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9 February 2025 - Daily Drawing Day 40 #20252025Challenge I started reading Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma back in 2008 when I was an exchange student in Japan, having previously loved Azumanga Daioh. It was a great language and culture learning tool, since most characters end up explaining to Yotsuba things that are going on. #Fanbruary #Yotsuba #KiyohikoAzuma #Fanart #ファンブラリー #よつばと #あずまきよひこ #Yotsuba&! #Yotsuba& #SelfService #SelfCheckout #YotsubaKoiwai #Juralumin #よつば #よつばと! #セルフチェックアウト機 #セルフ・レジ #小岩井よつば #ジュラルミン Time lapse on YouTube Shorts: https://youtube.com/shorts/t-pzMDE-SEs Watch the time lapse video of this drawing on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darlosworld/video/7474776411455229185 See the latest at https://darlosworld.bsky.social The 2025 20-25 Challenge. This year let's get better at something by finding a little practice time most days, in my case drawing. - Do your activity for at least 25 minutes, at least 25 days per month. - Use the hashtag #20252025Challenge on social media etc to track your progress - Also use the hashtag to cheer on others. That's about it! Have fun with your activities, whatever they may be! Drawing, programming, dancing, cooking, make up, reading, languages, gardening, mastering high fives, sewing, astrophysics, vcr clock setting ... #challengeyourself #challenge #Drawing #drawings #illustration #newyearsresolution #25minutes #xppen #clipstudiopaint #dailydrawing #イラスト #クリップスタジオ #絵 #絵画 #絵描きさんと繋がりたい #drawingoftheday #一日一絵 #art #digitalart #oc #一次創作 Image Alt Text: Fan art drawing of Yotsuba Koiwai trying to scan Juralumin, a teddy bear, through the self scan checkout at a shop. Socials: Website - https://www.darlosworld.co.uk BlueSky - https://darlosworld.bsky.social Cara - https://cara.app/darlo PixedFed - https://pixelfed.social/darlo YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@thatdarlo TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@darlosworld Linktree - https://linktr.ee/darlosworld Carrd - https://darlo.carrd.co Instagram (Exists, but no longer updated with complete posts) - https://www.instagram.com/darlosworld Twitter (Exists, but no longer updated) - https://twitter.com/darlosworld

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The Economics Of Self Service

You are probably seeing a lot more self service checkouts when you go to the supermarket, airport, banks, and other stores. What are the economics of self service? First up, there are less jobs for human beings in your community because the machines are taking their employment. So, if you care about this fact it is a good idea to take note of this. The next economic question is whether you are saving money because you are now doing the work of what used to be done by a checkout operator paid by the store? There is no guarantee of this and I have seen no dedicated savings based on this in my own experience. “Whether these new technologies replace jobs, relegate existing positions to non-public facing roles or create new employment opportunities, they will result in us interacting with fewer people than we have historically.” (https://theconversation.com/a-rise-in-self-service-technologies-may-cause-a-decline-in-our-sense-of-community-201339)

The Exploitation Of Your Unpaid Labour

Personally, I prefer to use the self service checkout at ALDI, simply because I like to be doing stuff rather than standing their waiting. I am sure there are a bunch of people like me in this regard. However, the trend toward self service checkouts without a clearly defined discount is dishonest business in my view. I wonder when dumb human beings are going to wake up to this scam love affair with technology. This is an exploitation of unpaid labour, which CFOs at big corporations are enamoured of.

The Economics Of Corporate Concentration The over concentration of corporate ownership into too few hands, which is occurring around the world right now is accelerating the automation of services. AI is pushed by PR companies as the greatest thing since the commodification of sex. Human beings are leaving the scene enmasse so that bean counters can save money. Installing a machine or a programme is the popular solution to everything. Obviously, jobs are going and some sort of massive readjustment is going to have to happen.

the economics of self service Workers & Consumers Are Being Shafted The economics of self service is seen as the answer to many previously labour intensive sectors. The economics add up for the shareholders and corporate executive but not for us consumers. In the past, this would matter because consumers used to be king. Now, however, due to the rise of duopolies and oligopolies consumers no longer have buying power. These companies can set the prices because of the lack of competition in the market. Capitalism and the free market economy have been manipulated by these huge companies to the detriment of consumers. The monopolisation of sectors destroys the basis upon which we depend upon for our economies to work for us. Basically, we are being screwed by private enterprise. Putting more and more power into the hands of these businesses is only going to make things worse. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt & Financial Freedom. ©WordsForWeb Read the full article

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KATE MOSS — FOR SELF SERVICE MAGAZINE N°55, 2021. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMIE HAWKESWORTH.

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Grace Hartzel by Bryan Liston for Self Service Issue 51

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Some self service ~ ♡

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So this is the day someone thought I was an employee in a Asian restaurant. I don't know if it was because of the black shirt, my look, my hair or my eyeliner or idk, but I am not Asian 😐 - I was so confused but I actually worked a lot in food service and I can tell this person was acting rude. What I heard was actually "so when will you do your job uh?" I was really happy to be a simple customer so she could feel embarrassed of her behavior! Oh and she didn't even apologize. Some people should really work in this kind of places once in there lives, to learn how to be humble 🙄 __________________________________ ⛔If you don't give proper credits, do not repost my work⛔ __________________________________ Please ignore tags : #comic #life #mymife #sliceoflife #truestory #drawing #funny #lol #asianfood #food #asian #restaurant #chinesefood #thaifood #humble #mistake #foodservice #selfservice #annoying #wtf #what https://www.instagram.com/p/BuvghvLBDOF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uogmklsntk6u