So where’s the part about these companies forcing restaurants to use their services (as stated in the headline)? What you describe here is customers using the service, not the restaurants.

Fully agree, on both points.

That you may be incapable of being present and aware and giving someone your full time and attention for the amount of time required to place an order at a coffee shop just because you have one airpod in one ear doesn’t mean anyone else is. 

Oh, I don't mean to imply in any way that a disabled vet can't hold a job in healthcare - just ridiculing his appeal-to-authority claims...

“Meh doesn’t matter what you believe or not.”

“I understand policies that maximize the odds that any individual is not listening. Because people who don’t listen end up complaining, and that can cost you more money in the long run.”

Lol - that Vishal person claims to have been working in health care for 8 years now AND to also be an “actual disabled vet.” I’m half-expecting them to claim to be a descendant of Hellen Keller and Edward Jenner.

I never said anyone should get upset about anything - but thank you for confirming that you do not, in fact, work in health care.

Someone who works in healthcare should understand why a person might not want to divulge information regarding their personal medical conditions / issues in public to cashiers. Why anyone chooses a specific-design medical device is nobody’s business but theirs (and those they choose to share it with) - regardless of…

“The idea that an earbud should be treated like a sensitive medical device was a bullshit argument. Let’s not pretend otherwise.”

Again, the expectation is clearly implied; Gargasmel is putting the onus on the wearer to tell others about their private medical issue, which is what ElectricSheep was responding to. And uless the wearer / custome is distracted due to wearing the single airpod and holding up the interaction / line, there is no issue t…

Well, (in my observation) McBride does tend to play absurd, arrogant, loathsome, pathetic characters - so it seems like a good fit to me.

No it isn’t. This is the comment ElectricSheep was responding to:

The viewpoint of the cashier regarding any individual customer should be based on the behavior of that individual customer, not the behavior of other people who are not that customer.

This is a straw-man argument; ElectricSheep wasn’t commenting about someone mistaking a hearing aid for a headphone, they were commenting about the idea of making people announce their private medical issues. 

“If you have the urge to be a self-important asshole...”

“[The cashier has] feelings and hopes and dreams and aspirations.”

No.

Inconsiderate to whom? Nobody is obligated to re-sell their books. Even libraries destroy / recycle / dispose of books that are in perfectly fine condition.