I don't typically have this issue at Walmart at least. Their self checkout is smooth and effective these days.
That said I still don't use it, because it's still shifting work to me without giving me compensation for it. If I got a discount for using the self checkout, sure, but I don't. So I'll keep using manned registers.
It's sad that in a country of over 300 million people, only one of us is both marginally competent enough to take successful action against these people, and not a chicken shit coward unwilling to put themselves on the line. And yeah, at least for now, I too am among the chicken shit cowards.
Of course that's what you see - those ideas have been planted. That's exactly what they want, they want regulations to prevent just anyone from getting into it and making use of the technology.
OpenAI whining about not being able to make money if they can't use the training data? That's Brer ~~Fox~~ Rabbit crying "please don't throw me into the briar patch, anything but that!" because if such regulations happen they'll pay a fine or something and then...nobody new can compete with the established parties. They absolutely love to use regulations to pull the ladder up behind themselves so they can't be competed with.
If anything I wonder if all the weird shit they're pushing is just to stoke anti AI sentiment so they can get these regulations passed.
It's deeper than that. It's about defense of the Status Quo. No superhero looks around at the parts of society that we just accept without thinking about and says this needs to change.
Well first, spend a long time practicing tiny handwriting. Like, let's make the absolute most use out of this sheet as possible; it's possible to get the size of handwritten characters down to about 3mm, but let's say 4 with the assumption that I can't get it down that low. That means I have about 74 lines vertically to write in, each line able to accommodate somewhere between 70 and 52 characters, depending on the width. Let's average it to 60 characters per line, so 74x60 = 4,440 characters, times two for two sides of the page. Average number of characters per name is 7, so 14, plus two for spaces, and let's add another two for a middle initial and another space. That's 18 characters per name. This means I should be able to fit just under 500 names on the page if I use both sides as efficiently as possible.
I'll get the list of the 500 richest people in the world, and start going down it from richest on down. But not all at once. First the top name. One week later, the next name. One week after that, the next name down, and so on. After a few weeks the pattern would become obvious and we see what happens. Sadly I have no magical knowledge of who is the richest person at any given moment, so I have to just go off the list I already possess (or any new information I decide to be sufficiently trustworthy). One every week for five hundred names is 3,500 days, or 9.5 years. That is long enough to make it quite apparent this is inevitable and make it seem like it's going to continue forever, and it's long enough for legislation and other things to be done in response. Let's see how they freak out and what they try to do in response.
Yeah, and we still haven't learned the lesson. We have people today attacking AI technology rather than the way it's being used to funnel wealth inequitably.
It actually helps the wealthy capitalists, because they can use that sentiment to promote regulations that will entrench their positions.
One timeline, actions can have an effect. But once you time travel you unmoor yourself from normal causality, so you could do things that should negate your existence and nothing will happen to you.
Indeed, if you time travel again you can't affect your own actions anymore. Like, you travel back 20 minutes, do things for an hour, then jump back 5 minutes, when you go back the second time you can't alter yourself. You could go later the you from before you ever time traveled though.
This is also why I can't respond 'good' to how I am. If I am 'good' then it means I'm better than average or median. But if I say I am good too often, it becomes the average.
If you post a link to an article, you are endorsing that article as something worth reading. You are stating that you believe this is worth people's time and attention.
If someone disagrees with that, it is reasonable to tell you that in fact they do not believe it to be worth people's time and attention and they do not think you should be endorsing it as if it were.
So you know, maybe it's not just the article that someone is taking issue with, but the person spreading it and encouraging people to read it.
There is no guarantee that they will get paid. For that to happen, congress will have to pass a spending bill that not only authorized future spending but also explicitly gives back pay for the time they were working without paying after the shutdown.
So far this has always happened, but I do remember some noises about not doing it around the last shutdown.
So especially after those comments last time, there is no certainty that if you come in to work for the government during a shutdown you will be paid.
There's a reason the country lost credit rating, and it's because people are slightly less confident that it will actually pay its debts, including simple payroll.
For me, given my age and all...five million.
The Clark Kent disguise would definitely fool most people that don't regularly interact with either of them.
The real dumb thing is it's portrayed as fooling people who have a close personal relationship with him in both forms and spend non negligible amounts of time around both Clark and Superman. Those people would quickly notice.