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  3. I was at the check out at a grocery store in Ottawa, Canada yesterday and when I gave the young female cashier (who was masked, of course) the exact amount due in cash and coins, she looked at what I gave her for several seconds in stunned confusion. I thought I may have given her the wrong amount. Nope. She then asked me what I had given her in coins. I was confused by her question at first and then I realized that she didn’t understand what amount the different coins represented (the amounts are labelled on the coins). I’m not making this up. I think I want to take the vaccine now.

      1. Actually, my experience with lower IQ people with a good heart who have had to function in a market economy is that they are far preferable company and fellow citizens to higher IQ people with an evil heart who are subsidized by lots of government subsidy aka corporate welfare. So I would be careful about denigrating “the stupid.”

        Christian cleaning ladies at Super 8 Motels build a human civilization. Harvard grads in Silicon Valley build a surveillance state that parasites and genocides you.

        So who is stupid?

        1. Thank you for saying that Catherine. I can confirm that experience regarding Christian cleaning ladies. my mother was one for 25 years across the bridge at Cooper Hospital. I know you know where that is.

          1. Also not convinced IQ is a great parameter. One needs focus and coherence to function and that is thwarted in every conceivable way on purpose today. I believe that is why so many people like “protocols” regardles of IQ.

        2. Precisely. Lots of highly intelligent people are narcissistic and highly destructive. It takes a reasonable amount of intelligence to be evil and not a lot to be kind hearted.

        4. My mom was one of those “Super 8” ladies when she came to Canada with a Grade VIII education in 1967. Couldn’t speak a word of English. Her mental math still (!) puts everyone else’s to shame.
          My daughter (who is 14) has a job at the Farmers’ Market. She got a raise to adult minimum wage shortly after starting because she never made an error giving change.
          Another reason to homeschool, I suppose.

        5. Indeed. Having worked as an administrator for a University, I can say that IQs or PhD degrees are not correlated to humanity or kindness or true intelligence.

        6. The cashier didn’t signal any outright indications of having a low IQ although I barely interacted with her. I assumed the issue was that no one, including her, her school, her parents or her employer, thought it was important enough to explain currency to her. I will start surveying cashiers about how many customers typically pay in cash because I’m concerned that I’m now in a very small minority.

          1. In my very small town rural U.S. Post Office, a sign was posted as of this week,
            Checks, Credit Cards, or Exact Change ONLY. I interact with the clerks fairly often and they have been “asking” for exact change pretty much all summer. The “inch worm”!

          3. By the way, some of the dumbest idiots I’ve encountered, especially over the past two years, have been highly credentialed university graduates who take everything the government and media says at face value. When the trucker convoy rolled into town I made it a point to ask each trucker I interacted with what they thought was driving the COVID shenanigans and ALL of them knew it was the implementation of the control grid. I’m not claiming the truckers to be low IQ – just that a good majority of the ‘highly educated’ should be looked at with disdain at this point. Orwell saw straight through these frauds 80 years ago.

    1. The “cashless” story looks like a “trial run” to elicit reactions and collect data. You’ve got me thinking about the Rock $7M acceptability/behavior modification-type studies…

    2. Good time to rethink the health benefits of drinking tea. The Brits seem to get it. A healthier and more civilized drink that leads to a longer life. Earl Grey anyone?

    1. What percentage of current franchisees, UK or elsewhere, are cashless?

      Is this number going to change in the near future?

      A bigger issue for Starbucks might be locations going chairless, negating the “third place” vision upon which the company was founded, ostensibly as a mitigation at locations often used by homeless people.

    1. Yeah not much coverage on any unusual weather patterns. Dams all over Europe are drying up, especially Germany. Only now is the local news mentioning Lake Mead.

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