And you have always been paying for the plates at a steakhouse.

It's the law in a lot of places.

People that accelerate from a traffic signal at a different rate than me.

I'm not talking about bad drivers. These people are acting in a perfectly reasonable way - just different from me. I get equally annoyed at those going faster than me as I do at those going slower than me. It doesn't matter if they are in my lane or two lanes over. Also, my preferred rate tomorrow could be slower or faster than the rate today.

So you realize at some point you will be annoyed at your own rate of travel?

That's Inception type stuff there, Dids

Watch as the bags are no longer 'free' but prices don't drop to compensate.

I suppose you're right.

Maybe I should be angry at myself for expecting them to be less stupid.

No. My rate, whatever it is that day, is the correct rate. Everyone else is a moran.

places that suck

Yep.

Yep.

Prediction time:

By August of 2021 37% or more of grocery stores in the US will not only give people a discount for bringing their own bags, but also a discount if they bring a wheelbarrow, cart, rolling suitcase, or any other device that prevents someone from having to rent a shopping cart.

Bip: people who still use PayPal instead of venmo!

All: ****ing NYC ATMs.

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This venmo thing is way too much of a USA#1 thing, iirc it doesn't even work for the euro's.

I've seen my fair share of internetz and I've never even heard of venmo. Good luck.

I'm so tired of updates to software, especially on my phone. Everytime u turn something on connected to the Internet or my phone connects to wifi. They're such small bs update too, 4.12 to 4.13, **** you, save that **** for 5

Chief,

I think that should piss you off.

It's an incentive to have people use less plastic bags. It works, because people who don't care about floating islands of garbage the size of continents in the ocean do care about a nickel.

That might be the other way around imo, however I'm sure it has some effect after all.

It has been in effect in my city for a while. Rather than a bagger throwing my one item in a bag and handing it to me without delay so I can take it home and throw it directly in the trash or recycling bin, they ask me and I say, no thanks. When it is two items I say no thanks. When it is too many for me to carry without a bag I am faced with the choice of paying a dime for a piece of garbage or a buck for a reusable bag that will pay for itself in 10 uses, if I remember to bring it with me.

Guess what? I'm in the habit now. The grocery store is not getting my dime anymore and the landfill/highway/ocean/tree in the park is not getting another piece of trash. If the grocery store is saving thousands a year on not providing bags idgaf.

The problem is that the idiots that propose the ban-the-bag nonsense obviously never had to scoop litter boxes on a daily basis...or line wastebaskets in the bathroom apparently. Both of those things are the main way by which I re-use the plastic bags.

It is also a pain in the ass when I go to the mall located just inside Austin city limits...they always seem to have to scurry around to try and find a paper bag to hold whatever small thing I was buying.

The town I live in is noticeably cleaner since the bag policy.

I did use the giveaway bags for a lot of stuff. But the bags I buy now, if and when I need them, I also use for other things. And 5 cents or 10 cents on top of $50.00 of groceries isn't what's breaking the bank for me.

And why would I waste my breath haranguing the bag boy or the checker when they not in any position to make these sort of decisions, can't do anything about it, and it's as much a hassle for them as as it is for me?

But the irony of the situation was that some people have been complaining that openly paying for something they use when they use it is somehow more 'socialist' than the previous system where they paid for bags whether they used them or not.

Most people that loudly label things "socialist," typically have no idea what the word means.

You could say the same about "fascist".

They know it's a 'dirty word', which is enough.

I reused a lot of bags too. The trade off of having to occasionally pay for bags either in a box or at the checkout in the grocery store is fine with me. And as much as I care about your cat litter challenge, I don't care about you having to pay for bags now more than the mountains of non-reused bags by yourself (because I'm sure you did not reuse them all) and others that allowed that convenience to you.

Whatever though. Scientists are now saying it's far too late so it's all rearranging deck chairs on the titanic, innit?

If it's too late, maybe we should just go for it.

Start living like this is a post-Apocalypse world already.

I think that's kinda what we have been doing.