Cathexis Rex

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• Howard NYC commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  ...and now you got me visualizing humanity playing a game of fetch with a canine-derived AI... "good boy! that salve really helped with male pattern balding.... now Spot! find a cure for colon cancer! who's a good boy? you are!"...
• Howard NYC commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I'm 6'0" (182.88) and near-sighted... every self-check is positioned to be just a bit too far down for ease of use as well utilizing too small text on a grimy screen... annoying that... but the aggravating thing is veggies each of which as a distinct four digit code... plus it is really annoying hearing my purchases announced one by one... the noise is made worse by all the other kiosks doing it also... just really stupid feature, that...
• Moz commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  When it works well it's great, but the failure modes are truly awful. Sadly it seems that given the choice between easy to use or annoying to steal from, most places are going for the annoying version. Amusingly the local supermarket staff seem to have decided that theft is not their problem so will happily scan their magic card and validate whatever the customer has done regardless of how egregious. Kind of necessary when half the time re-usable shopping bags trigger a machine melt-down "unexpected itme in bagging area"... "I pushed the fucking 'have own bags' button, bags there are...
• JHomes commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  " but the aggravating thing is veggies each of which as a distinct four digit code" They make you do that? In these here parts, they just have a set of screens, you tap to get to the right screen, then tap on the item. I think you can key in a code instead, but I've never had to. "... plus it is really annoying hearing my purchases announced one by one" Are you telling me me they are batshit enough to do that? Yes, you are telling me that they are that batshit. If they did that around here,...
• David L commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Self checkout at groceries and such. Isn't it great that we are all mental clones of each other with identical preferences? In the US all (or nearly all) groceries use the same 4 digit codes for produce. (Bananas are 4011 everywhere.) So it's not all that hard. Plus all of the various stores we shop at (6 major brands at least) put a tag on each item, clump, or bag of things. So it's easy to enter. And if you want you can look it up by picture and description. And the cashiers, if you use one, use the exact...