Well in Walgreens: if you see someone shoplifting…

ask how they can help you open up the thing locked up because I pushed that god damn button and it’s been 15 minutes and I haven’t seen a god damn employee yet Jesus Christ I came here for a quick trip like wtf I could have ordered this online you fucking morons

You weren’t kidding! This is a rollercoaster ride of incredible twists and turns!

The problem, according to three former Cooler Screens executives and a former Yahoo executive, was that their clients thought of the screens as “shopper marketing,” an old-timey ad category that covered in-store promos like the balloons or cardboard displays that clerks hang over cases of beer. Spending in this area was far lower than the more lucrative digital ad rates Avakian hoped to charge. One of the former Cooler Screens execs says that Avakian wanted marketing dollars well above what the industry was willing to pay and that his lieutenants could be preposterously condescending on calls with the Yahoo sales team, which at times devolved into shouting matches. “The Yahoo people hated them!” this former exec says. “Their MO was to ride them [Yahoo] like Secretariat.” (A Cooler Screens spokesperson says that this description is inaccurate and that Avakian’s relationship with Yahoo executives remained positive.)

Condescending calls with Yahoo sales team. Fucking hilarious.

If it helps, they also lock a lot of product, requiring employees to come and help customers directly.

https://eurweb.com/2025/walgreens-theft-prevention-struggle/

It’s like they made their stores as hostile as possible to shop in.

They just keep finding interesting ways to fail!

Right? You can’t stop the porn and these barriers is only to create an artificial market.

But whatever. The more people become anonymous on the internet, the better.

Never owned a house, so for the past decade, I ran wiring up the side of stairs and to the side of walls.

Last year during the move, I’ve been too lazy and got wireless. Been fine for us! We’re also not playing anything that requires low ping or anything.

Once I own a house and can drill holes, I’m absolutely going back to wires.

Incredible stuff! Cat6?

Been a dream project for years but when I first explored it a decade ago, cat6 was still new and expensive, and wasn’t recommended because “who needs internet that fast”.

What a twist. In the 90s, the internet forced countries to wake up to the new modern era. It was a combination of American companies wanting both to expand and provide goodwill.

And now, this new era is going to tell American companies to fuck off.

Windows with a hand crank saved me when I was stuck in a car as a kid. Now you get out, you gotta smash it.

I was so happy when I saw some modern KIAs use analog controls.

Then I checked KIAs reliability and safety score and died.

$125k over five years is stupid. That’s $25k a year for five years.

GoDaddy made 4.481B last year.

For math nerds, that’s 179,240 times the penalty.

Got a cold email? &hit them with that sweet chat gbt copy pasta!

Wait what? Can you give me more details?

Sorry I’m too American because I bend over and accept corporate penetration.

That’s correct! Not very common for dealerships to accept a credit card for the payment, even a down payment.

And I didn’t feel comfortable handing them cash directly.

I guess I could have given them my debit card. But giving them a check with a paper trail seemed more secure in my head. Uncertain if that’s true or not.

Well yeah. It’s when you shove your ✏️ into the magnetic tape so you can destroy it because it contained evidence of the time you pooped the bed and then tried to toss it out the window.

Now ✏️ and cassette are a different thing.

I’m 40 and I just used to a check to pay for a car.

Right? The nerd who looks at steam on their phone and then on their desktop and rages about the UI… Like dude, chill.

The UX in UX/UI stands for User Experience and it’s great.

Nah the math checks out… If you wait long enough.

I am still angry at Facebook for normalizing using your real name. That eroded a lot of basic security practices.

Now little 7yos share mommy’s credit card in YouTube comments.

As an American, I can say fuck America because that’s my god given right.

The right to shit on your country is the most American thing ever.