Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. Unfortunately bribery isn't quite as illegal as it should be.

Congratulations, here's your medal for pedantic dickweedery. The example of shouting "Fire!" in a theater has always had the implicit assumption that there isn't really a fire. Everyone (except you, apparently) knows that, which is why nobody bothers saying it every time they bring up the example.

Ah, so when Jesus said "Love God" what he ACTUALLY meant was: act as if you love God, regardless of how you feel inside. Even if you outright hate the bastard, so long as you put on a good show of loving behavior you will be able to hang out in heaven and watch as he tortures your friends in fire forever.

That checks out, since this technique of explaining that the speaker ACTUALLY meant something totally different than what they plainly said is a foundation of Biblical interpretation.

When Paul told Timothy that "God saves all men, especially those who believe" what he ACTUALLY meant was "God wants to save all men, but only saves those who believe"

When James said "You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone." what he ACTUALLY meant was the exact opposite: "Faith alone justifies, but we can expect that any faithful person would show good works."

And when Jesus said "The coming of the kingdom of God can't be seen. People won't say "look, it's over there" or "look, it's over here", because the kingdom of God is within you." what he ACTUALLY meant was "I am standing right here!"

Once you make a habit of totally changing what people say so that it fits your narrative about what they should have said, everything clicks right into place.

It's just fear porn.

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Which is what you'd want to do for any prototype system.

They should then track foot traffic, gross sales, and net profit and see whether the recommendations increased or decreased them when followed.

Having a control group is valuable, not a target for punishment. If McD Corporate were sane, anyway (cf. ice cream machine fiasco).

The one near me was charging over $6 for fries three years ago - I can't imagine what it's up to now. Haven't been back since.

Reuters is mostly jschool grads emoting and distributing propaganda.

Is it just me?

I can't think of a single McD's item that I would be willing to pay $5 or more for.....?

Isn't 'Dots" just a commercial version of OpenClaw?

I"m working to set up OC myself and just use local models.....and try to retain some shred of privacy.

"Democracy" gave us Trump. Maybe we should try something else.

You seem to almost be saying that like it was a bad thing....?

> Amazon mechanical turk slaves

What does 'slaves' mean to you in this context?

You mean Communism?

I don't disagree, but I think that's there's a nuance here that needs mentioning.

Trump is a special case. Everything he does is some form of a grift. It's not hidden - it's completely transparent. Those who fall for it are ignorant by choice. If they choose not to examine it, or (more likely) to ignore what's in front of them, they are to blame.

The other politicians would have a different standard to meet because they would have fooled the people. Trump cannot be other than he is, and those who are fooled have chosen it.

Do I think it should be allowed? Of course not. I'm only pointing the finger and doing my best Simpson's Nelson.

Or, more to the point, bribery of public officials.

Not to be judgmental... but every one of those investors who lost money on the Trump coin deserved it. Okay. Well... yes. Im being totally and irredeemably judgmental. Yeah, I'm judging. Whether it's sycophancy, ignorance, or stupidity, they deserved it. Am I supposed to do otherwise? They bought the Brooklyn bridge from a guy on a street corner.

If we only bought local there would be vast empty spaces at the grocery store and our choices would be limited.

I guess I'm a good bit older than you, but I remember growing up, even as a kid I knew what fruits/veggies were in what season of the year.

Sure, we might have not had 24/7/365 varieties , but the shelves were not anywhere close to being "empty".

We grew a lot move all over the US....we ate what was in season.....and nary a complaint was had as to "empty shelves"....

I generally don't have a problem with buying good/decent tasting produce.

I'm old enough to remember buying these items "in season".

I still do that today....I buy things in season that are grown locallly (or at least in the US).

I tend to not buy crap from other countries picked way ahead of ripeness in order to ship shit half way across the world.

So, most of my stuff today still tastes good...read a freaking label my friend.