|
FMguru posted:Cake-eating, but not the r\cakeeater kind: Party sub guy has finally found his dream woman
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:15 |
|
|
# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:33 |
|
AITA for ignoring my husband during our flight when he expressed anxiety over flying?quote:I [33F] recently married my husband [30M] and we took a 3 hour flight to Mexico for our honeymoon.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:21 |
|
Shanghaied posted:AITA for ignoring my husband during our flight when he expressed anxiety over flying? Throw the whole man away and start again.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:24 |
|
Shanghaied posted:AITA for ignoring my husband during our flight when he expressed anxiety over flying? I'm surprised the airline separated the child from his guardian.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:25 |
|
I can say that not having paper menus in restaurants is a pain in the neck if they don't have wifi and you're visiting from another country so getting your phone out and turning on data means paying $TEXAS in roaming charges. I assume Disney has the wifi, though.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:26 |
|
This is like when my kid yells at his mom to get out and then when she leaves the room he yells no come back!
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:27 |
|
I went to a restaurant without menues once and they told me to get up and scan a QR code by the door. I don't have a QR code reader so I just left.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:30 |
|
I have a rant about QR code menus that will make you beg for death bc IMO they're another way to quietly filter by class. If your menu can only be viewed by people with cell phones, it means no one without that level of technological access will be able eat at your establishment. But it's not the just-scrapin-by employees' faults that their bosses have implemented terrible policies and yelling at the workers just makes you come off like this: https://youtu.be/wjnLYuezGm0 StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Apr 18, 2024 |
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:42 |
|
StrangersInTheNight posted:I have a rant about QR code menus that will make you beg for death bc IMO they're another way to quietly filter by class. If your menu can only be viewed by people with cell phones, it means no one without that level of technological access will be able eat at your establishment.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:44 |
|
edgeman83 posted:My favorite part of all of this is how in the comments they say how they themselves can't eat an entire bowlful and it took a while to build up a tolerance for more than a single spoonful. The whole thing seems really intentional. Anything to get the taste out of their mouths, I guess
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:47 |
|
John Wick of Dogs posted:This is like when my kid yells at his mom to get out and then when she leaves the room he yells no come back! Did you mean to type cat?
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:47 |
|
AITA for walking out of my girlfriend's birthday party after she called me a "cheapscate" for the gift I gave her?quote:My girlfriend (26F) recently celebrated her birthday, and I (28M) wanted to make it special. I spent a lot of time thinking about what to get her and decided on a personalized photo album with pictures of our time together over the last few years. I also wrote her a heartfelt letter expressing my love for her and detailing how much she means to me. yikes
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:49 |
|
mystes posted:I'm having trouble believing that requiring cellphones is much of a class filter in 2024. Cell phones, yes, smart phones, no. There's still a decent percentage of the population without those. QR menus basically do double duty in that they ensure that a houseless person can't just walk up and order from the menu. If the restaurant has gone full digital and requires app payment, then that also means such a person can't pay with cash on-hand. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Apr 18, 2024 |
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:52 |
|
Big Bowie Bonanza posted:AITA for walking out of my girlfriend's birthday party after she called me a "cheapscate" for the gift I gave her?
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:55 |
|
StrangersInTheNight posted:Cell phones, yes, smart phones, no. There's still a decent percentage of the population without those. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/how-many-americans-own-a-smartphone.html only 92% of americans have one
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:55 |
|
There are still some people who don't own smartphones, but I don't think the difference is by class; it's by age. If you think the intent is to prevent elderly people from using the restaurant then maybe you have a point, but saying it's filtering by class makes no sense. Essentially everyone under the age of 50 has a smartphone but a significant percentage of people over 50 don't. https://www.statista.com/statistics/489255/percentage-of-us-smartphone-owners-by-age-group/ This is not suprising because once you consider deprecation of older cellular standards resulting in people being forced to upgrade, you have to actively go out of your way to have a non-smartphone cellphone now, and they are typically not any cheaper (they are now a niche product that exists only for older people who don't know how to use smartphones), so it's not really a "class" thing. mystes fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Apr 18, 2024 |
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:56 |
|
Big Bowie Bonanza posted:AITA for walking out of my girlfriend's birthday party after she called me a "cheapscate" for the gift I gave her? That's a pretty narcissistic birthday present tbh. "Here's a picture book full of the most important thing in your life, your experiences with your favorite president(ME!!!)" That's a nice gift in other contexts, like to go along with an anniversary or Valentine's it just because, but not a good standalone gift
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:57 |
|
i don't know if it's on the level of full blown narcissism but i do agree there's better occasions on which to give a gift like that
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 16:58 |
|
Big Bowie Bonanza posted:https://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_phones/how-many-americans-own-a-smartphone.html Yeah, that's a full 8% of the population, or roughly 27 million American people who would be unable to use restaurants if they all went QR code It's taking aim at the lowest class of Americans and saying you can't even afford to live in our culture anymore, you should not be allowed to even eat with us, get hosed, and that's some messed up poo poo. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Apr 18, 2024 |
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:00 |
|
I said pretty narcissistic, I meant to say "a little" narcissistic. Not a lot.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:02 |
|
StrangersInTheNight posted:Yeah, that's a full 8% of the population, or roughly 27 million American people who would be unable to use restaurants if they all went QR code But they're not all QR code only and the vast majority of restaurants that have QR code menus have regular menus as well, or at least a menu visible at the front. There is not a grand conspiracy to keep homeless people from eating in restaurants via QR codes
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:05 |
|
Sex Farm posted:But they're not all QR code only and the vast majority of restaurants that have QR code menus have regular menus as well, or at least a menu visible at the front. There is not a grand conspiracy to keep homeless people from eating in restaurants via QR codes Yeah this, a lot of the restaurants in my area have QR code stuff but they all have physical menus if you ask for them.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:07 |
|
Of course not, I didn't say they all were, just that that's how many people would be unable to use restaurants should they go QR only, because people massively underestimate how many people still don't have smart phones in the US. And no it's not a grand conspiracy in that everyone is saying tee-hee we want to exclude the houseless, it's more of the same sort of group blind spot happening right here and right now where someone wants to argue QR codes aren't an access issue/won't become one in the near future because they don't realize how many people still don't have the same level of tech access they do. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Apr 18, 2024 |
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:09 |
|
mystes posted:I'm having trouble believing that requiring cellphones is much of a class filter in 2024. Ok but 1. Your cellphone has to be a smartphone 2. It has to have battery left 3. The camera must not be broken 4. You have to be tech-literate enough to do the loving QR thing All these things together make QR-code based restaurant pretty dang impractical. And for example I dont have a qr-code reader app installed on my phone, and I guess Im a boomer but if a restaurant or a store requires me to install a new app to proceed, Im probably going to hit da bricks
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:12 |
|
Y'all should come to Sweden, where even homeless people have signs with QR codes for cashless payment.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:13 |
|
The Alchemist posted:I dont have a qr-code reader app installed on my phone I can't find current numbers but a study from 2017 found that 94% of homeless people owned cellphones and more than half owned smartphones. I would imagine that most now have smartphones because, again, thanks to older cellular technologies being deprecated, you now have to actively go out of your way to find a non-smartphone that still works Again, requiring QR codes would absolutely filter out elderly people, it just wouldn't make sense as a way to intentionally filter out people by class as the original comment was implying. mystes fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Apr 18, 2024 |
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:14 |
|
artsy fartsy posted:AITA for leaving my boyfriend at the airport after he “pranked” the TSA with a dildo? Glenn Milstead (stage name Divine) used to smuggle drugs through the airport by putting them directly under the anatomically accurate "prosthetics" he wore for shows and movies. Anyone searching his luggage would open the suitcase, see the prosthetics, and slam the top closed immediately. From AAM: our employee retired … but now she won’t leave quote:Our employee, “Fiona,” decided to semi-retire after 20 years of working with us. She asked to reduce her hours and work mostly from home, which was approved. Since the start of her official semi-retirement date, however, she still comes to work almost full-time. Fiona hasn’t asked to go back to her full-time salary and would likely decline even if this was offered. She said she hates being at home and prefers to come into the office. I think she’s working at a slow pace and tending to non-urgent tasks. Update: quote:To summarize what happened after my letter was published:
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:14 |
|
mystes posted:Yes you do Thats it Im going to Wendy's, and you bet Im going to tell the cashier all about this poo poo
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:16 |
|
The Alchemist posted:Ok but 1. Your cellphone has to be a smartphone 2. It has to have battery left 3. The camera must not be broken 4. You have to be tech-literate enough to do the loving QR thing You don't need a QR app, you just point your camera in the camera app and the link will appear on your screen. On any Android I've used in the last four years anyway, I don't know about iOS
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:17 |
|
StrangersInTheNight posted:Of course not, I didn't say they all were, just that that's how many people would be unable to use restaurants should they go QR only, because people massively underestimate how many people still don't have smart phones in the US. Yeah but you're describing something that isn't happening on an even slightly widespread level so I'm not sure what your point is, just the possibility of that happening would be bad? In which case yeah I agree
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:17 |
|
John Wick of Dogs posted:You don't need a QR app, you just point your camera in the camera app and the link will appear on your screen. On any Android I've used in the last four years anyway, I don't know about iOS Which brings me to the point number 4 in my previous post.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:19 |
|
John Wick of Dogs posted:You don't need a QR app, you just point your camera in the camera app and the link will appear on your screen. On any Android I've used in the last four years anyway, I don't know about iOS works the same way on ios
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:22 |
|
The Alchemist posted:Which brings me to the point number 4 in my previous post. I think there's something to be said for acceptable minimum expectations. Like is it unfair that many restaurant menus have English words on them you have to read instead of just pictures of all the food that you can point to while grunting in a positive or negative way
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:25 |
|
it costs $30 vs $20 at walmart to get a tracphone that can use qr codes instead of a dumb phone i think we will all be ok
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:29 |
|
Sex Farm posted:Yeah but you're describing something that isn't happening on an even slightly widespread level so I'm not sure what your point is, just the possibility of that happening would be bad? In which case yeah I agree My initial post was how QR codes ultimately become a class filter because not everyone has access to that level of technology. I did not say it was happening everywhere, although eventually it likely will. it's not an issue for you, that doesn't mean it isn't a serious issue for the large amount of people it affects. just like needing a car to live in the US is a prerequisite that causes trouble and class divides, soon everyone will simply need a smartphone to be considered a valid part of society, and our view will be that anyone who falls outside of that standard is unimportant to the conversation. it's already happening now, in this very discussion. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Apr 18, 2024 |
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:29 |
|
The Alchemist posted:Which brings me to the point number 4 in my previous post. I mean I don't know, I think it's fine to demand a certain level of tech literacy from people for living in society, not that I necessarily think that level is smartphones. When I worked in a hardware store, I regularly met people who don't know the difference between AA and AAA batteries, a tech standard that was more a century old at that point. A colleague bought a house close to a nuclear power plant recently, and all the residents in that area get a free emergency radio so they can listen to emergency broadcasts in case something goes down at the power plant. Like yeah, you're hosed if you can't work a radio.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:34 |
|
lol it doesnt affect a large amount of people, it potentially affects 8% of the US population, many of whom don't own a cellphone out of choice let alone eat at QR code restaurants in the scary city. this isnt a class issue anymore, this isn't really a thing anymore. And when Meemaw and Peepaw finally come out of the holler to buy a sandwich I'm sure someone will be able to help them
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:38 |
|
StrangersInTheNight posted:My initial post was how QR codes ultimately become a class filter because not everyone has access to that level of technology. I did not say it was happening everywhere, although eventually it likely will. So the part where like, nearly everyone has a smartphone already and that the smart vs dumbphone divide is mostly along age lines and not class lines just kinda glanced off you?
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:39 |
|
i used to live in the absolute poorest part of phoenix arizona and even undocumented immigrants who couldn't even get a job that didn't pay them cents on the dollar had a smartphone so they could use whatsapp to talk to family back in mexico. it isn't the people strangers thinks it is.
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:41 |
|
|
# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:33 |
|
QR code menus suck in a kind of Andy Rooney way but saying that they're any kind of significant class barrier to eating out in comparison to skyrocketing restaurant prices is a lol
|
# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:41 |