larger items. But I keep at it, and it seems to prevent the broken window effect. Hadn’t been out in 3-weeks, figured it would be awful. Nah. Only got a single grocery bag out, and half was my own beer cans! (I did drag an electric scooter out. Fuck me. Try that over 1/2 mile of deep sand.)

If I see a comparison matrix, I’m a happy camper. OTOH, you have to be extraordinarily careful with words or lose sales. Because people are stupid.

Case in point; Employee needed a new laptop and we leaned mostly towards Lenovos. Found a sweet deal on one labelled as a gaming rig. Boss wouldn’t sign off because, “A dev doesn’t need a gaming rig with a high-end video card.” Of course not, but still showed him the specs, compared against what we were currently purchasing and paying, no go. We ended up paying more for a laptop with lower specs because it didn’t have a “gaming” label.

What if you call a product line “prosumer”? It may be perfectly acceptable for a small business, but the owner might feel he needs “enterprise”. He looks at the enterprise line, flinches at the price, goes to another brand selling the same damned thing with a label that makes him happy.

Another one I had just posted; Shooting the shit with a customer who was unhappy he couldn’t buy straight grass seed and the label only showed the filler content in small print. What a ripoff! Another customer chimed in that filler is necessary for the seed spreader to work as expected. Oh.

X line prioritizes speed - Nah, not paying extra for speed, don’t need it.

Y line is backwards compatible with legacy gadgets - Sounds like it’ll be outdated soon.

R line is meant for business use - They just slap that on there to sucker people into paying more. (Yes they do!)

F line is experimental form factors - I need a tried and true product, sounds like a clusterfuck.

Having worked in various fields for 40 years, and now at my first retail job, I see that a lot of the fuckery we blame on capitalism is actually sellers trying to navigate ignorant and fickle consumers. Also, sometimes the weird shit we see, or don’t see where we expect it, is due to laws and regulations, but that’s another story.

Agreed with all that, but unless you are self-employed, you have worker’s comp. That is not optional insurance for an employer.

Meh. I turn it, pirate. Turn of off when I’m done. No issues unless I fuck up and leave the torrent running for 24-hours.

Is spinning up your own out of the question? I pay $6/mo. for a Digital Ocean droplet. Installed OpenVPN server on it and I’ve been good to go for years. Their step-by-step documentation is the best I’ve ever encountered, seriously. Only got hung up on one tiny bit.

It’s a serious term in IT! One of those things that’s recognized as an issue, and then blown off IRL.

Think of paying down a monster credit card bill while living like a monk. Only same thing to do, but it hurts in the short and midterm. Long term, you gonna pay far more.

Bet something’s broken in IT. Some system can’t talk to some other system. In any case, something stupid is broken in logistics. A desk jockey decided return labels were cheaper than implementing the solution, and that might well be true!

Making shit up: The frontend can’t talk to the backend without an expensive, highly specialized addon, which is a monthly subscription, which has to be applied to 1,000 machines. They could unwrap all that and simplify, but now we’re talking a massive overhaul that drags in 14 other systems, costs 10,000 man hours and had some inevitable downtown.

“Fuck it! We’re sending return labels!”

And this kids is why tech debt comes with usurious interest rates!

Keep saying this, and no one has ever had a plausible answer: YouTube does not do that to me.

I watch lots of gun content, you would think I’d be overrun with right-wing horseshit, but that never happens. I get sane channels, apolitical, learning, legal and fun related stuff, like I like.

Here’s my front page this evening. All interesting except maybe some TV shows I’m not familiar with but have watched clips. Don’t think I’ve done much of anything to curate all that, just let YouTube decide.

The only time I remember the algorithm going nuts was after looking at survival gear and gas masks. LOL, quickly run down with crazier and edgier content. That could have been a rabbit hole, had to cut myself off before it got worse.

Maybe it has to do with my subscriptions?

Fuckin’ A! Two fingers of unleaded in a pickle jar, stuff it in there. You can fit a whole TV worth of packing in a quart jar.

PRO TIP: Dry in the sun on an old cookie sheet, cut up with scissors, pack it out.

At this point in history, I am 100% fine with Israel being “wiped off the map”. They have abdicated all moral authority and their right to exist.

A “self-solving problem” could be described as a “self-correcting issue,” “inherently resolving problem,” “naturally resolving situation,” or “auto-remediating issue,” depending on the context, as it implies a problem that has a built-in mechanism to fix itself without external intervention.

I’d only concern yourself with where he’s getting his idea of “manly”. I never questioned my macho, and I’m quite feminine in ways. Maybe it’s just adolescent insecurity?

I take my own unsweet tea to work in a thermos. If that runs out, I drink the bottled water they provide.

These are the same people that bitch about the plastic waste in Keurig pods.