Probius

It doesn't sound like they typically check for most items, just the expensive ones and the date on the receipt. That makes it even more theater and less practical.

Of course, it's perfectly reasonable that if you know someone stole something, you can stop them. Under the prerequisite conditions section, it is stated that:

The shopkeeper has reasonable grounds to suspect the particular person detained is shoplifting.

Wouldn't that mean that someone who has done nothing suspicious other than refusing the check would not be giving anyone reasonable grounds to stop them? Or does just refusing count as reasonable grounds and make the check effectively legally mandatory?

someone who can is waiting(and the salarymen can, shopkeeper’s privilege apparently in the US)

Can you elaborate on this? I've never heard of it.

Captchas are actually a great tool for reducing spam and botting. Depending on the platform, they can directly benefit you. Captchas and manual approval for Lemmy account signups are directly responsible for the lack of spambots on this platform. The problem is that captchas got co-opted to force people to give companies free AI training data.

It literally costs them money to make YouTube worse so that you can pay them to make it better again. NewPipe go brrrrrr

"But I don't want to eat the moldy cabbage on the ground outside!"

"Okay, do you have an alternative, or are you just gonna whine? Eat up!"

They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.

Can you clarify? Are you calling CGP a grifter, or did he just make a wrong prediction?

click on a post about a PCC comic

Because they're not all bad comics and I thought this one was kinda funny, so I wanted to read the comments.

read through the comments and pick the one comment that was rage bait to respond to

You mean the really highly downvoted person saying they downvoted the post? I didn't reply to them. I replied to the person asking a simple question.

provide a low effort "explanation" about why anyone should hate PCC with examples of the artist "retaliating" against her outspoken critics

What, did you expect me to write an essay on the subject?

not only that, you continue to return again and again to defend your position on an artist you claim you don't care about

I wouldn't be on forums like this at all if I wasn't bored. Are you frustrated that by continuing to reply, I've prevented you from getting the last word in?

give me a third option here, I'm not seeing a lot of other ways to view you right now.

I'm someone that used to like Pizzacake's comics and gradually went from excited when I recognized the art style in my feed to annoyed that it was probably going to be another comic without a real punchline, eventually just blocking her account entirely to stop it from showing up.

What exactly are you hoping to achieve here? I know why I'm here (boredom), but what are you trying to get me to say that would satisfy you? From my perspective, you seem to be attempting to manufacture bigotry where there is none so you can feel righteous indignation and have an enemy to tear down.

I haven't spoken about PCC in, possibly, multiple years. I only posted because I was answering someone's question.

did you guys ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, the reason why she makes fun of you is because you keep coming back with more hate?

Well, she's not making fun of me because I don't leave those kinds of comments on her posts, but yeah, this is literally what I just said she was doing. It's called rage-baiting and it's going really well for her because the popularity she gains from it translates to Patreon memberships.

you see pizzacake and you just get filled with so much raw emotion you can't control yourself and lash out like a child only to be driven to attack....a comic artist....

If by raw emotion you mean mild disappointment at the lack of a punchline, sure.

Just spitballing here, but it seems like you're trying to turn me into something I'm not so that you have a target to spew hatred on. I'm not one of those people raging in the comments about "trans bad, me angry!11!" that I'm sure you love to hurl insults at on Reddit. I'm just someone that doesn't like comics that I don't find humorous.

This comment has most of what I would say to reply to you, so I'm linking it. Could you point out exactly what I've said so far that led you to believe that I'm biased against PCC because she's an artist or a woman?

Yep, if they're funny to you, then good for you. I'm not trying to claim that she's objectively bad or anything like that. I'm just explaining why a lot of people don't like her.