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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For us on a mental break...down, having delivery available is our chance at a decent dinner. Yes its expensive but im paying for not having to spend an hour making the dinner and not having to sit in a restaurant waiting for a to-go meal and not having to interact with people. Neither which I would do anyway. Its better than staring hungry at the ceiling but too depressed to do anything about it so when I finally is so hungry I can't even sleep I go out to a night-open kiosk and buy myself a bag of potato chips and some soda or a frozen pizza.

Well, that was a very specific example for why the post-covid app delivery trend is awesome. Before it the only delivery was pizza around here.

Though I do wish there was more variation. Restaurants are too city-district grouped. Within my delivery area (where I can still get a meal still hot and not pay extra), Torshov in Oslo, there is mostly burgers, kebabs, thai, and sushi food restaurants. Fish meals, italian, or sandwiches needs to be shipped from centrum. Norwegian-food style restaurants don't do delivery. Not that I'm complaining, I'm just suggesting improvements to some strangers on the web that can do nothing about it. ๐Ÿซค

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Theres a small problem with this: Fewer young workers to care for all the childless old people.

Or so they say.. I don't know, sounds like a problem we would have to deal with eventually anyway as earth population growth slows and average life span grows. Doesn't help that healthcare workers are underpaid and medicine is overpriced, I'm sure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, sex scene and sex jokes was a bit surprising, compared to how tame Bethesda games are on stuff like that. Well, at least the unmodded ones.

But didn't scare me away after first episode either. Looks promising.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I doubt it. But I want to know too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So is the Buffet Pass worth getting? I heard the Dead Meat meal is rather dry without it, but it nearly doubles the price of the meal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've never encountered the dark pattern choice in modern software where you want to say "No" but theres no such option? And the software keeps asking you occasionally? Windows got a lot of them. Lately they've been trying to get me to move my documents folder to onedrive, and they change the wording and button position every time they ask. Neither choice is "No". Phone social apps often have "Invite friends" or "Import contacts", and "Maybe later" instead of "No". Cookie consent rarely has a straight "No" button either even though they should.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could series back then afford to run more than two seasons? Like every tv channel I've ever had access to only bought the two first seasons then re-ran them over and over and over again, in random order. I was never able to finish a series until internet became popular.

[โ€“] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • You arent allowed to bring any food home. In fact the server stays by your table, uncomfortable close, and watches you to make sure none of the food you've already paid for is "stolen".
  • The restaurant reserves the right to ban anyone not following rules. They do not need to tell you which rule you broke. Also the rules are secret. They frequently brag to media about how many "rule-breakers" they've banned.
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

14? They've jumped from 2 to 14?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They can. But theres a reasonable level of trust that a security feed has been kept secure and not tampered with by the owner if he doesnt have a motive. But what if not even the owner know that somewhere in their tech chain, maybe the camera, maybe the screen, maybe the storage device, maybe all 3, the image was "improved". No evidence of tampering. We'll have the police blaming Count Rugen for a bank robbery he didnt do, but the camera clearly shows a six fingered man!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That it is always around. Just hanging there in the sky. That we've spent so many nights together. But I guess it is in a way a long-distance relationship. Also its just a pale reflection of the sun. A rocky relationship, in many ways.

[โ€“] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (28 children)

How long until we got upscalers of various sorts built into tech that shouldn't have it? For bandwidth reduction, for storage compression, or cost savings. Can we trust what we capture with a digital camera, when companies replace a low quality image of the moon with a professionally taken picture, at capture time? Can sport replays be trusted when the ball is upscaled inside the judges' screens? Cheap security cams with "enhanced night vision" might get somebody jailed.

I love the AI tech. But its future worries me.

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