Sometimes it's the easiest way to get a particular toppings group. Like a "mushroom burger" comes with Swiss, bacon, sautéed onions, and some sauce, or you can build your own for 10% more than getting a pre-built mushroom burger, minus the mushrooms. Plus, when you and-then an order, there's a high chance they'll miss something.

I mean, my local place asks me every time if I want to add peanut butter to my burger. I'd also expect modification to be more and more frequent with the prevalence of touchescreens allowing customers to highly customize items. I don't see modifying as a big deal, within reason. Not just for burgers, obviously.

I fear that any victory over flock with make the public complacent to the other players

The study found that people who drank a little had, on average, better health than those that abstained entirely. The study failed to mention that a notable portion of those that abstain were abstaining due to health reasons. As in, their health was already bad and was the reason they chose not (or were not allowed) to drink. But, of course, the alcohol industry ran with the first part and has been pushing it ever since. Once you reduce the abstinent group to only those freely abstaining, the average health for the dry subjects is back in the lead.

Thanks for the actual tips. It feels like this will just kill my hobby/craft desires if I have to do all this vetting for basic shit to avoid Amazon but not pay extra for poor selection from the local store. I'll see, I guess. I suppose I could just braid my own weeds instead of crafting big things. That's still free and local, right?

That typically doesn't work well for hobby and craft supplies. Limited selection at the physical stores, if there's any at all, and there's no individuals selling raw supplies.

Even if you live somewhere dense, there's so many niche things, no brick and mortar place stocks it. For my own router, I had to find one recommended by forum users a decade ago for a specific disconnect issue within the Xbox One's internal 360 emulator. BB and WM didn't have the known-good options. In my recent case here, it was hobby stuff that my local craft store doesn't have at all, despite carrying similar items. And I mean my classic example is I used to dabble in LEDs before everyone was just buying mains bulbs and 12v strips. The price of a single blue 5mm LED in the hobby electronic store was the same as 100 on ebay.

I just bought some things on ebay to avoid Amazon. They dropshipped Amazon to me, individual packages and all, for nearly 100% markup. I don't know how to avoid that and find "real" sellers dropshipping non-branded warehoused Chinese goods like the good old days.

The pickup? Why, that's a Ford F350 H3X Powerstroke, heavy on the stroke!

Ford F250/F350 body (illegible fender badge). H3 of Hummer + X of Toyota PRO-4X = H3X (Ford FX4 package also has a red X though). Illegible "Powerstroke" on door (their diesel brand name, gas does not get a badge).

"Yeah, AI knows everything. It definitely knows precisely how big a Ferd Fiftyhundred would look at these houses". Good catch. Anything but the metric system.

I was thinking that header image in the liveflightstracker link was AI Slop, then one of us had a stroke in the bottom left. Weather avoidance, geopolitical restrictions, air traffic control reroute, another geopolitical restrictions, and THEIS PERVES ON CONROLL MEFTIGN LIN£AION GARE OFFIANOSI/NE

Stick with the antipode link and the interactive map to understand the normal curve of a straight line across a sphere represented on a flat map. The liveflightstracker link just mentions a bunch of generic reasons, has no picture to help describe the flat/sphere translation, and adds nothing particularly useful to the route in question. The route takes a J shape where the initial leg is straight, not even slightly curved as it should be. The actual answer likely lies in some combination of standard flight routing and avoiding certain countries.

Well, bad news fridges still won't last long and it has nothing to do with Ai or smart features. The industry has downsized the cooling systems for efficiency and environmental factors while making things quieter. The result is higher duty cycles and insulated system compartments generally leading to shorter compressor lifespan.

But yes, I generally agree. I'm not a smart device customer.

There is desire and benefit in these things being smart devices and AI is just the stupid label slapped on every smart device after 2024. A benefit of a smart washer is that it can, theoretically, do a more thorough and more efficient job of washing various amounts, sizes, thicknesses, and materials in the load by measuring water usage, balance, weight, and output water condition. A smart fridge can, theoretically, do some lofty things that aren't nearly as desired as just being a media hub. Streaming videos, reordering groceries on Amazon, displaying recipes, displaying weather, displaying pictures, etc - really mor elike a tablet stuck to the fridge.

Implementation of said benefits is a different story. They are obviously consumer surveillance devices with sales pitches to make them "the best" faster than the competition.

If I have ice cream and then a piece of 100% dark chocolate, its tasteless. When I do keto and have a piece of 100% as my only dessert, it's the sweetest thing in my life.