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AARD VARKMAN posted:There's literally only one I can actually think of, and it's as minor a victory as they come in this thread... I've got another, but it might be old. Chicken sandwich chain PDQ got rid of their zucchini fries early on in the pandemic. Easily the best thing on the menu and they just disappeared. Well now they're back. Can't say for sure that I've been to PDQ at all in the last two years or so, but when I went last weekend they had 'em on the menu like normal. Nature is healing.
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Serious_Cyclone posted:And I'm guessing they didn't reduce their prices when they slimmed down the options. Maybe fast food has gotten so expensive that people are finally just not bothering with it and going elsewhere or cooking at home. McDonald's etc. went from a once in a while thing straight to "why on Earth would I do that" when they pumped their prices through the roof. For all I know they've dropped them again, but I never bother to check. Prices will never be lowered.
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withak posted:Prices will never be lowered. That's what makes me shocked that the sub place would revert back to a menu that is more expensive for them (unless maybe they jacked the prices again?). So many businesses went into emergency mode over the pandemic and then saw zero reason to come back out when the emergency was over. It was a filter that stress tested everybody and only the shittiest companies survived it - we had an amazing restaurant that went under because they didn't feel that they could keep everyone safe in their small space even after state/county/city restrictions were lifted, done-in by their own ethics. Meanwhile, ShitSubs is doing its best year because they cut down to 3 menu options and jacked the price 75% over the pandemic and then never stopped.
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GolfHole posted:it is your moral obligation to waste capitalist profits as much as possible This. 
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Serious_Cyclone posted:Maybe fast food has gotten so expensive that people are finally just not bothering with it and going elsewhere or cooking at home. McDonald's etc. went from a once in a while thing straight to "why on Earth would I do that" when they pumped their prices through the roof. For all I know they've dropped them again, but I never bother to check. I hardly ever eat fast food, and holy poo poo is the experience just loving awful now. About a month ago, I was going to visit my dad, and he asked me to pick up an order at Taco Bell for him. He had already ordered and paid online and set a pick up time in the store. I ended up waiting 40 minutes in the lobby for some tacos because as it turns out, the fast food priority list for orders is 1) drive through (because this is the metric that the store's performance is based on almost exclusively), 2) curbside orders (for DoorDash), 3) walk in orders, then 4) pick up orders. I'm not sure it's possible to get your food in under 15 minutes because you're either going into a very long drive through line or you're rolling the dice on whether your online order will get processed at all. Combined with the weird game you have to play with pricing (everything is too expensive and you can only order certain items via the restaurant's app or get coupons via signing up for text promotions), I'm at a loss for why anyone does this on a regular basis. I can order a colossal burger and fries from a local place for less, and I can just call in the order and pick it up when it's supposed to be ready.
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They made Chrome worse. I haven't looked at all the ways it's worse, I just know it is.
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Animal-Mother posted:They made Chrome worse. I haven't looked at all the ways it's worse, I just know it is. I feel like you could empty quote this every three weeks and be pretty accurate.
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Animal-Mother posted:They made Chrome worse. I haven't looked at all the ways it's worse, I just know it is. We've said it 3 or 4 times in this thread, but this is the fate of Chrome and it's not ever gonna get better. Wait until ManifestV3! It's not perfect, and Mozilla is real dumb at times, but Firefox is way less poo poo compared to Chrome these days.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:this is really the worst part for me lmao, how DARE someone take their small child to the grocery store Absolutely agree, you leave them in the loaded gun/knife/dangerous chemical store while you do your grocery shopping. Basic parenting 101. Canine Blues Arooo posted:We've said it 3 or 4 times in this thread, but this is the fate of Chrome and it's not ever gonna get better. Wait until ManifestV3! It's really great that so many things are a question of what you find to be the least poo poo. I've never said to myself "yep I like this laptop enough to get a new one with the same brand". All OSes suck. I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm not thinking of. edit: Just in case anyone is curious Apple (I went through maybe like 3 magsafe power adapters when I was in college) Microsoft/Razer (the speaker grills on the Razer were stickers, that came off and they wouldn't sell me a replacement for but sure I could send my computer in for it... lol) I recall the microsoft laptop had issues too, but they did have a store in the mall so that was nice. Lenovo (assuming the display isn't poo poo like the one I had) Sony/Asus/Samsung/Dell I'm presently on an Asus and I feel like it sucks even more but that may be because it's the one freshest in my mind. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:I hardly ever eat fast food, and holy poo poo is the experience just loving awful now. About a month ago, I was going to visit my dad, and he asked me to pick up an order at Taco Bell for him. He had already ordered and paid online and set a pick up time in the store. I ended up waiting 40 minutes in the lobby for some tacos because as it turns out, the fast food priority list for orders is 1) drive through (because this is the metric that the store's performance is based on almost exclusively), 2) curbside orders (for DoorDash), 3) walk in orders, then 4) pick up orders. Yep. I'm pretty fed up with fast food. The entire reason I'd get it when I was younger is because it was cheap. Now the quality is down, despite everyone saying they're making it better, and the prices are way up. I can get a Big Mac combo for $12 or whatever or get an Italian beef sandwich with fries at my local bar for $10. I tried to look up whatever the Big Mac combo cost near me via the McDonald's website but was presented with this in which I have to download their app or use the other delivery services to just to view their prices.  gently caress you!
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Hell yeah, most consumer behavior is just pretending that you can take an educated guess on whether this or that thing landed on the right side of being the minimal viable product, while knowing deep down you have no way of actually evaluating it and that the are no constants, no trustworthy brands, no reliable advice, everything is in flux, the result of forces you couldn't observe even if you wanted to.
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skooma512 posted:App stuff has proven to be pretty ephemeral as it is too. I had a Fitbit in 2015 because work was just giving them out, and by 2021 the hardware was all poo poo and Google bought them and they are being imploded. Less than 7 years and all that poo poo is e-waste now, and usually within 3 years of purchase anyway. There will be weeks when an app just doesn't work. The Taco Bell app was that way for me, just immediate crash, and they didn't fix it for a week. I tried to get my mom a fitness band that was comparable to fitbit, and the biggest brand is Huawei, which is lol is now under embargo in the west and you can't get their app for a product from a year or two ago. Look into either the Xiaomi Mi Band, or any of the Amazefit watches if you'd prefer a smartwatch-style tracker. I've had both, and the Mi Band is inexpensive, lasts a while, and is everything you need and nothing you don't. https://www.amazon.com/Xiaomi-Version-Fitness-Tracker-Monitoring/dp/B0CGX7VD4X https://www.amazon.com/Amazfit-Fitness-Tracker-Battery-Compatible-Black/dp/B09Z6GMPC6 This is the one i'm currently using. We Got Us A Bread fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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steinrokkan posted:Hell yeah, most consumer behavior is just pretending that you can take an educated guess on whether this or that thing landed on the right side of being the minimal viable product, while knowing deep down you have no way of actually evaluating it and that the are no constants, no trustworthy brands, no reliable advice, everything is in flux, the result of forces you couldn't observe even if you wanted to. Yeah drop shopping really undermines the entire brand trust thing
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Original_Z posted:I was looking at cars the other day, I've always liked Toyota Camries but now apparently a bunch of the functionality is locked behind a stupid app subscription? Are you kidding? Apparently Lexus is the same way, maybe other manufactures too but I didn't check. Things like remote start or using GPS maps you don't just pay a set price now but have to pay a monthly fee. Insanity, and cars are more expensive than ever now! Doesn't it have a button on the keyfob? Where did you get this info? Looks like older models just click lock twice then hold it and it'll remote start. We just bought at Hyundai with app capable of remote start but the keyfob does the same job.
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It's not just drop shipping. If a brand that used to make a decent product gets bought by another entity; if they bring in new management; or if they change anything in their manufacturing, they can and will start selling crap under the previously respected labels, and you won't find out until until experiencing the decline first hand.
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steinrokkan posted:Hell yeah, most consumer behavior is just pretending that you can take an educated guess on whether this or that thing landed on the right side of being the minimal viable product, while knowing deep down you have no way of actually evaluating it and that the are no constants, no trustworthy brands, no reliable advice, everything is in flux, the result of forces you couldn't observe even if you wanted to. [stands up, raises arms] McDonald's!
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I wrote out the framework for a dystopian future novel a while back and in my dystopian future, jobs are mostly gone and people earn their income by watching ads all day, with different corporations paying into the wage pool in the hope of having better ads and drawing proportionally more of that money back to themselvesquote:You wake at 5:30AM to the tenement's morning siren with thirty minutes to get ready for work. After downing a quick bowl of crickets & wheat you retrieve a bucket and sponge from your studio apartment's closet. The sponge is still wet from yesterday's shower, which means you have enough water to wash your hair this time. You carefully extract into the bucket three cups of water from the faucet and strip naked, sponging yourself and making a mental note to buy soap next time you get paid, then run tepid water through your hair while massaging your scalp. You dry yourself using yesterday's clothes and put on an identical outfit from your Tesla auto-closet. Sitting in your bedroom cubicle makes the five monitors positioned throughout your field of view flicker to life and pollute your windowless apartment with a sickly blue glow.
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I've had ideas for dystopian novels/stories, and I've chosen to not record them in any way for fear of bringing a new torment nexus to the world. It sounds narcissistic to lay it out that way, but I stand by my choice
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:We've said it 3 or 4 times in this thread, but this is the fate of Chrome and it's not ever gonna get better. Wait until ManifestV3! quote:Introducing Offscreen Documents, which provide DOM access for extensions to use in a variety of scenarios like audio playback this is the absolute dumbest poo poo I've ever heard of Duck and Cover posted:It's really great that so many things are a question of what you find to be the least poo poo. I've never said to myself "yep I like this laptop enough to get a new one with the same brand". All OSes suck. I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm not thinking of.  the dumbest part of all of that is certain manufacturers have  Good Models where the capitalism stars aligned and the manufacturer built a reliable product. For example, I have a Surface Pro 4, which was highly regarded as the one "good" Surface Pro product. The yearly iterations have mostly sucked poo poo up to the most recent one however, because why put the energy/effort into designing a product that gains market share? Idiots are going to buy Microsoft poo poo no matter what
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I just got my second invite this week to participate in a pre-recorded video job interview where an AI analyzes your eye movements and body language to determine if you're being truthful with your answers. God help you if you have a disability or something
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deep dish peat moss posted:I just got my second invite this week to participate in a pre-recorded video job interview where an AI analyzes your eye movements and body language to determine if you're being truthful with your answers. Come on, give us the address so we can burn it down
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TotalLossBrain posted:Come on, give us the address so we can burn it down This is the service that does the interviews https://www.hirevue.com/
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Also they send you an email full of advice for the interview which is things like buy the best clothes you can possibly afford (it even says this is extra important if you are "of low socioeconomic status" aka not white), pantomime how excited and enthusiastic you are, and set up studio-quality lighting so our AI doesn't make mistakes
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deep dish peat moss posted:I just got my second invite this week to participate in a pre-recorded video job interview where an AI analyzes your eye movements and body language to determine if you're being truthful with your answers. God help you if you have a disability or something Are you applying for a job in security or otherwise sensitive material?
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redshirt posted:Are you applying for a job in security or otherwise sensitive material? Nope these have both been pretty low level positions because I'm desperate Also they only give you 48 hours to do the interview and if you don't do it you get called from a call center in India to do a phone interview instead
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deep dish peat moss posted:Nope these have both been pretty low level positions because I'm desperate You gonna wait or let the AI judge you?
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I waited on the last one and then declined the phone interview but this time I will submit myself to AI Judgment
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Comedy twist, the prospective employer is using Grok for this. The AI roasts you mercilessly immediately after the interview, in cringe Musk style.
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StormDrain posted:Doesn't it have a button on the keyfob? Where did you get this info? Looks like older models just click lock twice then hold it and it'll remote start. We just bought at Hyundai with app capable of remote start but the keyfob does the same job. According to people talking about it online, the keyfob remote start is disabled when the subscription lapses. I'm sure the next step will require a subscription just to do remote door lock/unlock.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I waited on the last one and then declined the phone interview but this time I will submit myself to AI Judgment Good luck, and be nice. The AI might remember when they take over.
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Original_Z posted:According to people talking about it online, the keyfob remote start is disabled when the subscription lapses. I'm sure the next step will require a subscription just to do remote door lock/unlock. This is what we were told, however the Toyota guy said it may not actually disable, depending on unknown circumstances. My wife just plans on paying for the app, but I’m hoping something will change before then. The $10 / mth future is so stupid
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Original_Z posted:According to people talking about it online, the keyfob remote start is disabled when the subscription lapses. I'm sure the next step will require a subscription just to do remote door lock/unlock. Remote start button has been physically removed from Toyota key fobs.
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shazbot posted:Remote start button will be physically removed from Toyota key fobs by a Toyota employee 12 hours after the subscription lapses
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they have $50 remote start kits you can buy, whats the point of a sub for them
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Sentient Data posted:Some remote starts are cell phone network powered, so there's a actual cost associated. The real reason for the car update subscriptions is to And this shifting of costs to premium consumers makes the base models less expensive? Okay that makes sense.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I live where it's just as cold and remote starting is like the laziest cheapest hackiest solution, bad for the car and environment. I can't believe people live where it's cold like that and haven't developed something better. I know "letting the engine warm up" isn't a concern on modern vehicles, but if you try driving off in a cold cabin the moisture from your breath and body has a bad habit of freezing onto the windshield causing visibility issues. Maybe electric cars are better about this since they use resistive heating which can get hot right away rather than waiting for the engine to warm up to the point where its waste heat lets you safely see the road.
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If by modern you mean electric I agree. But if it's a gas or diesel then starting the engine when it's very cold is an issue even on the most modern cars, both from causing excessive wear and environmental perspectives of the engine running cold. Where I live it's even against the law to let the car idle too long.
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