Re-invent. Your still far too late to be first.

I don’t think you can in good faith compare…

Ooh, that’s just one of my pet peeves. Such a stupid fucking phrase. The only way to know if you “can’t compare” two things is to do a comparison between them and come to the conclusion that the two things are very different. I can compare self checkout to a kumquat if I want to.

Now for some actually useful conversation, let’s compare number of steps for vending machine vs self checkout (since that’s the closer of my two examples).

Vending machine:

• insert payment
• push button to select items
• pick up item
• repeat all steps until you have the number of items desired

Self checkout:

• scan item or place item on scanner/scale and push buttons for item type. This only counts as one step, because you are never doing both to the same item
• repeat first step until you have all items desired
• insert payment
• pick up items

It’s the same steps in a different order.

From what I’ve seen, the slower average time is made up for by having more of the stations. Depending on arrangement, you can fit three self checkouts in the same area as one traditional checkout. In my experience, the self checkout line is always moving faster overall.

I’m also not an employee of the vending machine company. I’m also not an employee of the gas station.

I don’t really see what added value a cashier checking out my items for me has.

Repetition doesn’t magically make an idea less stupid.

Except there’s plenty of issue. Do you think none of those people, whom you already know are inconsiderate, are going to lie about their weight? Hell, they don’t even have to be knowingly lying, their scale at home could just be wrong. Now you have to deal with price adjustments at the gate, and you know people are going to argue with the attendants about that.

You don’t fly much, do you? Getting through check in is a pain in the ass enough as it is, and now you want to add a weigh in and price adjustment step for every person onto that?

Being overweight isn’t the only source of weight variation. If a 6’4" man weighs the same as a healthy 5’0" woman, he’s probably dying.

Any airline that tried this would immediately get sued in just about every country that has any sort of discrimination laws, and the airline would lose ten times out of ten.

The problem also exists on planes that don’t have separate classes. It’s not directly about class warfare in this case.

I never got the whole Chick-fil-A thing. It’s just a fast food chicken sandwich. It’s good, as far as fast food chicken sandwiches go, but that’s it. It’s definitely not the orgasmically awesome food experience some people make it out to be.

That’s fair, but I was mostly speaking to Toronto specifically. In Toronto, the streets are laid out in a simple grid, and the landscape is comparatively flat.

Many routes through the city are inaccessible via only side streets

That’s the part I want changed. Make them accessible, but to bike and foot traffic only. Make it so that biking is actually easier than driving.

One thing that I think Ford might have accidentally gotten right for the wrong reasons is focusing on adding bike lanes to side streets instead of main thoroughfares. Why only stick bike lanes on main roads? Bikes can just as easily travel on side streets, where there is even less chance of getting hit by drivers in a hurry. For side streets that don’t go extend far enough, you could even start building dedicated bike paths to give bikes and pedestrians access that cars can’t use.

Does it even matter if you wind up being a good person either way?

Lucky, most of us weren’t dumb enough to be using our real names.

To be fair, our absurdist brain rot generally centered around silly flash animations and one time viral moments. Modern brain rot is centered around influencers and “real” interactions. That and a lot of older millennials went through childhood at a time when being terminally online wasn’t usually an option.

Every application kind of needs two modes: a default mode where the user is railroaded into making the right decision, and an “I’m not an idiot and will actually read the documentation before/after trying to make things work” mode. If you stick the toggle for the two modes somewhere that you’d only find by reading the documentation, people will automatically categorize themselves into the mode the ought to be in.

I don’t support this decision in any way, but I can at least think of some legitimate motivation for it (assuming the Synology branded ones aren’t marked up from the equivalent Seagate/Toshiba ones). I imagine Synology has to deal with a lot of service calls and returns for issues that are caused by shoddy drives (like those Seagate drives with the fudged lifespan numbers), not by anything that they can directly control.

In reality, the above was probably what sparked the idea, but I’m betting that they’re going to jack up the price of those drives just to squeeze out a little more profit for this quarter.

I’m 90% sure that would block no actual porn.