RufusFirefly

There was no catalyst specifically but I deleted my shortcuts and uninstalled the app a couple of weeks ago because there just isn't anything for me on Twitter, X or whatever. Have not gone back since.

The last time I saw a Wizard of id comic strip was in the early 70s.

None of the stores where I live now do that. If the produce has a numbered sku sticker on it, you could just punch in the 4 numbers but if there's no sticker anywhere on your apples or something, you have to look them up and make sure you hit the right one because there are a lot of different types of apples and pears and whatnot. A cashier generally knows the product number by memory or can find it superfast.

I do not like them at all, especially when I have a lot of produce to weigh.

You broadened the term so much you turned it into a huge amorphous blanket that covers generations of invectives. I'll stick with Merriam-Webster, thanks https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

As with most property management companies, they'll just tell you, "Hey if you don't like it, move". I think they may have put a small blurb in the apartment complex newsletter a month prior but nobody reads those. Also, I had just upgraded to a phone that had mobile data, otherwise, I could not have used the machines because they no longer had coin slots and the app must connect to the Internet to use it. I also had a large bowl of quarters left over that I ended up using at the car wash... Which will soon be cashless also.

Who cares about downvotes? That's a Reddit thing. I'm an old white guy but I vote Democrat all the way down ticket every time. I was a big Bernie Sanders supporter. What I do not like is virtue signaling and forcing diversity into various media when it's not necessary. Call that anti-woke if you want.

They put Bluetooth in our apartment complex laundromat and if you don't have a smart phone or Internet service on your phone, you don't do laundry.

I'm aware of that, I was referring to how the extreme left tends to overcompensate for social injustices.

Granted, the actual definition of "woke" is a far cry from what the media, especially you tubers and the Twitter mob make it out to be. People on both sides but especially the right call it the "woke virus", when wokeism is basically just being aware of the societal pressures put on people of different races, genders etc.

I stopped watching network television because of ads, then I stopped watching free streaming because of too many ads (Pluto TV, Crackle), I get a basic subscription to Paramount through Walmart and I stopped watching that because of the ads. I have an Amazon prime subscription because I get it for one half off but I rarely use prime video an if they start showing ads, I won't use it at all.

I'm 64 and still pretty far left, except I don't get into the whole "woke" thing. The extreme left is a bit wacko but not as wacko as the extreme right.