TheRealKuni @ TheRealKuni @lemmy.world

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”iPad adults” are especially stupid.

Does this mean a specific type of adult, or adults who use iPads? Cause…I consider myself pretty technically gifted, I’m a software developer, previously worked IT…and I love my iPad (for the things it’s good for).

Maybe if homework can be done by statistics, then it's not worth doing.

Lots of homework can be done by computers in many ways. That’s not the point. Teachers don’t have students write papers to edify the teacher or to bring new insights into the world, they do it to teach students how to research, combine concepts, organize their thoughts, weed out misinformation, and generate new ideas from other concepts.

These are lessons worth learning regardless of whether ChatGPT can write a paper.

It is but no educated person qualifies themselves by that name as it means nothing.

People seek to label themselves in the most accurate category not the broadest one.

I’m not sure that’s true. If you ask someone what they do for a living and they say, “I’m a doctor,” you don’t say, “I doubt it. A real doctor would say, ‘I’m a cardiovascular surgeon,’ or ‘I’m a pediatrician.’” We adjust our labels for our audience.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find a biologist or a climatologist who might just say, “I’m a scientist” to a broad audience. Not that they couldn’t use the more accurate label, just that they don’t necessarily have to.

Scientist is the broader category though. If a square says “I’m a rectangle” they aren’t lying.

The way I handle this is to parse them differently. They mean the same thing, but “I couldn’t care less” is sincere and “I could care less” is sarcastic.

Sort of like, “I suppose it’s possible that I could care less about that” reduced to the phrase.

Because both phrases obviously communicate the same meaning, a lack of care, the issue for me isn’t in the understanding but in the parsing. So I had to come up with a way to parse it as sarcasm so it doesn’t bother me.

Like when someone says, “I’ll try and be there” my brain, mildly traumatized by really good English teachers in my youth, screams, “YOU’LL TRY TO BE THERE.” But lately I’ve been making an effort to interpret the “and

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I…might have a touch of the ‘tism. It wouldn’t surprise me. 😅

lol I feel like I’m living in a different planet.

😂 Are you just now learning that people experience different things in life?

I don’t use a shoehorn, and I’ve finally embraced the Skechers Slip-Ins lifestyle and loving it, but shoehorns would definitely have made my life easier in some respects.

Ex-boss, Michael Eisner.

It’s always time for a rewatch!

If you ask them what a butterburger is they’ll tell you: they generously butter the top of the bun before toasting it. Otherwise they’re just smashburgers, but I think they do a good job with smashburgers. Also custard is delicious.

What would you recommend I eat there?

I don’t think I’ve ever had anything there I didn’t like, but I’ve definitely honed some favorites over the years. A few go-tos of mine:

Double cheeseburger with grilled onions and mushrooms. You can also add lettuce and tomato, but honestly it’s pretty great with just the cheese, meat, grilled onions, and mushrooms. The ratio of flavors is perfect.

Mushroom and Swiss on sourdough with mayo, lettuce, and tomato. This is messy as hell, but it’s delicious.

The Wisconsin Swiss on Rye, but substitute American cheese and have them put thousand island on there for a really good smashburger version of a patty melt.

If you want a salad, whatever seasonal salad they have (cranberry bacon bleu, strawberry fields, etc) should be your go-to. You can substitute crispy chicken instead of grilled if you prefer. Theoretically you can even substitute a burger patty or fish, IIRC.

Their onion rings are unique and I love them. Almost like someone heard of the idea of onion rings, but only had thin burger-sliced onions and simple fryer batter.

Cheese curds are always good, too, but you gotta be hungry. They’re basically just little balls of fat and protein and are very filling.

During lent they may have walleye. I like their walleye more than the cod. Both are good, but I don’t often get fish. Not my thing.

And of course the custard is excellent. If the flavors available (chocolate, vanilla, and flavor of the day) aren’t to your liking, you can basically create whatever you want by adding toppings to a concrete mixer. I’m a big fan of peanut butter cup and banana added to either chocolate or vanilla. You really can’t go wrong though, get whatever custard you think sounds good and it will be good.

My major recommendation on custard is to err on the side of smaller sizes. It’s very caloric. Delicious though.

Culver’s is damn good food. And I worked at Culver’s, on and off because college, for seven years. Still love it.

Yup. I went to the dark side and bought an iPhone when my OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition died (RIP, prince of phones) and I’ve enjoyed it greatly. iOS has come a LONG way in the last decade or so.

Roshar has to be depicted in anime. A high quality modern anime style, certainly, but it will not be done properly otherwise. The CGI bill for spren alone would be too high and they’d skip them.

Diablo 4 and Hi-Fi Rush

Hi-Fi Rush is amazing. Such a fun title, great story, great concept, great art style, great music.

Diablo 4’s new expansion is fun, I’m really enjoying the extremely broken, unbalanced new class. The game is a great companion to audiobooks or podcasts.

restaurants that are identified as an outbreak for food poisoning get immediately closed and investigated.

I’m not sure that’s accurate, though I’m willing to be shown I’m wrong. Certainly investigated, but I don’t think they always get closed.

Restaurants can get closed if they’re failing to meet health code standards, but I don’t think an identified contamination of an ingredient shutters an otherwise compliant restaurant.

Look at McDonald’s other restaurant, Chipotle, and the frequency with which they have to stop selling spinach because spinach suppliers have E. coli issues.

Any other restaurant would have been closed down over this.

What?

Jack-in-the-Box was undercooking their meat, IIRC. They infected over 700 people with E. coli. Four children died. 178 others were left with permanent injury including kidney and brain damage.

They’re still around.

It sounds like McDonald’s is dealing with an onion supplier issue. Their slivered onions used in the quarter pounder apparently come from one supplier. And apparently the issue is only with the slivered onions, not the diced ones.

This isn’t a McDonald’s issue, this is a regulatory body issue, failing to keep up inspections on suppliers. Just like the listeria outbreak hitting store shelves.

That's the thing though. They aren't pro life. They are anti sex that they don't approve of.

Sure, but they don’t think of themselves that way. They see themselves as trying to stop what they see as murder. Yes, they ALSO don’t want people having sex that they don’t approve of, but data clearly shows higher rates of unplanned pregnancy in states that don’t teach people how not to get pregnant. So if they truly see abortion as horrendous, they should be trying to stop unplanned pregnancies before they occur.

Pointing out that dissonance can help them see the flaw in their reasoning, if they’re introspective enough to attempt consistency in their views.

(Source: My own life story, having grown up as the sufficiently introspective “pro-lifer” shown the flaws in my thinking as part of a long journey from a conservative youth to a progressive adult. 😅)

Well, sort of. In that in states that teach abstinence-only sexual education, there is a higher rate of teen pregnancy. I’m guessing you could extrapolate from that and find that teen abortion rates are higher, but I don’t have that data.

As I like to say to “pro-life” people: “Want to reduce abortion? Make contraception free and teach comprehensive sexual education.”

82% of statistics are made up on the spot. Everyone knows that.