Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on AI-generated search result descriptions 4 days ago:
Jesus Christ. Enshittification because of “AI” is getting out of hand.
If this isn’t happening in other search engines, then DDG is likely doing it, which would be awful as it neuters the point of showing snippets for search results.
- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 5 days ago:
This article makes me want to vomit. Like blaming people who are forced to work multiple jobs to survive and treating them like criminals.
Fuck you. These aren’t billionaires hoarding wealth, they are people who can’t afford school, a place to live, or their next meal. If one job can’t support them, then they’ll take five!
Even if the work is getting done, Maleh says employers care because:
It creates trust issues: If you’re hiding this, what else are you hiding?
Even if the work is getting done, eh? These are the same employers who underpay and want to spy on their workers as if they were prison inmates, right?
Fuck you twice!
- Comment on Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes 6 days ago:
And I will still continue to point out that places which have the most traffic congestion, like highways, also do NOT have bike lanes in them.
Strange how that happens, eh?
You’d think that without bike lanes, 18 lanes for cars, no pedestrians “jaywalking”, no stop signs or stop lights, “go as fast as you want” speed limits, and no speed bumps that you’d NEVER see congestion. But then reality kicks you in the balls.
- Comment on What water bottles are completely free from the problem of weird chipping/shavings of the material which could put material in the water, even when dropping it or when using Bottle Bright tablets? 1 week ago:
I have never encountered a water bottle getting chipped or leaving shavings.
I’ve heard of people complain that steel bottles that use steel tops “scrape” together when you are using the lids, and that can cause metal particles to shed into the water.
That’s one of the reasons why most steel bottles have plastic lids.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 2 weeks ago:
Wipe your ass with that.
As demonstrated in Montreal, Toronto, Paris (France), Netherlands (pick any city), Berlin, San Francisco, and every other place that takes transportation seriously, you have to degrow car-centric infrastructure to build people moving infrastructure, including bike lanes.
The growing urban population needs to find more sustainable ways to get around, because you can never satisfy car-centric infrastructure. “One more lane, bro” isn’t an actual solution to anything.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 4 weeks ago:
300 million people can’t have a single fucking day off every once in a while because it will “cost billions”, while less than 10 people are hoarding over a TRILLION in wealth.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 4 weeks ago:
Oh, it will happen.
And when will he force every home and business to have a portrait of himself on the walls? Because, that will probably happen, too.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 4 weeks ago:
They are all over here, specifically at crossings that join MUPs (Multi Use Paths).
But they have made some areas more dangerous because of drivers who don’t stop behind the line. A pedestrian walking slowly might not be hit, but a cyclist going bike speed is at far greater risk of “not being seeing”.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 4 weeks ago:
be PREDICTABLE
This is why I strongly support banning on-street parking. Cars that randomly park on the side of the road, big, small, tall, some too far out, some blocking signs, some creating blind spots… they just create unpredictability and randomness for other road users.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
… someone stopped in the roundabout to let a car in.
I wish more people realized how dangerous some nice acts can be.
I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone might wave me on in situations where it really isn’t appropriate or safe, so I have to basically yell at them to continue.
The last thing I want is for a driver with good intentions to be rear ended, and me getting hit. Three people’s day would be ruined, at the very least.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
I turned around and gave him the “what the fuck” hands and gestured at the stop sign, and this mother fucker looked at me like I fucked up.
Not long ago, I was going through an intersection on a green… from one bike lane, continuing into the other on the other side of the intersection.
While I had a green, a driver making a left nearly ran into me, honked and did the same “what the fuck are you doing” to me.
It’s pretty amazing that we don’t hear of crashes every minute of the day, because some people quite literally have no idea what the hell they are doing.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, maybe they didn’t know cross rides were a thing, were fatigued and forgot, etc.
This is why people get killed, unfortunately. We had a teenager, riding through a cross ride, and was killed by a driver who didn’t stop behind the line late last year. I visited the spot, and even with a goddamn shrine set up under the stop sign, drivers were still not stopping. I was disappointed, and furious by this lack of care.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
I value my bikes far too much, but in my head, I would love to! LOL
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
My ride yesterday was about 5 hours, across 7 municipalities, and over 130km.
I can say with confidence that there were at least a dozen close calls at intersections and cross rides, specifically because drivers aren’t paying attention.
I had one lady “stop”, and then crawl into the crossing, while looking only to her left (I was coming from her right). I had to stop and ring my bell before she even realized that I was there.
Many, MANY people making turns without checking for pedestrians and cyclists crossing.
And not stopping behind the line happened more times than I can count.
I’ve witnessed a few times people actually driving onto bike paths! Not just bike lanes, but fucking paths, like ones that go through parks and forests! Just clueless about what they’re doing.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
Maybe they didn’t know.
Didn’t know what? The traffic rules?
Our local police do squat about traffic violations, unfortunately, unless they are present when the infraction occurs. I’ve got a video of this entire thing, she was in the cross ride for at least 17 seconds. And I’m sure she was on her phone for more than just this encounter.
This kind of lack of awareness is why we have so many pedestrian and cyclist deaths in places designed to be “safe” for cyclists and pedestrians!
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
Is a cross ride like a crosswalk but for bikes or something?
Yes, you can ride through with your bike. Notice the two green lights above her, those are bike symbols, indicating that I have the right of way to cross. She needed to STOP behind the line, and also not be on her phone (illegal).
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 73 comments
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
Air-fried oatmeal, FTW!
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
In a quite unexpected turn of events, it is claimed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT “got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level” while playing Atari Chess.
Who the hell thought this was “unexpected”?
What’s next? ChatGPT vs. Microwave to see which can make instant oatmeal the fastest? 😂
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
Not pictured the 5000lbs of watermelons, the 2500lbs of onions (those will last a lot longer).
That’s brutal. This time of the year has festivals pretty much every weekend for the next few months, so can these be donated to those events, so that it doesn’t go to waste?
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 month ago:
Have you ever seen a person with a disability who uses a walker or wheelchair try to drop down from a tall curb?
Regardless of who’s liable, they don’t want to get hurt doing something completely unnecessary.
I’m acting like the company shouldn’t be assholes, and use the abundance of space along the rest of the front face of that building.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 month ago:
Idk what a skid is
It might also be called a pallet where you live. It’s that large, heavy, wooden blue thing at the end of those racks. It doesn’t slide, so you need a forklift or hand-pump lift to move it.
I mean, I have no problem moving shit that’s in store aisles to get to the shelves, but there’s too much liability here for me to move large plant racks, even if it was easy.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 month ago:
And just push the skid out of the way, too? 😵
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 month ago:
Work without pay? This store is playing the long game! LOL
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 month ago:
Again, I and most literally couldn’t care less if they have to spend 3ft in low speed parking lot traffic like every other person.
There is no curb cut for someone with a wheelchair, mobility device, walker, stroller, shopping cart, or hand trolly to even do that. 🙄
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 month ago:
They have a lot of space to work with, but chose to pile everything in the section right before the door.
And there are no curb cuts in front of the store, only at the entrance past this gauntlet, so someone in a wheelchair would be SOL.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 68 comments
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
Pirates are winning over my empathy.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
I use a case. And every phone I’ve owned over the last 15+ years has looked like new years after buying them.
Not only do they keep their value (if sold), but if given as a hand-me-down, they are “like new”.
Worth it, IMO.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 month ago:
but you can only transfer photos compressed to 2MB jpeg.
I don’t own a Nikon camera, but my Sony, Canon, and Panasonic camera apps allow you to set the size of the transferred photo to “original”, and they do default to something smaller, so I always change it first.
Do you have that option?
