i_stole_ur_taco @ i_stole_ur_taco @lemmy.ca

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Yup. I was using self checkout once and it flagged me when I was trying to pay but didn’t say why. The supervisor was on top of it and unlocked the terminal and it made him watch a 5 second video of “suspicious activity”, which was me moving my reusable bag to the other side at a low angle. Some AI they use saw that as trying to sneak an unscanned product past the scanner.

I thought it was terribly clever but he just rolled his eyes and apologized for the inconvenience. As if an underpaid Walmart employee is going to waste their time arguing with a shoplifter.

Shutting down a laptop also makes it shut up!

lol. They’re promoting their employee shuttle. Classic Felon.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein is one the books I read during my formative years that I still think about a lot.

If you like graphic novels, The Sandman by Neil Gaiman is fantastic. Great writing and great artwork.

My mom has always written Alta when addressing mail. I wonder if it’s an older convention that’s still clinging on for some people. I’ve used AB my whole life.

Yeah but he’ll change every base unit to x, so now we measure acceleration in x/x^{2 and volume is measured in x}3 and the highway speed limit is 80x/(x/60).

Weirdly enough, Biden.

Trudeau said his government is more focused on tackling the affordability crisis and climate change.

Ok, well those have been catastrophic problems for at least 30 years. How much focus time is needed before any action is taken?

You can tweak this metaphor and get plenty of real life examples. Cats are obligate carnivores. There’s been lots of morons who went vegan and decided their cats could be vegan, too. I’ll leave guessing the outcome of that as an exercise to the reader.

Did you put regular detergent in a high efficiency washer?

I don’t get it.

“It’s a yes or no question” = “I want a yes or no answer”

I took photos at a friend’s wedding and most of the photos of his new wife had her wearing a lace veil.

I dumped all the photos into Picasso (precursor to Google Photos) and it did its background facial ID on everything. Then it suggested more photos that might also be tagged as her.

The extra photos were all just tables with tablecloths on them. It thought she was a tablecloth.

No from me.

Having diverse opinions is great. Having more communities is also great.

Having legions of badly behaved assholes everywhere is NOT worth the trade off to get a popular gaming and vegan community in my feed.

My baby has diapers that say “up to 100% leakproof”. It does not help my confidence in the product.

When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.

So I say put Windows 38 on them.

Not a doctor, but I wouldn’t assume a cream and a tablet will function the same way for the same problem.

One thing you could try: instead of showering, take a bath. Soak in the water for a while, then dry off and apply the cream right away. Obviously doesn’t help for everything, but in my experience, having well hydrated skin makes a lot of things sting a lot less.

I hope not! He’s way too old to get voted out and have to figure out how to get a job and take care of himself like an adult. You can’t just throw a grifter off the public teat like that! The poor little landlord might starve!

I had a manager once who had 3 small kids and he rarely caught himself when he excused himself from a meeting to “go potty”.