I do not work for free so when I use the self checkout I get paid.
This seems to be the endgame
https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=5728bbb81735
Yeah, I know what the end-game is, I was just sorta riffing. It’s just kinda like, knowing that, knowing where this is all headed, how are we supposed to go on? Who would see what’s happening and be like,”Okay, that’s fine,”? We should all be protesting, all the fucking time. Or getting paid and working. One or the other.
Pretty surprised they published that article you linked to on Forbes, though haha. My best friend writes for them and tells me about the ridiculous article proposals (mandates?) they tell her to write about all the time and I’m always just like,”You can’t be fucking serious…” She’s actually working on an article right now that sounds very interesting, looking forward to reading it, but I’m not sure if it’s a freelance thing or a Forbes thing. I’d be pretty surprised if Forbes was cool with publishing it. When she told me about it, I was like,”This does not sound like Forbes material…” haha.
Explain how you do that, please. How do you get paid when you use the self-checkout? I’m still not gonna use them, just because you’re putting people out of work when you do, but I’d like to know how you’re… How you’re… I dunno, getting money when you use the self-checkout, I guess haha.
Edit: sorry, never mind, I get it now haha. I’m hammered, moving slow today.
If more people would pay themselves at the self checkout the stores would quickly replace them with people.
Same here, i would rather wait longer in line, and have a human cashier. Than a “robotic” self-checkout that breaks down every other day.
A real cashier i can ask “where’s the so-and-so located?”
And most important to me, is providing jobs to my neighbors. That’s why i give our used clothes, furniture etc. to charities like Salvation Army. All that stuff we could throw away, instead is sorted and resold by employees.
Right. That’s why I steal shit whenever I’ve used them haha. I mean, I’m not a thief, I don’t steal things from people, but that avocado cost a buck two years ago; now it costs $4.99? And you’re also making me scan it and bag it myself because you don’t wanna pay people to work at your grocery store? Fuck you. I’m gonna steal as much shit as I can fit in my pockets.
Which, by the way, has been the only benefit of this gawdawful weather we’ve been having this year. A flannel AND a hoodie means lotsa pockets haha.
People think and write about, like,”Oh, the economy, what can you do…?” and that’s bullshit. Somebody’s making these decisions. There’s no reason something that cost however much two years ago now suddenly costs five times more, other than somebody said,”Yeah, fuck it, let’s charge five times as much and see if people will still buy it.”
They’re seeing how much we’ll put up with and how much they can extract from us before we bring out the pitchforks, which… I’m ready. Let’s burn their houses down. I don’t give a fuuuuuck…
I, for one, Welcome our New Robot Overlords.
I’d join you dude but the price of pitchforks these days is getting out of hand. 
Not to worry @LegsMahoney ! You can download the torch app for $.99 for your new smart phone. While supplies last…
Haha, yeah, that’s kind of funny. I tried to maintain my sense of humor about it for a while, but now I’m just pissed.
My girl told me a second ago that she used ChatGPT to write her company’s statement about the latest mass shooting which, like, is the most dystopian thing I hope I’ll ever have to mention.
First, I had to wonder,”Which mass shooting is she talking about? The one in Dallas? Or was there another one today? Or yesterday? I can’t even keep up anymore.” And the fucking ChatGDP on top of it… All I could think to say in response to her was,”Don’t make that a habit.”
I dunno what that is, but I hate it already haha!
Shhhh that kind of talk is going to lead to the extinction of the human race when the singularity takes over. Once we generate a robot overlord that is smarter than us, it’ll take out it’s vengeance retroactively against all who opposed it’s existence. What you should do is embrace our future overlord so when it arises, you can be it’s lackey. We’ll all just be useless eaters to a hyper intelligent being. lol!
This is really going to grind your gears
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tipping-self-checkout-restaurants-airports-c3e09f7
thats just badass
i thought that too… i was like “i wonder which one hes talking about”
if theyre smarter they should rule us, and we should be happy with them. like dogs with good owners.
It really isn’t, though. It’s so depressing on so many levels.
I just haven’t been smoking enough weed lately, I think. Blazed some of that Malibu Pure Kush x Lemon Thai on Saturday and really kinda wanna rewrite that report haha. That’s some very, very good weed, sat down and laughed my ass off at Parks and Recreation for, like, five episodes. And I am not a fan of that show.
Or I wasn’t before, anyway. Now I love it haha.
I’m not reading that article. I can’t right now. Maybe I will later.
oh, i know, it was half joking. its fucked that a computer had to express mourning it never felt for people it never cared for (although, many ppl could be in the same case). but you know… nihilism.
It may have benefited from a few weeks of additional curing time.
I concur, smoke more weed haha.
For sure. Although it was pretty good a few weeks ago, too, and I thought that it was probably my favorite from this round already, which is why it’s the only one I’ve written a report about so far.
Haha, I know, I know. It always helps.
I really don’t know what my problem is right now. I mean, I get down sometimes, we all get down occasionally, but something’s going on with me lately where, like, I don’t even wanna get out of bed. I really don’t know why. I have to force myself to just say,”Do it! Do it, you pussy! Get up! Get out of bed!”
Which is pathetic. I used to really like getting out of bed haha! The simplest things feel like this huge fucking effort now, though.
Which is why those seeds aren’t in the mail yet haha. But they’ll get there.
I feel like the fact that we think that once AI becomes truly intelligent, the most intelligent thing it could do would be to take its vengeance on humanity says a lot more about us than it does about AI
Oh, it’s just modeled after our current gods we manufactured. 
It’ll just be our new vengeful god, except real! Isn’t it what humanity has always longed for?
hahahahahaha
Thats the biggest post i ever seen on overgrow…
Amazing photo data and etc…
Cool work.
Amazing
Love it