I visit some fast food chains but I avoid Burger King at all costs. Some of the worst burgers I have ever seen and eaten in my entire life have come from that dump.
Prices are getting out of hand, though. Fast Food is quickly reaching price parity with actual quality restaurants which is insane.
I did grocery retail for about 4 years. We had some less-than-great customers but honestly the worst part was dealing with corporate. Upper management and corporate decisions is what truly made daily work much more difficult. The store manager that was there when I was hired was really good and good to her staff, but corporate didn't like that she ran some expenses for customer and employee benefit so they "relocated" her. The replacement manager was one of those "fixer" types and he so godawful that I walked off the job. Left my badge on my department desk in the office and went home. Because they had been cutting back hours and hires, my entire department folded after I left. My supervisor got reassigned and some of the other part-timers left.
My rules are: Minimum 2 locks. All valuables or critical components removed from bike. If it's an ebike that means removing the battery and control unit if possible.
Hmm, not a bad idea on paper as many cyclists put cameras on their helmets anyway for safety, legal, and insurance reasons.
But helmets are, by design, highly disposable single-use items. They will protect your noggin from an impact... once. A lot of people either don't know this or they assume they "small" fall they had doesn't count or that time they dropped the helmet 5 feet onto concrete wasn't that bad. Adding a camera, battery, and $300 price tag is going to make people even more reluctant to replace a helmet for safety reasons, in my opinion. (also something something even more e-waste going to landfills something something)
Definitely don't like that it's app-controlled, though. Companion apps for connected products are notoriously awful or even downright broken. Also a privacy nightmare.
I don't tip. Unless it's a bit of cash to my Uber or cab driver for helping with luggage or something. Other than that, nope. It's not my responsibility to pay your employees - and that's assuming they even get the tip money which so often they don't.
We are going to be seeing so many of these investor-backed, AI-focused, trend-chasing startups dropping like flies in the next few years as the interest (and VC money) dries up. The landfills of the world are going to fill with even more disposable trash as so many cloud-dependant gadgets go offline.
A few thoughts as a 3D modeller that has done hired work based off provided AI concepts:
The usability of those assets will depend on the kind of game you are making. Are they 2D? 3D? Sprites? etc AI can generate 2D pictures but cannot generate 3D models that are useful in a proper production workflow/pipeline. Every generated 3D model I've seen is a dogshit mess.
Will you be the only one working with these assets? Sending untouched AI content off to another artist in the pipeline can cause extreme headaches depending on what it is.
Things generated with AI have a very inconsistent artistic style. This is fine for rapid prototyping and quick concepts but awful for finished products.
AI content is extremely difficult to edit and work with and may not even be editable at all.
Legality varies by location, region, and storefront.
Your customers will notice and you and your product will be ridiculed for using AI, especially if you use a lot of it.
Lastly, and this is going to get a bit spicy: If you care about the work you do and take even a tiny amount of pride in your work then please, for the love of the Gods, use assets made by real people. If you do not have the skills or equipment to make them yourself then there are plenty out there that are cheap, reasonably priced, or even free and royalty-free. Using AI content in a public release just screams "I am cheap and couldn't be bothered to hire actual talent." and indicates that you do not care about your work.
I always get a good laugh when I see a giant "PROUDLY MADE IN USA" sticker that has a big US flag.
and it's on a plastic tub. Or a bucket. I think the plastic brush I use to clean my cast-iron pan is from the US, but again it's just a lump of plastic.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the most common USA-produced good I interact with is oil.
Nah, fuck them. They thought they could get away with this predatory debt-trap system that was marketed at children and they are clearly salty that they got caught. Not to mention the whole idea of not even owning your own PC or the data within which would set a bad precedent for everyone everywhere.
There are so many competitors in the industry NZXT operates in; it would be very easy to avoid ever buying their stuff again. And I intend to do just that. Get bankrupted, you pieces of shit.
Not going to change unless Microsoft does a complete 180 on how they're handling Win11 which I don't think they will do because it's just not in their corporate strategy at the moment. I imagine most people are just going to keep using Win10 after the support period ends.
Microsoft seriously needs an upper management shakeup. They have been dropping the ball badly in numerous areas and have their heads lodged too far up their own asses to see it.
The company is billing it as a highly sustainable alternative to regular bicycles
This is one of the most "We are a plastics company and will say any silly thing to justify the existence of our product" things I've seen on a long time. Regular bicycles are already extremely durable, serviceable, and have plenty of parts options. They can last 20-40 years easily. Something I doubt this Fisherprice-esque bicycle will do as it sheds microplastics everywhere and can't actually be recycled because plastic is one of the most difficult to recycle materials in the world.
Sorry to nitpick it so much. I probably wouldn't have been so salty if they didn't make the BS claims. A simple "We are plastic company! Look, plastic bike!" would've been fine.
And they are using paid influencers to promote said debt trap to those that don't know any better, particularly children.
Probably the most insidious part of this to me. Seeing those clips of "influencers" pushing the idea of convincing your parents to get you a rental PC. Disgusting.
I have a Deck and one thing I learned pretty quick is that some devs will mark their game as Steam Deck Verified when it damn well is not. There are some games that struggle to run on the Deck but still have the green check, so I feel claims like this are highly misleading. Also there are some games that have no compatibility information at all yet work great.
Ex-retail worker here that spent a lot of time in aisles, counting inventory, etc.
Steal whatever you want; I don't care. Not my job to look after that shit and I wasn't paid enough for it anyway.