Not by a long shot. It’s mainly just Walmart. There are others, but they’re the exception, not the rule.

I worked in retail for about ten years. The company I was at did make a big deal about making a customer feel welcome, which might incidentally involve greeting a customer at the door, but we certainly were too busy to have someone perpetually posted up at the door like Walmart. Any sort of “greeting” we might have done would be the same as I what I experienced in Ireland or Italian retail where if I was approaching an employee, I’d get the local version of “hello”. Didn’t strike me as being very different.

So, no, the American retail space that has a dedicated greeter is fairly uncommon.

Public funds spent on anything that generates something that could be considered “intellectual property” should be public domain. Beyond software my first thought is pharmaceutical and general medical research.

Fair point! I’d’ve liked something about the whole “market place of ideas” illusion that the ruling class says exists, but I guess your perspective gets right to the quick of things.

More of the same.

because it presents a slippery slope that could end with conservatives facing government censorship down the road

Silencing speech in “the Land of the Free” isn’t really the problem to him. The problem is that the sword swings both ways.

Turd continues to be turd.

Where can I get some of those buttons? The obituary one sounds great.

“Solve” and “Coagula”?

The game begins with a tutorial.

Why would I be remiss to be confused as to why there is a tutorial, but not include any mention of the existence, let alone the use, of a basic weapon?

Further, yes, I expect all products to tell me about their features.

I’d encourage you to look into Chris Green, a cop in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. This horseshit seems to be traced back to this guy.

Hahaha here I thought I’d just missed something in the beginning of the game. Turns out the game just doesn’t bother to teach its players how to play it.

No. Your argument is for fools. The argument that a country with a population of 345 million produces less carbon dioxide to pollute the planet’s atmosphere with than a country of 1.42 billion people is nonsense and contributes nothing to any conversation at all. The per capita comparison is what matters, but it’s not used by the people that just really want us to believe “China == bad”. Seems like they’re successful at it based on this interaction, sadly.

Correct and correct.

As always - well under what USA is putting into the atmosphere. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

Left that theater feeling like I was tired of being cynical and I should be a better person.

I hope the predictions of this piece is accurate. But I doubt it.

A quick way to restart the exodus from the pews is to make the church even more overtly partisan, rather than spiritual.

When was an evangelical in the 90’s and the 00’s the churches my family attended were frequently GOP rallies with a veneer of Jesus over top. This change in IRS policy that seems to have never ever been enforced to start with will make no difference. The gloom and doom of this piece that suggests that political entities will start dumping money into churches to stump for their candidates - I don’t think that’s going to happen, since the churches that would be game - are already doing it.

Yep, that’s my goal. I’m going to check all of these projects out. Thanks for the recommendations.

I’ve been shopping for some sort of cross platform (namely iOS / Android) service like this or Apple’s Find My Friends that I’d could have some assurance that this kind of content would be kept safe and private. The search continues …