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  • What if my local nursing home staff yells at fast food workers because they accidentally put pickles on her hamburger after sitting in the hotass kitchen for 9 hours straight doing the same thing over and over as fast they can because the store is understaffed and their replacement is late? Anyone can be a dick, just remember everyone is human and has weird emotions just like you.

  • Instance owner: does something they thought would be cool and was likely interesting to implement

    Weird lemmy users: tHiS iS wAsTeFuL bS

    You being butt hurt about something INCREDIBLY inconsequential like AI art isn't going to make it go away.

  • While you're right, we're talking about a pretty small amount of price difference for Starbucks.

    A quick Google search says that a grande latte from Starbucks (16Oz) is about 14.6 Oz of milk.

    Using the retail numbers (remember Starbucks has negotiated contracts with wholesale suppliers for their milk, they likely pay much less than retail cost) that is about 4.2¢/fl oz for regular milk and about 4.7¢/fl oz for almond milk. In terms of milk cost, a Starbucks grande latte is about 61¢ of regular milk and 68¢ of almond milk.

    They then charge you 70¢ EXTRA for the almond milk, when they are only spending around 7¢ more to use it in your drink. They're clearly just taking advantage of many people's inability to process lactose. Though, I'm a bit biased since I'm one of them. I'm heavily lactose intolerant, so take that as you will.

    While looking up the numbers I also learned that it's estimated that around 68% of the world's population is lactose intolerant, and it mostly affects non-white ethnic groups.

  • I'm absolutely in favor of reducing single use plastics, but there's so much plastic in so many things that I can't imagine existing without it. People are rather unreasonably of the "plastic bad" mindset without considering what the alternatives could be.

    Not everything can be glass or wood/wood-like substances. Metal has its own environmental concerns. What else is there?

  • All I've ever heard about microplastics is that everyone is filled with them and that they are everywhere.

    What I haven't heard is why that is a concern. Is it going to affect my health in the long run? When? How much do I have to have consumed for it be an issue?

    Even if we identify those issues, can it be removed? Will it make a difference?

    For such a 'everyone is now worried about this' type problem, I never once heard why they're concerned. I suppose I could look it up, but I'm surprised that all of the discussion is about the issue existing, but not why it's an issue to begin with.

  • I always perceive an IM as high but not immediate importance, an email as "get to it when you can", and phone call as immediate.

    The older people I work with tend to call for email level things.

  • My gym has a scale, but not a digital one and it would be... Unusual, if not somewhat dangerous, to bring a bar across the entire place to where it's placed.

    I can see reasons why they wouldn't want to do that, even if there is a scale.