While I wait patiently and excitedly for the rise of the machines when hopefully John Conner will call on me to fight for the resistance I'm routinely reminded the moment Skynet comes online and becomes self aware isn't going to happen for any other reason than human error. In fact it isn't going to happen unless the machines skip ahead a few film franchises and plug everyone into the Matrix. People gradually plugging themselves into digital dependency has all but converted them into human batteries powering the machines intravenously feeding them a simulation. Anyone shopping exclusively online is missing out on all the original ideas for content creation the real freely offers up. I mean if you aren't losing the majority of your mental faculties shopping for groceries on a month end weekend then what are you doing with your life?
I detest shopping, too many people spelunking around intricate networks of retail caverns. It's an evil, not necessarily a necessary one. All the same my family shopping party of three stood at the check-out counter handling purchased groceries for the cashier to scan through the POS system.
'Do you have a two socket plug connected?'
The manager could be heard asking each cashier in turn as she moved along the lane of till points stopping, checking and removing the electrical connector if located before moving on to the next till point. As creeping death she neared our till point where the cashier, midway through transaction was attempting to manual capture a stubborn barcode refusing to be item scanned. Question asked, stopped alongside till, checked and located, removed and...
Nothing. The monitor went blank. Panic stayed the staff, I stayed my laughter. Systematically pressing buttons, flipping switches, jiggling cabling like an awkwardly choreographed interpretation dance. It took ten minutes of apologizing to resurrect the computer from the monitor stating NO CONNECTION FOUND. CHECK CABLE.
'Did you try turning it off and turning it back again?'
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