I can see the value of data networks. If every car on the road is self driving and interconnected, they know where every other car is and can cooperatively adjust their speed and routes to basically eliminate traffic. Even if it’s just every car in a taxi fleet, they can still share their sensor data to build a better operating map from multiple angles. The privacy side of that is rough, but it could drastically reduce accidents compared to individual human drivers.

And then there’s the rotation applied to Dinah Mo Humm’s sugar plum

Spirals are actually quite common. Electromagnetic waves are spirals, the Earth’s orbit spirals through the galaxy. A spiral is just non-static circular motion. Circular motion is one of the most basic and widespread phenomena in the universe, at every scale. It’s not really mysterious that they would show up a lot.

Or Gurren Lagann

Here on Lemmy, especially

American-style tipping goes hand in hand with American-style sub-minimum wages for waitstaff. If your country pays waitstaff a decent wage, the tip is just a little extra for good service.

Probably 5 years ago I wouldn’t see tipping options in the US anywhere but a fancy restaurant

Probably 5 years ago you didn’t go to restaurants. Unless you’re specifically talking about pre-calculated tip recommendations on receipts, and even then it’s been way more than 5 years. The tip line has been standard at table service restaurants for longer than I’ve been alive .

Yeah the McDonald’s and pre-tipping is bullshit, but tipping has been standard for table service in America for like a century.

'member when we stopped monitoring pandemic hotbeds like Wuhan? I 'member

For me, I’ve got a million interests. I could change and learn this one thing, but that would take time away from learning about other, more personally interesting things.

I can think of several use-cases: subtitles for the hearing impaired, translation, AR overlays for technical work, etc. Not saying they’re a good value, but it seems weird to say there’s no use-case.

And I genuinely don’t understand the pervert angle. What do they do for perverts that can’t be done with much cheaper button/pen cameras, or even a phone in your breast pocket?

Like sure, there are problems with surveillance and ads and other nasty tech bro shit, that much is obvious. But I sincerely do not understand why they’re being called pervert glasses. Am I missing something?

If you can’t see it, it can’t eat you

I wonder if that’s because more people are willing to cycle in protected lanes, or if places with high concentrations of cyclists are more likely to build them.

Didn’t she help bury cases during her stint as Florida AG?

They can’t seem to face up to the facts

NFTs would be the digital assets available for trade. In the test marketplace, it was mostly the standard “unique” pictures, but that was just for testing. The idea was to use NFTs as a proof-of-ownership of a digital asset. Instead of a picture of a monkey or something, they’d be like activation codes or in-game assets (skins, guns, etc) with the goal of creating a secondary market for digital assets. There was also the potential to use them for smart contracts, so that the original creator could get a percentage every time one of their assets was sold on the secondary market.

As for the Trump thumping, the only thing I saw was that tweet that said “TRUMP” a bunch, and considering the timing the consensus seemed to be that he was trying to exploit the algorithm. I haven’t seen him actively endorse Trump, though admittedly I haven’t been following very closely the last couple of years. It would be somewhat out of character for him though, he has been consistently vocal against Wall Street shenanigans, particularly predatory shorting and market manipulation.

Eh, the crypto move was pretty reasonable actually. It’s not like they were pumping meme coins, they were trying to build a marketplace to trade digital assets, which is probably the most legitimate application of blockchain. And in any case it seems like they’ve abandoned the idea for now.

Not sure how you can say he “shit the bed”, the company’s only gotten more profitable under his direction.

it would be like going to the Olympics in Berlin 1936.

That’s what it reminded me of! Thanks, that was bugging.me.

Maybe a tax rebate based on tread-wear of the damaged tire? If it still has 50% of the tread, you get a 50% rebate on your tire tax.

Consider yourself lucky.

I used them exactly one time. The driver brought the wrong food, the name and order weren’t even close.

Doordash refused to send a new driver, best they could offer was a credit for not even half the price. Even escalating customer service just got the credit converted to a refund, again for less than half of the charge. The rep could not explain to me what service I had received to justify keeping most of my money.

They are diluting the value of eBay’s shares.

Kinda, but not really. Each share becomes $56 and like 2 new shares. It’s more like a fat dividend than a dilution.

You should look into Cohen’s track record before assuming it’ll go nowhere.