It was a stupid impulse buy, yes…

Definitely. I knew one guy who was an EMT. He was very casual about it unless he was drinking.

Aw, that’s the best part. I love paying with my ridiculous smart watch that I didn’t need.

Most self checkouts use cameras and AI where I am.

Genuinely curious, this isn’t snark, what do you suggest in the US that’s better than the NY Times? I mean, NPR, of course, but I can’t really detect much of a difference between the two.

Meh, if it drops it drops. I’ll never have the relationship to social media I used to, because I don’t want it anymore. If Lemmy can give me a few posts a day of things I might not normally see, that’s enough for me. It doesn’t need to be the next Reddit or whatever. After quitting Reddit I’m getting back into things I haven’t done in years. I don’t need that again.

Seriously. There’s way too much content and no way most of it is worth my time. If it is, people will still be talking about it in a couple decades, and then I’ll think about it.

You may be right now that I reread their comment.

Just wait until we find out what the US military has.

Yikes, I would be very scared to take anything ChatGPT says as accurate. Google keeps trying to get me to use theirs when I do searches, and I refuse.

So maybe you were joking and I didn’t catch it?

Ha, literally no one under thirty has any idea. Imagine trolling a bunch of faceless people online and then you actually get to meet them. Good times.

Very different…

How ironic. I guess you haven’t been on Reddit in the past decade.

Hmm, you’re kind of sounding a little pissed though…

I’ve been on Reddit for years and never seen Americans claiming we’re number one. Quite the opposite actually. Same here so far. Not sure where you’re hanging out that you’re hearing Americans saying that, but I would argue that it’s a minority view. As far as converting for us, I would say, don’t. The sooner Americans have to go do it themselves, the sooner everyone else in the world can stop caring about it.

What I don’t get is the intensity. I can’t tell if it’s sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you’re not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it’s not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?

Also, as long as people perceive it as a net benefit they’ll put up with all kinds of privacy invasions. Being part of a society is always a tradeoff of certain liberties for certain securities.

Looks like that was someone else. Ooh, can’t escape the sarcasm police…

I can assure you that miles are quite useful for determining distance, I do it nearly every day. Other than that you’re spot on.

I hope you’re right. Something about the scope and type of change we’re seeing here feels quite different. It can be mistake too to assume that things will go the way they usually have. I wouldn’t advise anyone to be complacent. We had to have something close to a second civil war in the US to get things like an 8 hour day.