If the time was right, I’d be checking for an SD card. There’d be a chance to save some fraction of their data…

As a Canadian, I’d be upset if we got paywalled. The BBC is where I go to for trusted news on international concerns.

Understandable, but I’d still be upset.

I noticed that the Milton Go line occasionally gets late night trains on event nights. (Usually it’s rush-hour only, and only in one direction at any given time of day)

I actually like this. No politics. No big name personalities. No distractions.

Just a search bar to ASK me what I want to see before it tells me what it thinks I want to see.

Lol…I commute to work and I don’t have a car

If an ordered item arrives broken once, it’s a shitty delivery company. 1-star probably isn’t warranted unless the company is shitty about replacing it.

If an ordered item arrives broken regularly, it’s a problem that the company should’ve fixed.

If a game doesn’t work on one person’s machine, maybe they’ve got a bunch of malware installed or something.

If it doesn’t work on many people’s machines that meet the recommended specs, the company is at fault and deserves bad reviews.

If it runs poorly on the recommended specs, bad reviews are warranted.

Speed cams do more than this – they apply the penalty. (A fine, at least)

…they mostly get vandalized.

What we really need (at least where I live) is CONSISTENT ENFORCEMENT.

Speed cams are a great way to do this in theory. Police can’t be bothered to stop every speeder, and they have the discretion to decide who actually gets ticketed…which they may be using too much of, tbh.

If it wasn’t for the AI nonsense, this could’ve actually been a great idea.

Businesses might want to use Reddit comments as ads.

Reddit says “Hey, let us find those glowing reviews that we have as Reddit comments, and you can link directly to the original source!”

Then the original comment writer could edit their comments to call political figures pedos, and businesses learn their lesson that this kind of stuff is not suited for using Reddit as a primary source, lol

I was referring to where they said

Bro, it’s a YOSHI game

Going based on the expectations set by Yoshi’s Island, one wouldn’t be off to expect challenge in Yoshi’s Story, its follow-up.

I dunno, Yoshi’s Island can get pretty hard…

1. You can probably re-use a burner phone again and again
2. What do you need a phone for? Could it be replaced with other items? (Cameras, walkie-talkies, printed maps?)

Thanks for sharing! Never would’ve known about this otherwise.

Yeah. I mean, I am a feminist. I know that a lot of problems are caused by the patriarchy, and yes, men in general sometimes.

But car-dependency is not one of them. And conflating them for no reason just hurts both causes.

If I wanted an AI summary, I’d put the article into my favourite LLM and ask for one.

I’m sure LLMs can take links sometimes.

And if Wikipedia wanted to include it directly into the site…make it a button, not an insertion.

These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.

There isn’t really a single sliding scale of “complexity” when it comes to certain tasks.

Given the appropriate input, a calculator can divide two numbers. But it can’t count the number of R’s in the word “strawberry”.

Meanwhile, a script that could count the number of instances of a letter in a word could count those R’s, but it couldn’t divide any two numbers.

Similarly, we didn’t complain that a typewriter couldn’t put pepperoni slices onto a pizza.

Alienation can result from actions of individuals, yes.

This community is “FuckCars”, not “FuckMen”. There are plenty of men here who are here because “Fuck Cars”. I don’t think that alienating the men of this community will do any good.

There are plenty of geniuses out there who aren’t great at board games. Using a tool not fit for task is more of an issue with the person using the wrong tool than an issue with the tool itself.

I do get where you’re coming from though. There are definitely people who don’t understand why a ChatBot wouldn’t be good at chess.

I’d be interested in seeing marketing of ChatGPT as a competitive boardgame player. Is there any?