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Me: "Every time your machine stops my self checkout transaction because I moved my shopping bag too close to the cameras I will 'forget' to pay for one item."
Company: 
Me: 
:bender-rodriguez: "I don't like it, but I can respect it."
They aren't expected to "eat" healthier, they are expected to invest in healthier food crops. See... when you destroy crops, the supply drops relative to the demand. The price of the crop to the customers increases and it becomes more profitable and investors will invest in these profitable crops. 
On this point, conservatives believe that they're bring protected by the media/police/government because they don't want to be accused of racism or because of some great replacement bs
My counter to this would be something along the lines of:
"So, you're telling me that whenever you see a news article or watch some news segment about somebody being arrested for rape, accused of rape, or that a group of people living somewhere have a higher than average instance of reported rape... nobody talking about this mentions the immigration status or nation of origin or culture or religion of the accused rapist? Never? Not once? That's super weird because you're (the person I'm talking at in this hypothetical) specifically adding illegal immigrant/Arab/Muslim/Mideastern/Kenyan/etc qualifiers to this conversation. So where did you get those qualifiers from that you are using in this conversation?"
These arguments from your friend, even though they are using statistics, are appeals to emotion more than anything else. Probably don't need to worry about trying to found counter statistics to their claims.
I'd probably be using more pointedly shitty counter questions.
X% of rapes are by muslims when they are only Y% of the population
Yeah, rape is bad though. Does it matter if the assailant is an immigrant, Arab, Muslim or your non-immigrant neighbor? Does being an immigrant/Arab/Muslim make the sexual assault ... worse somehow?
Why are all the immigrants men? We should ban the male refugees from these places, but as a good pro-refugee progressive we should allow the women and children in because they aren’t a problem.
So, because some members of a group did a SA, all members of that group should be mass punished? Men (who haven't SA's anybody) forcibly separated from wives, children pulled from one of their parents, leaving a single parent to try to raise their kids as well as get a full time job to pay bills? What even would the cutoff be? What age would a boy be deemed "a threat of doing SA" and be deported or denied travel with their families to a new home... nine? ... ten? ... twelve years old? This doesn't make any sense to me.
"How I think I look" vs "How I really look"
"Not enough orcs!" ~ Liberall1399SlavaUkrania comment from rottentomatoes dot com.
Countdown to orientalist joke... 
I mean, after First Stabbing, why not Second Stabbing?
Hey! You can't shut down the bum fights! It employs literally dozens of people!
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Week three of my new job...
(hexbear.net)
Pay is less than my old job.
Hours are less than my old job.
Two more work days a week than my old job.
Zero supervision and I'm in a building completely alone for 3~7 hours (depending on the day).
But at least its not temporary (until its decided that the office isn't "economically feasible" and I wind up out of work again). So I guess that's something.
I wonder how long it will take me to get settled so that I can get back into reading again? 
Its about the only thing that's got me low key excited. Been too long since I was able to read any theory related books without my tired brain just shutting down.
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