Only if you have access to your keys. If you throw the keys away or give them to someone else then you're good. At least in my jurisdiction, might be different in other places.

It's like people who want help shopping at the grocery store. A robot is basically useless. My average interaction:

"Do you have this thing?"

Is it a food thing or a non food thing?

"It's a bin, for food"

Okay, you want a big bin or a little one, disposable or resuable? Made of glass or plastic? Aisle 2.

"It's food, I can't eat plastics or glass." Okay... You want beans maybe?

"Yes yes beans that's what I said"

Okay aisle 5, right hand side halfway down.

Customers frequently don't know what they want, or even how to say it. So I spent 5 minutes looking for a Greek spice ziitar when they were looking for an arabic/north Africa spice Zaatar that is in the world food section.

Imagine a robot trying to decipher this, especially when many people have accents as well, or they just show you a picture of a thing. I can work it out, it takes a little to time. The robot would also be useless because our store carries like millions of things and has at one point carries most things but it's a luck of the draw if we currently carry something. So ask a robot, do you carry tahini sauce? Yes we do, we currently have 0 at negative 1 dollar located in section not found. Because that's all the computer is going to say for like 90% of the tahini stuff we carry since we've switched brands a dozen times and they all are still stores there even though we haven't carried many for over a decade.

Yeah but now he has merchandise... So everything he does is just a promotion to sell more of the crap that makes him money. Like his shitty chocolate bars that sell for three times the price of a Nestle or Cadbury chocolate bar. Chocolate is like the ultimate sin food. It's bad for you if you eat it, and the production of it was likely bad for everyone involved, and the money goes to ghouls who just want more money.

The vignettes are without a doubt the best part. Learning about the Indian revolt against billionaires, about cheap missiles being used to delete them as they gallivant across the globe is probably the most satisfying part of the book. Especially the billionaire who gets their throat slit in their bunker because oops the servants all hate your guts!

I had a cousin's know it all husband throw this in my face when I explained why I still masked at work.

I responded that the Nordic country that implemented no measures and simply let covid rip through them (maybe it was Sweden??) has simply seen more deaths than its European neighbours who did mask and quarantined and such. So the idea of immunity debt by failing to catch a disease isn't really panning out in reality.

Of course now we see people regularly catching covid like 2 or 3 times a year, and every study just keeps getting bleaker about what that's doing to a body with each infection.

I'll take my mask off when I'm dead.

It's also incredibly ageist. My old body cannot withstand the centripetal force of spinning that fast. You'll turn my brain into jelly and break my hip!

It's felt naively optimistic to me so it felt like the book fell flat on its face as the novel reaches the end.

I do long for the death of commercial airlines and the return to balloon and sail boat technology augmented with solar arrays for limited powered transport. So that part of the book was eye opening.

Oh no, china won't listen to us guys!

"As a wayward economic actor, dumping electric cars in Western markets and threatening to withhold critical minerals needed by high-tech industries."

How dare they use their economic might to, checks notes, make electric cars affordable around the world? And also how dare they use the national resources they possess, don't they know a corporation could more inefficiently make heaps of profits off them? If china actually fixes the problems of the world how will our multinational corporations make profit for doing nothing?

Death to America and her allies.

This is all 100% accurate I will concur. But in Alberta the Indian immigrants are mostly accepted but Sudanese and Asian (chinese specifically but anyone who looks Asian gets lumped in unless they have flawless better than Canadian English) get a huge amount of flak for showing up and taking our jobs that we refuse to do; mostly cleaning, meat packing, warehouse and trucking work. In fact some of the most racist to immigrants are people who moved most recently here and form the new recruits for the conservative party. It's like the "fuck you got mine" gets pumped into them when they clear customs or something.

That sounds like heaven.

To have such a strong government response seems so alien and foreign that I can't help but dream for Chinese invasion.

In my experience I don't know too many (but I do know some) who believe Alberta would stand a chance as an independent nation. But leaving the cities is like travelling into warzone of conservative ideas that just have been percolating into these highly virulent strains that divorce them from all reality. The government literally fucks them over with every decision and they just applaud until they realize they have to go to the doctor and the nearest one is Edmonton or Calgary because who the fuck want to be a small town doctor in Alberta?

They are, no watering outside at all. With strongly worded messages from our liberal mayor to please please reduce your household water usage, maybe don't flush after every piss, have a short sub 5 minutes shower, and don't wash your clothes or your dishes during the peak afternoon and evening hours. Reports of people ignoring it to wash their car. With of course the number 1 comment on the Reddit being "gosh oh boy we gonna have a lot of dirty cars in the city" like that is the big issue during a water crisis, that our cars look dusty... I can't even with these people.

Appreciate the thoughts comrade.

The fact Danielle Smith can manage to win here is kind of evident that the democratic process is so fundamentally useless with our current media apparatus not only fails but exists to help people like her get elected. Disgusting and I cannot pray enough for xi to liberate our country as a foothold on the continent before freeing america.

Indeed the people around here truly believe in they picked themselves up all by themselves and definitely didn't get lucky with barely any hard work on their part. Most of my extended family is like this, and soon will performing a knives out scenario when my grandfather passes. Tragically there will be no awesome reveal of all the money has been given to an immigrant. But maybe my aunt's will contest it in court long enough to bleed it down to nothing.

Paid, as in for rent and food and gas (because public transit in Calgary is a joke, and that's a completely different post about how shitty the city is).

I have no clue why more people aren't rioting. Shits bad and there is no hope on the horizon here. Maybe Albertans are stupid enough to think if we kick out immigrants that'll solve it rather than just create a whole new can of worms. I hate this place so much but I have no prospects of surviving without assistance of family that I have here.

It's my number 1 most wanted game. I will take off two weeks when it launches so I can just play it.

Been playing mostly balatro and bits of monster hunter rise on ps5.

I've beaten 19 challenges on balatro, but 20 is Jokerless which is so incredibly difficult. Deck manipulation is probably my weakest aspect of the game usually not coming online until ante 5 or 6. So I'm mostly working on beating some gold stake decks.

Monster Hunter rise I'm trying to learn charge blade. I did everything on the switch version with dual blades and light bowgun. So trying to learn this on a fresh file should be fun. Mostly been trying to muscle memory the basic charge, and amp combos into discharges. Early monsters are so annoying for moving around way too much. But it's fun as always.

It's going to be Chris Pratt. Guys he's so cool, there's no one he can't voice, and his voiceover will allow civ to really crack the mainstream.

Solid soap and liquid soap two brothers who couldn't be more different.

We also drink orange juice and then brush our teeth because it is absolutely amazing to us!