I’m not saying they couldn’t be better. I’m saying that most range anxiety comes from people thinking of EVs like tanks that need to be filled from a special place, when they can actually be charged basically anywhere.

This is a blog post. The link was merely shared here by OP.

True. They’re also owned by the NZ government, actually.

It’s a bank owned by the New Zealand government, so if you’re not based in New Zealand, that’s not a surprise.

I mean, that’s why William Willett proposed DST in the first place, so it tracks.

Yes. Because with an EV you live at the gas station.

People need to stop thinking about EVs like cars that need to be fueled. They’re more like phones that need to be charged.

Fyi, if you didn’t know: Shift + Right Click in Firefox always brings up the context menu, even if JavaScript tries to block it.

Tricky to make that work in the (moneyless) Federation. Maybe the Enterprise gives a Whateverian ship asylum against the Ferengi just inside Federation borders, and then the Nagus (Wallace Shawn’s Nagus, of course, I can’t imagine that Rom would do such a thing) demands that they extradite the Whateverians to face prosecution for theft. An investigation ensues, and it turns out that they didn’t actually take anything physical, they just pirated a replicator pattern for the Whateva root, the root of an extinct plant which the people of Whatever III desperately need and are running out of. So now Picard has to figure out how to not cause an interplanetary patent incident and still make sure that the Whateverians get what they need.

The B-plot is pretty solid, though. That can basically stay as-is.

I suppose.

Most of this ended up in a landfill.

Or given away, or taken to parties, or whatever.

Or this might all be fake. Who knows.

Cheetos basically never expire, so as long as he keeps those bags sealed, he now owns a lifetime supply.

Comedy writers are incredibly smart people. It takes real brains to make something of sufficient absurdity that still manages to make enough sense to be a valid cultural commentary. The smartest man in the king’s court is the jester.

Yep. And sometimes it’s particularly costly for them, where the service charges them more than their margin for the delivery fee. This stuff can actually lose them money. Always order from the restaurant directly when you can.

If you actually read what you were criticizing, you’d know that I wasn’t defending AI usage. It’s objectively one of the most awful part of modern society, third only to, like, fossil fuels and fascism. I am absolutely not defending AI, and you sound foolish suggesting that I was. The fact that there are AI images of food on this menu is objectively and incontrovertibly a bad thing. I’m saying that you’re targeting the wrong person for its use.

Translation: “You’re right but I don’t have a logical rebuttal so I’m going to pretend to be dismissive in hopes that it comes across as me winning.”

You’re just as unbearable as the AI bros who caused this whole mess. “All AI misuse is the fault of the person whose name appears closest to it! Certainly such a narrow view will never come back to bite me!” Get off your soapbox and actually try to help instead of screaming about people who don’t even know that what they’re doing is wrong.

lol, this isn’t an ad. This is a page on their menu clearly several scrolls deep on an online ordering site they don’t control. Regardless of who you are, this is hard to find unless you’re looking for it. And when you add on top that the owner of every single local restaurant I’ve ever met has been some version of overworked by everything that directly affects their ability to pay rent, calling them a bad manager for not caring about something that doesn’t is absolutely insane.

Regardless of what his teaching or capabilities are or were, he’s definitely in steep decline mentally now.

Still not gonna use a slur to describe it, though.

Ah yes. The 50-year-old, likely immigrant, small business owner of the local chip shop, who basically wakes up in the morning, spends four hours fighting with suppliers and dealing with payroll, goes in to work at noon and stays until midnight because half her staff called off, and is constantly about £5 away from going out of business, she’s a bad manager. Her nephew offered to set up Doordash for her, but then he went off to university last year, and then a few months ago she added a Large size of the Cheesy Chips and Cheesy Chips with Curry Sauce, but she couldn’t figure out how to upload the image and didn’t know that the app would just make one for her, but it’s her fault that the images are AI. She sees ads everywhere that say that AI is amazing and perfect and spends negative minutes per week on Lemmy and the news and the internet in general so she doesn’t know all of the problems with AI, so when someone points out that there are AI images on her menu and she says “huh, neat,” that’s her problem.

Being a scold against AI use is one thing when it’s a software engineer or graphic designer who should know better, and it’s totally fair for tech bros who do know better, but for complete normies this is a ludicrous complaint. I’m so frustrated by this inane binary purity test. You want to make things better? Don’t scold or say “bad manager,” educate people. The problem is Sam Altman of OpenAI, not Ashok Kumari of the London East Side Chip Castle.

True, but we figured out how to deal with the epistemiology in a world with Photoshop; I think we can probably figure it out with generative AI, too.

One thing I’ve noticed (in education and technology, since that’s where I spend most of my time) is that a lot of times the things that make things better for people with disabilities also make things better for people without disabilities, so I think your perspective is something that companies could take on as a means of making their product better for everyone.

I have a friend who’s colorblind (protanopia, I think?); hilariously, he’s married to an artist whose style inovolves subtle differences between colors, but anyway, I do often have the problem where I’ll be showing him something and he’ll have to tell me “I can’t see that.” Most often it’s red text on black, I think. I’ve thought a lot of times that, hey, the stuff you have trouble seeing is also stuff that’s less clear for me, too. And as computer-literate people keep getting older, fixing that is going to become more and more important.

All that to say, I read it all and I think you’re absolutely right. The backlash to Apple’s Liquid Glass should’ve been a wakeup call.

I would bet the restaurant isn’t responsible for the AI images. More likely the restaurant didn’t upload images and the app “helpfully” generated an image for them. The owners of the restaurant probably either have no idea that this happened or have bigger things to worry about.