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Comment by beej71

2 months ago

My dad (retired philosophy and ethics instructor) once told me, "Today the self-checkout computer thanked me for shopping there. Do you think it was being sincere?"

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Breza  2 months ago

I think language will shift over time to the point where "Thank you" comes to mean "Go away." That's how the self checkout means it.

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