Can someone please ELI5:Why does every site on the web have to adjust for every jurisdiction in the world? Shouldn’t each jurisdiction just be responsible for filtering/censoring the web for their citizens based on whatever batshit idea their leaders have?
Actually, I suspect the answer is quite easy: this way, they force other people to have to pay for their batshit crazy ideas instead of themselves.
I really wonder what scenarios the billionaires have envisioned. After they close the hatches, what use do the security people have for a billionaire? Money is worthless and the billionaire, his family and all his friends will only consume limited resources faster. With no legal recourse on the outside, the security people will just kill everyone, loot the larders and live like kings.
We would all be better off replacing CEOs with AIs. They’re both simply confident bullshitters.People keep thinking CEOs are leaders. They actually PR hucksters who get paid a lot of money to pump stock by lying.
Perhaps keeping an old phone for purposes of doing this scanning thing might be ideal.That’s an excellent idea!
all grocers have a ‘cashier’ desk where you get lottery tickets.Ha! Great observation. There’s no way in hell stores are going to give up on gambling cash. :-)
I would actually install the vendor’s phone app if they built in this functionality instead of having these terminals.I think you’re right, but I dread it. I avoid installing apps. The thought of installing even more tracking for multiple vendors annoys me.Although I am resistant, your point about bagging once is a true benefit.One downside, that system doesn’t seem to support cash.
Good point. A US department store chain -- Kohl's -- has been using electronic shelf labels that change several times per day. Not sure how they handle the discrepancies.
How do I prove the product was prices $1 when I picked it up if the label now says $2? Is it my responsibility to notice the register price was different?
I more or less avoided Kohl's, so I'm not sure how that was handled.
Shoes. Bought a pair of Bass shoes from the Bass online store. The shoes that arrived were completely different from the ones I ordered. The picture on the shoebox were what I wanted, but not what was in the box. Explained the issue and returned the shoes. The replacement shoes were exactly the same. I returned and gave up.
The elites own the media. We're conditioned from birth to hate SoCiAlIsm/CoMmUnIsm/TaXes/ThEft/Etc. Repeat those terms 100 times a day over a lifespan and it becomes religion for 30% of the population.
If the government spends money on the little people, there's less money to bail out the Too Big to Fails.
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. The United States isn't a country, it's a corporation with a military.
Technology Example Maybe Useful For Marketed As Actual Use
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Voice Recognition Alexa Voice Typing OMG!!! Digital Assistant!!!!! Hoover up your personal information
LLM ChatGPT Better Google OMG!!! Replace people!!!! Hoover up your personal information
Blockchain - ? OMG!!!! Put in everything!!!!! Cryptocurrency
NPT - N/A OMG!!!! NPT!!!! Fleecing rubes
CryptoCurrency BitCoin Online $ transfer OMG!!!! Buy! Buy! Buy! Stealing your real money
N.B. There has GOT to be a better way to align tables in Lemmy.
Yes, but my lame "It's a glitch in the Matrix" jokes might make one person laugh.