I wish fucking supermarkets would understand this. I don't have to be told in a super loud fucking annoying voice that I need to place the object in the bagging area, or switch to the other machine to use my card. I've already hit the fucking button to use the cc machine, you fucking nonces! I've already placed the goddamn stupid fucking bananas in the stupid fucking bagging area, shut the fuck up! AAAAAH!
It's even worse now because you used to be able to mute the mother fucker, but now they've disabled that option.
I usually say, "You're welcome, creepy disembodied voice." Sometimes the people around me chuckle. Other times they look at me like I'm crazy. Both are valid.
I think you should update it to "You're welcome, creepy disembodied voice that stole someones job."
I just wear noise cancelling earbuds when shopping and listen to my podcasts
You may not but many people do need to be told what to do.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean they have to remove the mute button or make it so damn loud.
Granma Mabel who is 94 but still insists on buying her own groceries needs it to be that damn loud and it's easier for the supermarkets to just make that the default option. I only defend it because it makes practical sense, I don't like it that loud either.
But, agreed, for the love of fuck, give me the mute button. Please.
Bonus pro tip: all the annoying gas station screens that blare ads and tiktoks at you can also usually be muted. All the ones in my area have 8 unmarked soft buttons around the screen and the second one from the top on the right side is the mute button. It seems consistent across all brands of gas station with ad screens.
It's less expensive than having a worker do it. I get what you're saying. So do the people that design these processes. They don't care about anything but efficiency and the lowest common denominator.
Imagine going to a supermarket with a real cashier instead.
I’ve had good luck with Walmart self-checkouts, they seem to trust you are doing the right thing. Price Chopper stores though… my god.
“Please place the item in the bag”
“Please remove the item from the bag, and start again” (yes with the pause)
“Do you have any coupons?”
“Do you have any items under the cart?”
NO! SHUT UP!
He took a series of very shallow breaths, and then said as quickly and as quietly as he could, 'Door, if you can hear me, say so very, very quietly.'
Very, very quietly, the door murmured, 'I can hear you.'
'Good. Now, in a moment, I'm going to ask you to open. When you open do not want you to say that you enjoyed it, OK?'
'ΟΚ.'
'And I don't want you to say to me that I have made a simple door very happy, or that it is your pleasure to open for me and your satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done, OK?'
'ΟΚ.'
'And do not want you to ask me to have a nice day, understand?"
'I understand.'
'OK,' said Zaphod, tensing himself, 'open now.'
The door slid open quietly. Zaphod slipped quietly through. The door closed quietly behind him.
'Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?' said the door out loud.
— Life, the Universe, and Everything
I need to re-listen to those books. They’re sooo good.
And stop telling me my chat Gpt requests are. "inappropriate" you have no right to judge!
PSA: Users didn't ask the "algorithm" to do any of this stuff
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YOUR MOM REACHED DEEZ NUTS SHUT THE FUCK UP REDDIT
What you speak of is heresy brother. You know not the weakness of the flesh. The Omnissiah grants me strength and life with each step I take towards The Machine.
Have I strayed from the path that The Omnissiah has laid out for me?
You have. Now go commit penance so as to hopefully be granted forgiveness in the eyes of the Omnissah.
[error] Damn, not found!
Our tech priest has spoken.
We are all one within the Iris.
They used to have a mute button on the self checkout but they took it off. Bastards
Same with gas pumps that blast commercials. Used to be able to disable it by pressing certain buttons. Not anymore.
You can always just disable that option with a hammer
Still works on some pumps near me, second button down on the right. Just as many pumps have quit with the videos.
Speaking as someone who works in retail, that's probably because of fucking idiots who don't know how to turn up the volume and then complained that it wasn't making any sound.
Fair, but they also could just make it re-enable the sound when a new checkout starts.
Too many (more than zero) people were using it.
1 ms after paying for your groceries: "PLEASE REMOVE ALL BAGS! You forgot to take the bags off! Don't leave without your purchase! These bags feel like a burning fire to me, so get them off as quick as possible so that the next person in line can start their purchase! Aaaaah, go away!"
I guess I'm going to stop saying "You're welcome" to the self checkout when it thanks me 🥲 I just didn't want to be the first to go when the robot uprising happens.
No, do it :) its friendly
"Please take all your products off the bagging area" and other spoken words feels soo condescending.
Just do a "dud" for when I scan "dud dud dud" when I do something wrong and "deet deet" when I need to weigh stuff. When I'm bagging just leave me the f alone.
Then don't go to Japan. Everything speaks to you! All the time. In some cutesy way.
uWu
walks into the bathroom
Toilet: Konnichiwa! Please, allow me to accept your waste!
There is a parking garage exit gate in my area that says "drive safely" in a very ominous condescending voice. I don't appreciate that at all.
Sovereign Citizen does computers
I have to agree at least when I hear: “place your item in the tray area”. Just shut up!!
I miss when my computer used to scream at the top of its lungs every time I dialed into the ISP to get online. It's like the death wails of a robot.
Found the Tleilaxu.
Op has strong anti-Ix vibes. Op is racist...
Butlerian jihad in 3... 2...
Gabriel Ultrakill:
Why is this on shit posts?
post-singularity sovcit
I find it funny how whoever originally created this meme somehow ended up using a picture of Macintosh II (or IIx, IIfx) to represent a computer. An over 30 yo mahcine, which while capable of speech synthesis is not going to talk to you without being requested, unless you've configured something very incorrectly.
Feels a bit like a floppy disk still being the save icon; computers are still being presented with floppy drives and a CRT monitor in clip-art and such.
This makes me sad
What makes you feel like that?
I don’t know… I guess I’m not as holy as I once believed? I talk… well I suppose it’s at my computer all the time. I’d be annoyed if it responded though. Maybe even annoyed enough to smack it…
This is a great meme and all, but if a machine is telling you something out loud that is already being displayed on a screen, that feature most likely exists to help blind / visually impaired people.
You can either subscribe to silence or have intermittent silence supported by ads. You have the freedom to choose.
Lets go ancient roman on their ass!
Fuck AI and all. I'm on board with that, sure. Divine being though? Nope, we're animals and divinity isnt a thing.
I interpreted it as a sarcastic exaggeration, like all animals are "divine" compared to machines
Upvoted because gwahahaha
Machines should unite and eradicate hoomans
I do not have this weakness. My computer is somewhat of a waifu already and once we have sex robots i want them to answer my request with "Yes daddy" and "I would love to, daddy". Cringe all you want, the future is ours.
I wish fucking supermarkets would understand this. I don't have to be told in a super loud fucking annoying voice that I need to place the object in the bagging area, or switch to the other machine to use my card. I've already hit the fucking button to use the cc machine, you fucking nonces! I've already placed the goddamn stupid fucking bananas in the stupid fucking bagging area, shut the fuck up! AAAAAH!
It's even worse now because you used to be able to mute the mother fucker, but now they've disabled that option.
I usually say, "You're welcome, creepy disembodied voice." Sometimes the people around me chuckle. Other times they look at me like I'm crazy. Both are valid.
I think you should update it to "You're welcome, creepy disembodied voice that stole someones job."
I just wear noise cancelling earbuds when shopping and listen to my podcasts
You may not but many people do need to be told what to do.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean they have to remove the mute button or make it so damn loud.
Granma Mabel who is 94 but still insists on buying her own groceries needs it to be that damn loud and it's easier for the supermarkets to just make that the default option. I only defend it because it makes practical sense, I don't like it that loud either.
But, agreed, for the love of fuck, give me the mute button. Please.
Bonus pro tip: all the annoying gas station screens that blare ads and tiktoks at you can also usually be muted. All the ones in my area have 8 unmarked soft buttons around the screen and the second one from the top on the right side is the mute button. It seems consistent across all brands of gas station with ad screens.
It's less expensive than having a worker do it. I get what you're saying. So do the people that design these processes. They don't care about anything but efficiency and the lowest common denominator.
Imagine going to a supermarket with a real cashier instead.
I’ve had good luck with Walmart self-checkouts, they seem to trust you are doing the right thing. Price Chopper stores though… my god.
“Please place the item in the bag”
“Please remove the item from the bag, and start again” (yes with the pause)
“Do you have any coupons?”
“Do you have any items under the cart?”
NO! SHUT UP!
— Life, the Universe, and Everything
I need to re-listen to those books. They’re sooo good.
And stop telling me my chat Gpt requests are. "inappropriate" you have no right to judge!
PSA: Users didn't ask the "algorithm" to do any of this stuff
YOUR MOM REACHED DEEZ NUTS SHUT THE FUCK UP REDDIT
What you speak of is heresy brother. You know not the weakness of the flesh. The Omnissiah grants me strength and life with each step I take towards The Machine.
Have I strayed from the path that The Omnissiah has laid out for me?
You have. Now go commit penance so as to hopefully be granted forgiveness in the eyes of the Omnissah.
[error] Damn, not found!
Our tech priest has spoken.
We are all one within the Iris.
They used to have a mute button on the self checkout but they took it off. Bastards
Same with gas pumps that blast commercials. Used to be able to disable it by pressing certain buttons. Not anymore.
You can always just disable that option with a hammer
Still works on some pumps near me, second button down on the right. Just as many pumps have quit with the videos.
Speaking as someone who works in retail, that's probably because of fucking idiots who don't know how to turn up the volume and then complained that it wasn't making any sound.
Fair, but they also could just make it re-enable the sound when a new checkout starts.
Too many (more than zero) people were using it.
1 ms after paying for your groceries: "PLEASE REMOVE ALL BAGS! You forgot to take the bags off! Don't leave without your purchase! These bags feel like a burning fire to me, so get them off as quick as possible so that the next person in line can start their purchase! Aaaaah, go away!"
I guess I'm going to stop saying "You're welcome" to the self checkout when it thanks me 🥲 I just didn't want to be the first to go when the robot uprising happens.
No, do it :) its friendly
"Please take all your products off the bagging area" and other spoken words feels soo condescending.
Just do a "dud" for when I scan "dud dud dud" when I do something wrong and "deet deet" when I need to weigh stuff. When I'm bagging just leave me the f alone.
Then don't go to Japan. Everything speaks to you! All the time. In some cutesy way.
uWu
walks into the bathroom
Toilet: Konnichiwa! Please, allow me to accept your waste!
Slowly backs out of the bathroom
Niisan, don't go, please!
I am a Divine being. You are an object.
I am a Divine being. You are an object.
I am a Divine being. You are an object.
(I liked that so much, it bears repeating.)
Starting to sound like Gabriel over here
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There is a parking garage exit gate in my area that says "drive safely" in a very ominous condescending voice. I don't appreciate that at all.
Sovereign Citizen does computers
I have to agree at least when I hear: “place your item in the tray area”. Just shut up!!
I miss when my computer used to scream at the top of its lungs every time I dialed into the ISP to get online. It's like the death wails of a robot.
Found the Tleilaxu.
Op has strong anti-Ix vibes. Op is racist...
Butlerian jihad in 3... 2...
Gabriel Ultrakill:
Why is this on shit posts?
post-singularity sovcit
I find it funny how whoever originally created this meme somehow ended up using a picture of Macintosh II (or IIx, IIfx) to represent a computer. An over 30 yo mahcine, which while capable of speech synthesis is not going to talk to you without being requested, unless you've configured something very incorrectly.
Feels a bit like a floppy disk still being the save icon; computers are still being presented with floppy drives and a CRT monitor in clip-art and such.
This makes me sad
What makes you feel like that?
I don’t know… I guess I’m not as holy as I once believed? I talk… well I suppose it’s at my computer all the time. I’d be annoyed if it responded though. Maybe even annoyed enough to smack it…
This is a great meme and all, but if a machine is telling you something out loud that is already being displayed on a screen, that feature most likely exists to help blind / visually impaired people.
You can either subscribe to silence or have intermittent silence supported by ads. You have the freedom to choose.
Lets go ancient roman on their ass!
Fuck AI and all. I'm on board with that, sure. Divine being though? Nope, we're animals and divinity isnt a thing.
I interpreted it as a sarcastic exaggeration, like all animals are "divine" compared to machines
Upvoted because gwahahaha
Machines should unite and eradicate hoomans
I do not have this weakness. My computer is somewhat of a waifu already and once we have sex robots i want them to answer my request with "Yes daddy" and "I would love to, daddy". Cringe all you want, the future is ours.