But is there an automated voice on that machine that says " You want fries with that ?"..
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Human Interaction - Who needs it?!
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I know it isn't the case, but for some reason the robot aspect makes the food seem even more gross. I think I'll continue to pass on fast food (In-N-Out doesn't count).
I had a room mate use online grocery order/delivery once, probably due to some promotion (he was a coupon master). It made sense becauae he didn't drive and couldnt ride a bike in his 20's, but without the coupon it didn't make sense cost-wise.
I had a room mate use online grocery order/delivery once, probably due to some promotion (he was a coupon master). It made sense becauae he didn't drive and couldnt ride a bike in his 20's, but without the coupon it didn't make sense cost-wise.
Thailand is called the Land of Smiles or LOS, because Thais spend a lot of time smiling.
They can also interpret one another's smiles, like body language.
There's a smile for when you're lying or about to strike out in a violent rage
There's smiles for when you're happy, or even smiles when you're uncertain or shocked.
I remember walking along the beach in Pattaya one day & there was a small group of men looking in my direction with these weird smiles on their faces.
As I got closer I could see they had discovered a body had floated up to the pier they were standing on, so it was the smile of shock!
There's basically a smile for everything, and just because someone is smiling at you doesn't mean they don't want to rip your lungs out
It's endearing to the tourists, but after living there a while, it's just par for the course.
It is a good idea to keep smiling though, even when you want to rip someone's lungs out
examples:
Hey, best revenge in life is living well, right? If smiling works out for them by all means. At my age I'd almost prefer fake images of happiness vs someone being truly honest with their...not happy side.
I'll go with asking myself. One small compromise in the grand scheme.
I went in there today, because they're offering any size drink for only $1 & they have great ice cream.
First I got an ice cream & an unsweetened ice tea, then I read my Dune book for an hour:
First I got an ice cream & an unsweetened ice tea, then I read my Dune book for an hour:
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The McDonalds where I occasionally get an Artisan Grilled Chicken Sandwich has signs in the dining room limiting "guest visits" to 30 minutes! Why? Because here in Eugene, especially in cold weather, homeless people will buy a $1 coffee in the morning and sit in the dining room all day to stay warm.
Maybe it'd be better if they were offered a rate of $1 per half hour? See this is what I was on about in my first post. Approach.
I was monitoring how crowded it was getting & it wasn't. If it had gotten busy in there I'd have went to the park to read.
Our folks who hang out in the restaurants like that are not homeless, they're retired.
Burger King, McDonald's, Hardee's (Carl's Jr.) all have a corner table full of retirees from early in the morning until noon. They'll pass the newspaper around & keep refilling their senior discount coffees.
Sometimes the staff even comes out with a fresh pot to fill their cups for them, so they're sort of advocating the senior citizen hang-out.
That was me today, because I kept re-filling my tea, LOL
downside is I had so much tea I'll be up until 1am
BTW, we do have homeless, they're panhandling next to the off ramp from the freeway.
some of them aren't really homeless though
add: thought I'd throw in a little blurb about the McDonald's near my place in Bangkok, for Selta's enjoyment
I'd go by there on the way to work some mornings & drunk tourists would be slumped over their coffees. Once there was even some guys who'd set up a folding table outside & were downing shots of rice whiskey. They probably didn't last long once the cops saw them.
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If I recall, this is exactly what was said about those 'auto-mat' diners in the 60's... just sayin'
Assuming that in today's app driven society they wouldn't have gone the automated route anyways. 3.00 an hour or 15, cost reduction is the name of the game.
They were going automated regardless of the wages they were paying. $8 or $15, the plan was the same. It just serves an agenda to pretend the poor owners were forced into this because of greedy workers. Perhaps the rollout was accelerated but the end result was always automation.
Well there's also error reduction. The machines could be the end of those fabled stories of going through the drive through and confusing the person taking the order, causing more food to leave than ordered. ..when you think about that, it's not even about "how much" someone is making.
Granted. But it won't matter whether any of us wishes for it to, or not to be, or for nothing at all. And that is because...
True. But the industrialists of that day could only hope to dream of the technologies wielded by the corporate hegemony of today. So everyday people back then had little to worry about, if job market was the concern.
Now what do technological societies have in store? Take a page from all the dystopian sci-fi stories you ever read or watched. I predict that world war is unlikely (even the Terminator scenario). But once the tipping point is reached, wherein both 1. human labor is obviated, and 2. there is no longer a human agenda fundamental to society, then 3. only one question will remain: what will be done with the hundreds of millions of dead bodies?
When recently I posed that question to my own, dear mother (who started weaning me on science fiction circa 1970), she understood and immediately replied "Soylent Green."
So while our species races to the bottom as we watch, awaiting the imminent rise of our Synthetic Life Form Overlords, the super-rich glance impassively at the roiling sea of humankind, skimming the last profits from it, even as they ensure their own demise in the next phase.
We play (and get played in) this grim game of musical chairs, distracted to indifference by smartphones, politics, and pop culture. But be you a ditch digger or a neural network engineer, you can kiss your *ss goodbye. For better or worse, humankind as we knew it is not long for this world.
I know! I know! Man, some people...they work for a full day and want to make enough money to eat! I hate that!
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Yeah, and back in the '60s:
- gas stations were not self serve
- cash registers were not self serve
- retail was not dying
- etc.
I own and listen to some of her music...Not because I love the music itself (although I really like Biophilia and the old song Bachelorette is one of my favorites) but becuase she is so darn creative!
Sorry for the thread derail...
