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Yeah, surveillance steals value from consumers.
Self-checkout seems better to me, because it decreases monotonous and forced public interaction (thus somewhat automated anyway): Beep. Beep. Beep. Do you want loyalty points? That’s 21.46€. Do you want the receipt? Goodbye! Beep. Beep. Beep…
It uses less space.
It is parallel instead of serial.
The work is not much more than putting groceries on a checkout lane anyway, except for unlabelled fruits and vegetables.
Self-checkout allows for smaller stores and coops, for example in villages or as kiosk.
The automation are the API and the security cameras.
The fear of employment replacement through automation hinders creativity which would actually provide safer, better and more meaningful employment.
If people (workers, consumers, neighbours) would own or have a foot in their workplaces (i.e. cooperatives), they would care more about that.
782·8 days agoEven if you speak Thai, complaining about someone’s foreign language abilities as a foreigner is rude.
4·9 days agoLower Saxony.
2·9 days agoNC at 16 was rough probably.
One the one hand, you spent more time living apart or on your own than in contact with him, on the other hand, youth can be more impactful - so depending on your skills of emotion, trauma, processing etc. this can be good or difficult.
However you decide, you are somewhat strangers to each other now.
Do you think you and him could compartmentalise your relation and family?
Unless you pay a carbon tax or pay taxes that pay for CCS, taxes aren’t supplying air.
513·11 days agohysterically
Hey…
3·11 days agoI fear the future.
Has there been Saddam Hussein in beans yet?
Prepare for the cataclysm!
Give the loved ones guns
kriech