So the United Clowns Who Change Paper Price Tags And Smoke Weed All Day is upset that they can’t stroll around the floor at their leisure and swap out paper price tags for hours on end. If you are unfortunate enough to own a grocery store in, say, Tukwila Washington, you get the pleasure of paying some monkey at LEAST $21.65 per hour to lollygag around the aisles and change out paper tags for hours and hours.
OR you can get these ESLs and save yourself tens of thousands of dollars per year in labor costs.
I’m guessing when grocery store barcode scanners were implemented in the 1970s and 80s, the United Cashiers Keypad Punchers Union howled like monkeys, too.
Tough shit. Technology moves on and things change. Deal with it.
Even it they WERE only changing to ESLs for nefarious “surge pricing” reasons, so what?? LOTS of industries alter prices when demand is high: Uber, Lyft, toll roads, airlines, gas stations, Airbnb, theme parks, etc.
This may shock Comrade Clayton but resort prices and air fare to Florida are WAY higher in mid-March during spring break than they are in early August. You moron.
Why should the grocery stores be any different? If you don’t like it, go at a different time. Or open your own fucking grocery store and advertise your low, low “all-the-time’ prices.
Apparently Comrade Clayton is not the only one piling on data centers. EVERY SINGLE SHITLIB is making it the center point of their campaigns. At least these other dummies are actually running for the Texas legislature – the ONLY governmental body actually empowered to do anything about it.
Which begs the question: if EVERY shitib running for the Texas House and Senate is already babbling non-stop about data centers, why does Clayton Tucker (who would have ZERO power over data centers if elected) keep talking about it 98% of the time?
[Hint: to raise money and because he has nothing else to offer.]
Even that traitorous slob Sid Miller FINALLY ADMITTED that Ag Commissioner can DO NOTHING about data centers and it is entirely in the hands of the legislature and the governor:
Why would Sid Miller “call on the Governor and legislature” to do something if Sid Miller had all these awesome powers to stop data centers himself? Oh right. Because he has zero powers. Which I’ve been saying like a broken record for several months now.
Sid Miller only cares about any of this because he’s trying to get back at Abbott for tossing him under the bus in his primary against Nate Sheets. Sid Miller cares about data centers about as much as I do.
Here is a typical uneducated and retarded woman running for the Texas House. She is outright lying and telling us the grid “is at a breaking point!”
The problem for this idiot woman is that ANYONE can see the current supply and demand on the ERCOT dashboard any time they want. The dashboard tells a different story. It is a story of PLENTIFUL supply even now in July:
Since shitlibs suck at math and charts, I’ll decipher this for you: just for tomorrow there is 135.5 GIGWATTS available and only 82.9 gigawatts is projected to be needed. Ergo, there is a massive cushion of 52 GIGAWATTS.
But yeah, keep telling me how the grid is about to break, you absolute mook. This chick is clearly brain dead. Then again, what do you expect from a woman who brags about being a single mom, has never had a real job in her life and who takes “girl boss” photos like this one:
Since the Texas grid is perfectly fine and has power to spare, conniving scumbags like Clayton Tucker are forced to point to shitlib blue states where power prices have climbed and then blame it all on data centers so they can say “that will happen here!”…ignoring the role that the shitlib love of green energy played in the problem.
A lot of people WAY smarter than Clayton Tucker have already crunched the numbers. Here is an article just from today!
A new analysis by Always On Energy Research and the Institute for Energy Research concludes that renewable energy mandates and net-zero policies have contributed to higher electricity prices in states that adopted them, while states with fewer climate-related mandates generally have lower electricity costs.
Whoops. As usual, moron liberals took a huge shit on the floor (pushed terrible green energy policies) and when that shit on the floor starts to stink (power prices up bigly) and people are looking for who did it (complaining about high bills), the scumbag liberals slink away from their own shit pile and say “the data center did it!” like a lying six-year-old child.
Here is more proof that the power rate hysteria is a pile of nonsense. ANOTHER article from today!
Rates will DROP by 1.3% for residential PGE customers July 8, the utility said. Commercial customers will experience a 2.1% drop and industrial customers will experience a 1.4% decrease.Meanwhile, rates for data centers will go up 29%.
Wow! Clayton Tucker wrong yet again! That’s only happened about 42 times before!
Clayton Tucker: fearmongering and being wrong for 35 years!
Add in the fact that Texas is building power plants left and right to increase supply even MORE, and I will gladly place a $10,000 bet that if you bookmark this page and come back here in five years, power prices will NOT have come close to doubling. I doubt they’ll even be up 10% by then.
How about it, Clayton? Want to put your money where your filthy commie mouth is? Or are you fully aware you’re selling a line of shit just to grift money off of old ladies?
Notice anything in this photo? Besides the fact there are three jackasses pictured?
Not a single American flag. Not a single patriotic item of clothing – just the same old ridiculous Canadian tuxedo he wears day in and day out as he runs around shitting on Texas and America.
There is ZERO difference in this picture between an ordinary day and the 250th anniversary of the founding of the greatest country on earth. This may as well be some random county fair in Buttfuck, IL.
This is no surprise, of course. Democrats in general and Clayton Tucker (socialist) in particular hate their own country and want to destroy it so they can “remake” it in their own socialist vision.
Spoiled, unappreciative commie scumbags. All of them.
That scumbag Mamdani did something similar when he sat with other foreign browntard invaders and crapped all over the U.S. on the 4th.
At least these communist street shitters with towels on their heads PRETENDED to care by holding sad little American flags. They don’t mean it, of course. They despise you and your country.
Now compare that to the awesome people in Iowa – the heartland of the United States. Corn country. Hog country. One of the reasons I wanted to be there for the 250th is that I know that area well and I know they love America. The other reason is my plastic surgeon buddy has a sick house with a pool and hot tub – plus connections at the marina and the Soggy Frog bar on Saylorville Lake.
This place KICKS ASS.
Let me tell you, EVERYONE down there had on patriotic gear and did nothing but be friendly with each other and talk about how great our country is. Here are some randos I met named Trevor and Kristy – they were at the table next to ours….
He is a mechanic who started his own business 15 yeas ago and built it into a small empire. I bought him a beer. He bought me a beer. I told him how much I loved Iowa. He told me Texas kicks ass. Then we did shots. Super nice couple. He loves his country like I do.
THIS is how you dress when you’re doing the 4th of July on America’s 250th birthday with your buddy of almost 40 years…
America! Fuck yeah.
THIS is how you dress if you are an America-hating cunt who complains about 50 things a week and stews in envy juices day in and day out….
Here is a dude and his wife who is like 11 months pregnant. Decked out in full gear. Awesome.
It was a beautiful night and the fireworks went on forever. From the Soggy Frog second floor, you could see not only THEIR massive fireworks display, but another three or four displays in the distance. The band was playing non-stop patriotic songs. It was really something. I’ll never forget it. Perfect night.
There wasn’t a commie scumbag within 50 miles of that place. Which is how America should be.
Much like his “regenerative ranching” kick, unemployed bum Clayton Tucker is getting all worked up over something when he doesn’t even have the story straight or the terms correct. But that doesn’t stop him from demanding you sign a useless petition so he can harvest your email and then send you fundraising spam forever and ever!
Imagine paying more than the person standing right next to you for the same gallon of milk.
The elites and corporate monopolies want AI to decide what you can afford instead of giving everyone a fair price.
First the really bad news: if you are concerned that companies might alter prices right in front of your eyes, you are about a decade late to that party. You have been a “victim” of prices moving for a long time, pal. You are just apparently too retarded to realize it.
Airlines, Uber, gas stations, and many other industries/companies alter prices multiple times per day and even minute by minute! It’s called “supply and demand” and it’s what makes our system efficient.
[I can just hear Comrade Clayton now: “Imagine paying more than the person right next to you for a flight to Alaska!” LOL. That happens every day, you clown.]
I wonder what this moron does when he realizes that the gas station way out in the middle of nowhere charges 30 cents MORE per gallon than the one near mom’s house (where he lives at age 35) in Lampasas.
Does he go into the store and complain to Akshit Patel that he is “price gouging” a retarded socialist who didn’t plan ahead and fill up in Lampasas? Does he whip out a petition and loiter near the men’s room (common for him, no doubt) asking for emails so he can fundraise off of this horrible injustice?
Or does he do what the rest of us do: mutter about the “fucking jeet owner,” cough up an extra $5 and then make a mental note not to get caught out there with your pants down again. Then you get on with your life.
The “surveillance pricing” he is prattling about is pretty common ON-LINE – NOT in grocery stores. They are able to do it on-line because clowns like Clayton Tucker spend their entire lives posting free information on social media and Google searches. Other companies pay for that scraped data so they can target you and learn your habits. Everybody knows this.
It would be IMPOSSIBLE to perform “surveillance pricing” in the grocery store down to the individual level. I think that Clayton thinks there is some “all-powerful AI camera” in the middle of the store and it would look at each shopper and send out signals to the electronic price tags (more on that in a sec) to gouge the guy wearing a $5,000 suit who drove up in a Porsche 911.
[Even though this is not how it works and would be impossible to implement, wouldn’t Clayton WANT the rich-looking guy to pay more?? That’s his whole entire worldview and raison d’être: SOAK THE RICH because they stole from me! That’s the ENTIRE CRUX of the progressive income tax he adores!]
Charge that regal bastard $100 per gallon!!!
No, the electronic price tags (totally separate issue) are simply a way to save a ton of labor costs by avoiding repricing 5,000 items by hand over and over. Clayton doesn’t understand labor costs because he has never run a business or employed a single person.
He thinks grocery stores are “gouging you” when in fact, they run on razor-thin margins of about 1% to 2%. If they can save a chunk on labor costs with electronic price tags, they are DEFINITELY going to do that. I don’t blame them. It can also HELP the consumer big time:
So as you can see, he has completely confused and fucked up two different issues: on-line pricing and ESLs. Your local store can (and will) implement ESLs that have absolutely nothing to do with “surveillance pricing” which is an on-line phenomena.
What he fails to understand (because he is an unemployed socialist and a Poli Sci major who lives with his parents) is that you are ALWAYS free to look at ANY price (in the store or on-line) and say “that feels like a rip-off…I’m not going to buy it. I’ll wait or go somewhere else.”
But when you are a spoiled, silver spoon pussy and only-child who still lives with mommy at age 35, you think the world owes you everything at whatever price YOU think is fair and if you can’t afford it, it must be the fault of some “oligarch” somewhere and NOT your own fault for being a broke, unemployed socialist bum.
Now please sign my petition to have Clayton Tucker slapped in the face for being a dumb shit for the 57th time in a row.
I forgot about this buffoon “Texas Paul Schroder.” Apparently he is still sitting his fat ass in a chair and blabbering about how Texas needs more socialists or something…
A Houston-area Army veteran who claimed to be a combat-tested Special Forces soldier and Silver Star recipient has been charged with a federal crime for falsifying his military discharge papers.
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Paul A. Schroeder, 40, of The Woodlands, who is accused of unlawfully possessing and exhibiting a certificate of discharge from the military, “knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered.” The misdemeanor charge carries a penalty of up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
This fat buffoon thinks that Clayton was SMART for wearing a Covid face diaper for over two years and getting injected with a barely-tested shitpoison that killed quite a few people and is causing an uptick in cancer in young people. He thinks Clayton would make a GREAT “Agricultural [sic] Commissioner” because of that alone!
I guess it’s only fitting that a bum who pretended to be a war hero is making a video defending another bum who pretends to be a farmer. These two assholes were made for each other. They probably have an IQ of 130 between the two of them. Absolute clowns.
Yes, Clayton Tucker got frightened into taking a shitpoison for a cold virus with a 99.998% survival rate. LOL. What a genius!! Let’s put him in charge!
Despite the best efforts of commie scumbags, America is STILL the greatest country on earth. The best that has ever been. The best that will EVER be.
The krauts…the frogs…the wops…the chinks…the dinks…they all envy us. Today they will be sweltering without air conditioning while our sixth-gen bombers fly over America burning thousands of gallons per hour while patriotic Americans light off fireworks, drink beer and eat thousands of tons of smoked meats.
Fuck yeah.
I’ve been to at least 30 other countries in my life. They are all dogshit compared to the United States of America.
All other countries can feel free to suck on my balls.
A few weeks ago, the fearmongering socialist was yammering about how the “peaceful neighborhood” of Memphis was being poisoned by evil Big Tech and their data centers:
But then again, this is just a big shakedown, as it always is. They see deep pockets and they want a piece of it. Just like Clayton Tucker the communist. Jesse Jackson pulled the same shit for decades with his “Rainbow Coalition” extortion racket.
I’ve said many times that these actions are merely shakedowns since Big Tech is rolling in money.
Well guess what? It worked! Elon is going to pay a toll so these idiots shut up and go away. That was basically the plan all along. He bought them off pretty cheap, too: some half-off Internet service. LOL.
This will work, of course. I’m actually fine with this. It’s the free market at work. In other places, companies like Amazon and Meta are building water treatment plants and power generation that will feed back to the community.
As soon as these Big Tech companies with Big Pockets buys a few things for the community, all the Big Talk about “fighting for the people” will dry up and disappear.
You’re telling me if Amazon came into Lampasas and said “hey, that $6 million water plant you can’t really afford to build? Don’t worry – we’ll pay for it” that City council wouldn’t fall over each other to agree to that? Hell yes they would – and rightfully so.
