ngl i love the self checkout
im rarely buying a big haul from a grocery store
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It's getting worst though because most self checkouts requires you to purchase with cards only.
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i love them too
much easier to have a lot of self checkouts and speed things up
i don't need human interaction at a point of sale. the cashiers probably also have better things to do than scan stuff and count money.
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I scrolled all this way to see if anyone had the same aversion.
If I go to a store or bank and somebody ushers me to a machine, it just feels like a little piece of the world has died. Not the end of the world, just unnecessarily mechanistic.
The worst is if I need to get my face scanned. Fortunately have not seen that in the nation I am living in now.
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The worst is if I need to get my face scanned. Fortunately have not seen that in the nation I am living in now.
Many airports have that technology already at the gates.
They basically have Kinects 3D scanning your face.
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Yeah, my eigenvectors are probably in various aviation databases. As much as that's whack, I can kind of almost let it go based on some ostensible security requirement, because, you know, it's safer for everyone. But my face being tied to my wallet, credit, groceries is just no. I mean, I'm sorry, but anyone that's deluded themselves into 'convenience' above basic human dignity, is just an automaton. It's a mantra that's been pumped into the servile populous, and they don't even care about the world their kids will be living in.
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I'm not against point-of-sale being done with technology that saves time and labor. Just prefer to keep all privacy as a basic right.
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eigenvectors are cool. Just think they're being misappropriated a bit.
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Absolootly! I didn't get around to studying linear algebra yet so had to check that one :/