That’s New Zealand, or Aotearoa if you prefer.

Here in NZ, the self checkout is the preferred option for any amount of shopping. It’s so much quicker and you don’t have to engage in pointless small talk. I just got home from doing some grocery shopping and they had about 10 self checkouts and maybe 2 or 3 human ones that nobody was using.

… and Dinosaurs ruled the earth for about 165 million years and even that is only 3% of the time our planet has been around.

Modern man, including the writers of Gilgamesh, are but a fleeting speck on the history of life on this planet.