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@SouthEndSunset @silence7 supposedly Joe Rogan is the most popular here, too. This article claims to have the top 25. I’d say there are a few more lefties higher up in here https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-top-25-podcasts-in-the-uk-for-q4-2024/
@Lost_My_Mind maybe it’s because a lot of our McDonald’s are in central locations where a lot of people live and there’s no parking, so it would be pretty absurd to only allow delivery? Or maybe it’s a competition thing. All the coffee chains do it, and it got really popular over lockdown. The queues in coffee chains can take ages while they’re making drinks for deliveries and pickups - it’s really annoying, but at least it gives another advantage to the independents.
@Lost_My_Mind @return2ozma you can in the UK. Maybe not globally? https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/good-to-know/in-our-restaurants/my-mcdonalds-app.html
@9488fcea02a9 @ForgottenFlux I remember reading a whole article about how Samsung now just shoves a hi-res picture of the moon on top of pictures you take with the moon in so it looks like it takes impressive photos. Not sure if the scandal meant they removed that “feature” or not
@tree_frog @RememberTheApollo_ high on their own supply, though. A lot of government regulation is there to make sure the plebs feel just happy *enough* that they don’t rise up. I’m not advocating anything, just to be clear, but if people have nothing to lose then they start… trying stuff. Wasn’t the final straw that started the French Revolution the price of bread?
@Fredthefishlord @QuarkVsOdo all his companies basically exist to siphon off government funding that should be going to something more worthy. In the case of SpaceX, look what’s happening to NASA now. And with the Hyperloop, he openly said he promoted that to take attention and money to prevent the development of high speed rail
@EncryptKeeper @OhVenus_Baby I have very much embraced the swearing method to get rid of 50% of my Google result screen being taken up by an untrustworthy statement. Just a waste of space and scrolling time.
@catloaf @thebeardedpotato I go one further and subscribe to feeds in mastodon (feel a bit like an impostor though 👀
@FireRetardant @grue in the UK we’re not even allowed billboards on motorways as they would be a distraction. Ads *in the car* sounds insane.
@JacksonLamb @SPRUNT ‘American cheese’ is a specific type of cheese. I think the closest thing we have in the UK, we’d call ‘plastic cheese’ but even Kraft cheese slices/Kraft singles aren’t ‘American cheese’ as they have extra milk in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American/_cheese
@OutlierBlue @TeamAssimilation but it will next year, right? Let’s just ignore all those times it’s veered into the wrong lane or onto train tracks or whatever, it’s fine. Next year, next year, next year.
And Mars in a decade.
@Flagstaff @gunpachi I’m not sure echo chambers are inherently a bad thing. My real life is a carefully crafted echo chamber of people I like to spend time with (which conveniently includes my family). The problem comes when we get *all* our information from that echo chamber.
@Ulrich @ggppjj does it help to compare an image generator to an LLM? With AI art you can tell a computer produced it without “knowing” anything more than what other art of that type looks like. But if you look closer you can also see that it doesn’t “know” a lot: extra fingers, hair made of cheese, whatever. LLMs do the same with words. They just calculate what words might realistically sit next to each other given the context of the prompt. It’s plausible babble.
@BlueBaggy @corbin as a tiny-handed person, I resent being called “no one”
@umbrella @cyberpunk007 Some big UK brands don’t run on an “all money is for one guy” model. John Lewis (dept store) and Waitrose (supermarket) are a partnership: the staff own it. Then we have lots of Co-operatives but the main one is mostly known for being a supermarket: member/ownership is £1 and you can vote at the AGM, get discounts and choose charities. It’s not perfect - they all exist in a capitalist system - but there are other ways of running businesses that aren’t for pure profit.
Slushy the rich?
@MystikIncarnate @tiredofsametab I quite like this framing from a UK ad. https://youtu.be/V6ChTqII-Yk sometimes it’s just not the best tool for the job.
@richardisaguy @Tea sometimes they just come free with stuff. We got given two Google ones when my husband bought a Pixel phone. We were going to sell them on but we never got round to it. You can physically turn off the microphone part though (at least it tells you it’s turned off so fingers crossed) so we use the one with a screen as a digital photo frame (and a speaker) and the other one as just a speaker.