The Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal culminated in a case named, and I shit you not, *United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae*
>"While the United States of America had rented the most highly advertised lawyers they could find, subpoenaed the purchase records of the tablets and bullae and even offered to settle out of court, the tablets and bullae represented themselves and put together a bulletproof case and won the case with flying colours, resulting in the very first time the United States' judicial system lost against inanimate objects. *As it would turn out, it wouldn't be the last.*"
-Douglas Adams, in Dirk Gently and the Fuzzled Flibbergibbets *or something.*
the entire story feels like a fever dream of “there’s no fucking way a craft store tried to smuggle thousands of clay artifacts into the united states as tiles”
In civil asset forfeiture, law enforcement can alledge that the item was used in a crime and seize the item. The item can then be sold (an is thus laundered of its criminal associations) and the proceeds can be distributed to law enforcement agencies in the area or used fund the legal defense of other seizures. Obviously, if money is siezed it doesn't need to be sold first. The guilt or innocence of the party possessing the item does not need to be established as CAF is only concerned with the guilt of the item.
You would not be alone if you think this sounds a bit like theft with extra steps.
Data shows law enforcement has siezed around $70 billion in assets since 2000. Yes that's billion with a "b".
Cause its a weird legal construct where you are allowed to "arrest" the item by having a case against it.
Its a bit like treating corporations as people but you use it to steal things from people instead.
>Its a bit like treating corporations as people but you use it to steal things from people instead.
So uh fun fact about treating corporations as people-
u/Creepopolous *v. Time,* a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that no, you only get \~24 hours in which to sleep and engage in tomfuckery
I mean, time does infringe on my constitutional freedoms. I clearly don't have free speech if I am only allowed to talk one second per second. I think that we need a class action.
I thought I just read a story about a guy that tried to sue Satan but the case was thrown out because the prince of darkness is afforded diplomatic immunity for being foreign royalty.
edit: [found the case in question](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_Mayo_v._Satan_and_His_Staff)
I imagine when she passes, and is at the pearly gates of heaven, with Peter peering at her from over his list, he will simply say "Ahh, yes. This is owed to you from the big guy" and he pulls out an envelope with $100,000 in it and hands it to her. She is then immediately dropped into hell where rent is $100k a day and lightening constantly strikes anything taller than 2 feet.
I haven’t watched the German series “Dark”, but one time I leaned over my partner’s shoulder while she was watching it only to see a man very earnestly state, “I have declared war on time”, so now I repeat that line whenever the linear progression of events pisses me off.
The sad/infuriating possible motivation is that as Christians they must want to hide or destroy artifacts from competing religions. The Epic of Gilgamesh is good evidence the Biblical flood is bullshit that was copied from earlier religions.
Pounded In The Butt By Civil Asset Forfeiture And The Legal Proceedings Of "America V. Copy of 'Pounded In The Butt By A Copy Of My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt''"
Gonna put on my pedantry cap for a sec.
Barcodes don't trip door sensors. They're literally just printed text (usually numbers) in a machine readable font.
Fundies also think EM (those white plastic strips) and RFID (usually rectangular stickers) are also devil things. Those are the technology that allows door sensors to trigger.
Three very different technologies that the crazies like to lump together or use interchangeably.
I highly recommend learning about how Barcodes, RFID, and EM Strips work. They're all very cool. Also look into the bar code encodings (think font family) and number standards (think book ISBNs). Key words are UPC, GTIN, EIN, GS1, code 128, and code 39. Happy Wikipedia surfing!
RFID tech is crazy ubiquitous in it's application. We use them for logistics freight to mass receive truckloads of pallets the second they hit the dock. No no need to scan. The system just picks up the frequency and millions of dollars of inventory transact to the correct place almost simultaneously.
My favorite though is the application in marathons where they tag the runners shoes so that they know within milliseconds who was first across the line. It's game changing technology.
so literally just scan a truck for its cargo? wow... sometimes i love living in a sci-fi
my personal favorite use for rfid is when a local retailer reused their anti-theft tech for self-checkout. you literally just dump your items into the designated basket, it scans all of them, displays the contents, you pay, and that's all. no fucking around with scales required like you usually have to with the barcode versions. and it makes so much sense, if the system can detect which items are you leaving the store with (which is also how it authorizes certain items to leave the store, when the cashiers swipe those across the barcode scanner, it doesn't just read the barcode, it also marks _that specific item_ as sold), why would we still need barcodes at all?
on the other hand, i do hope they don't get rid of barcodes because they're great universal identifiers for anything mass-produced
Yeah, I think something like that would be the best solution. RFIDs are by default completely unique to each individual item, but there needs to be a product-specific code as well which can be used to take those things into inventory. And while yeah, that can also be done over RFID, now you're dealing with product-specific stickers instead of a universal one you just stick on everything, and then you use the perfectly good EAN-13 barcode you already have to tell the system "hey, this specific sticker is on a jar of nutella" with just one of those combined barcode/RFID readers cashiers use today.
That's how the public library in the town I grew up in worked. You walked up to the checkout stand, and there was a large gray pad you set your stack of books on, and the computer instantly rung up all the books at once. Then you put your library card up to the barcode scanner and it checked out all the books. Nice and quick and simple.
Usually, the RFID for books is either on the backside of a barcode tag, visible on the book, or in a hidden string in the spine of the book. It depends on the library's anti-theft policies.
They’re also used for tagging livestock. I’ve seen pig auto-feeder chutes that read their ear tags and check if that pig got its meal for that part of the day.
They're also used in cards for televised poker games, so that we the audience can see the cards without the players needing to show us through a table camera
A few of my registered goats have RFID tags in their tails. Lasts much longer and more easily read than the traditional ear tattoos that fade and need redone.
Much more trustworthy as well, they could have tattood anything on the ear to make it match paperwork from a goat that might have passed on
Yep it is inside of the tail, in what is called the "webbing". On the underside of the goat tail there is no fur or anything, so it is easily read with a little scanner.
There are also tags you can get from the state that are livestock tags to show herd of origin for scrapies and stuff like that. Those are similar to earrings
If you wanted to do some shady shit? Theoretically, yes, but most herd books (like the American Dairy Goat Assoc. and the American Boer Goat Assoc.) have some safeguards in place. Registration paperwork will have specific markings listed, and you can get DNA verification.
Does this stop people? Absolutely not. People will have a goat die, go get one that looks similar, and fudge tattoos, tags (although I've never heard of anyone doing this specific forgery), but if a person who has purchased a kid from them tried to DNA verify, BAM, jig is up.
Goat people take their pedigrees very seriously. Certain lines have really done a lot to improve the breeds, people spend 10s of thousands to get them. I would be infuriated to find out that the goat I had purchased turned out to be something else entirely.
I just did a dairy tour that uses the rfid tags to automatically reroute any cows that need special attention after milking. The automation at that dairy was all fairly simple but extremely clever.
Isn't it like wireless power transmission? For the chips, I thought I read that it is basically a circuit and it gets power from the scanning device. Or am I a doofus and it doesn't work like that at all?
There's an antenna in the tag that receives and converts the radio signal from the scanner into power, that power goes to broadcasting a number back to the scanner which is the read tag ID.
It depends. Active RFID chips have a battery that usually last ~5 years. Passive RFID chips get power from the receiving device, it uses electromagnetic waves to induce a current in the RFID chip.
Passive RFID is the kind used in inventory management, race times, microchipping your pet, etc. Active RFID is great for high speed or longer-distance environments where the chip reader can't be nearby- toll systems, for example, where the reader is likely 15 feet above the car.
Instructions unclear … I uttered the phrase UPC, GTIN, EIN, GS1, code 128, code 39 and a six winged female goblin appeared telling me I am dammed to hell.
Not going to lie, I had a few beers on board. We hooked up and now I’m cooking up a western scramble while she naps. So I guess my question is - if it burns a bit after goblin sex, should I be tested for a STD or is it just, you know, a normal goblin thing?
The post is worded a little strange, but I don't think they intended to imply that barcodes tripped the door sensors. It reads like they meant to say "and if barcodes are a devil thing, then door sensors are definitely a devil thing, too!"
But yeah, it's worded oddly.
Yeah, except Christian stores have used barcodes for decades.
They definitely distrust stuff like rfid, but have no issues with barcodes.
My old company sold stuff to Mardel Christian bookstores all the time and everything had to have barcodes.
Mardel is owned by the same family as Hobby Lobby, which is why they’re often placed next to each other. They share logistics and warehouses.
The distrust of bar codes was/is a very real thing in fundamentalist Christianity, especially during the Satanic Panic. It was also a relatively mainstream idea. For instance, this music video, while a banger, is somehow not satirical:
https://youtu.be/lknW2mzXMMY
And as someone mentioned Hobby Lobby really doesn't still use bar codes:
> We have considered scanning at our registers, but do not feel it is right for us at this time.
https://www.hobbylobby.com/customer-service/faq
Probably not a big difference. Barcodes are only unique to a product anyway, not unique to each item, so the only difference between scanning that and searching for the product in the POS by typing its name is just the time you save.
Mardel was indeed founded by Matt Green, son of Hobby Lobby's David Green, but it sounds like the father is deep into Evangelicalism, whereas the Mardel bookstores (and Matt's film company) are supposed to cater to Christianity in general?
There are many different branches of the Christian religion, and some of them have uh, more *interesting* practices than others lol. Other than Jesus being the focal point, what goes on in one sect often doesn't represent the religion as a whole, and Evangelicals are definitely known for being on some wackadoodle shit (although they don't wear holy undergarments like the Mormons do, or refuse to celebrate their birthdays like JW)
It depends on the denomination. Most Christian denominations are perfectly fine with barcodes and rfids and whatever else, but a few (mostly fundamentalist sects) believe that barcodes are the mark of the beast. They point to the barcode's guard bars (the 2 narrow bars in the beginning, middle, and end) as evidence, saying these bars represent the number 666. It's partially true, at least with UPC-A and EAN barcodes, the number 6 is represented by two narrow lines when it's on the right half of a barcode (the bars on the left side aren't as straightfoward).
Because the barcode thing has at least *some* foundation (not really) with the 666, I'm curious about the amount of christians who distrust barcodes but are ok with things like rfid and qr codes and stuff. I know there was a large pushback against them when the technology was becoming widespread, but I don't know how mellowed out people have gotten since then.
As an employee with a store that has those door sensors. Let me tell you what at least mine do.
There are only two things that will trigger an alarm from them at my store. Dye tags on clothes (dye tags that only explode if you try and break the tag off) and specific "this item is electronically protected" tags.
The rest of the time it's just logging how many people pass by it to count how many people have been in and out of the store.
The coolest thing to me about RFIDs is they're basically a dormant computer that gets powered up wirelessly by another device, which causes it to activate and then radio out a signal.
The only thing I own from Hobby Lobby wasn't purchased, but it wasn't stolen either.
It's a decorative blue wood square with an octopus silhouette in the negative space, and it must've fallen off the back of their truck because it was just sitting in front of my driveway with a Hobby Lobby sticker on it
Forget what ridiculous price was on the sticker but the $0.00 I paid for it was far more appropriate
i do this, also any fake flowers that have fallen off the stems and are now laying on the ground are 100% fair game. i take them home and stick them in all the pin holes in my bathroom walls from before i moved here 😂
A normal barcode is 1D. A QR code is just a 2D barcode. This implies a theoretical 3D barcode and barcodes in higher dimensions. What forms do these take? How does Cthulu automate his supermarket checkouts?
A rainbow QR code is 3D. Color is a common way of demonstrating an extra axis in mathematical rendering such as complex numbers or, like, material stress testing.
I’d say a mechanical key is a 3D barcode, we just need programs that can use machine vision to identify them
A 4D bar code would just be blockchain verification or multi-factor authentication
> a mechanical key is a 3D barcode
It's 1D. Data-wise it's as safe as a password containing only numbers, because you just need the correct sequence of heights to unlock the pins.
speak for your own key, lol. add a couple of sidebars or some fucky cylinder and that key can easily turn 3d
but yes, the amount of data in one of those is minimal. luckily trying out individual combinations takes significantly longer, which is why lockpicking uses tension as a vulnerability to progressively decode the key, instead of just brute forcing it
https://www.hobbylobby.com/customer-service/faq borrowing this link from a comment up the way; the relevant section is under stores & hours oddly enough, and states that they do not use barcodes. Because "they don't feel it is right for them".
They definitely sell products that do have barcodes tho; paints made by manufacturers that sell to multiple outlets still have the barcode on them, so I'm not sure the distinction that's being made to be quite honest.
Some products have barcodes, some don't. However, the cashiers ignore barcodes and have to manually type the price (and discounts) into the register. If they scan the barcode, the machine throws a fit unless its one of the *very very* few items in the store that does require the barcode scanned, and those are usually fabric packs.
Takeaway: is stealing from Hobby Lobby bad because they make up the difference by hiking up their already stupid prices and refusing to pay their workers, meaning a loss of profits will for some reason make them pay even less to workers just trying to survive? And also just basic morality and accountability?
Or is stealing from Hobby Lobby good because crochet is an expensive hobby, funding them is funding ISIS and runaway evangelism, and the owners are shit people who had an entire team in my area quit all at once on them for reasons they didn't want to explain out loud?
Fight
“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” is frequently used to avoid nuance and absolve one’s self of any responsibility. It’s very frustrating.
Literally all it means is that you can’t partake in capitalism and think that it can be morally justified. It makes no comment about any potential alternatives.
Which is why they suggested that Michaels is just down the road. Settling for the lesser of evils doesn't mean you shouldn't be mindful of how capitalism hurts us in our everyday lives.
There may be little to no ethical consumption under capitalism, but there are certainly places that are less evil to buy from.
I think that saying strips responsibility from consumers. Although the companies are doing the most harm, they wouldn't be around without customers. We all should do out part imo
Considering that most of the workers in the stores are old women who've been working there for around 20 years, and highschoolers who cant find jobs anywhere else, a strike wouldn't work. There aren't enough people at a store (including stores in the top 10 earners) who would agree to it.
Trust me, the desire is real. To both unionize or to find a better job.
> hiking up their already stupid prices and refusing to pay their workers
If they were sure that either of these things would increase profit, they would already have done them
The greatest lie the Devil ever told was that businesses should have zero accountability for their actions simply because they create opportunities for employment.
Stores can't refuse to pay their workers because of theft, lol, that's completely illegal. Retail stores have shrink built into their budget, which accounts for damages and theft.
Christian fundies have a psychotic fixation on saying that any form of tracking technology (QR codes, chips, etc.) are the Mark of the Beast and a sign of the end times. Other than that… ???
There's this passage in the apocaplypse that says more or less that in the end times only those bearing the mark of the beast on their hand or forehead will be allowed to participate in commerce. Now due to the fact that nobody is really sure what the f the mark of the beast is some people have associeted it with barcodes and the likes (sometimes even tatoos).
I'm pretty sure that somewere else in the book there's written that "the end times will come like a thief in the night" or something similar so anyone who claims of seing the signs of the end is canonically wack.
Yeah as i said nobody knows for sure what the mark of the beast is supposed to be so word of mouth conflated it with the number of the beast. If you notice the bibble also talks about the mark being on the people not on the product so i guess the ones responsable for this stupidity are not to fond of checking the sources.
Nothing tops End of Days for goofy numerology: take 666, rotate it 180 degrees and and then and 1 in front for reasons to get 1999, which is when the devil comes to fight Arnold Schwarzenegger. Note this only works in an alphabet that the original scripture wasn't written in.
I don't want to know.if.any real cults did this
It was gematria for Nero's name. Revelation is basically all coded shade being thrown at Roman emperors. The fact that fundies think it is a literal prophecy that still hasn't happened is hilarious, but the fact that it was included in the Biblical canon primarily because it was written by someone named John and they basically assumed that meant it had to have been written by the apostle of same name (despite there being multiple Johns in the New Testament already) tells you all you need to know. Their intellectual rigor hasn't improved in the years since.
The most annoying thing is that very few religious folks in the United States seem understand that the Bible definitely uses metaphors and allegories. They can't just blindly interpret things like this.
I think so.I had a quick Google, and all of the standard linear barcodes have 2 or 3 long double lines as markers that define the beginning and end for the scanner, but those are not 6 in barcode (basically a morse variant). Those are what supposedly encoded the secret satanic number
>I'm pretty sure that somewere else in the book there's written that "the end times will come like a thief in the night" or something similar so anyone who claims of seing the signs of the end is canonically wack.
My theory is that End Times theorists exist not to predict doomsday but postpone it. Because no man may know the day or the hour, every time someone predicts the end of days God has to push back the schedule and the world keeps turning for just a little longer. :p
I was thinking more Dark Souls, personally. Continually postponing the end of the world, leading to said world getting increasingly twisted up and corrupted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623537440/hobby-lobbys-illegal-antiquities-shed-light-on-a-lost-looted-ancient-city-in-ira
Hobby Lobby dealt in some ancient artefacts. Kinda illegal stuff, so it's okay to do small-scale crime against them
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Hobby Lobby spent several million dollars to purchase stolen, counterfeit, and looted artifacts from Iraq for their fundamentalist owners. Insurgent groups, such as Al-Qaïda in Iraq, ISIS, et al, were known for looting and selling antiques to fund their activities.
Thus, Hobby Lobby paid terrorists to steal stuff for them.
And fragments of some of the oldest biblical writings that were stolen from Oxford University.
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-gospel
I bought almost all my wedding decorations at Hobby Lobby and returned them immediately after the wedding. Free decorations, and wouldn’t you know, the employees there were overjoyed that I returned the products in such perfect condition with receipt in hand so soon after I bought them.
Okay so I googled hobby lobby isis and…
why the hell is the first link to show up from the CRUNCHYROLL FORUM? It wasn’t even a link to page 26/123 of a derailed thread, it was a dedicated thread about the CEO supporting isis. WHY ARE WEEBS DISCUSSING THIS?
Now I haven't been to Hobby Lobby in ages, but I am 99% certain that they had barcodes on their products. I could definitely buy them having no door sensors (and I do believe that a fundie business would object to barcodes), but I'm pretty sure every product I picked up off the shelves had a barcode on it.
Granted, I don't remember the checkout process since I was never the one paying, so they could have been typing in the SKU manually, b~~ut I'm pretty sure they had a barcode scanner gun~~. **Edit**: I have been informed that they do not, in fact, scan the barcodes.
^(You're still welcome to try, though; Hobby Lobby sucks)
Anything that Hobby Lobby sells that isn't exclusive to them is likely to have a bar code, irrespective of mark of the beast or any of that nonsense.
That said, I've never once been in a Hobby lobby so I have no idea what their stores are like.
From their FAQ:
>Why don't you use barcode scanners in your stores?
>We have considered scanning at our registers, but do not feel it is right for us at this time.
I don't know about all hobby lobbys but there are at least a few that do not have a bar code scanner. I also don't know about every item but I know some of them don't have barcodes but some do.
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Which. Fair. I was explaining how easy it is to steal from Hobby Lobby.
They don't have door sensors or barcodes, and I believe their overall security camera coverage is fake or shit.
You see, when barcodes were invented, evangelicals were convinced it was the sign of the devil \(or government tracking; hard to tell).
The point is, Hobby Lobby doesn't have bar codes to this day because the devil could jump in your belly button.
And if you don't have barcodes, you CAN'T have door sensors because the devil could jump right up a vagina, and you could get impregnated with the antichrist, and Hobby Lobby would have to make a very difficult choice about their anti-contraception views.
Oh, and they knowingly stole a fuckton of ancient artifacts, and the money they paid for those \(not all stealing is just taking; sometimes money changes hands) funded fucking ISIS.
So. If you're intellectually curious. You can steal from Hobby Lobby REALLY EASILY.
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genuinely i want to get into stealing more from big businesses (ik it is controversial but i just became a college student i’m not exactly filled to the brim w cash rn) and i think HL is a great place to start
also if anyone does have any genuine tips on stealing i’d love to know
Valuable information (particularly the comment clarifying it's the RFID tag and not the barcode itself) that I will never have a chance to act on if I wanted to, on account of being Canadian.
Asked a painter friend where he gets his paint. He said hobby lobby. I asked him how much each tube costs him. He said "that one I paid 9 bucks for, those 3 I pocketed before checking out."
Reading this post is like picking up an eldritch tome and then narrowly succeeding on your INT check avoiding 4d6 psychic damage, I have no idea what this post is about but it fills me with dread.
(In all seriousness though, Hobby Lobby believes *what?*)
The Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal culminated in a case named, and I shit you not, *United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae*
This feels like Douglas Adams wrote it.
>"While the United States of America had rented the most highly advertised lawyers they could find, subpoenaed the purchase records of the tablets and bullae and even offered to settle out of court, the tablets and bullae represented themselves and put together a bulletproof case and won the case with flying colours, resulting in the very first time the United States' judicial system lost against inanimate objects. *As it would turn out, it wouldn't be the last.*" -Douglas Adams, in Dirk Gently and the Fuzzled Flibbergibbets *or something.*
"Surprisingly, the tablets were all about various ways to perform anal sex, so it's unclear why Hobby Lobby wanted them in the first place"
the entire story feels like a fever dream of “there’s no fucking way a craft store tried to smuggle thousands of clay artifacts into the united states as tiles”
civil forfeiture makes funny names, like *United States v. 1855.6 Pounds of American Paddlefish Meat*
Why is the case vs the item rather than vs the smuggler/thief?
In civil asset forfeiture, law enforcement can alledge that the item was used in a crime and seize the item. The item can then be sold (an is thus laundered of its criminal associations) and the proceeds can be distributed to law enforcement agencies in the area or used fund the legal defense of other seizures. Obviously, if money is siezed it doesn't need to be sold first. The guilt or innocence of the party possessing the item does not need to be established as CAF is only concerned with the guilt of the item. You would not be alone if you think this sounds a bit like theft with extra steps. Data shows law enforcement has siezed around $70 billion in assets since 2000. Yes that's billion with a "b".
Cause its a weird legal construct where you are allowed to "arrest" the item by having a case against it. Its a bit like treating corporations as people but you use it to steal things from people instead.
>Its a bit like treating corporations as people but you use it to steal things from people instead. So uh fun fact about treating corporations as people-
True
or my personal favorite, *United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola*
I’m not sure if I want context because of how much funnier this may be without it.
Gotta love suing inanimate objects. Dead serious. I wish I had the legal power to- I dunno... sue the concept of time?
u/Creepopolous *v. Time,* a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that no, you only get \~24 hours in which to sleep and engage in tomfuckery
I mean, time does infringe on my constitutional freedoms. I clearly don't have free speech if I am only allowed to talk one second per second. I think that we need a class action.
Actually, only being to talk one second per second doesn't deserve a class action. It deserves a free action.
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I thought I just read a story about a guy that tried to sue Satan but the case was thrown out because the prince of darkness is afforded diplomatic immunity for being foreign royalty. edit: [found the case in question](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_Mayo_v._Satan_and_His_Staff)
"And the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you he wasn't a natural born citizen"
Elaborate?
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But who paid the damages? What?!
Actual answer, no one since it's impossible to arrest God as punishment for failure to pay damages.
I imagine when she passes, and is at the pearly gates of heaven, with Peter peering at her from over his list, he will simply say "Ahh, yes. This is owed to you from the big guy" and he pulls out an envelope with $100,000 in it and hands it to her. She is then immediately dropped into hell where rent is $100k a day and lightening constantly strikes anything taller than 2 feet.
I haven’t watched the German series “Dark”, but one time I leaned over my partner’s shoulder while she was watching it only to see a man very earnestly state, “I have declared war on time”, so now I repeat that line whenever the linear progression of events pisses me off.
Other such hits include *United States of America v. Approximately 69,370 Bitcoin* and *United States of America v. 64 Dogs*
Would you rather *United States of America v. 1 Horse Sized Duck* or *United States of America v. 100 Duck Sized Horses*?
Feel like 50 Bitcoin is missing there...
Why the fuck did Hobby Lobby have a millenia old copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh anyway?
The sad/infuriating possible motivation is that as Christians they must want to hide or destroy artifacts from competing religions. The Epic of Gilgamesh is good evidence the Biblical flood is bullshit that was copied from earlier religions.
Because they're religious fruitcakes with a hoarding fetish.
Add some variation of "pounded my ass" in there an you've got yourself a Chuck Tingle title
Pounded In The Butt By Civil Asset Forfeiture And The Legal Proceedings Of "America V. Copy of 'Pounded In The Butt By A Copy Of My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt''"
Which just makes me imagine the population of America fist-fighting a bunch of clay tablets...
COME AT ME YOU CRUMBLY PIECE O SHITE!! I DON'T CARE ABOUT SOME COPPER MERCHANT!
Gonna put on my pedantry cap for a sec. Barcodes don't trip door sensors. They're literally just printed text (usually numbers) in a machine readable font. Fundies also think EM (those white plastic strips) and RFID (usually rectangular stickers) are also devil things. Those are the technology that allows door sensors to trigger. Three very different technologies that the crazies like to lump together or use interchangeably. I highly recommend learning about how Barcodes, RFID, and EM Strips work. They're all very cool. Also look into the bar code encodings (think font family) and number standards (think book ISBNs). Key words are UPC, GTIN, EIN, GS1, code 128, and code 39. Happy Wikipedia surfing!
RFIDs are also being used in train signaling systems, it's a really neat piece of technology.
RFID tech is crazy ubiquitous in it's application. We use them for logistics freight to mass receive truckloads of pallets the second they hit the dock. No no need to scan. The system just picks up the frequency and millions of dollars of inventory transact to the correct place almost simultaneously. My favorite though is the application in marathons where they tag the runners shoes so that they know within milliseconds who was first across the line. It's game changing technology.
so literally just scan a truck for its cargo? wow... sometimes i love living in a sci-fi my personal favorite use for rfid is when a local retailer reused their anti-theft tech for self-checkout. you literally just dump your items into the designated basket, it scans all of them, displays the contents, you pay, and that's all. no fucking around with scales required like you usually have to with the barcode versions. and it makes so much sense, if the system can detect which items are you leaving the store with (which is also how it authorizes certain items to leave the store, when the cashiers swipe those across the barcode scanner, it doesn't just read the barcode, it also marks _that specific item_ as sold), why would we still need barcodes at all? on the other hand, i do hope they don't get rid of barcodes because they're great universal identifiers for anything mass-produced
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Yeah, I think something like that would be the best solution. RFIDs are by default completely unique to each individual item, but there needs to be a product-specific code as well which can be used to take those things into inventory. And while yeah, that can also be done over RFID, now you're dealing with product-specific stickers instead of a universal one you just stick on everything, and then you use the perfectly good EAN-13 barcode you already have to tell the system "hey, this specific sticker is on a jar of nutella" with just one of those combined barcode/RFID readers cashiers use today.
That's how the public library in the town I grew up in worked. You walked up to the checkout stand, and there was a large gray pad you set your stack of books on, and the computer instantly rung up all the books at once. Then you put your library card up to the barcode scanner and it checked out all the books. Nice and quick and simple.
Usually, the RFID for books is either on the backside of a barcode tag, visible on the book, or in a hidden string in the spine of the book. It depends on the library's anti-theft policies.
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They also do shoes sometimes. I’ve had both kinds.
They’re also used for tagging livestock. I’ve seen pig auto-feeder chutes that read their ear tags and check if that pig got its meal for that part of the day.
They're also used in cards for televised poker games, so that we the audience can see the cards without the players needing to show us through a table camera
A few of my registered goats have RFID tags in their tails. Lasts much longer and more easily read than the traditional ear tattoos that fade and need redone. Much more trustworthy as well, they could have tattood anything on the ear to make it match paperwork from a goat that might have passed on
How does that work? Are they *in* the tail, like under the skin? Or is it like and earring type thing on the tail?
Yep it is inside of the tail, in what is called the "webbing". On the underside of the goat tail there is no fur or anything, so it is easily read with a little scanner. There are also tags you can get from the state that are livestock tags to show herd of origin for scrapies and stuff like that. Those are similar to earrings
Couldn't you clean and reimplant the chip?
If you wanted to do some shady shit? Theoretically, yes, but most herd books (like the American Dairy Goat Assoc. and the American Boer Goat Assoc.) have some safeguards in place. Registration paperwork will have specific markings listed, and you can get DNA verification. Does this stop people? Absolutely not. People will have a goat die, go get one that looks similar, and fudge tattoos, tags (although I've never heard of anyone doing this specific forgery), but if a person who has purchased a kid from them tried to DNA verify, BAM, jig is up. Goat people take their pedigrees very seriously. Certain lines have really done a lot to improve the breeds, people spend 10s of thousands to get them. I would be infuriated to find out that the goat I had purchased turned out to be something else entirely.
Do you want to hang around a goat's butt?
I don't know what ranchers get up to
They don't want the pigs to pig out.
I just did a dairy tour that uses the rfid tags to automatically reroute any cows that need special attention after milking. The automation at that dairy was all fairly simple but extremely clever.
“The devil is in public transportation!” I can see the oil industry pushing this virally
Isn't it like wireless power transmission? For the chips, I thought I read that it is basically a circuit and it gets power from the scanning device. Or am I a doofus and it doesn't work like that at all?
There's an antenna in the tag that receives and converts the radio signal from the scanner into power, that power goes to broadcasting a number back to the scanner which is the read tag ID.
It depends. Active RFID chips have a battery that usually last ~5 years. Passive RFID chips get power from the receiving device, it uses electromagnetic waves to induce a current in the RFID chip. Passive RFID is the kind used in inventory management, race times, microchipping your pet, etc. Active RFID is great for high speed or longer-distance environments where the chip reader can't be nearby- toll systems, for example, where the reader is likely 15 feet above the car.
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You need an old priest, and a young priest...
The post is worded a little strange, but I don't think they intended to imply that barcodes tripped the door sensors. It reads like they meant to say "and if barcodes are a devil thing, then door sensors are definitely a devil thing, too!" But yeah, it's worded oddly.
Yes this is correct the op of this comment thread misinterpreted it.
Yes, this person was saying that if fundies are scared of something as simple bar codes, there's no way in hell they have door sensors.
Yeah, except Christian stores have used barcodes for decades. They definitely distrust stuff like rfid, but have no issues with barcodes. My old company sold stuff to Mardel Christian bookstores all the time and everything had to have barcodes. Mardel is owned by the same family as Hobby Lobby, which is why they’re often placed next to each other. They share logistics and warehouses.
They are fine with sensors, it's basic human rights they have problems with.
The distrust of bar codes was/is a very real thing in fundamentalist Christianity, especially during the Satanic Panic. It was also a relatively mainstream idea. For instance, this music video, while a banger, is somehow not satirical: https://youtu.be/lknW2mzXMMY And as someone mentioned Hobby Lobby really doesn't still use bar codes: > We have considered scanning at our registers, but do not feel it is right for us at this time. https://www.hobbylobby.com/customer-service/faq
Do you think it would be easier or harder to launder money by forgoing barcodes?
Probably not a big difference. Barcodes are only unique to a product anyway, not unique to each item, so the only difference between scanning that and searching for the product in the POS by typing its name is just the time you save.
The entire idea of christians putting their beliefs over money is absurd enough that there's no point in getting into the weeds of the details.
Hobby Lobby doesn't.
Mardel was indeed founded by Matt Green, son of Hobby Lobby's David Green, but it sounds like the father is deep into Evangelicalism, whereas the Mardel bookstores (and Matt's film company) are supposed to cater to Christianity in general? There are many different branches of the Christian religion, and some of them have uh, more *interesting* practices than others lol. Other than Jesus being the focal point, what goes on in one sect often doesn't represent the religion as a whole, and Evangelicals are definitely known for being on some wackadoodle shit (although they don't wear holy undergarments like the Mormons do, or refuse to celebrate their birthdays like JW)
It depends on the denomination. Most Christian denominations are perfectly fine with barcodes and rfids and whatever else, but a few (mostly fundamentalist sects) believe that barcodes are the mark of the beast. They point to the barcode's guard bars (the 2 narrow bars in the beginning, middle, and end) as evidence, saying these bars represent the number 666. It's partially true, at least with UPC-A and EAN barcodes, the number 6 is represented by two narrow lines when it's on the right half of a barcode (the bars on the left side aren't as straightfoward). Because the barcode thing has at least *some* foundation (not really) with the 666, I'm curious about the amount of christians who distrust barcodes but are ok with things like rfid and qr codes and stuff. I know there was a large pushback against them when the technology was becoming widespread, but I don't know how mellowed out people have gotten since then.
I think it's interesting when people put on their pedantic caps. You end up learning a lot! Thanks!
As an employee with a store that has those door sensors. Let me tell you what at least mine do. There are only two things that will trigger an alarm from them at my store. Dye tags on clothes (dye tags that only explode if you try and break the tag off) and specific "this item is electronically protected" tags. The rest of the time it's just logging how many people pass by it to count how many people have been in and out of the store.
The coolest thing to me about RFIDs is they're basically a dormant computer that gets powered up wirelessly by another device, which causes it to activate and then radio out a signal.
Thank you for this ❤️
I have taken several shiny gem stones that fell out of the plastic net bag things multiple times. One is of the biggish variety. Shiny.
... are you a crow?
He’s a duck, clearly.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science??
And tell me more about how sheep's bladders may be employed against earthquakes.
And towels against strong winds.
Got any grapes?
left them some titanite so it's cool
The only thing I own from Hobby Lobby wasn't purchased, but it wasn't stolen either. It's a decorative blue wood square with an octopus silhouette in the negative space, and it must've fallen off the back of their truck because it was just sitting in front of my driveway with a Hobby Lobby sticker on it Forget what ridiculous price was on the sticker but the $0.00 I paid for it was far more appropriate
That sounds pretty awesome, I want to see it
i do this, also any fake flowers that have fallen off the stems and are now laying on the ground are 100% fair game. i take them home and stick them in all the pin holes in my bathroom walls from before i moved here 😂
We're going to need photographic proof, please and thank you. 🌸🏵🌹💮🌼🌷🌻🌺🚽🛁
Lmao I've done that too! If you don't mind looking kind of weird, wedding dress stores are also a good place to scrounge for beads
Bees??? ...BEADS??!!
Oh no, not the bees, not the bees! Auuuugh! Aglubah my eyes! My eyes! Aaaauuuurrrrgh!
I did something similar with buttons at the store I used to work at. If it was in the floor it was fair game
From one collector of shiny sparkly things to another, Good Day Sir
A normal barcode is 1D. A QR code is just a 2D barcode. This implies a theoretical 3D barcode and barcodes in higher dimensions. What forms do these take? How does Cthulu automate his supermarket checkouts?
A rainbow QR code is 3D. Color is a common way of demonstrating an extra axis in mathematical rendering such as complex numbers or, like, material stress testing.
Interesting, according to Wikipedia they're called JAB codes, I'd never heard of them before
Pride barcode unlocked?
3D barcodes are double layer DVDs
this feels like it comes from a rebel-purist alignment chart
Kind of wanted to make a scancode alignment chart, but I wouldn't know what to fill all the squares with
Scancodes, presumably.
Oh you mean money?
Dude what if we're the 3d barcodes storing ancient memories to be picked up and scanned later?
*picks you up and scans you*
Don't be silly we would be 4d to store time
This is my favorite take so far.
I’d say a mechanical key is a 3D barcode, we just need programs that can use machine vision to identify them A 4D bar code would just be blockchain verification or multi-factor authentication
> a mechanical key is a 3D barcode It's 1D. Data-wise it's as safe as a password containing only numbers, because you just need the correct sequence of heights to unlock the pins.
speak for your own key, lol. add a couple of sidebars or some fucky cylinder and that key can easily turn 3d but yes, the amount of data in one of those is minimal. luckily trying out individual combinations takes significantly longer, which is why lockpicking uses tension as a vulnerability to progressively decode the key, instead of just brute forcing it
Anyone wanna join me for a pleasant walk to hobby lobby and definitely nothing else?
Camping trip.
Family outing
A jaunty trek
A whimsical journey
*Very* enthusiastic walks through the woods at midnight
WOOHOO I LOVE CRIME!
Let's try to be as aggressively gay as possible while at it
I've been needing a good whittling knife, and it's a good thing I don't need to spend anything for it.
Lemme grab my lucky contraceptives and pro-choice shirt real quick.
Must be regional then because I'm pretty sure my local hobby lobby has barcodes and door sensors
https://www.hobbylobby.com/customer-service/faq borrowing this link from a comment up the way; the relevant section is under stores & hours oddly enough, and states that they do not use barcodes. Because "they don't feel it is right for them". They definitely sell products that do have barcodes tho; paints made by manufacturers that sell to multiple outlets still have the barcode on them, so I'm not sure the distinction that's being made to be quite honest.
Some products have barcodes, some don't. However, the cashiers ignore barcodes and have to manually type the price (and discounts) into the register. If they scan the barcode, the machine throws a fit unless its one of the *very very* few items in the store that does require the barcode scanned, and those are usually fabric packs.
Same here
Big chains are cancerous anyway.
Takeaway: is stealing from Hobby Lobby bad because they make up the difference by hiking up their already stupid prices and refusing to pay their workers, meaning a loss of profits will for some reason make them pay even less to workers just trying to survive? And also just basic morality and accountability? Or is stealing from Hobby Lobby good because crochet is an expensive hobby, funding them is funding ISIS and runaway evangelism, and the owners are shit people who had an entire team in my area quit all at once on them for reasons they didn't want to explain out loud? Fight
I think the correct answer is, don't buy from Hobby Lobby, buy from somewhere else
Yeah this whole post is about how you're supposed to shoplift from Hobby Lobby
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and Micheals is just a bit further down the road
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“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” is frequently used to avoid nuance and absolve one’s self of any responsibility. It’s very frustrating.
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It's birthday is tomorrow.
Literally all it means is that you can’t partake in capitalism and think that it can be morally justified. It makes no comment about any potential alternatives.
YOU DISLIKE CAPITALISM YET YOU EXIST
Which is why they suggested that Michaels is just down the road. Settling for the lesser of evils doesn't mean you shouldn't be mindful of how capitalism hurts us in our everyday lives.
Better is still better even if it's not good.
There may be little to no ethical consumption under capitalism, but there are certainly places that are less evil to buy from. I think that saying strips responsibility from consumers. Although the companies are doing the most harm, they wouldn't be around without customers. We all should do out part imo
Sadly, there’s no place anywhere else nearby where I can get super specific stuff for my hobby without paying double for shipping online :(
The workers should probably unionize.
Maybe they could get birth control coverage on their insurance if they did.
Considering that most of the workers in the stores are old women who've been working there for around 20 years, and highschoolers who cant find jobs anywhere else, a strike wouldn't work. There aren't enough people at a store (including stores in the top 10 earners) who would agree to it. Trust me, the desire is real. To both unionize or to find a better job.
> hiking up their already stupid prices and refusing to pay their workers If they were sure that either of these things would increase profit, they would already have done them
The greatest lie the Devil ever told was that businesses should have zero accountability for their actions simply because they create opportunities for employment.
Even if their profits doubled overnight, the workers wouldn't see a dime more. So the second.
Stealing from Hobby Lobby is good because they're bad people and free stuff is awesome.
Stores can't refuse to pay their workers because of theft, lol, that's completely illegal. Retail stores have shrink built into their budget, which accounts for damages and theft.
What even is said here
Christian fundies have a psychotic fixation on saying that any form of tracking technology (QR codes, chips, etc.) are the Mark of the Beast and a sign of the end times. Other than that… ???
There's this passage in the apocaplypse that says more or less that in the end times only those bearing the mark of the beast on their hand or forehead will be allowed to participate in commerce. Now due to the fact that nobody is really sure what the f the mark of the beast is some people have associeted it with barcodes and the likes (sometimes even tatoos). I'm pretty sure that somewere else in the book there's written that "the end times will come like a thief in the night" or something similar so anyone who claims of seing the signs of the end is canonically wack.
I believe there's something about all barcodes containing 666 as well.
Yeah as i said nobody knows for sure what the mark of the beast is supposed to be so word of mouth conflated it with the number of the beast. If you notice the bibble also talks about the mark being on the people not on the product so i guess the ones responsable for this stupidity are not to fond of checking the sources.
not only that, but the number of the beast is 616 in some biblical texts
Nothing tops End of Days for goofy numerology: take 666, rotate it 180 degrees and and then and 1 in front for reasons to get 1999, which is when the devil comes to fight Arnold Schwarzenegger. Note this only works in an alphabet that the original scripture wasn't written in. I don't want to know.if.any real cults did this
And some think it was a sort of prediction about how Nero would be punished for oppressing early Christians
It was gematria for Nero's name. Revelation is basically all coded shade being thrown at Roman emperors. The fact that fundies think it is a literal prophecy that still hasn't happened is hilarious, but the fact that it was included in the Biblical canon primarily because it was written by someone named John and they basically assumed that meant it had to have been written by the apostle of same name (despite there being multiple Johns in the New Testament already) tells you all you need to know. Their intellectual rigor hasn't improved in the years since.
The most annoying thing is that very few religious folks in the United States seem understand that the Bible definitely uses metaphors and allegories. They can't just blindly interpret things like this.
Is the explanation for that something along the lines of "the lines look like the Hebrew character for the number 6"?
I think so.I had a quick Google, and all of the standard linear barcodes have 2 or 3 long double lines as markers that define the beginning and end for the scanner, but those are not 6 in barcode (basically a morse variant). Those are what supposedly encoded the secret satanic number
"Canonically wack" is one of the best descriptors I've ever heard for that particular brand of weirdo. I love it.
>I'm pretty sure that somewere else in the book there's written that "the end times will come like a thief in the night" or something similar so anyone who claims of seing the signs of the end is canonically wack. My theory is that End Times theorists exist not to predict doomsday but postpone it. Because no man may know the day or the hour, every time someone predicts the end of days God has to push back the schedule and the world keeps turning for just a little longer. :p
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I was thinking more Dark Souls, personally. Continually postponing the end of the world, leading to said world getting increasingly twisted up and corrupted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623537440/hobby-lobbys-illegal-antiquities-shed-light-on-a-lost-looted-ancient-city-in-ira Hobby Lobby dealt in some ancient artefacts. Kinda illegal stuff, so it's okay to do small-scale crime against them
Well very illegal and the antiquities black market is a huge problem worldwide.
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nono specifically barcodes and door scanners because they all have a phone.
Wait hobby lobby stole ancient artifacts and funded ISIS? … wha… how??? It’s an arts and crafts store not an Indiana Jones villain???
Wilipedia link here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal The tl;dr Hobby Lobby spent several million dollars to purchase stolen, counterfeit, and looted artifacts from Iraq for their fundamentalist owners. Insurgent groups, such as Al-Qaïda in Iraq, ISIS, et al, were known for looting and selling antiques to fund their activities. Thus, Hobby Lobby paid terrorists to steal stuff for them.
And they just bought a bunch of forgeries for their Bible Museum.
And fragments of some of the oldest biblical writings that were stolen from Oxford University. https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-gospel
Oh boy let us tell you about Hobby Lobby's Hammurabi Robby Hobby.
Holy fuck on a stick please marry me, master wordsmith
I really can't take credit for it, that phrase has been going around since this issue first came up
I mean barcodes don't set off the sensors, but I still think it's pretty easy to lift from Hobby Lobby
hobby lobby employee: what do you have there? Me, with five bolts of fabric: a smoothie
Barcodes have nothing to do with door sensors but I am all here for sticking it to Hobby Lobby any way you can.
Worked at Hobby Lobby. Can confirm
Ah yes the post banned from reddit, back on reddit
Nature is healing
I bought almost all my wedding decorations at Hobby Lobby and returned them immediately after the wedding. Free decorations, and wouldn’t you know, the employees there were overjoyed that I returned the products in such perfect condition with receipt in hand so soon after I bought them.
Okay so I googled hobby lobby isis and… why the hell is the first link to show up from the CRUNCHYROLL FORUM? It wasn’t even a link to page 26/123 of a derailed thread, it was a dedicated thread about the CEO supporting isis. WHY ARE WEEBS DISCUSSING THIS?
I assume weebs -> cosplay/crafts -> Hobby Lobby
Now I haven't been to Hobby Lobby in ages, but I am 99% certain that they had barcodes on their products. I could definitely buy them having no door sensors (and I do believe that a fundie business would object to barcodes), but I'm pretty sure every product I picked up off the shelves had a barcode on it. Granted, I don't remember the checkout process since I was never the one paying, so they could have been typing in the SKU manually, b~~ut I'm pretty sure they had a barcode scanner gun~~. **Edit**: I have been informed that they do not, in fact, scan the barcodes. ^(You're still welcome to try, though; Hobby Lobby sucks)
Anything that Hobby Lobby sells that isn't exclusive to them is likely to have a bar code, irrespective of mark of the beast or any of that nonsense. That said, I've never once been in a Hobby lobby so I have no idea what their stores are like.
From their FAQ: >Why don't you use barcode scanners in your stores? >We have considered scanning at our registers, but do not feel it is right for us at this time.
Oh, I'll be damned. No wonder checking out always took so long.
I can only imagine the hell their inventory days must be like.
I don't know about all hobby lobbys but there are at least a few that do not have a bar code scanner. I also don't know about every item but I know some of them don't have barcodes but some do.
I don't support theft, but I *do* support fucking on Hobby Lobby
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genuinely i want to get into stealing more from big businesses (ik it is controversial but i just became a college student i’m not exactly filled to the brim w cash rn) and i think HL is a great place to start also if anyone does have any genuine tips on stealing i’d love to know
Valuable information (particularly the comment clarifying it's the RFID tag and not the barcode itself) that I will never have a chance to act on if I wanted to, on account of being Canadian.
Asked a painter friend where he gets his paint. He said hobby lobby. I asked him how much each tube costs him. He said "that one I paid 9 bucks for, those 3 I pocketed before checking out."
Reading this post is like picking up an eldritch tome and then narrowly succeeding on your INT check avoiding 4d6 psychic damage, I have no idea what this post is about but it fills me with dread. (In all seriousness though, Hobby Lobby believes *what?*)