Go frolic in the woods then. We live in a society, you’re freedom and happiness cannot infringe on mine.

I have read the other comments now and I will admit at second glance those feet look pretty clean and I don’t see any fungus or anything to be concerned about.

However my view hasn’t changed. As a society we have to have a line that is fair, simple, definable, and defendable.

That line is “keep your shoes on in public”. Once we start saying “her feet are probably cleaner than her shoes… And the bus seat is probably more dirty than her feet already” … I do understand that point and I would agree if there were nothing else to consider.

It makes the line ambiguous. It jeopardizes the simplicity and enforceability of a rule we as a society put in place for a real reason to solve an actual problem that has a real benefit for all of us.

Those feet look clean, I agree. So when are feet not clean enough? Is there a chart, honer system, or complaint regulated? My feet are clean but I have thick yellow callouses because of my unnatural gait caused by my foot pain. It’s not contagious but might look like a fungus… Can I put my bare feet on a park picnic table? I mean people eat off Park tables but they are outdoors and exposed to alot worse, people should be using plastic table cloth anyway… I am I allowed to put my bare feet on a park table?

If some with Hep C is barefoot in a flea market that has a sign saying shoes are required, with very clean feet… But someone broke a novelty glass bong shaped like frog and didn’t report it because they were worried they’d have to pay for it. The broken bong got cleaned up but not before a shard got accidentally kicked into the exit near the food truck parking. The barefoot customer with hep c cuts their foot and naturally lift it to put pressure on the wound and a drop of blood gets on a childs hotdog. The child doesn’t notice that because their braces have been irritating their lips and they were more concerned about that. The child contracts hep C.

Who’s responsible? The barefoot customer? The clumsy customer? The bong vendor? The owner of the flea market? The food truck? The distracted child? The dentist who didn’t provide wax for irritation?

Yes I know I’m overthinking it but that’s exactly my point. As a society we need to have clear, simple, defined, enforceable rules. Once you start adding “well her feet are clean” you obscure that line.

Keep your shoes on in public. That’s the very simple line we’ve all agreed apon.

That’s what bothers me. The government is like ‘the memes about him aren’t true, he’s nothing special. It’s just murder’

Then they turn around and prosecute saying ‘this isn’t just murder! Look at all the memes! This needs to be enforced like the special event it is’

You can’t have your cake and eat it too. The judicial branch has been downplaying it as a simple murder. One man mad at another man. Nothing more. Cool. Then prosecute it as such.

The inconsistent words jeopardize the faith in the system. Neo Nazi lynches a man to prove a point to an entire race that they are not safe… Murder, not terrorism.

Guy kills a CEO over his personal issues with treatment with no master plan or manifesto? That’s a terrorist?

The public needs consistency or we lose trust in the system.

I’ve never understood this. I have a condition with my feet that means i pretty much walk on bruises everday of my life. In medieval days they flogged people’s feet to torture them with a condition I deal with every day.

There are days I take off my shoes and sob.

I would never do that. I keep my shoes on in public.

The bottom of this person’s feet are not purple like mine are. What’s their excuse? Put your shoes back on.

That is probably correct to the phrasing of the question but I don’t think it’s correct to the spirit of the question .

If I have a billion dollars and everyone else has one dollar, I am powerful.

Time moves forward, inflation, whatever.

I have 2 billion dollars now and everyone else has 2 dollars.

Nothing has substantially changed in that scenario.

But even if we only allow me to grow:

Again I have 2 billion dollars now and everyone else still has 1 dollar.

Nothing has substantially changed.

That’s my disagreement. There is a limit. Diminished returns.

The difference between a one bathroom house and a 2 bathroom house is huge. The difference between a 20 bathroom house and a 21 bathroom house is basically meaningless.

You can only be “so” rich and people can only get “so” poor. At a certain point the change isn’t meaningful, but once you pass a a certain threshold it’s worse than meaningless. It becomes worthless

If you have all the money in the entire world and no one else has any money… The money no longer has any value at all. It then becomes pointless and valueless.

I’m not smart enough to point out the exact line. There is a line where the rich can’t be richer in a significant way. Elon musk i think is at the point. He could lose 50 billion dollars or gain 50 billion dollar tomorrow. It wouldn’t impact his life or our life.

Likewise people can only get so poor before the concept of currency breaks down completely. We kind of see a glimpse of that with credit scores. I have bad credit. I don’t care that I have bad credit. I’m not going to own a home anyway. I don’t care if a credit card company sues me because I have no liquidatable property or items. Even my wages can’t be garnished because my child support maxes that out alrwady. My debt and credit score are meaningless. Money itself can get that low as well. If the imbalance gets too far the money becomes worthless.

There is absolutely a limit. There is a line.

I totally get that. After pizza hut I worked for 4 months at a dominos franchise with my friend Kayla. The franchise owner would bring his son around sometimes. He was probably around 17-18. To be clear they were rich. Franchise owner of a dominos doesn’t sound like much but he owned like 10 including the one we worked at on international drive in Orlando Florida. It’s like the Vegas strip of Florida.

Anyway his son loved hanging out with Kayla and I because we didn’t give one single shit that he was the owners son. He thought it was wild that i would be a total smartass to his dad…Also Kayla was pretty hot. I’m asexual so we were only just friends but the boy clearly had a crush

Anyway some conversations I remember that shocked his son

His dad: I need the key to the cash drawer Me: it’s my drawer, only mine. I can ring the customer up. Dad: I’m not going to steal from my own business- Me: you’re divorced right? so you understand that mistakes happen even with the best intentions? No. You can’t have my key

Manager meeting at ale house.

Other managers order

Me: I’ll have a double scotch in water and (burger order)

Owners son: can we drink at this meeting?

Me: I can because I’m over 21 lol

Owner: no one can drink. It’s an employee meeting. Waiter cancel the scotch.

Me: I’m sorry Is this a paid meeting?

Owner: no it’s team building

Me: but you’re paying for all of our orders at least?

Owner: no, you aren’t required to order food if you don’t want to. It’s just an option that you can choose.

Me: cool. Since it’s my time and my money I choose to order a double scotch with water.

Kayla: I’ll take a margarita with my order.

Sorry I don’t have any real point I’m making. Just reminiscing. And yes scotch in water is a real drink. It’s not a common drink but it’s been around as long as scotch has. It brings out the more subtle flavors of the scotch.

Off topic but I was a manager of a pizza hut for a while. Drove my district manager nuts with technicalities.

“How many pepperonis go on a large one topping?”

“I look at the chart”

“As a store manager you should have it memorized!”

“As a store manager I have the training manual memorized. It says to look at the chart each and every time you make a pie. It specifically discourages memorizing the portion control. look at the chart every time.”

The answer he wanted was 56 back then btw. 56 pepperoni on a large one topping. I still remember that. The correct answer was “look at the chart” so that was the only answer I gave him.

Another funny story, it was my first food service job. He yelled at me for using the sanitizing cloth from the pizza area on the wing area. Cross contamination, I know that now.

I told him I didn’t know about cross contamination and that it was my first job in food service.

He yelled “I trained you myself”

I replied “yeah … I wasn’t going to mention that but you did train me yourself… Yet here I am not knowing anything about the concept of cross contamination… Maybe more time should be devoted to that in the future”

He did not like me lol

Edit: I had been a retail manager for a few years and got hired on as a store manager for pizza hut. I was vocal that I had zero experience with food. I don’t even cook for myself. I microwave or order food. I know it sounds silly now that I didn’t know anything about cross contamination. I didn’t know, he hired me, he didn’t explain it during training. Call me stupid for not knowing, that’s fine. Hes responsible for making sure I knew, he was my trainer. That’s his fault. I’m still a manger (retail again) and it is very much my job to train my crew properly and never assume something is “common sense”. If it’s important you go over it in training… But I guess I never trained any of my cashiers to not throw poop at customers I just assume that’s common sense… So I guess there’s that flaw in my theory lol

Clark is a well paid employee. Upper class. He approves and oversees food additives. He’s near the executive level but not an executive. He’s close enough to walk into the office of the company president and feel bad about the gift he brought with him. He’d be expecting a Christmas bonus.

That’s the movie.

I’m not making a point beyond Clark would be expecting a Christmas bonus at his job. Joke might be bad, the movie was accurate.

A better joke might be pointing out Clark was a ditz in the movies but had a high paying job. However he was also very imaginative in the movies so that might be why he’s successful in research and development.

They are complicated movies lol

I haven’t been in school for a long time. I’ll ask my son, he’s 17 just for shits and giggles.

It amazes me, and if you are in school it will amaze you later in life, how much more kids are expected to know and how early they learn it.

Well… Assuming America doesn’t completely tank education soon. That isn’t a jab at a political party either. We’ve never really supported education, we’ve never made it a priority, we’ve never paid teachers well.

My parents were both dedicated teachers, I’ve seen the work involved. I make more than teachers do as a store manager. I work ridiculously hard for my pay as well but my point is that it’s not nearly as important as teachers.

So that’s my point. We’ve never put much effort into education but children today are far more advanced than children of my generation.

Imagine what we could accomplish if our society DID value education. What we could accomplish in a single generation.

I’ve been told flat out the cameras are to watch employees

Can confirm… store manager.

I joke that our policy for shoplifters is to offer them a bag.

In reality it’s to offer them a cart as a non accusatory way of saying “I see you”

As for bills I had my boss suggest I take them to the bank. I had to clarify “and I tell them I believe there is a counterfeit in there… Right … Otherwise it’s dangerously close to trying to pass a counterfeit myself… A felony…”

He paused and answered “sure if that makes you more comfortable”

To be clear I understand and agree with a lot of it. Why should I ask my workers to risk their life over some toothpaste? Why should I ask them to risk their life confronting a counterfeiter who is already done commiting felonies.

I also understand it doesn’t help the company. One dead worker will cost the company more than all the product a person could steal. Even with insurance the cost of training even a cashier is nearly $1000. It goes up from there.

It is still frustrating and my employees often take a lot of training to convince them not to care if someone is stealing.

And customers also get frustrated when they tell me someone is stealing and I give them an answer like "that’s unfortunate " and go back to work.

As a person educated in the American system I can confirm I’ve never heard the word quartile before.

(this is a joke) To be fair I can make the exact same claim. I could murder someone and the number of votes I receive yearly will not be impacted.

Probably not the best time to push for that if you plan to live a long life. We are eating the rich now.

I’ve had that thought about animals.

Wild animals always run away when I’m walking thru the woods which is kind of a bummer.

However I remember that every deer that approached a human in the past was killed and eaten. Every animal that didn’t run away was eaten or domesticated.

The ones that ran away survived and had more offspring

That’s a nice CEO you got there. Be a shame if something happened to them.

And I think the onion could sue for copyright infringement or something to at least close the accounts.

I heard about a study that women who own horses live longer. The comment below was "if you can afford a horse you can probably afford health insurance. It isn’t the horse "

What nonsense are you going on about? I pay my taxes. I contribute to society.

Btw the local wildlife population CANT support all of us. Animals and fish will go extinct and people will starve to death and die you absolute goofball.

Oh and hunting and fishing on land our laws keep the wildlife population stable in WOULD be living off society while contributing nothing. Societies hunting and licensing laws are the only reason there’s anything left to hunt or fish at all.

Enjoy jerking yourself off all day.

Edit: even native Americans nearly hunted all animals to extinction until European disease devastated their population. Native Americans had much smaller population and were far far less greedy with their hunting than your average billybob12-gauge. It’s not a sustainable way to live.

See the problem isn’t that robots might replace my job, it’s that we live in a system where I need to work to eat.

We made belts and bracelets. And we sold all kinds of wallets and bags that we didn’t make.