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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldSkilled labor
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    1 month ago

    The self checkout at the grocery here makes you have a worker check and enter your coupons for you. Even though they have barcodes. And cameras galore. And they mail you dozens of coupons every week.

    What’s even the point of self checkout at that point? It took longer waiting for them to come check and approve my three coupons to save $1.50 than just going through regular cashier line, and I didn’t even get to avoid talking to someone. Did that twice and won’t do it again.

    If they want me to work for them, I’m gunna need an employee discount. I hate everything about self-checkout. I have yet to find an implementation of it that is better than the default cashier experience.

    (This is not meant as saying you are wrong for your preference ofc, I just don’t understand how people actually like them)


  • I have a local burger joint at which I can still get a $2 cheeseburger. It’s plain and everything is an up charge but that’s fine. A whopper or Big Mac clone is some $4.50, so like, it’s still pretty cheap.

    However, they have no seating, and it’s an old ice cream shop so just a big kitchen and a tiny indoor order/pickup window and 2 benches. And there’s always a massively long line. Takes easily an hour to get fast food there during peak, cuz nobody goes to the local depressed millennial McDonald’s (one of those sad gray ones)



  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldI'm so hungry
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    2 months ago

    I know, I was joking in sort of a not-jokey-very-dry sort of way.

    I wish there was a universal (lawl I’m unserious but being very dry about it) tag. Because that stuff doesn’t translate to text well at all.

    Such a layer of emotion and presentation behind communication to get around! So difficult! And I have a degree based around doing exactly that…

    On a side note, we have dry humor which implies a wet humor and… I’m curious what that is but I sort of don’t want to know…?




  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldIt must be getting late
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    2 months ago

    That’s probably because early Germanic languages formed the base of the early English language, even before we “added” a ton of French and other shit through (actual and) cultural conquest.

    If you look through language roots, English splits from Germanic at some point close enough to make the rules logical going from English to German but probably not the other way around, idk.







  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldPick 3
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    6 months ago

    I went with immortal, shape shift, and teleport.

    There’s no range to the teleport listed, and I’m just going to assume that shape shift can alter biological function and not just the meaty outer covering… but ultimately it doesn’t really matter that much because immortal.

    This would be a great way to explore the universe and a search for life. Maybe settle down somewhere if you find an advanced society that sucks less than humans.