what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

Phen@lemmy.eco.br to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 182 points –

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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You can buy groceries from a mechanical grocer, but it’ll accuse you of shoplifting like three times while checking you out.

while checking you out

I'm sick of those suggestive robotic winks, and the vulgar gestures every time I scan a banana

I had one scream loud AF at me because I didn't move my item to the bay in the microsecond it allowed.