It's so weird how little it takes to ruin a society

More will replace those fucks. The system is flawed.

Innocent until proven guilty was always the highest tier wealthy only premium. Everyone else is expected to plea bargain down to a crime they didn't commit.

if you’re a billionaire you can be proven guilty and still be considered innocent

I guess the stock boys and cashiers could just be like the olden groceries, where you bring your list and they fill it? Or, I guess more layoffs?

These days, stores are for last minute purchases. If I think of something I need, I order it, and then wait for it to show up. I'm not interested in wandering around Walmart.

To be Kafkaesque is to not know what you are accused of and/or to have no real mechanism to defend the accusations. The Kafkaesque part is the private network of 'justice' that makes judgements which impact someone's access to basics like food based on an opaque algorithm with no recourse.

These private systems are worst when they are networks across multiple stores - you could imagine a future where, if left to the devices of late stage capitalism (i.e. not effectively regulated), it could become virtually impossible to buy food and other essentials once you are on a privately held denylist that retailers pay to access, where those on the list have no insights into how they got on the list nor any mechanism to correct any inaccuracies that unfairly led to them being on the list.

TL;DR: I think Kafkaesque is correct here.

How does one shoplift lumber?

Same can be said for the death penalty, but the GOP and even a lot of Democrats are for it. Even though they're are actual past cases of killing innocent people.

kill the fuckers in charge or you're rolling the dice chamber every day.

I mean, even in that one case, it was accurate, just not in the way they thought.

fobitted

I'm sure this is a typo of some kind, but I can't for the life of me work out what it was."Predicted"? "Foretold"? I'm sure I'm being dense and just missing something obvious, but I'd love to hear what.

A situations like this makes me use a form of Malapropism one would expect of a Dickensian society to bring about almost Orwellian situation. Makes you wonder when someone will use Chekhov’s Gun before it all gets Bowdlerized. Alas this Machiavellian paragraph is reminiscent of a Lovecraftian creature.

But seriously, that paragraph above reads like the scene in Blackadder when they meet the writer of the Dictionary.

I literally stopped shopping at Kroger over this. If you're gonna accuse me of stealing every third item I scan because I use a reusable shopping bag instead of the single-use plastic ones, you aren't getting my business.

I think the only one more over it than me was the poor associate who had to keep signing in to watch videos of me scanning stuff.

opening more lanes very obviously makes things better for customers but that's not even remotely the goal. self-checkout lets them slash their labor costs and give out more executive bonuses by just paying one employee to manage the entire self-checkout section. they wouldn't get to keep that money if they opened up more lanes and paid an employee per lane. so now every store has 20 lanes with at most three lanes open, and only if it's really slammed.

Oh, not just arrest. I don’t know if it was Ai or not, but the 1y/o who was recently mudered by police was in the car with people falsely accused of shoplifting. The family was told by the courts that it was a “reasonable use of force”.

Wild that largely untrained cops can dole out the death penalty to a bystander for a crime that has little-to-no inherent urgency and would never carry a sentence even a fraction as severe.

It's not just the incompetence that's the problem, it's also the laziness and malice.

Anecdotally my wife keeps getting flagged by Walmart and they have to come watch her bag at the self checkout every time she uses one. So far no where else, just there. She uses them many other places, so she’s not acting suspicious or using it wrong.

CCTV cameras, of which London is completely covered by last I heard, over two decades back, are notorious for misidentifying people with facial recognition before this llm bs even came out.

Especially minorities, there was a dude in detroit, black dude, got falsley flagged by the system for a murder, they arrested him, ignoring his ironclad alibi, and tried to make the charges stick for some time, knowing he was innocent. That was a number of years back, but not a one off at all.

do you have instincts?

Kafka was most famous for pointing out that our current society is built on bureaucracy unto death. For instance how he have to fill out insurance forms while dying of cancer.

Pick something other than The Castle, especially if you've ever worked for any government.

Unless you want to know why Curtis Yarvin is wrong about monarchies being more efficient, then by all means...