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First I’ve heard of it tbh. I’ll check it out, thankyou

Depends. Generally I prefer self checkout but it depends on the store and what self checkout options are available. It’s sometimes quicker and often easier on my social anxiety.

Some self checkouts have scales in the bagging area though that means you have to wait over a second between scanning an item and placing it in a bag and scanning the next. It doesn’t sound like a lot but it adds up and becomes infuriating, I spend maybe a quarter to a third of the time in those self checkouts just waiting for it to register so I can scan the next item.

Then there’s those ones with the cameras that use AI to detect whether you have tried to steal something, usually I shop at 2-3 different stores in the shopping center so I can get everything at the lowest price so I always have stuff from other stores that triggers those systems, so I need a worker to come over anyway to enter their code and say I didn’t steal anything which defeats both the time saving and the social interaction saving of the self checkout.

Generally I make a judgement about if I think I can get through the self checkout without it complaining about other items in my cart, or if I have to wait for the scale to detect that I’ve put a can of beans in the bag before scanning the next can of beans. If I don’t think I can get through the self checkout with either of those things happening, it’s usually far easier to just go to the cashier. Plus the cashiers are usually far nicer than the one person they have running between all of the self-checkouts to deal with the inevitable issues everyone faces. Often it’s quicker too as sometimes it can take a while for a staff member to come punch in the code to clear the warnings.

I like Aldi’s system where they scan and you bag, no bullshit just there to scan your items. It annoys me though that my local Aldi rarely has someone on the checkouts anymore so I have to use their annoying self checkout (they’re one of the ones that weighs your bags and won’t let you scan a couple things at a time before bagging).

• Survival Song – AJJ
• For a Girl in Rhinelander – Wingnut Dishwashers Union
• Ashtray – Matt Press
• Sense, Sensibility – AJJ
• Doth Make Cowards – Local News Legend

Two more because I can:

• A Bigger Bomb – Sister Wife Sex Strike
• Pokémon City Limits – Onsind

Still not a pom… I don’t know why you are being so aggressive but go off I guess, each to their own.

Look I’ve never heard the term limey before but from a quick google search it seems to be an archaic derogatory North American term for the British. I’m not British so this just reinforces the yank stereotypes about being clueless about the word outside of North America that you seem to have been offended by.

It’s not about the ratio, when a post is specific to a location outside of the US, the OP includes the location 90% of the time. When yanks post stuff that is specific to the US, over half of the time they never mention that it is specific to the US. This platform would be so much more pleasant to use if yanks didn’t assume that they were the default and were just as considerate of other users as everyone else is.

Another classic instance of North American centrism bites again… Don’t worry, you’re license is not likely to be for sale on the dark web if you recently rented a car or bought weed anywhere in the world outside of US or Canada.

Forth is a language that uses reverse polish notation instead of prefix (polish) or infix notation. This means that the operation comes after the operators. So “2 + 4” becomes “2 4 +”, or in this case “I <3 Forth” becomes “I Forth <3”. In a c-like language, it would be written as <3(I, Forth).

I mean as a Perth local, this all seems accurate to me. I just struggle to see how it is relevant to the conversation…

Did you just hit paste without checking your clipboard?

China is not a founding NATO country

Because “new book” could imply that this copy of the book is new, or that the book was only recently published, or it could mean that this copy, regardless of how recently it was printed, was just acquired by the person and they didn’t know about it’s existence beforehand. “New to me” clarifies that it was the last of these options that was the intended meaning.

I disagree with the premise. I have frequent discussions irl about how shit AI is and how damaging it has been to society. Perhaps you just aren’t talking to the right people?

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Easy: I live in the southern hemisphere. Excited that it’s winter today, just got through our first major storm of the season

Weapons dealers and manufacturers, realators, landlords, lobbyists, law enforcement officers, immigration officers or any other monopolists of violence.

I see, when it’s a dog we use the active voice but when it’s a white nationalist we use the passive voice.

No but on a more serious note, why are people who are this unsafe with guns allowed to be gun owners in the US? It’s okay though because next time a good guy with a gun will be there to kill the dog before it kills someone.

Here in Australia, what we know as “Jelly” is what Americans call “Jello” and what they call “Jelly” is like a pulpless, seedless Jam. A PB&J is Peanut butter and grape jam in a sandwhich.

Yeh, AI is used in/for language revitalisation and preservation projects, machine translation, live captioning, speech synthesis, medicine, wildlife preservation, disaster detection, weather forecasting and more

yes? I am guessing The Weekend is a band or musician by virtue of you mentioning them alongside Ariana Grande but other than that, I have no clue who they are. I couldn’t even name an Ariana Grande song of the top of my head but I know she was in the Wicked movie. This feels like a very North America /US / Anglosphere defaultism post tbh.