Millionaires billionaires.

It’s a dick-measuring contest from more civilised times.

The whole selling points was to track fridge contents via cameras so that not only could you ‚see’ inside without having to open the door - theoretically saving electricity, using AI it was supposed to be able to track expiry dates, and suggest shopping lists in order to have full recipes.

Additionally it had all the usual „smart home” integrations on top of that.

But let’s be honest, the whole point was just to put in yet another screen that vendors could sell advertisements on, as well as track/sell personal information.

MySpace Tom? Literally the only one I can think of…

Straight to the manufacturer (Dbrand) website:

True believers worship the icosahedron.

Don’t believe me? Roll initiative!

Interestingly enough, I was casually window browsing TVs and was surprised to find that LG killed off their OLED 8K TVs a couple years ago!

Until/if we get to a point where more people want/can fit 110in+ TVs into their living rooms - 8K will likely remain a niche for the wealthy to show off, more than anything.

Not defending the guy, he’s a moron for falling for Trump’s schtick and not following a simple chain of cause/effect - but I at least can understand the initial sentiment of wanting to support someone who claimed to stand up against “China”?

They just should’ve done a modicum of research to realise just how full of shit Trump actually is.

Wait until they’re 2+ and randomly adding things to the cart in the hopes you won’t notice!

If you still enjoy using the self-checkouts for bigger shops then - you might just be a masochist! 🤣

With a toddler in tow, ain’t no way in hell I want to scan and bag a week’s worth of groceries all by myself.

For small shops of a couple items? I’ll absolutely going to go through the self-scans as they’re fast and convenient. But when spending the equivalent of ~$150USD across dozens of items - nah, fuck that noise. Especially when having to deal with any interventions because the machine vision gets confused by what’s happening on camera, or the weight sensor doesn’t correctly detect an item added.

Give me a cashier to scan and pack any day of the week.

To be fair, that iconic PS1 texture twitch was Ming-boggling to see in action!

Oh, but you can bet your bottom dollar there are still something like 20:1 ratio of dark-market bets synthetic collateral against these shares further underpinning valuations.

Legitimately fear that this will make the ‘08 meltdown look quaint in comparison, as the fiscal stress will not be limited to shares but impact loads of financial instruments (home and car loans, retirement accounts etc.).

Food deserts are such a weird concept to me; Australia has about the same land-size as the continental US and only ~8% of the population. Yet even for all their perceived faults, our two biggest supermarket chains are able to deliver fresh produce to pretty much all but the most remote communities.

Meanwhile, sections of major US cities are somehow lacking access to fresh produce?! 🤯

Legitimately could be underestimating it, honestly… after all, everything is bigger in Texas!

I can understand a banking app such as Chime* wanting to obfuscate whatever bugs or potential exploits they’ve come across and patched - to prevent users on older versions from being targeted; but the rest of those examples are utterly bullshit.

I put forward Duolingo as another egregious example of this bullshit:

Plot twist, he actually beat up every single kid in the paediatric cancer ward at his local hospital.

Perspective; the 2x2 is closer to you than the 2x4.

Which JRPGs have you tried so far? The community might be able to help guide you towards a better entry point, if they can figure out what titles you bounced off from.

It’s literally sad that the only hope for EA to become less scummy as a privately held company, than it was as a publicly traded company, is for the Saudi Arabian regime to proactively use them to win over gamers through the digital equivalent of ‘sports-washing’.

It’s depressing to think that we are at a point where EA could be considered the lesser evil in comparison.

Does it ever make you think that when her parents were having sex that one fateful night, they would later be able to look back upon it and say that they were making Whoopi?