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We have to save the past by going to the future! No, don't ask how that works it's complicated and involves 5D chess.

REP stands for "Raptorial Educational Platform"! I come fully loaded with military grade laser pointers and Powerpoint.

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the Mechanical Turk strikes again

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My FBI agent quit! D:

Very sad, I was really looking forward to when I would finally get to met Special Agent John Swanson of the FBI's Phoenix, Arizona field office. He used to love counting my totals for me and sending cryptic DM's through a burner account about how much aluminum powder I needed for the most efficient burn ratio in my home made thermite project!

Now I'll have to do the math about my groceries and necessary exotic chemistry supplies myself, and it's really disappointing knowing that very personal connection to a nameless face is gone and will be replaced by some NSA spook reading aggregated data reports from an AI monitoring system in the Pentagon. Even my drug dealer (CIA, of course) felt bad about the whole thing, because I'm a very special person and deserve to have as many human eyeballs as possible on my affairs. I am Jesus, afterall.

(please do not cancel me I am aware this is distasteful, but I actually cannot help myself but make the joke)

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in reply to @stu's post:

authorx
@authorx

I was thinking about this and I think part of the reason is that self-checkout already exists in stores, so it wouldn't have gotten them press coverage about how "weird" it is to shop there if you had to stop and tap your bag/items on an NFC tag reader, but I bet another part is that people steal from self-checkout all the time. If you know how the system works, you can figure out how to get around it, but a "magic" system that just knows what you're carrying out of the store and you don't know how, then you can't figure out how to trick it.

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bootjack
@bootjack

i'd never been to one of these places so i always just assumed it was like, scanning things as you go along and getting it charged to your card when you leave or something. the reality of it being some guys in india watching you on cctv and tallying it up by hand is such a uniquely dystopian and stone age solution to the tech magic sales pitch we got you can't help but laugh at just how absurdly bleak it is

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kylelabriola
@kylelabriola

yeah i also assumed it was something like "self-scanning as you go", which according to the article is apparently the backup plan for stores who want to use something like this in the future. Insane that this wasn't the idea from the get-go.

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coldpie
@coldpie

"Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."

Oh my god just end me

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