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the_hell_you_say t1_j6equh9 wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
Can they detect my hatred for simply being IN a store?
Fast_Dare2041 t1_j6eptkh wrote
Reply to comment by The_Pip in TIL the first traffic signal, erected in London in 1868, was powered by gas. A gas leak caused it to explode a month later. by itsjonzo
Town gas was primarily a 50/50 mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Sometimes, methane was added/created from the gasification process (which increases the energy density) but pure methane wasn’t commonly used until the 50s-60s when, like you said, natural gas began being drilled.
One advantage is that it’s also significantly less toxic than town gas, which is why Sylvia Plath-ing yourself is no longer really a thing.
BigJayPee t1_j6ep722 wrote
Reply to comment by PeachSnappleOhYeah in TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
I worked for a family owned escape room. And I worked for a family owned Ashley furniture franchise.
Your experience was with your own families business. They can't exactly just get rid of you. Being hired on to someone else's family business is something I wouldn't recommend. At the ashley store, I was only there for 10 days (3 days training and 7 selling). I finished with higher sales than all the family members except 1, but I was let go for "low numbers" even though I was 3rd out of 9 sales people my first week on the sales floor.
The escape room, well, the actual owner was hardly ever there, saw him maybe once a month. My issue with them was the training. They had someone train me as I went, but she just kinda showed me as a situation popped up, not beforehand. The owners would show up and just yell at me for something I had no idea was even something I was supposed to do, and neither did the girl training me. I would get in trouble. She wouldn't. Just showed huge amounts of favoritism that never happens at any corporate place I've worked.
I'm sure some are great, hell, I owned a food truck before, and my wife owned a froyo shop before. but I'm not just going to blindly support a small business just because they are small, I need them to provide something that puts them ahead of the larger competition. This is capitalism. Competition is supposed to be a thing.
testhec10ck OP t1_j6eokcl wrote
Reply to comment by meat_popsicle13 in TIL Some sharks will eat their siblings while in the mother's womb. When reproduction is ovoviviparous, that is, fertilized eggs are retained within the body and develop there. Prior to birth, the young in the womb may feed on undeveloped eggs and unborn siblings. by testhec10ck
Unborn killers
meat_popsicle13 t1_j6eo650 wrote
Reply to TIL Some sharks will eat their siblings while in the mother's womb. When reproduction is ovoviviparous, that is, fertilized eggs are retained within the body and develop there. Prior to birth, the young in the womb may feed on undeveloped eggs and unborn siblings. by testhec10ck
Natural born killers
Plug_5 t1_j6eo3fp wrote
Reply to TIL that rapper MF DOOM never attained full US citizenship, despite living in the states for the majority of his life. Because of this, he was forced to live out the rest of his life in UK from 2010, following a “Born Like This” tour, until his death in 2020. by CEDAfwysj
Kinda weird to link an article that speculates about him possibly touring again...?
BrokenEye3 t1_j6enik6 wrote
Reply to comment by Low_Soul_Coal in TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
Fuck those rich assholes and their magic sky castles
BrokenEye3 t1_j6en45x wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
I'll bet the Nestene Consciousness is excited
loquacious706 t1_j6emy07 wrote
Reply to comment by OuttatimepartIII in TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
Yeah, and they could like... Just ask me.
If there was a poll next to the mannequins I would be happy to let them know how I feel. What it generally boils down to is I want longer tops, deeper pockets, and stop cutting random holes in everything. Can their dystopian video surveillance catch all of that?
Landlubber77 t1_j6emafk wrote
Reply to comment by DaveOJ12 in TIL that writer Sylvia Plath, her son Nicholas Hughes and her husband's mistress all died by suicide by Antique-Listen2799
Then I suppose it happening twice is also a first.
guitarnoir t1_j6elj75 wrote
Reply to comment by RealMudflapper in TIL in the 1980s Monty Python got much of its exposure to the US through PBS, because of CBS censoring parts of "The Holy Grail" in a 1977 broadcast. This upset the comedy troupe, prompting them to withdraw the broadcast rights. by AnthillOmbudsman
Me too--late night on PBS in Los Angeles. We nearly went out of our minds to see and hear such a thing on TV.
traws06 t1_j6el8mi wrote
Reply to comment by _thankyoucomeagain_ in TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
There’s very few places on earth where humans don’t live, so hard to decimate find many places “uninhabitable”
Peacemkr45 t1_j6el233 wrote
Reply to TIL that air is a fluid by andreasdagen
Air is not a liquid as a liquid cannot be compressed. Air however can be.
phoenixthekat t1_j6ekx58 wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
We are definitely creating AI that will destroy us one step at a time.
DaveOJ12 t1_j6eks2k wrote
Groundbreaking_War52 t1_j6ekroe wrote
Reply to comment by notallthatrelevant in TIL that the USA once stored nuclear weapons in the Philippines. by Captainmanic
Part of what made that era particularly scary. It was all about building more, bigger warheads while delivery systems were still far from the reliability and accuracy that one would expect.
iBeFloe t1_j6ekiib wrote
Reply to comment by Zonerdrone in TIL that writer Sylvia Plath, her son Nicholas Hughes and her husband's mistress all died by suicide by Antique-Listen2799
Yes, depression can be hereditary, but she had accused him of being violent before her miscarriage & multiple times after to her psychiatrist.
On top of the terrible “therapy treatment” she got, that’s definitely a driving factor in her suicide.
washingtonandmead t1_j6ek679 wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
Good thing fewer people are shopping in brick and mortar stores
iBeFloe t1_j6ek3oj wrote
Reply to comment by Tomek_Hermsgavorden in TIL that writer Sylvia Plath, her son Nicholas Hughes and her husband's mistress all died by suicide by Antique-Listen2799
Anytime
YankeeWalrus OP t1_j6ejwcp wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL on the night of 22-23 July 1945 USN Commander Eugene Fluckey sent a shore party from his submarine USS Barb (SS-220) to sabotage a railroad. The raiders became the only Allied force to invade mainland Japan in the war, and the Barb became the only sub in history with a confirmed kill on a train. by YankeeWalrus
Trains aren't people, hun.
mnfimo t1_j6ejr6i wrote
Reply to TIL China is bigger than the U.S. in terms of land area. The U.S. is also bigger than Canada in terms of land area. by Mewhenthe4
This comment section is intense
fender8421 OP t1_j6ejqlw wrote
Reply to comment by allenout in Today I learned about Bazoul in Burkina Faso, where crocodiles are revered and played with by local children by fender8421
What a weird coincidence
Skaebo t1_j6ejnq4 wrote
Reply to comment by chemicalrefugee in TIL coins in the UK almost always switch the way the monarch is facing with each monarch with King Charles III facing left. by AudibleNod
oh no someone said 'left' and 'right', must be political
notallthatrelevant t1_j6ejn46 wrote
Reply to comment by Groundbreaking_War52 in TIL that the USA once stored nuclear weapons in the Philippines. by Captainmanic
The wild part to me is that a the US missiles in question, the Jupiter series, were sort of dogshit and already outdated when the cuban missile crisis finally rolled around. They were stored above ground which made them easy targets, and they had a minimum response time of 15 minutes so they were pretty useless as retaliatory weapons. I mean at the end of the day it was all about projecting power, but still.
BrokenEye3 t1_j6er6lg wrote
Reply to comment by BigJayPee in TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
Honestly, I hate both