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  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    22 days ago

    Me and my friends, we call it anarchist calisthenics. I walked out of a Wallyworld a few weeks ago with about $100 worth of stuff that I’d paid for, and when we got back to the car, we magically had $150 worth of stuff. God truly works in mysterious ways 🙏

    It’s always a cost-benefit analysis, and the benefits are moderate while the costs are high. It is not uncommon for a big box store to have 2% of their inventory lost to non-sales. As for AI, it misidentifies people more often than not, and you can always use a designated outfit, face-obscuring makeup to throw off the facial recognition, and a chip in your shoe to confound gait analysis.

    Now if you appropriate hundreds of dollars at once, or thousands at the same store within a year, they have an incentive to catch you. But if it’s piecemeal stuff, it’s not worth their time.