Point taken. Admittedly, I rarely use those so their design flaws were not readily apparent. I think the important part for me is that there needs to be some area where it is efficient for someone to self-scan a larger amount of groceries. If that’s a better conveyor belt system, great. If it’s something else, also…

Yeah, looks like the examples of TIA that I’ve seen, where people just...go blank. 

I’m sad to hear this, because I liked the show a lot. It had a satisfying conclusion. But...I also wouldn’t have minded seeing one season of where the show would have gone without Peter.

Thanks! That looks like what I would be in the market for. I like that it can use something like the Peloton app for spinning but that I could also switch over to Zwift or TrainerRoad for more road cycling-like training. 

Social media hacks and leaks aren’t new, but it’s certainly disturbing how many hackers seem so entertained by the concept of death.

At least a handful of these problems are rooted in the store’s design of the self-checkout area, and not in user error or incompetence. Good design would fix a lot of this. What does this mean? A couple of things.

Much of America’s transportation infrastructure has a “last mile” problem, and EV charging is no different. Your university charging station is a great example. We know from research that people will not use public transit if they’ve got a “last mile” problem: where the transit ends and it’s not easy to cover the…

For real. Is anyone excited for another one of Branagh’s Poirot movies? Death on the Nile was actively awful. It wasn’t just a bad movie. It was an offensively bad movie. It made Murder on the Orient Express seem worse in retrospect.

I use the standard keyboard shortcuts for italics, bold, and underlining. So CTR i for me turns italics on, then type what I want, then CTR i to turn it off.

Yeah, Wisting is very good. 

This. The argument always seems to get boiled down to “range anxiety” and I’m not sure that’s the right term. I would say mental load is what drive a lot of people away from EVs right now—the idea that having an EV adds another layer of mental preparation devoted to finding chargers when it comes to driving. Right now…

Oh the AMC+ app is complete dogshit. Has been for years. I’ve just sort of gotten used to it, but it is something that people should know going in. I can’t believe they haven’t fixed it yet, because it’s not like there’s some big mystery about how to create a basic interface/saved queue/keep watching home screen. 

I’m not a car person. If it runs, I’m generally OK with it. I don’t need high performance. And I drove a Buick Encore a few months ago and it was the singular more unpleasant driving vehicle I can remember. You know something’s wrong when someone like me gets behind the wheel and immediately feels something is wrong.…

“I think that’s better. I don’t think justices should be recognizable in that sense.”

Panera is in the classic restaurant chain death spiral, imo: Smaller portions, lower quality, and higher prices. This is just one more step down that road. Limit the menu to cut costs. In recent years, the quality of a Panera sandwich has gone significantly downhill. The last time I got takeout from them, the amount…

I read the headline that panera was cutting 50% of its menu and I thought, well, at least that corresponds with how they’ve cut 50% of the meat out of their sandwiches over the last few years.

And without blueberry bagels?

PSA: If you catch any of the AMC+ programming on HBO and think about subscribing, wait until Black Friday or Christmas/New Years. For the past few years they’ve always run specials where it’s like $24 for the year.

Yeah, this is the biggest load of bullshit in the entire story. No way on god’s green earth that any of that happened, ever. The parents tried a coat hanger abortion. There were complications. They went to a clinic, where doctors delivered the extremely premature baby. There are news stories detailing the police…

I don’t think it was aimed at Democrats, either—and yes I’m a Democrat. But I also don’t think the “Dark Brandon” ad is very effective for the group that it is targeting. “Dark Brandon” is really a very Online thing, and it circulates mostly among young progressives. I’m not sure it’s in the orbit of many/most…