#bar code

[oldinterneticons]

[kick-a-long]

Another fun antisemitic conspiracy theory most people don’t understand as an antisemitic conspiracy theory is the irrational fear of bar codes!

Barcodes were widely adopted as industry standard by a Jewish guy named Alen Haberman in 1974. (To speed up groceries scanning)

By the 80s fundamentalist Christians began to believe they were a way to track citizens and were being used by the government for mind control. Sound familiar? There were similar scares about credit cards but they were never as hated or part of conspiracy thinking as the ‘Jewish coded’ bar codes.

If you were wondering why trump went on a random tangent hating on bar codes.

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[marklakshmanan]

50 years ago this week the first bar code was scanned in Troy, OH.

[oldinterneticons]

you don't own me.

[nickgerlich]

Scan This

Fifty years. That’s a long time. “Sundown” by Gordon Lightfoot was the Number #1 song on the 26th of June that year. A gallon of gas cost $0.53. Richard Nixon was still President for another six weeks. The Brady Bunch TV series had just ended. I had just finished my freshman year of high school.

And in tiny Troy Ohio, retail history was made when the first bar code was scanned at a supermarket. Happy National Bar Code Day, y’all!

To be fair, bar codes had been in use before, but not at the consumer level. A 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum had the distinction of ushering in a new era of inventory tracking and ringing up sales. Bar codes—known formally as Uniform Product Codes—became the new normal.

It’s not like everything simply fell into place in the days, even years, following that momentous date. It took a while for manufacturers to adopt what would become the new standard, as well as supermarkets to replace standard keypunch cash registers with electronic scanners. It would be a decade before all of this was commonplace.

Shoppers were not always convinced of the safety of them, and sometimes had conflicted feelings between them and their religious beliefs. My younger brother was a bagger at a suburban Chicago grocery in the early-80s, and he was always full of stories. They ranged from older shoppers who feared their foods would become irradiated and thus dangerous to consume, while others of a conservative religious bent feared this was the coming of antichrist, and that in no time we would all have bar codes tattooed on our wrist or forehead if he wanted to be able to buy anything.

Once again, Change was a tempest in a teapot, much ado about nothing, at least as far as their fears were concerned. Today, those fears are laughable, replaced by other irrational fears that we will chuckle about down the road.

We are accustomed to using bar codes in common scenarios, ranging from using our phones to scan items so that we can get prices or product information, or at the self-check stands in many stores. Through the last 50 years, bar codes have become ubiquitous, with food being just the first consumer product to bear them.

But I have to wonder if this will last as the standard, because since COVID, we have come to embrace the QR code. So much more information can be packed into those little black and white squares, or whatever shapes they happen to be using. They are also linked to web content, something the UPC is not.

Already the QR is becoming as common as the UPC. How many of you have paid your restaurant bill via a QR code on your receipt? Have you noticed the concert and sporting event tickets you bought online, and downloaded to your phone, use a version of QR? We are only beginning to discover all of the possible applications.

We should all spend some time today pondering the significance of how, 50 years ago today, we as a society started down a new path. There will always be a resistance to any newfangled technology that comes along, but in the end, technology will win the battle, and we will all be better off for it. Essentially, bar codes heralded another aspect of the Information Age.

Along the way, we changed for the better. Aside from the obvious conveniences bar codes as well as QR codes have brought, we eventually embraced a digital lifestyle, slowly shedding the dorsal fin of the analog era.

It makes you wonder what will be the next fin we shed. I’m up for it.

Dr “Change Is Good” Gerlich

Audio Blog

[feedbaylenny]

Man accused of stealing $28,000 worth of electrical wire with fraudulent barcode scheme

(As originally published with additional photos, Mon, February 12th 2024) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (TND) — A man in Florida is under arrest again, this time accused of ripping off multiple Lowe’s and Home Depot stores to get his hands on electrical wire without paying. Authorities say he used a fraudulent barcode scheme in 15 counties throughout Florida and the southeast US. The Jacksonville…

[podcaststeve]

Scanning the 50th Anniversary of the Bar Code

Steve chats with Paul McEnroe, the leader of the IBM team that invented the bar code, and the author of the new memoir, "The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World's Most Ubiquitous Technologies"

It may be hard to believe but this year marks the golden anniversary of a ubiquitous piece of technology that doesn’t have to boot up, doesn’t need a battery recharge, never needs a new style of USB cable, and has baffled an American president. It’s the bar code, those vertical lines of varying thicknesses that you see with a bunch of numbers on just about every package of goods you buy in a…

[sharkylass]

im so in love with 'in repetition and change'. genuinely such an interesting concept with INCREDIBLE art to boot !!!!!! so i just. have to say how much i adore it

but! i was going through the irac tag and noticed that. isa's wish isnt stated anywhere! you mentioned that you know his wish, but !!! i am going crazy thinking about what he couldve wished for !!!!!

so i must ask. what did he wish for, and what was his equivalent of the act 5 finale fight? how did he learn to let go of his wish ??? im losing it

thats all, thank you for making this stellar au :))

Yeah no I also wonder what got him eternally stuck [MASTERPOST]

Also some more stuff, cause I made quite a lot for this-

Death Loop gif, for fun. I initially did the audio for this but I leave you with this.

Sif eating with em big cheeks like they were meant to

And of course, the drawings.

I also didn't get to answer one of the questions- I am not fully sure if Isa told everyone about the timeloops. Tho the way I imagine it is that he told them the entirety of Act 2, and after reaching the end he stopped, but I'm just not sure how that would work with the timeloop mechanically.

Maybe in order to do the friend quests he has to pretend he doesn't know everything that's gonna happen, and during that loop the game asks you to go through without skipping- After that he probably just stopped telling them and just pretended everything was fine.

[lucabyte]

i CANNOT stress enough how incompatible the themes of these two pieces of media are. i promise my media literacy ability is actually good im well aware that these character mappings are absolutely nothing. that said. play with me in this space. in this sopping wet miserable space. its bad luck to kill a piou piou

original screenshots (and hypnosis 1904) for reference

[akelafang]

Modern au idea

Geralt's a bartender with a teeny tiny massive crush on the local musician Jaskier who plays at his bar every week. His favorite part of the night is when Jaskier comes up to the bar after his set and chats away to him, high off the adrenalin of performing. That is until one night when instead of his usually bubbly voice calling out before he's even seated, Jaskier sits nervously at the bar and orders an angel shot

[respectthepetty]

The Lighting Department is Top Form

Even though the show didn't give Johnny the fate I think he deserved, I appreciate that Jin walked into the play at the exact moment Johnny's character was begging for his life surrounded by (Akin's) blue.

Because the theater was made up of Johnny's red and Jin's green, as if it was battle between them for Akin.

Then, in the play, Akin's character lost the fight to Johnny's character surrounded by Johnny's red.

However, in the play, Akin's character, in blue, tells Johnny's character, who is in red, that "Revenge solves nothing; it only deepens the wound" and if we hold onto our anger, we "will carry the weight of hatred forever" with the tiniest barrier between them.

And we see Akin surrounded, once again, by his blue as he tearfully looks at Jin.

And Jin sees the light. This message is to him. His hatred for Johnny is clouding his love for Akin.

So even though there are clear barriers between Johnny and Jin, he asks to sit down and chat with him.

And for such a dark bar, the lighting is actually quite bright.

Until the exact moment Jin stops bullshitting with Johnny, and subtly threatens him. Jin becomes dark.

And although he lightens up as he leaves to see Akin, he looks at Johnny with an air of darkness remaining and basically tells him he is "lucky" to be working with Akin because that is the only thing saving him. He is telling Johnny that he is not ruining Johnny's entire fucking life because that would mean Akin's play would have issues.

Then, Jin steps completely into the darkness and tells Johnny that if he does it again, he "won't let him go next time."

Jin will be the darkness for Akin, who has been sitting in his own dark hole since Jin left him in the parking garage.

So when Jin shows up at Akin's apartment, Akin is sitting in darkness ready to break it off with Jin.

But once Jin tells him that he has nothing to apologize for and has him listen to what Johnny said, Akin's world brightens.

And Akin is back in his color.

Jin is a chill Green Guy for Akin who will always brighten his world.

But he has proven several times that he is capable of much worse when pushed.

Which is why I love the angel wings. I know they are carryover from the source material, but they work even better here knowing just how dark Jin can get so it feels like Jin is only an angel for Akin because even his darkness is what Akin needs.

And he will be the constant barrier between Johnny and Akin there to remind Johnny of what he promised him at that bar — that would be the first and last time he messed with Akin.

So even though the narrative seems to have forgiven the "Ass," (Donkey), the lighting department wasn't so easy on him because the threat of Jin is clear as the darkness surrounds him.

Akin wrote to his grandmother on blue paper about how much he loves Jin. He wrote it in his color that he found the person who makes his world complete.

Because when Jin whispers in Akin's ear, there is light in his words compared to when he threatened Johnny in that bar.

And he'll always be there to take care of his drunk boyfriend.

So Jin is Akin's angel because he is more than willing to be the devil to everyone else.

Jin isn't a golden retriever.

He's a hellhound.

[starry-bi-sky]

what if i wrote a “shen yuan transmigrates into a wife” oneshot but the whole premise is based on the song “gone, i’m gone” from hadestown and its overall theme is wanderlust and freedom and it starts out as Shen Yuan settling into life in the palace and trying to avoid harem drama and thinking he can just live with his head down for the rest of his new life, only to be hit with a sudden intense yearning to explore his new world the likes he’s never felt before. What if he was sickly in his last life. What if he spent his entire last life indoors. Trapped between four walls. What if love is not a gilded cage. What if he begins clawing at the walls of his enclosure, desperate to escape because he wants to live, god please let him live. He can’t do this again. What if he spent months preparing for his escape and in that same breath getting the attention of some of the other wives around him because he has changed and it makes them wary. what if he got binghe’s attention as he is wont to do. What if he left. What if Shen Yuan was born with a bottomless pit in his stomach and a gaping maw in his chest. What if he was starving. What if he was starving for the world around him. What if i wrote that. What then

[p1ctur3]

@octdl-lee

Random captive TDL au lore dump and some behind the scenes stuff since you asked so nicely :]

Dark in captivity

victim did use dark as a way to train and get the mercs and him used to the box

victim and agent (i would probably explore their dynamic in this au also, mitsi would haunt this narrative because yes)

some behind the scenes things

additional art

[vesna-v-irkutske]

A neighbor of the Anoufriev family: «I've known Artyomka since he was a child, since he was 2 years old. His mother raised him alone, his father was never there. The woman did her best: she exchanged her one-room apartment for a two-room one, worked from morning to night to ensure a decent life for herself and her son. Artyom wanted for nothing. His mother tried to dress him well, she bought him a computer, and he had musical instruments — after all, he graduated from our music school, and he had obvious musical abilities. When the boy entered our medical university on a budgetary basis, her joy knew no bounds. She said, "My boy did it himself! I was afraid that I would have to pay for him. But, well done, he did it himself!"» Artyom wanted to become either a surgeon or a cardiologist — he wanted to achieve success in something big.