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There's multiple Targets much closer to me than the nearest Walmart but I can't recall a single time I've gone to one and they've had all the items in stock I was looking for. Simple staple items that shouldn't have scarcity problems that just aren't being adequately ordered or stocked on shelves.

Now that I've finally vented about this problem I'm now also imagining the monkey paw curling and all the customer service complaint comments will just be replaced with LLM generated pro-WM propaganda :(

The Amazon situation was the first I'd heard about this problem so I assumed it was the same reason it happens on WM (and elsewhere). And while I certainly don't expect Walmart to actually read reviews, I would think they would be concerned about potentially losing sales due to projecting a bad image and try to at least (poorly/cheaply) implement a system to address it.

Assuming it's not like an email based feedback system but something with an asynchronous connection, it can't be too hard to look for a handful of keywords (dent, missing, broken, spilled, delivery ...) then throw up a Clippy-style message - "It looks like you're talking about a problem with your order, would you like customer service to assist?" and then route the message/user in that direction.

I know I'm expecting a lot from our primitive technology in 2025 but I refuse to stop dreaming, dammit!

I vaguely recall Monty Python conducting some studies on confusing cats too. Thanks for your contributions to the ongoing research!

Principiis obsta et respice finem — 'Resist the beginnings' and 'Consider the end.'

Thanks for updating the link :)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/googles-mysterious-searchapp-links-leave-android-users-concerned/

Link points to search.app instead of actual source.

One Finger Death Punch

Is the missing chair leg in panel 3 a meta joke about letting little things bother you?

I saved a comment from u/allmhuran posted to r/news on 2016-06-24:

"Australia has had five prime ministers in five years, the poor yanks look as though they'll have to choose between two options both of which have more disapproval than approval, and the UK leaves the EU. It seems like a ridiculous amount of instability. One might even call it absurd.

But it's not surprising.

You can't feed a society exaggeration, hyperbole and propaganda for over a decade, and then claim surprise when people don't seem to be making rational decisions on the basis of well established truth.

There's a cost associated with not telling the truth. There's a cost associated with polarized, adversarial public discourse. There's a cost associated with media more concerned with profits than the public interest.

It is, apparently, time to pay the piper."

You're probably thinking of @[email protected]. I've been expecting another post any day but wasn't anticipating a name change.