re: #315 The Ghost of a Flea

What’s fascinatingly stupid is that automation of the service industry doesn’t necessarily benefit the consumer.

Congratulations…you’re paying for less service, less customizability, and the potential for a different, harder-to-solve inconvenience when the machine fails to do it’s shit.

I mean, have you ever used self-checkout?

I love it when it demands that I lift the 40 pound bag of water softener salt out of my cart and onto its 18 inch scale, then locks up.