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Amazon Will Consider Opening Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021 (Bloomberg, Sept 19, 2018) Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with matter, an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten convenience chains like 7-Eleven Inc., quick-service sandwich shops like Subway and Panera Bread, and mom-and-pop pizzerias and taco trucks. At some point the government really will have to provide some form of minimum income for our citizenry. As even more low wage jobs disappear we are going to have to go something with folks who are simply unemployable because their jobs have been eliminated by one the handful of trillion dollar companies. Obviously the Amazon Brick and Mortar bookstores can be converted into one of these employee free stores as well. Who needs people when you have Jeff Bezos and his powerful computer programs.

But do you think this particular message will resonate with the regular (non-techie, non-entrepreneurial) Black person?

Great news @JBoard -- congratulation. I'll be sure to spread the word about this accomplishment!

Help Requested I revised and edited this post and added it to my blog: https://aalbc.com/blog/index.php/2018/10/08/paid-google-information-produce-use/ I'm planning to publish a book next year, basically a book of AALBC highlights. I'm going to include articles I've written, book lists I've compiled, as well as lists like the one Google is using on their Home system (The Top 50 Black Owned Websites). As always, I welcome feedback -- do you think anyone cares about Google using a website's content on their products? Do I present the information (on the blog) in a way that is at all interesting?

You know police have been killing, beating the crap out of, and robbing Black folks for as long as I can remember. The media did not cover this when I was younger, but today if feels like every incident is constantly -- everyone know Sandra Bland's name, but no one knows any of the Black woman killed by police over the years back in the 70's. The 24/7 news cycles distorts reality. I'm saying this because it is very possible that police brutality may be way down compared to when I was a teen. I don't know but I would not be surprised if it is.

"Think" is the operative word here. None of the shooting of Black people I've seen involved any form of reasoning or thinking. These don't seem to be situations in which the cops involved actually thought things through. Indeed, some believe the time in which a cop stops to "think twice," can mean the difference between life and death. Of course a racist cop whose goal is too simply kill or lock as many negroes up as he can will not be stopped by kneeling, laws, public outcry, or laws.

You know when people use these hyperbolic superlatives nowadays it gets on my nerves. I know this is partially because 45 speaks this way in an effort to con people. I also know people do this as a form of praise and to be complementary but it just turns me off. Now I like Claude Anderson's ideas promote his work and sell his books. So I'm not trying to take anything away from him. But when Boyce says things like; "definitely one of the greatest thinkers of all-time" "throughout the world;" it just turns me off. Fortunately Claude is modest man. Unlike what Claude describes in this video, I believe race is a distraction. Gender is too. This is all about rich folk acquiring more wealth and holding on to it. If there is a race war do you think 45 and his homies like "100 Keg" Kavanaugh are going to be running around shooting folks? Long before Black folks were around, white were enslaving and exploiting each other. Now the fight against racism is important and must be waged, but the absence of racism will not rid of the problems economic problems we have.

Because if RGB is replaced by another white male of privilege with a sense of entitlement, the court will be f*cked for at least another generation. Hopefully a conviction will stop the wanton killing of Black people by law enforcement, but something tells me it will not.

So the jury had 9 qhite nonhispanic people on it? Assuming the jury had 12 people on it whar was the gender of tbe other two? So if colin never took a knee this guy trigger happy cop would have walked free? As far as Kavanaugh yall better hope the notorious RGB makes another 2 years...

Yes I was aware of the hidden colors films I've sold a bunch of them and helped spread the word about them. I don't mean to imply that I lost all respect for Tariq. It is just that he came across very petty and childish. I expected more than that from someone with the wherewithal and consciousness to produce the hidden colors movies. Perhaps I put him up on pedestal when the reality is that he is no different than the rest of us.

Hey @TSegal, did you write the article? There was no byline. Is Afromerica your website?

Perhaps you are right. I just saw Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 11/9 this evening. It is quite damning. It is hard to come away with any positive sentiments of your fellow man. Flint Michigan was portrayed as ethnic cleansing Obama's role was not just disappointing but shameful... Still 45 -- despite it all -- will be in office at the end of the year.

Regarding the wager: agreed per Del's clarification. We are discussing the Republican base including those "evangelicals" who want abortion outlawed. Again, if the repubican keep the senate and Kavanaugh is confirmed things will look good for 45... as far was the rest of us... winter is coming.

I don't know what form of bankruptcy 45 would be subject to. I'm not even sure if you can avoid civil penalties with bankruptcy. As a former sitting president 45 will be left far from impoverished no matter what type of bankruptcy he might undergo. Besides some slick lawyer will certainly mitigate any severe penalties. 45 will have life time secret service detail including a chauffeur. A presidential library and more... shoot he'll be able to do a book signing and charge folks hundreds or thousands of of dollars, like the Obamas. Yes, and they see that leading impeachment proceedings will hurt them with their base. Lets see how many flip on the Kavanaugh vote this weekend... OK so you are going to call "removal" the same as "assassination, or even suicide." Damn, I would not have pegged you for this. Are you really going to make me trudge through this long ass conversation to find the original bet to prove otherwise? @Delano is your understanding of the bet, that K2 voluntarily jumped in on, include you winning if 45 croaks? I'll go by your recollection, as I don't feel like reviewing the details.

So you think 45 going bankrupt is a problem for him? I think he went bankrupt 4 times before becoming president. Whether the public cares or not DOES actually matter. It informs how people choose their elected officials, and is why 45 is the President of the United States today. @Kalexander2 you appear to be emotionally tied to this issue and it is preventing you from thinking about this rationally. Do you understand that a republican controlled congress will not move to impeach 45? Can you see that at least? Remember suicide, assignation, heart attack, alien abduction, don't count in our wager.

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@Kalexander2, impeachment may come but not this year. Actually, if you read the Times article, none of the allegations are going to land 45 in jail, because either the statute of limitations have expired or a the activities were simply questionable. 45, worse case, is looking at civil penalties. Besides I doubt much of the public really cares very much. One of the crimes 45 is accused of is failing to pay 55% of a 1/2 billion dollar transfer of wealth from his dad. He only paid 5%. Not while this is tax fraud, most people would agree, I'm sure, that but 55% come is confiscatory -- robbery. So the the family did their best to shield their wealth -- big deal. And 45 grossly exaggerated about how he acquired his wealth -- not exactly a news flash... So while I commend the Times for their journalism, it is a bit late in the process. Where was the NY Times in 2016? Oh, I remember, they were busy providing 45 a tremendous platform to the exclusion of all the other candidates.

@Valjeanne Jeffers, For my purposes I just need a list of ISBN13s

Yeah as soon I put words you your mouth i knew you would object (understandably). Of course my position has evolved as more information becomes available, but as more time elapses that just gets me closer to being a $100 richer and to have the privilege of saying, "I told you so!" 😛 which is almost worth as much

Hey @Valjeanne Jeffers yes your aalbc page: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Valjeanne+Jeffers what category (#Horror #Steamfunk #Afrofuturism ) best fits the book you posted. @Mel Hopkins which category listed above best fits your book or should I create a new one, "urban fantasy?"

Yeah that actually works as long as you don't don't care what kind if attention you get... and many people don't. Indeed some seem to enjoy it... Stormy Daniel's, Omarosa, 45, and of course your classic trolls.

Your social footprint has been a factor in how you are assessed and has been for a longtime. Do you remember Klout? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout Still the number of "likes" and "shares" is the same thing, no likes you feel worthless; more likes you are happy. Both moods are hollow and fleeting, so people get caught up in sharing to the point of even lying.

Hey @Valjeanne Jeffers please share the link to you page.

Therein lies the problem. This is magical thinking and repeating it, however vehemently, will not make it any more likely.

@Kalexander2 Absolutely. Man, just concede it it already October. Nobody is impeaching 45 before the midterms and the the Republicans hold the house it wont happen this term. Even I'd the dems get control of the house, 45 can't be removed before the end of the year. Even Del has come to grips with this reality, and has moved on from trying to support this scenario. You should too.