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A supermarket near me has reorganised and they’ve had to put up signs telling people where everything now is. So what was the point in reorganising it?

I think there should be legal definitions of where things are and what aisles they’re on. I don’t understand why sometimes eggs are considered dairy and other times they’re in a completely different part of the store. I actually don’t care which one they pick but I would like all supermarkets to be consistent. One place near me that has a dairy aisle, for all dairy except yogurts, which are on a neighbouring aisle. Every time I want some cheese I always go down the yoghurt aisle and get lost.

For me it’s having forks with slightly bent prongs, I absolutely hate that but I also don’t really want to start throwing cutlery away because it’s metal and I don’t really know what to do with it. Is it recyclable?

I bought a new water filter today I’m very pleased with it as it’s slightly different to the previous filter.

But yes I’ve definitely become a lot more interested in Tupperware then I would have previously thought possible. I think that’s just because when I was a kid things just happened, and now I actually have to make them happen I realise how convenient it is to have storage containers rather than just putting bowls and plates in the fridge and messing around with crappy plastic film.

It’s a nice place to walk through on your way to the shops that you would actually want to go in. It’s a very nice arcade but it’s all boutique handbags with no price tag, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in any of the shops in there.

How do they know this? How can you tell what an ostrich is thinking, because every interaction I’ve ever had with an ostrich, which is admittedly is limited, has always led me to believe that thinking is not something they do an awful lot of. Mindlessly attacking everyone insight is more their modus operandi

What did he farm the ostriches for, eggs?

I grew up on a farm and there was a family in our area and they used to have peacocksz but I’m pretty sure they were just there the visual interest because I don’t think they were actually part of the farm stock. I always assumed that people kept ostriches for pretty much the same reason, because honestly they are pain to deal with. I certainly don’t think I’ve ever really seen ostrich eggs being particularly high in demand.

I seem to remember that the passwords were encrypted so, all they got was the passwords people use for their password manager which because people were using the password manager and therefore had random passwords it didn’t really matter hugely.

Especially in the US, the average person doesn’t like the idea of someone getting something that they’re personally not receiving. So framing it as a compensation that everyone receives regardless of employment status I think is the only feasible way forward.

Universal basic income is supposed to be irrespective of employment status already. That’s what the “Universal” bit means.

Any work that you do you get compensated on top of UBI, that way it allows for things like working half the week and using UBI to top up your finances, companies could employ you two and a half days a week and another person the other two and a half days a week with each person getting a week’s worth of pay thanks to UBI, the company doesn’t have to pay out anymore, you get the same amount of money as you did before and you’ve increased the job market by 200 times. It’s a win-win-win situation.

The problem is framing UBI as a welfare benefit, when really that’s not how it’s supposed to be understood.

The other day my windows 11 computer booted and was unable to find the sound driver. I hadn’t done anything to it, it just randomly decided it couldn’t find the driver for some reason, after restart it was fine, but what the hell.

Yeah if you copy files from the command line it’s so much faster.

Wow Microsoft have actually introduced the one and only reason to update to Windows 11.

Yeah but for every cat rule there is another one that goes I’m doing my own thing and swims in the sea something.

All my strawberry plants have regrown, they think it’s a summer again.

As with most games I’m just not going to get it day one and wait for the reviews. It’s not like they’re going to run out of stock so there’s no harm in delaying things.

I want to see what they do with the RP side of things, as there are rumours of a proper RP mode, which would make online play actually bearable. But since it’s just rumours with no evidence, I’m going to wait.

I don’t know “eyes” is a difficult word to spell.

Why are all the experts going on about the fact you might blind pilots but not talking about the fact that it won’t actually do anything.

It would have to be an astonishingly vast megastructure for it to have any effect at all. If we were talking about a structure 100 km across or more they might actually have some sort of point.

He famously isn’t rich. He manages the money of the rich, he himself is only well off. This isn’t his money he’s investing, it’s the money of the people he works for. So there’s obviously some market feeling that this is a good bet.

The fact that he was even able to make that bet is incredible. How deluded do you have to be to think the AI bubble won’t burst? Keeping it going will require in ever-increasing amounts of money to paper over the gaping chasms that keep cropping up, and eventually the amount of money necessary to keep it going will cease to be feasible. Then, after taking gullible investor for all of they’ve got, the whole thing will fall over in the world’s most well deserved and predictable market crash.

The subprime mortgage collapse was inevitable only in hindsight, you had to have a good understanding of the market to see it in advance. To see the level of corruption and false promises that have to be made in order to make the mortgage bubble possible. But everyone can see the AI BS right out in the open, I’m not talking about the “how many Rs are in strawberry” questions either, I can sort of see why that’s not really a fair question. I’m talking about the fact that every single business that has ever tried to replace its employees with AI, has always failed, and failed almost immediately. Even Amazon couldn’t make it work.

You have to be pretty deep in the Kool-Aid to think that ubisoft has “taken risks” with Assassins Creed.

Why would the doctor not want people to stick things in the sand?