Where's the automation?

[Brian Peacock]

Queuing is good - it gives you a chance to check people out and unites all queuees in solidarity against the bastard who's making us wait.

And CAD software definitely does know the material properties of things these days, while architecture packages will even map the flow of people through buildings and model panic behaviour to predict bottlenecks and structural requirement etc.

[Rum]

Absolutely. Although, I've more or less given up alcohol to help improve my mental health. I still have a beer or two on an occasion (had a couple after cricket on saturday).

I intend to quit. Think the hangovers are effecting my liver or something.

I had that intention for several years. Drinking too much and dependent on it to feel more or less OK. I quit for a year and have dry spells now and again and these days have one or two glasses of wine of an evening and it feels well under control - I feel pretty goos in fact.

I drank and took benzos when I went through a divorce many years ago now. I felt good when drinking and with a few pills inside me but the rest of the time I felt like death.

If you are mixing them it explains a lot...maybe.

[Svartalf]

welcome to my world... I'm dependent on pills to even be barely functional (not benzos, though I have a stash of xanax in case I get anxiety attacks)... and I like my drink. my dry spells are counted in days, not weeks or more.

[Jason]

Psych meds and alcohol don't mix well.

Which meds? I've found benzos and alcohol mix wonderfully.

[Svartalf]

Sure, they potentialize each other... I also bet you got a lot of blackouts when you've overdone it.

[Sean Hayden]

Queuing is good - it gives you a chance to check people out and unites all queuees in solidarity against the bastard who's making us wait.

And CAD software definitely does know the material properties of things these days, while architecture packages will even map the flow of people through buildings and model panic behaviour to predict bottlenecks and structural requirement etc.

Tips on lines:

1. People tend to go right, stay left.

2. Get in line behind someone with a lot of items rather than a long line of people with just a few items.

3. Prefer long single lines that allow you to choose a cashier etc. over individual shorter lines spread across multiple cashiers.

4. Look for female cashiers.

5. Remember that we all overestimate how long we spend in lines.

6. Finally remember that in America the angry customer behind you may be packing.

--can't remember the source, trust me, it's good.

[pErvinalia]

I made a chart. It's total hours worked in the economy as a ratio of the total working age population, for the US. Was wondering if the idea of automation taking over our jobs was reflected in the data. Seems it could be, as we see the hours worked per person that is available to work has dropped over time (a 25% reduction).

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[rainbow]

Sorry, but I'm most inefficient cash desk operator, and prefer people at the cash desk when doing my groceries rather than the new do it yourself ones some stores are installing

Here is a useful tip.
The self-service checkout usually has no queue. Start putting you stuff through, then press the help button, and some young and charming person will appear and do it for you.
Saves a lot of time, but don't do it at the same shop too often.

[Seabass]

I made a chart. It's total hours worked in the economy as a ratio of the total working age population, for the US. Was wondering if the idea of automation taking over our jobs was reflected in the data. Seems it could be, as we see the hours worked per person that is available to work has dropped over time (a 25% reduction).


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Wrong! It's those young, strong, virile young men in those brown barbarian hordes of MS-13 gang members and unknown middle easterners that are mounting a full scale invasion and storming our southern border and carrying smallpox and rabies and drugs... they're the ones taking our jobs!