This is exactly it. Instead of working to improve processes so a deaf person can use the drive thru without needing to type up her order on her phone, BK just fired a wage slave.

I’m confused as hell about this. At this Burger King, you place your order face-to-face with an actual person? Admittedly, I haven’t been through a drive through in a long time, but when I have, there has never been an opportunity to hand anyone a typed-up order. By the time I got to a window, I was being handed food,…

I’m gonna take an unpopular position: I don’t think we should be so gleeful about this guy losing his job. He most likely needs that job. We’re not talking about the snooty maitre d in Ferris Bueller. We are talking about a dude working the drive thru at Burger King. It sounds like he needs training and Burger King…

Her issue with them would not have happened had she not used a drive-through.

Would that employee have been able/in a position to enter into the POS system? I haven’t been through a drive-through in over a decade, but I seem to remember the system being that the sound system goes to window two, food pickup is at window one, and billing is at window two.

My greatest pet peeve is “flavored sparkling water”. It’s just diet soda! If they add any type of sweetener at all it’s soda! Why can’t I buy my flavorless bubble water in peace!?

“The U.S. ambassador to Denmark starred in a movie mocked by MST3K, so that’s reassuring not in any way relevant to anything.”

The problem wasn’t that they didn’t believe he was in jail when he said he was in jail. The problem was that they didn’t believe the medical examiners who put the time of death a week after he went to jail. The police and the DA’s office had their man, and they wanted that conviction, and they wanted that death…

All I recall is James Hong as the eyeball guy

I’d love one. I’ve been throwing microwave ovens at people to destroy them and my arms are killing me. If it came in a convenient gun version, great.

Remember when Khan Noonien Singh was absolute ruler of quarter of the earth between 1992 and 1996? Too bad he and his surviving clan escaped being killed in the Eugenics Wars on the ship SS Botany Bay:

I went to a party September 13, 1999. We were waiting for the moon to get blown out of orbit. Bit of an anti-climax, but still a good party.

That was a great movie too. I had read somewhere that they were going to reboot that with Will Smith playing Forbin. I guess that got shelved.

Also see Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). It basically had the whole Skynet thing going when James Cameron was still in high school.

Yeah, I remember re-reading at some point and realizing that Brunner had predicted laser printers. Also, the mass shooting epidemic. Happily, men’s trousers with codpieces have not come into fashion yet.

Well, once scientists create a bubble dome that allows you to be both inside and outside of it simultaneously, that flying car shit should be easy.

Some of the novels made a truly heroic effort to try to explain how the Eugenics Wars actually did happen with no one noticing.

In 1977, a scifi-horror movie called Demon Seed was released. It’s about a super-computer in the not-too-distant future. While the electronics looked contemporary for the time period, they look positively ancient now. Those facts notwithstanding, the movie is still great and well-worth a watch for those who’ve never…

1988’s Alien Nation portrays a 1991 in which aliens have integrated into society after landing on Earth in 1988.

The worst part about sparkling water is people who don’t like it. It’s delicious and the best part of many of my favourite cocktails. Also, no calories.