Out of the Blue

Well the big show is underway in Germany, and it's always fun to have new games to talk about. The time-difference from overseas is good news and bad news for covering this, but we're working it all out. I'd say the good news of the opening ceremony not running too late into the night here is probably the big takeaway. I guess if I had my preference, they'd hold all these game shows in Europe.

Obituary: Maria Branyas, world's oldest person, dies in Spain at 117 - Yahoo! News.

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Too bad Cologne is such a dump though. Yeah, the cathedral is goddamned impressive and they have a couple of great museums - the Wallraf-Richartz Museum there is actually one of my fave museums, if you're ever in Cologne it's well worth visiting - but the rest of the town is a dumpster fire. Here are some shots of my trip in Cologne - mostly the museum....

Cutter does Cologne


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Blue, that MEGALOPOLIS (2024) link went private.
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Too bad Cologne is such a dump though

What's wrong with Cologne? Uninteresting? Or just a dump?

I almost went there for a project.
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Halle Berry- Pierce Brosnan 'Restored My Faith in Men'

Which had probably been previously obliterated by having to star (graphic sex scene and all) alongside Billy Bob Thornton in "Monster's Ball" a year prior to that.
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The word wrap in the obituary came at an unfortunate place
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The answer to theft isn’t really just locking everything behind glass. That means anytime someone wants something you need to find the person with the key. That means having at minimum, a part timer with experience to be on call to unlock sections on demand. And unless you increase the amount of workers you have per shift there is no way you can meet customer demand.

And locking up the high theft stuff only means they switch targets to non locked behind glass stuff. I have direct experience with this.

We moved the high theft stuff away behind glass and lo and behold the same guys come back next day and they just stuff their back packs full of non high theft stuff and run out the door anyhow.

Theft is just a part of doing business. Between shop lifters or stealing off of the delivery truck. it’s not possible to fully stop.

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Titanic by any other name
The CEO of the firm that owns the vessel’s manufacturer said the Bayesian was “unsinkable.”
“Sailing ships, it is well known, are the safest in the most absolute sense,” Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, told Sky News in an interview. “First of all, because they have very little surface compared to a yacht facing into the wind. Second, with the structure of the drift keel, they become unsinkable bodies.”
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So let me get this right, Target laid off a large portion of their staff, installed self-checkout where nearly all theft is taking place, and made it a policy not to call the police on anything less than grand theft (the infamous $950 in California, never mind Texas where it is $2,500) in an attempt to extort shoplifters. Apparently, that shit got shut down because "pay us $500 or we will call the cops" isn't exactly legal, so now they decided to lock up the socks and underwear because shoplifters apparently don't want to wait 20 minutes to get some chonies to steal at that self-checkout. Never mind that while shoplifting has increased since 2020, it is still down when compared to ohhh 2019, 2018,2017,2016, going all the fucking way back 55 years to 1969. I am sick of hearing about the massive increase in crime, when there is clearly a V shaped recovery in crime. It's almost like something happened in 2020, and all the stores shutdown or something resulting in less crime.

I have no doubt the new locked cases are less about the shoplifting problem that Target, Walmart and other retailers created with monetization, but an irritant to encourage customers to order online where their high tech Ai price optimization algorithms can fuck the customer a little harder.
I suspect that in the next five years these retail stores will try to move to a curb side pickup only model, turning their stores into warehouse with even less employees.
Fuck them

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