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Okay, as a 77 -year-old female veteran spend a little time in the Marine corps. I had to leave home at 18 because I didn't think I would be able to live in Alabama again and here I am back in Alabama. However, I don't mind the self checkout lanes but they hurt my back and I'm not talking about the scanning. I'm talking about the bag and I hate the bags because it's hard to get them apart when you're stuck together and they're brand new out of the box but I'm old enough to know better that I should take them off of the rack they just got put in and flap them back and forth with the wind so you can put air in the bag. So when you get ready to pull it off to load your craft in it, it'll open peacefully. Now on to the people driving down the road. Try to imagine being a truck driver and you've got a load this approximately 37.40,000 lb on for God sakes. I hope. Ain't going to read this anyway. You're behind a car and that car just has to pass you and when it passes you it goes one block and turns right. You on the break you throw on your jake brake and you pray to God that you're going to stop. They mentioned having trucks that don't have drivers and then somebody laughed and jokes and said well maybe we need robots. Oh the only thing I want that robot to do was unload that trailer. I wouldn't want him to touch the steering wheels or controls the radio or anything but where would he sleep? Would he sleep sitting in the seat or would he demand a bed too? Because he ain't sleeping with me. Anyway, I like what you said. I agreed with everything that you said and I was really surprised that you're basically from Arkansas. That's a wonderful state but I'll get off my bandwagon cuz I got to take my horses and put them in the shed. I enjoy reading and I read everything I can get my hands on and that's virtually

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I worked for a fuel delivery company in Arkansas prior to leaving the state for college and you are *not* wrong about cars thinking you can stop on a dime. It's even worse when it's fuel, water, milk or other liquids, because not only do the liquids flow forward and add to the weight upon throwing the brake, it flows back upon stopping and then flows forward at least twice more. If you're less than a foot from hitting whatever you originally had to throw the brake on for, you're not done with the accident yet. Some drivers are so stupid it must be physically painful for them. 🙄

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I ❤ self-checkout too. I've had to quit using it though. There's a trend in my small city to only accept debit or credit cards in self-checkout lanes and I pay for everything possible in cold, hard cash. Why would I do that when corporations and government have gone out of their way to make debit and credit payments super convenient and quick? I like my privacy, regardless of the fact I probably live the most boring life in modern history.

The U.S. government is trying to introduce CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) and digital ID. They're selling it as easy and convenient but they're not telling you the whole story. CBDC will eventually completely eradicate our cash economy. You will never again be able to buy something without dozens of bureaucrats knowing what, when, why and how you bought it and being able to tax you for everything you do, pay and buy with pinpoint precision. You won't be able to give the homeless vet on the corner a few bucks or a handful of change to buy him some lunch. The government can freeze your assets *completely* for any reason or for no reason whatsoever.

When I speak to people about this, many roll their eyes and say I'm a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Really? Where were you from March 2020 through a few months ago when the government closed your church, school and business, censored you and top medical professionals who questioned the safety and efficacy of the mRNA shots, forced you to inject that experimental drug or lose your job and mandated you breathe through a filthy cloth which, at best, was useless and, at worst, was harmful (see: Cochrane Study)?

The Founding Fathers would have been shooting by now, so yeah, I love self-checkouts, but I have questions.

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Leslie not as boring as me. Loved your comments

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They have baffled the trailer now.

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