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Gomez Chamberlain posted:Just LOL if you think it's for the sake of progress and not cutting staff to improve the margins with unforseen consequences. no one here said that or is dumb enough to think that. you can still like the end result of the change even if it's done for profit-motive. wait till you hear about how hosed up electronic manufacturing is, you'll be throwing your computer and phone in the trash immediately.
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Jan 11, 2024 09:57
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Coolguye posted:unlike donny t, however, musk has had a lot of much more public failures that crack the mythos. lol are we talking about the same donald trump
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Jan 11, 2024 09:59
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At least Trump has the measure of Musk, I dislike them intensely, but in a momment of clarity trump nailed him to the fricking wall. Game know game indeed.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:01
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Buce posted:also he's using 0% of his mollenia, his I tried, but even with the elaborate description and the rittenhouse photo as a reference I just can’t visualize this Donald Trump
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Jan 11, 2024 10:07
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so what happened to the georgia case being thrown out because of sex
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Jan 11, 2024 10:11
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:self checkouts are great because they help me get incredible discounts on my produce Everything is potatoes
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Jan 11, 2024 10:14
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staberind posted:Uh, No, places that have self checkout and cut down drastically on employing staff, are on the other side of the class war. are you sure you want to align with them? Yes
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Jan 11, 2024 10:16
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3O parachute account spotted.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:18
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Don't make me probe you for a slanderous accusation like that
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Jan 11, 2024 10:19
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enough about self checkouts this thread is about Hotdogs goddammit!
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Jan 11, 2024 10:19
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Toxic Mental posted:Don't make me probe you for a slanderous accusation like that ooofff. ahahaahahah. struck a nerve. But yeah, weird derail, lets talk about hotdogs, reformed lips and rear end, the son of the sitting presidents, even.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:20
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I don't care what your politics are. No one deserves to be called Three Olives
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Jan 11, 2024 10:20
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Junk posted:so what happened to the georgia case being thrown out because of sex Hunter Biden's captivating crotch took over the news cycle
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Jan 11, 2024 10:21
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staberind posted:Uh, No, places that have self checkout and cut down drastically on employing staff, are on the other side of the class war. are you sure you want to align with them? Self checkouts are fine when they're being added as a convenient option for shoppers, they're like a self-regulating kind of express lane (probably why express lanes seem to have gone extinct in most stores). They're not fine when stores are just trying to cut staffing to the bone. Our local Target has around 8 self-checkout lanes, but that's in addition to around 10 human cashiers on a typical day - this is the way.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:22
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Pictured: Man trying to use self checkout the day before Thanksgiving
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Jan 11, 2024 10:24
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:We're not near fully automated luxury gay space communism by a long shot. No doubt. But technological unemployment is always going to happen. The less people you have to hire for nearly the same quality of work the less overhead you have. Even a gay space communist wants to maximize returns while lowering overhead. It's almost literally basic math, there is no way to stop it. The actual problem is lack of strong social safety nets, lack of strong unions to make sure workers are getting fair wages and fair work/life balance. And a large percent of peoples mindsets towards the very nature of work.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:27
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staberind posted:At least Trump has the measure of Musk, I dislike them intensely, but in a momment of clarity trump nailed him to the fricking wall. Trump and Musk seem similar in so many ways. I still can't decide who is worse
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Jan 11, 2024 10:28
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QuarkJets posted:Self checkouts are fine when they're being added as a convenient option for shoppers, they're like a self-regulating kind of express lane (probably why express lanes seem to have gone extinct in most stores). They're not fine when stores are just trying to cut staffing to the bone. Our local Target has around 8 self-checkout lanes, but that's in addition to around 10 human cashiers on a typical day - this is the way. Yeah, I totally agree, they are convenient in addition, as I mentioned upthread, also, I agree its unrealistic to freak out (or be surprised), about this kind of thing too much as its a "natural" product of unfettered capitalism. Its probably looking like I dislike Mini -3O but I think they are great, I like their banter.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:28
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Nelson Mandingo posted:No doubt. But technological unemployment is always going to happen. The less people you have to hire for nearly the same quality of work the less overhead you have. Even a gay space communist wants to maximize returns while lowering overhead. It's almost literally basic math, there is no way to stop it. The problem is literally everything, got it.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:29
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:self checkouts are great because they help me get incredible discounts on my produce Has anyone using a self checkout actually paid for organic produce?
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Jan 11, 2024 10:30
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Has anyone using a self checkout actually paid for organic produce? I love me some organic bananas from my local store that I self-checkout at. 
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Jan 11, 2024 10:32
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Call me Three Olives again, I dare you motherfucker
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Jan 11, 2024 10:33
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isn't the ape-adjacent avatar enough
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Jan 11, 2024 10:37
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I love me some organic bananas from my local store that I self-checkout at. I love me some organic bananas too, but lol if they expect me not to ring them up as regular ones.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:37
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Charles Ford posted:When Tesco tried to enter the US market they decided their US stores ("Fresh & Easy") should be self-checkout only. It was pretty good in general, but then California passed that law that said you couldn't use self checkouts for alcohol, and since they sold alcohol, they now had to have someone haunting the self checkout at all times. Shortly after they closed, so I assume those events are related. Americans can't get Ribena? Is there no end to how much of a barren blighted land it is?
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Jan 11, 2024 10:42
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Nelson Mandingo posted:No doubt. But technological unemployment is always going to happen. The less people you have to hire for nearly the same quality of work the less overhead you have. Even a gay space communist wants to maximize returns while lowering overhead. It's almost literally basic math, there is no way to stop it. Most probably already know this, However we get the word sabotage not from anything military, (although thats how people try to use it, like a form of terrorism), but from disenfranchised workers, chucking clogs into machinery. Checking out a higher priced object as a lower priced one is a good way of remembering and paying tribute to those pioneers.
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Jan 11, 2024 10:48
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FuturePastNow posted:I was shopping at K-Mart once and got in line at the only working register, the first person finished paying and left and then the little old lady in front of me, who only had a giant thing of fabric softener in her cart, pushed right past the cashier and straight out the door without paying. The cashier gave a half hearted "Hey..." and we both watched the lady, who didn't look a day less then 80, go. she was just practicing what he preached
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Jan 11, 2024 10:52
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staberind posted:Most probably already know this, However we get the word sabotage not from anything military, (although thats how people try to use it, like a form of terrorism), but from disenfranchised workers, chucking clogs into machinery. Common misconception quote:The English word derives from the French word saboter, meaning to "bungle, botch, wreck or sabotage"; it was originally used to refer to labour disputes, in which workers wearing wooden shoes called sabots interrupted production through different means. A popular but incorrect account of the origin of the term's present meaning is the story that poor workers in the Belgian city of Liège would throw a wooden sabot into the machines to disrupt production.[1]
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Jan 11, 2024 10:54
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BrigadierSensible posted:Americans can't get Ribena? Is there no end to how much of a barren blighted land it is? Aren't blackcurrants basically banned in America
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Jan 11, 2024 10:54
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Dell_Zincht posted:Aren't blackcurrants basically banned in America Nah they were banned like 100 years ago because they could kill pine trees but they’re not banned anymore
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Jan 11, 2024 10:57
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Blackcurrants was the Capt. Planet villain that everyone thought was going to create oil spills in the ocean, but in reality he tricked them all by causing deforestation, so they never caught him.
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Jan 11, 2024 11:06
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Even accounting for the vendetta against blackcurrants, is there at least a high fructose corn syrup taste-alike version of Ribena that our American friends can enjoy?
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Jan 11, 2024 11:11
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#Self Checkouts! It's all happening on Awful, the Something App!
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Jan 11, 2024 11:13
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1745276417011536117?s=46&t=G1x8XWIwrNxUQoXItlkh2w Why am I no seeing this being plastered all over the place? Get on it Brandon.
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Jan 11, 2024 11:14
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BrigadierSensible posted:Even accounting for the vendetta against blackcurrants, is there at least a high fructose corn syrup taste-alike version of Ribena that our American friends can enjoy? Closest thing is probably black cherry sodas
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Jan 11, 2024 11:21
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Dell_Zincht posted:Aren't blackcurrants basically banned in America I hope not! I have a bootleg black currant bush out by my pond that is absolutely loaded every summer and I'll fight the man for it. With self-checkouts, the store has figured out how to get you to do their work for free. You don't work there, but you pick out your own poo poo, ring up your own poo poo, pay for your own poo poo, and bag your own poo poo, all for nothing. An hourly wage job is now gone and the store can rake in those sweet grocery bucks without having to offer you even the bare minimum of service.
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Jan 11, 2024 11:22
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Again it’s literally like 3x faster and I don’t have to get breathed on by a bunch of random people, how is this hard to understand Even when there is an open checkout line I will just do it myself. Class solidarity doesn’t mean wasting your own life and intentionally being inefficient with your time. There’s like 10,000 better ways to be more egalitarian.
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Jan 11, 2024 11:30
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BrigadierSensible posted:Even accounting for the vendetta against blackcurrants, is there at least a high fructose corn syrup taste-alike version of Ribena that our American friends can enjoy? It's a constant disappointment in America when you get a purple drink or jam expecting delicious blackcurrant but then have to endure some horrible fake grape flavour
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Jan 11, 2024 11:35
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If I know a store bottlenecks you into using self checkout by only having one regular checkout open I just stop shopping there. It’s the reason I haven’t been to the local Safeway in years
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Jan 11, 2024 11:42
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picking up items, operating a touchscreen, and using a bag are all basic skills i possess and i appreciate being given the opportunity to use them in order to avoid socially interacting with yet another goddamn person in this loving place i swear to god.
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Jan 11, 2024 11:50
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