Looks like a dope little device but at that price I think I might be more interested in a Steam Deck.

“I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.” — George Carlin

To my knowledge there really aren't any downsides to a diagnosis, as a matter of fact you may even have new legal protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA: https://autismsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ADA-Fact-Sheet-1-1.pdf

You also have a right to not disclose your diagnosis per HIPAA, so long as you wouldn't need an accomodation.

Just got back into replaying Cyberpunk 2077 and I'm very glad a significant amount of the launch issues have been addressed. It's taken a while but it's finally playable. Still a bit upset they didn't deliver on the futuristic GTA experience I was expecting, but I'm at least having a good time.

I don't even like dogs... But that's a GOOD boy.

I also work front end, I've had sooo many people give me this shit.

#1 Not advertising. Advertising is what you see before you enter the building. Some stores don't even have shelf labels.

#2 Do you think someone can walk up to your garage sale and slap their own sticker that says $1 and demand you sell them a TV for $1? No, you can refuse to sell your own shit whenever you want. It's YOUR shit. You can burn it in front of them if you felt like it.

As someone who has worked a lot of retail, they're saving 8-16 man hours a day MAX. The national average hourly wage for a cashier is $13.81, so that's $110.48-220.96. You still need to maintain manned registers so you have bodies for closing duties and a pod of self checkout registers still requires at least 1 body to run them. During non-peak hours it's perfectly reasonable to only have 1 register open with a pod of SCO's, and that register is mostly so you can sell alcohol and cigarettes. For closing you still need 3 or 4 bodies to deal with the after work rush and closing duties like trash, counting tills and other miscellaneous duties.

Self checkout only is a tool to improve the productivity of 1 person, some people are just upset at how effective they are, as shown by their prevalence. The real reason to be pissed off is that they don't care, you're still going to buy the same amount of stuff, you probably won't even make any changes to your purchasing habits. This is underscored by the trend of retailers locking more and more inventory behind cages and lockboxes, and sales don't go down, some retailers even think they result in more sales because more product is available to be purchased.

P.S. As someone speaking from the employees point of view, the biggest issue comes from the fact that consumers want to shop on the weekend to comply with their mon-fri lifestyle. Which in turn means someone else has to give up their "weekend". This alone accounts for most of the issues I've seen post covid with staffing shortages, nobody wants to work when their friends or family aren't, and they're not getting any incentive pay for working the crappy hours. As a society at some point we have to recognize that this absurd obsession with weekends leads to most of the frustrations we're talking about. If people could more evenly distribute their alotted time to do chores we wouldn't have these gigantic lines to services that nobody wants to work at.

I wonder when the quit complaining about having to pump their own gas. Sometimes I'm impressed when they manage to get me on the phone without an operator. How do you think boomers would deal with themselves as teens?

Reddit still has better porn, for all other things I do not give a f**k.

You know, I was wondering when r/sino was gonna make it over to lemmy.

To put it bluntly it's a "wait 1-2 weeks for adblockers to update" issue.

In that article a female advocate for women's rights describes how she sat back and did nothing to name and shame inappropriate behavior. She talks about how it's men's collective problem to solve her issues for her, and about how speaking up for herself isn't her responsibility.

She's right that she shouldn't have to put up with it, but what is anybody supposed to do when nobody wants to point it out when it happens? Suffragettes did not get their needs met by asking their husbands to do it for them. She needs to name the people who do immoral things, not sit around and hope it gets better by asking politely. Get angry, get mad, but don't ask nicely for HR to solve your problem when we know damn well who HR really protects.