Gregory's Server@CiaraNi enjoying reading this thread, it's like off-person/online. I was grateful yesterday to have an experience that would break big companies enshittified minds though. Charity shopping (op shop/thrifting) for a final Christmas present book, specific genre, went straight to the perfect book in *that* shop that always comes good. Got to the counter and she says her tills out and card machines out, cash only please....
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@EmmaBirkett Nice example of the kind of interactions we're removing from daily culture. 'Computer says no' versus 'Human using social judgment says 'yes, here's a way to do this by social agreement'. |
@CiaraNi ...Now, me, already being deep in the system have only brought a phone to pay with and can't get cash out via a phone swipe uh oh. She checks the price and says "take it for free bring the money later". Yes to humanity!!!! Now she's made a perfect gamble there, either I don't come back and she's made someone's Christmas, or I come back with the money, plus a tip donation for the charity. A computer system would never say yes to this.