My Walmart has two main entrances (like most?), on one each end of the front. The entrance doorway appears to always be on the outer-most side of the building. This is designed so that those leaving the checkouts in the middle of the store follow a path that doesn't run into those entering the store.

It's all about the traffic flow.

Then I have local grocery store (Giant) that changed from an enter+exit door to a single door where someone is always waiting for the door to clear from the opposing direction (wtf is that).

A lot of that price is Licensing to use the trademark or IP or whatever, it's not like AI where you can copy anything then lawyer your way out of it.

Many AI prompts won't even have a problem ifyoumiss a few spaces. Maybe Collins isallin on AI.

Our county is huge, why don't we require huge buffer zones around an airport? Most of the dead were on the ground. Yes I realize it probably took decades for all those warehouses and neighborhoods to develop around the airport and it would now be hard to relocate - air travel is very safe right up until it isn't.

That's why it has become more popular. Computers used to only be used by, erm, a slightly smarter segment of people. Now it's a necessity for everyone and the interface reflects that.

Anyway back to the bashing:
-Do their mice have two buttons yet?

Many stores have had entrance only doors for a loooooong time. So now with a receipt you can use the enter door and annoy other people trying to enter.

Ok, great.

People not following the standard enter and exit doors always bugged me, and lately there seems to be a lot of people that have no respect for common social etiquette like this little simple thing. For instance it's right there over the two doors at walmart 'Enter' and 'Exit', yet people seem fine nearly walking into you by going the wrong way through both doors.

Wait until the author discovers the old Unix philisophy about a separate simple program for each feature.

-Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

Learn to count.

We don't have to pay anyone to file if we are intelligent enough to follow the pamphlet that tells normal tax filers where to put the numbers. If you are old school and still mail in the return is costs you a stamp.

The problem is that it is overly complicated for anyone but a simple income earner. And as most people point out, the government already knows most of the numbers to the point they could fill out a preliminary form that would work most people.

Do you honestly think these filing service companies are letting you file 'for free' on their own dime? No, they are paid by the government so that your filing looks free, but it was paid for by those same taxes. Much better to keep the expenses in house with direct.file and let all these tax preparation companies go bankrupt.

That would be on your employer for putting your work computer behind a Cloudflare front. Why does the work computer need to be so publicly visible? And why do you need a vpn for accessing work?

-that's the smell of fishy.

No thanks. This will get headlines again when AI directs your mom to the nearest strip club instead of to the grocery store.

And that is the problem.

What is with the push to privatize things that really should be under government direction? Basic utilities are a prime example that really have no business making anyone a profit except the employees.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Think of the environmental impact of this shutdown. One cross country jet uses enough fuel to heat over 100 homes for an entire winter. Air travel is convenient, ok - but it is also a colossal waste of finite resources.

maybe I don't have to hear planes going overhead every minute - and no I am not near a major airport but somehow over the decades this became a major route; often one plane is only a mile after another on the same path.

-yes I yell at clouds, because there are planes in them.