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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Please write on the chalkboard 100 times, "I will stop posting silly Internet quizzes to the website."
This is a stupid, stupid quiz, but it gives me the opportunity to go off on a number of fun rants and tangents, so here we go:
The religious right is a powerful force in America, and the phrase "religious right" appears many times in this quiz. Coincidence? I don't think so! --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Phat writes: Well if true, why was Jesus crucified? He obviously offended somebody. I have a different answer. It's a story. You may as well ask why Bilbo Baggins gave the ring to Frodo. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Phat writes: Percy writes: The statement should be, "The United States should abandon our system of employer provided health insurance." Well I strongly disagree with that one. This past year involved more visits to Doctors and specialists than any year prior....more than the previous ten years combined. I have a job at a unionized grocery store and likely would pay more than the $10.00 a month that I pay for the insurance...etc... I was suggesting a better issue for the quiz to raise, not stating an opinion. You're personalizing the issue instead of thinking about how we might better provide access to healthcare for the American people.
It should be, "Indigenous people should be returned all land stolen from them." Stop and think. Good advice. I was again suggesting a better issue for the quiz to raise, not stating an opinion. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Phat writes: Lets Stop And Think. Self care first, reduce the A1C, regain your health, and stop using the forum as a distraction from your health issues. Obviously dumb stuff always draws lots of attention, you need attention right now, and so you're posting more and more obviously dumb stuff. Stop posting. Instead, go for a run, check your blood sugar, administer medication, weigh yourself, plan your healthy meals, do yoga, read a book, watch a movie, go out with friends (covid permitting - Colorado has the 8th worst covid case rate in the nation - avoid indoor public places for now - vaccination does not confer immunity). That "religious liberty" quiz was dumb. Let this thread die. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Phat writes: ringo writes: Liberal mandates would feed you, shelter you, clothe you - regardless of how you got into that condition. In other words, the kind liberals would treat me no different than other poor people. They advocate hollowing out the middle in order to support the least of these. Food, clothing, and shelter are not enough for me. So let's say you find yourself hungry, homeless and jobless. Liberal programs that would feed you, house you, and find you a job that would put you on the path to self sufficiency are not enough for you. What is it you're looking for, and where are the conservative policies that are providing it? --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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We're so lucky to live in the United States because here the homeless are not allowed in places where they can be an annoyance. It's not like India where the homeless and their accumulated detritus are gathered into cardboard structures leaning against the base of the apartment buildings of the middle class where the smell of their excrement wafts up to the floors above. It's so much more pleasant here where the messy consequences of our callousness are hidden away and we can live our lives without thinking about those less fortunate than ourselves.
Granted Jesus may applaud us giving it all up but making the middle class poorer does NOT help everybody. What is the point of believing in God and Jesus if you're only going to end up in hell anyway? --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Phat writes: Well ringo you *do* make sense. I really shouldnt have any animosity but what riles me up in general about the urban poor apart from the fact that so many of them steal from the store I work at(is)the perception that times are getting worse...and not. just economically but in terms of human behavior. You've changed your story with this blame of the urban poor. A couple weeks ago it was "drug addicts and blatant criminals" (Message 27). I don't think you have any idea of the situation of the people stealing from your store. Blatant criminals are not stealing from your store and then fencing groceries. Drug addicts have problems separate from poverty. If the only reason the urban poor are stealing from your store and not the urban rich, then the best way to make it stop is to address their poverty. Get them assistance and jobs. Behave like a Christian and give them a helping hand instead of the back of your hand. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Most of what you've been saying the past few months has been nonsense, so I see little likelihood that you've suddenly lapsed into lucidity. Your claims have already shifted, you're telling an incredible story, and I don't think you have a clue what's going on in your grocery store.
$3500/day shrinkage would be 2-3% for a grocery store doing $150,000/day, which looking it up with Google appears to be about average. The categories and percentages of total shrinkage that one supermarket chain reported a few years ago are theft (20%), receiving (11%), damage (5%), retail pricing (4%), accounting errors (3%), and perishables (56%). You definitely are not losing $3500/day to shoplifting. Your management is probably spending their time more profitably working the perishable problem. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Vocabulary.
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Phat writes: Percy writes: You definitely are not losing $3500/day to shoplifting. The audacity! For your information, I was shown the monthly figure which was over $115,000.00. Do the math. You seem to think im a blithering idiot. I do not think you are a blithering idiot. I think precisely what I've said on earlier occasions, that you are unable to anchor what you believe in reality or to connect facts to conclusions, and so you fix randomly on things to believe without rhyme or reason and are an easy mark. That $3500 figure you cited is consistent with that for the average grocery store, but for *total shrinkage* and definitely not for shoplifting all by itself. As a figure for shoplifting it is way too big.
$3500/day shrinkage would be 2-3% for a grocery store doing $150,000/day We do around $70,000.00 a day. At $70,000/day your grocery store appears to be a small one, having about half the sales volume of the average grocery store ($150,000/day). You say your shrinkage is $150,000/month, which comes out to $3780/day (not $3500), and if that's true then your shrinkage (theft, perishables, etc.) percentage is 5.4%, which is enormous, entirely unlikely, unsustainable, unsurvivable. And $3780/day of shoplifting just all by itself, which is what you're actually claiming, is absurd, because there would be at least 2% of so of shrinkage due to other causes, and adding them together results in a number that any grocery store is unlikely to survive. Maybe you do work in a grocery store that doesn't fail despite experiencing impossible financials as well as being plagued by criminals who steal openly and massively without apparent fear of arrest or jail time, but I doubt it. It's much more likely the information you're providing is not accurate. For it's second quarter Kroger's for the first time in its history reported problems with organized crime (see Crime Rings, Big Packs and ‘Mind-Boggling’ Reviews as Kroger Navigates Q2), but they estimate the impact as only a .4% decrease in their bottom line. What you're reporting at your store is massive by comparison. This is from What Is Supermarket Shrink?:
quote: So that's yet another source making clear that what you're claiming for your store is outlandishly high not just for retailers in general, but even for the supermarket sector with its higher shrink rate than other retailing sectors. So I'd be bonkers to believe your claims of working at a supermarket so far out of the norm. It's much more likely that, consistent with your recent history, you're just way out of touch with reality. You've described your health issues, and we all feel for you, but that doesn't mean we can sit back and provide assent to whatever you say. For the present I'd like to see you take things down a notch and put a bit more emphasis on listening and little less on asserting because you're unable to actually figure anything out and so are reduced to just baldly and baselessly asserting things, which is never a good idea.
socialist ringo writes: Why should people care about your livelihood when it's already so much better than their own? Because that's how America works. You replied to me, but you've now gone back to a message from six days ago from Ringo without giving anyone a hint which message it was (for the record, Message 53). Anyway, looking at this now, even you must realize that you were making no sense. It shouldn't need to be explained.
We don't strive for everyone to be making the same wage. Where in the world did Ringo say anything like that? Certainly not in what you quoted, and not in the message you quoted from either. If that's what he actually believes and he said it somewhere then before rebutting it you have to quote it. Right now your comment looks out of the blue.
Our wage has actually dropped in purchasing power over the past twenty years. The fact that I make more than you is irrelevant. I don't complain that Percy or nwr or Tangle make more than I do. Your Socialism is showing again! This, too, is out of the blue. And by the way, unless you have a negative salary, you make more than me.
Which by the way leads us on yet another rabbit trail: Saule Omarova Yes, you're veering wildly off-topic.
Is anyone aware of her plans to nationalize the currency and essentially eliminate private banking? Don't get me started on what a threat that is. Good God, where do you get this garbage? Our currency is already nationalized and has been for over a hundred and fifty years. All nationalization of the currency means is that the government mints the currency. In almost all nations of the world today it is the government that mints the currency. Seriously, who scared you with this bit of misinformation? What's next? "Omigod, the goverment's gonna nationalize Congress!" Omarova's "reform proposal and thought experiment" for the Federal Reserve to provide banking account services so that no citizen is unbanked is a radical idea that she put out there for discussion. She was highlighting the plight of those disadvantaged by lack of access to banking services, not advocating a policy position. You can stop panicking now. Stop trusting what the Republicans say the Democrats said and vice versa. Listen to what people actually did say. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Clarify one sentence.
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Here's a link to Omarova's article about banking: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy. At 60 pages or so it's long. Here's the first paragraph:
quote: Here's the first place where she alludes to the plight of the unbanked. It appears at the end of page 19:
quote: The CBDC acronym stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. As you can see, she's motivated by a desire to address the delays that plagued efforts at getting pandemic assistance to people without bank accounts, and so she later suggests that the Federal Reserve could provide free banking services. You can now march forward into the future more accurately informed than previously. You don't really believe the things you've said these past few months, do you? You do really care about other people, don't you? You do understand that Republican advocacy of self reliance is just an excuse for heartless callousness and disinterested unconcern, don't you? You do understand how unChristian the Republicans and most politicized Christians are, don't you (you appear to have become an example)? It is clear to you that there's nothing Christian about the things they want to do, isn't it? You've been sounding as heartless as Faith, an endless font of evidence for the way many Christians just aren't very Christian. We could call them CINO's. --Percy
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