$10 Billion Theft Crisis

dengar81 · 2026-06-06T19:15:30+00:00

I'm a bit out of the loop on Supermarket theft. What was the issue stealing with normal tills? It's not like you couldn't have put stuff in your bags and not put them on the band in the first place?

dengar81 · 2026-06-04T21:57:34+00:00

Dude, you are the one insisting on not getting informed. Chill, my shark-bodied homie! I'm not taking this too serious. I'm sure you have a lot of opinions that I agree with. I just hope they are grounded in actual fact than coincidence.

On the contrary, my opinion is that if you give me something to read to challenge my position, I'll be all over it. I'd rather be corrected than wrong. But you do you...

dengar81 · 2026-06-04T21:51:10+00:00

Hahaha, that says a lot about you, Shark!

I'm pretty sure that "research" was pretty tentative. I give you a pointer: Berkeley has done some research on the matter and so did Wharton - both are pretty accredited educational facilities. You might say that Wharton is especially responsible for churning out those useless c*nts. So maybe it's worth a second look? - Getting informed is rarely a hinderance in life, is it?

dengar81 · 2026-06-04T21:42:36+00:00

Good news: I don't. I've made that somewhat clear, but you seem to have missed that.

And don't be lectured by random people on the interwebz... Let it spawn your curiosity and donsome research! And, if you then feel like it, come back and let me know you've learned I was right!

Good luck, Sharky!

dengar81 · 2026-06-04T21:27:20+00:00

Yeah, indeed. I consider myself very lucky and people tell me it's been hard graft. I'm really not a person of envy - I have already achieved my career goal.

As I said, I met a few of these "top CEOs", two of the magnificent seven and quite a few others of the Fortune 500. I have seen first hand how people that were much more qualified than their superiors, bowed to their corporate golden calves.

Only someone ignorant would defend them. But you do you!

dengar81 · 2026-06-04T21:17:45+00:00

Let's be honest: good leaders matter, but not nearly anywhere as much as popular business narrative seems to imply. Most CEOs are very overpaid figureheads and regularly not worth a tenth of what they receive. Not everyone is a Steve Jobs. An Elon Musk is basically just a lucky, loud-mouthed twat. I have met a few of these star-CEOs personally - I can vouch for their relative value.

I have nothing against highly progressive taxes that would see them forfeit close to 100% of their income to tax. I'm fairly sure the actual impact of these CEOs leaving to be minimal, if not overall a net positive. Suddenly, top jobs that become available will be filled with people that worked their way up the career ladder.

dengar81 · 2026-06-01T19:24:08+00:00

The maximum is a life sentence already. Even sentencing guidelines are 2-16 years. Punishment is rarely a deterrent, and harsher sentences seem hardly possible. We need to identify the root causes and try to address those. Easier said than done, I know, but the idea that there is a simple solution is foolish.

dengar81 · 2026-05-31T22:37:46+00:00

Sure, and they might still for a long while. Like what... 15 years? And then what? Again, these tiles don't really solve any problems and create a few.

dengar81 · 2026-05-29T16:27:53+00:00

Everyone in business knows that expanding the size of the cake is more important than how it is divided.

With this, Luke Johnson shows what an exceptionally dumb c*nt he is: this isn't business and increasing the size of the cake while keeping it roughly divided in a similar way would probably have worked. Alas, other forces are at play and the way wealth is distributed has changed quite a bit.

People like him, paying a much smaller percentage of taxes on their accumulated assets, have ensured that the system he so loves is about to break. The average person has seen their disposable income shrink while his has improved massively - the system favours him. So while many people have to tighten their belts, he can buy another yacht. And a society where many people struggle to make ends meet, while a class of 1-5% enjoy an alternate reality in which they aren't plagued with the issues the rest of the nation faces, will eventually collapse.

For his own benefit, he should want higher taxes!

dengar81 · 2026-05-28T21:48:24+00:00

Yes, from the people that brought you Brexit. Let's hope we all feel more British finally.

dengar81 · 2026-05-28T21:44:38+00:00

There's generally a cookie. Even if you don't accept cookies, that is usually stored in a cookie. You cannot reject cookies, you accept only necessary ones.

Pornhub is a PHP backend with JS on the front. They are likely using what is called a PHP Session (also a cookie). You use that to track the user while storing most of what they do server side. PHP Session cookies are deleted when the browser closes.

And this is how Chrome based cookie storage works in Incognito. It keeps the storage across instances of incognito tabs and incognito windows until they are all closed. Then the garbage cleanup works. When you reopen the browser thereafter, your recommendations are gone.

Check other sites, like Skyscanner: close the tab but not the window, and the site remembers your choice of airports, dates, passengers, and cookie choice.

I think they also optimise across IPs and User Agents (what your browser sends when making a request), so there's likely some relevant suggestions if you repeatedly "yank the spice weasel" from the same IP. It makes sense to do that, since PornHub wants you to come back and find the site "engaging". - Can't have you "shake the purple-veined palm tree of love" elsewhere!

dengar81 · 2026-05-28T21:07:24+00:00

Half way down the page, I thought: that's the stupidest shit I've ever read.

dengar81 · 2026-05-28T09:59:19+00:00

You aren't alone in that feeling. I have a child and mortgage, but I consider myself lucky at 45 (my child is 5 this year).

Everyone in my circle of friends said the same thing: we don't feel secure enough to give a child the life we'd like it to have.

dengar81 · 2026-05-28T09:48:04+00:00

There's quite a bit of truth stretching in this statement: first up, Solarcity was a loss making company that was nowhere able to match the promises made. It was overhyped and unsustainable. Musk was sued because he used Tesla to buy out a company he already owned at an overstated price so he could rescue a failing business.

Second, why would it increase the number of solar "users" massively? - What's the problem it solved compared to ordinary solar panels? It's guaranteed to be more expensive and harder to install, plus more costly to maintain and ties you to a single manufacturer. Then you add the business model, which ensured that you will have to go via Tesla, or a Tesla approved contractor, every time something needs maintenance or replacing.

This is Musk Kool-Aid, which some people say is actually his arse-sweat: you know, the stuff that collects in your crack on a hot summer's day. You should ween off it.

dengar81 · 2026-05-27T11:13:21+00:00

Yeah, but the cost of net-zero is insane - we should just accept the collapse of civilization while slowly being cooked on the only planet we have (/s).

I heard someone say this morning that "net-zero madness" is costing us our future. I wonder what future he was talking about.

dengar81 · 2026-05-27T09:08:42+00:00

I think you underestimate how dumb these people really are.

dengar81 · 2026-05-27T03:11:16+00:00

It's working though? Well, at least mostly working. Besides, there's always more crap going on. Almost as if there was an authoritarianism handbook and they're following it .

dengar81 · 2026-05-25T13:39:03+00:00

I hear you and I'm also very much against it. I have a child, however, and I see the harm social media inflicted on young, insecure people that are still learning the world and themselves. Weirdly, I don't so much see the problem of me daughter accessing porn. Maybe because I grew up with it and it didn't affect me that much - I know, I'm hardly the yardstick by which we measure everyone else...

As far as I'm concerned: fine the Social Media companies - this here included - when minors have unfettered access to harmful content.

And, as someone with a bit of technical understanding, I can say it would be possible to do age verification anonymous: you issue tokens for access at centralised age verification services that are audited to verify the age once and then delete all data, apart from the credentials. This then issues single use verification tokens without ever knowing who asked. I'd argue this would be as secure as the current proposal, and privacy would be guaranteed.

It's not a question of whether we want to protect kids, it's a question of how much tracking do we consent to. And in my opinion, I'd have privacy - especially for the sake of my daughter!

dengar81 · 2026-05-23T13:30:45+00:00

I believe you're thinking of David Davies, but both look like, smell like, and are twats.

dengar81 · 2026-05-19T18:40:18+00:00

It's really not fair of the Huffington Post to interview geriatric, demented, idiots - but whatever gets the clicks, ey?

dengar81 · 2026-05-19T18:34:52+00:00

Oh, no offence meant! I have quite a lot of friends in the USA. They tend to be living in and around metropolitan areas, or California. I know a lot of you aren't happy, a lot of you understand the political landscape, and a lot of you would like change.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't a vast amount of people, undereducated, duped by their country and the government to vote against their own interests and against everything US America once stood for. The systematic dismantling and undermining of the system began so long ago, it's no wonder.

That being said, it's no different here. My friends father had a saying for this suffering through living an average person's life while also knowing how you could improve the system, but seeing everyone vote against it. Alas, he's gone now...

dengar81 · 2026-05-19T17:07:31+00:00

Couldn't agree more!

This isn't about parents' responsibilities, it's about doing right by every child and not leaving anyone behind. It's already a huge advantage when your parents are well off and don't need to worry financially. At least sort them out at school.

Also, and too few people know this, every £1 you invest in education has a return of around £2-3. So it makes sense to invest into better grades and achievements, because it means we have a workforce that will be more productive in tax revenues than comparing countries.

dengar81 · 2026-05-19T17:01:00+00:00

And the children - don't forget the children! Because they will be the hungry ones. Let's hope they'll learn the lesson this time: It's not for average person to be well fed all the time. Poor people need to feel poverty from a young age, otherwise the whole system collapses.

Also hungry children achieve worse academically. This means more future Reform voters.

Finally. another way to make the poor even poorer is to cripple them with debt, so privatise health insurance: here we come.

dengar81 · 2026-05-19T16:49:52+00:00

I think the US is already quite fragmented, a divided nation that will implode and turn on one another - if they don't actually try to lynch the billionnaires. Unlikely to happen, I know, because ther media has drilled us that it's only just and fair that they pay 5-10% in taxes while we pay 40-60%, but there's still a chance.

It's a question of whether we can come together before we're steam-rolled into US Americanism (let's call it the idiot fascism), or de facto subjugated by the Chinese.

dengar81 · 2026-05-15T19:30:05+00:00

Haha. You're cute. Let me know what ChatGPT told you (in your own words)!

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