comment by mancW🏆🏆h🏆🏆- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
posted 1 minute ago
First we have Putin telling us that Ukraine's incursion into Ruzzia is provocative; then we have the NFarage complaining that he is being singled out and is afraid for his safety. Now we have JD Vance saying name calling and bullying should never be in politics.

Do these instigators not have any self awareness?

https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1822620830674624629
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Nope

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-four-day-old-twins-killed-in-airstrike-as-father-went-to-get-birth-certificates-13196395

This is very sad

US supermarket giant Kroger is busy doing two things.

One we’ve already seen some of in Europe: introducing networked digital price tags on shelves which will allow the chain to change prices much more quickly, enabling, for example (and this is an industry analyst’s example), surge pricing for water or ice cream when it's hot outdoors.

If that first one sounds like exploitative price gouging (and it is), then wait for the second one.

Through a partnership with Microsoft EDGE, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers and advertisements on the ‘EDGE Shelf’.

EDGE will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer... quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/kroger-ai

We’re now firmly in End Stage Capitalism.

comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 11 minutes ago
https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-four-day-old-twins-killed-in-airstrike-as-father-went-to-get-birth-certificates-13196395

This is very sad
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My heart sank when I read this.

If there really is a huge sky fairy, none of this would happen to anyone.

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
US supermarket giant Kroger is busy doing two things.

One we’ve already seen some of in Europe: introducing networked digital price tags on shelves which will allow the chain to change prices much more quickly, enabling, for example (and this is an industry analyst’s example), surge pricing for water or ice cream when it's hot outdoors.

If that first one sounds like exploitative price gouging (and it is), then wait for the second one.

Through a partnership with Microsoft EDGE, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers and advertisements on the ‘EDGE Shelf’.

EDGE will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer... quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/kroger-ai

We’re now firmly in End Stage Capitalism.
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Where did those far right thugs get their balaclavas? Looks like I'll be needing one to go to the supermarket.

GBeebie viewers

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHmlFnQt7Hg

Snowflake feelings are hurt.

comment by Arne Sabah Nur (U1282)
posted 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
US supermarket giant Kroger is busy doing two things.

One we’ve already seen some of in Europe: introducing networked digital price tags on shelves which will allow the chain to change prices much more quickly, enabling, for example (and this is an industry analyst’s example), surge pricing for water or ice cream when it's hot outdoors.

If that first one sounds like exploitative price gouging (and it is), then wait for the second one.

Through a partnership with Microsoft EDGE, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers and advertisements on the ‘EDGE Shelf’.

EDGE will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer... quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/kroger-ai

We’re now firmly in End Stage Capitalism.
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Where did those far right thugs get their balaclavas? Looks like I'll be needing one to go to the supermarket.
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I'm not opposed to Kruger using this technology in it's business model but for a free market to really be free they have to have their monopolies broken up

If a big chain wants to do anti consumer policies then they should be allowed to... So long as there's a viable alternative across the road

comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 4 hours, 1 minute ago
https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-four-day-old-twins-killed-in-airstrike-as-father-went-to-get-birth-certificates-13196395

This is very sad
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BREAKING: US Secretary of State approves sale of over $18.8 billion worth of military equipment to Israel

Weapons deal approved by US Secretary of State includes sale to Israel of 50 F-15 fighter jets, over 32,000 tank rounds and 50,000 mortar rounds.

comment by mancW🏆🏆h🏆🏆- maximus mardius cob-on... (U10676)
posted 26 minutes ago
GBeebie viewers

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHmlFnQt7Hg

Snowflake feelings are hurt.
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They already hate pretty much everything about the UK. They might as well hate the Royal family as well.

Some sinister paper trail and evidence about NF midway through this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ADetLXWc-k

Is he a khunt of the highest order? I dunno. I'm just asking a question as a concerned citizen.

Anyone watching Al Jazeera right now?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9elj18rz1o

Just the Greens NIMBYing again <doh

<doh

Liz Truss storms off stage and announces ‘that’s not funny’ after noticing Led By Donkeys’ banner

https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1823483664342376881?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Ffs

https://news.sky.com/story/walsall-canal-tested-for-deadly-cyanide-and-other-chemicals-as-major-incident-declared-following-spillage-13196737

Seriously getting sick of this now, the water situation is a joke in this country, feels like every week there’s a spillage or contamination or broken pipe somewhere. wtf is going on

comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 13 minutes ago
Liz Truss storms off stage and announces ‘that’s not funny’ after noticing Led By Donkeys’ banner

https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1823483664342376881?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Ffs
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One of the comments

"Kevin Edger
@KEdge23
·
Biggest lie by the left. At no point did the UK economy crash under Liz Truss"

comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 11 minutes ago
Liz Truss storms off stage and announces ‘that’s not funny’ after noticing Led By Donkeys’ banner

https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1823483664342376881?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Ffs
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She agreed with Bannon when he called Tommy Robinson a hero

She's pathetic and can fack off

comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFight (U12980)
posted 20 minutes ago
https://news.sky.com/story/walsall-canal-tested-for-deadly-cyanide-and-other-chemicals-as-major-incident-declared-following-spillage-13196737

Seriously getting sick of this now, the water situation is a joke in this country, feels like every week there’s a spillage or contamination or broken pipe somewhere. wtf is going on
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Privatisation and greed

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFight (U12980)
posted 20 minutes ago
https://news.sky.com/story/walsall-canal-tested-for-deadly-cyanide-and-other-chemicals-as-major-incident-declared-following-spillage-13196737

Seriously getting sick of this now, the water situation is a joke in this country, feels like every week there’s a spillage or contamination or broken pipe somewhere. wtf is going on
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Privatisation and greed
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A cousin of mine has worked in the water industry down South for 40yrs, he has said that prior to privatisation pipe work was an annually scheduled in the 2 districts he worked in, replacement and/or repair. Since privatisation, and almost the first instruction they got from the new managers was that was being "re-assessed" he said that in one of the Birmingham areas where he was a pipeline supervisor they hadn't replaced a pipe in 11yrs, I know NOWT about the technical side of it but that seems like it could be part of the problem?

I’ve said before but it’s a national scandal and imo there should be criminal prosecutions.

To wilfully pay out hundreds of millions in dividends and bonuses whilst letting the infrastructure and standards fall to literally dangerous levels should be a crime in itself. To then try and pass the cost of repairing that infrastructure onto the customer is beyond the pale.

The CEO of Severn Trent got paid over three million last year, £1.5m of which was a bonus… there were over 400,000 unauthorised spills in 2023, up by over 50%.

Just prosecute these fvckers, and I mean jail.

On a plus note they are now investing, as I am recruiting the engineers that are doing it for Severn Trent, but that cost is being passed onto the ‘customer’.

I don’t even like the word customer in this context tbh.

Genuinely bad people.

'Customer' makes it sound like users have a choice.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 11 hours, 54 minutes ago
comment by Arne Sabah Nur (U1282)
posted 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
US supermarket giant Kroger is busy doing two things.

One we’ve already seen some of in Europe: introducing networked digital price tags on shelves which will allow the chain to change prices much more quickly, enabling, for example (and this is an industry analyst’s example), surge pricing for water or ice cream when it's hot outdoors.

If that first one sounds like exploitative price gouging (and it is), then wait for the second one.

Through a partnership with Microsoft EDGE, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers and advertisements on the ‘EDGE Shelf’.

EDGE will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer... quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/kroger-ai

We’re now firmly in End Stage Capitalism.
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Where did those far right thugs get their balaclavas? Looks like I'll be needing one to go to the supermarket.
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I'm not opposed to Kruger using this technology in it's business model but for a free market to really be free they have to have their monopolies broken up

If a big chain wants to do anti consumer policies then they should be allowed to... So long as there's a viable alternative across the road
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Surge pricing needs to be banned, full stop.

There’s no commercial imperative, there’s no benefit to the consumer, it’s discriminatory, it’s predatory, and it’s about nothing more than price gouging. That’s before the potential consent and data issues involved in using facial recognition (which, thankfully, I’m pretty sure would already be illegal in the UK and EU).

Across the West, we’ve let ‘the market’ dictate far too much for far too long to the detriment of consumers, workers, animals, society and the environment. It won’t self-regulate and consumers can’t or won’t control or curb it.

As with fashion, animal husbandry and food production, construction and housing, and myriad other industries, we need a fresh look at the regulatory regimes.

I think Labour have said they are going to start looking into criminal prosecution for failing water companies if it's warranted.

I hope they follow through with it.

comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 2 hours, 36 minutes ago
Liz Truss storms off stage and announces ‘that’s not funny’ after noticing Led By Donkeys’ banner

https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/1823483664342376881?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Ffs
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The lettuce with googly eyes is perfect.