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[–] Teepo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've used self-checkouts in Canada and in The Netherlands. The ones here in Canada are just like the miserable experience you describe. Especially the weight sensor and the machine complaining. In The Netherlands I never had that issue (even with a second person helping me). I'm convinced companies have just turned the anti-theft settings up to aggravating false-positive levels over here.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Yep, that's exactly it and why no-one understands each other on these threads.

North America is three months away from Boston Dynamic Replicants gruesomly executing and dismembering single mothers in public because a little bit of flour fell out of the bag at the counter and Peter Thiel's AI decided it was Space Fentanyl.