I did a whole research project on this in grad school. Companies reap over $300 BILLION a year in free labor from customers using self-checkouts. If they’re not going to pay customers, they can shave some price.
The craziest thing about this chart is that the price hike all goes back to when food producers realized they could use COVID to artificially inflate prices and people would just keep paying it because they have to eat and then nobody ever stopped them or held them accountable.
Unrelated but this guy made his money buying up all the innovative 90s educational software companies (creators of Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, et al), completely gutting them, and then selling their husks to Mattel.
He singlehandedly destroyed that sector.
So this completely obliterates the innocent until proven guilty rule. You cannot just predict a crime when no illegal activity has occurred. They’re just gonna use the AI to make up stuff about the citizens they deem “domestic terrorists” so they can charge them with bullshit and lock them up. This is so fucking dystopian.
🚨 PSA just got hit with a massive class action lawsuit claiming its entire multi-billion-dollar grading empire started with a known FRAUD.
Certificate #00000001 - the first card they ever graded - was a secretly trimmed T206 Honus Wagner.
THE GRADER KNEW IT WAS ALTERED. PSA’s own rules banned it. They graded it NM-MT 8 anyway, never disclosed it, and never pulled the grade.
That same slab later sold for $2.8 million and is still certified.
The complaint calls it the blueprint for a $15 BILLION market built on a lie.
Syriah Henderson was found lynched behind a Dollar Tree in St. Pete, Florida on July 2nd. This is the 2nd lynching of a Black woman here in Florida this year.
A federal jury convicted DC officer Terence Sutton of second-degree murder for chasing 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown to his death, and convicted him and his supervisor of covering it up while the kid lay unconscious in the street.
Trump pardoned them both on his second day in office.
This June, they sued the United States for malicious prosecution, asking taxpayers to compensate them for emotional distress.
A jury said murder.
They're billing tax payers for the inconvenience.
NEW: 340,000 Haitians losing TPS will soon be deportable by ICE (that's more people than were arrested in the record-high year of 311,000 arrests under Obama in 2011)
ICE is already on the ground in NYC's Queens and Brooklyn (Little Haiti). Other cities with large Haitian populations: Springfield, Ohio; Miami, Florida; Boston, Mass.; Orlando, Florida; San Diego, Calif.
ICE's decision to "blitz" communities where Haitians have been living and working legally for years is a modern pogrom targeting a disfavored ethnic group.
They won't be targeting criminals, or "bad guys." It'll be nurses, students, people who passed multiple backgrounds checks.
4 women have accused Jared Leto of alleged sexual misconduct & assault that took place when they were teenagers.
The BBC has seen photos & messages that corroborate the women's accounts as well as an NDA that Leto sent one woman.
(Source: https://t.co/Sf7VubeiDa)
New analysis finds 59 documented cases of ICE and Border Patrol agents committing violent and/or sexual crimes.
60% committed sex crimes against children.