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Crashumbc lemmy.world Crashumbc@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#202 · Quote Reply

Agreed

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HCSOThrowaway lemmy.world HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-10-04
#203 · Quote Reply

You can always go to big corporation who has plenty of money and can hire a painter.

I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#204 · Quote Reply

The worst is food places. Motherfucker, I don't need to see a representation of what pepperoni pizza looks like. I already know what pepperoni pizza looks like.

I want to see what your pepperoni pizza looks like.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#205 · (edited) Quote Reply

It's worse when their menu pictures have the glitch where it makes things look like triptaphobia? I forget how it's spelled and I'm not going to look it up for obvious reasons...

Waffles. AI waffles always looked so cursed.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#206 · (edited) Quote Reply

Because in addition to already running your own business, you should also be a ad exec and a artist. Listen fuck the ai industry and what its doing, but can we fuck off with hating on the people who use it for what its worth right now? Edit, to be clear, fuck off and suck a dick to everyone who replied to me.

Everyone has like some of the most powerful cameras you can get in their pockets at all times.

There's no excuse, especially with restaurants. Just take a fucking photo before sending the food out for fuck sake.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#207 · Quote Reply

This happened to me a few weeks ago when I was looking through thrift shops to put together a Halloween costume. I went looking store to store for overalls, asked the employees if they had any suggestions. The elderly ladies had legit suggestions (that simply didn’t work out for me), but the young staff just went, “Try Amazon?” The sad truth is, the youngin’s never lived in a world without Amaz...

Perhaps they’ve never gone from thrift store to thrift store looking for treasures (even if they work in a thrift store.)

That's crazy. But on the bright side, that means they're not poaching all the good shit as soon as it arrives lol

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HugeNerd lemmy.ca HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-06
#208 · Quote Reply

I also miss when cities weren't condo oblivions and had character. I really felt this. And the pizza sounded amazing BTW.

Montreal is just becoming a densified condo tower hellscape.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#209 · Quote Reply

And the checkout system is an iPad. With tip prompt, even if it’s just a store.

I've seen some places being more self conscious about this lately and no longer do the tip prompt (or literally pick up the thing themselves and hit "no tip" before handing it over).

Which goes to show that shame can still move the needle sometimes.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#210 · Quote Reply

Dude... alt-gr+dash, or cmd+dash or alt+dash depending on your flavor of OS/keyboard layout. The whole em-dash = ai is so annoying to me cause I've been using em-dashes way before LLMs came to spoil the fun.

Back before llms poisoned it (and I still used Windows), I had the alt code for em dash memorized (prob still have the muscle memory to do it, but not currently at a numpad) because I really liked using them in papers I had to write for school. I read lots of books back then, and recognized how much I preferred using em dashes to commas in specific cases.

I hate that I can't use them anymore lest I be mistaken for someone who uses llms

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#211 · Quote Reply

That's sad. You criticized them into submission.

Sad? I could come up with dozens of words to describe the situation. Sad ain't one of them.

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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-26
#212 · Quote Reply

There were food trucks at a street event here a few weeks ago and some of them had AI menu art. There is no less appealing menu than that.

It's perfectly fine for menus not to have any pictures at all, so I really don't see the point in fake pictures since it gives me the same information.

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myyass lemmy.world myyass@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-02
#213 · Quote Reply

Waffles. AI waffles always looked so cursed.

Oh yeah. I think that was the place I had in mind. Some sort of breakfast place and I had to just close it.

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distal lemmy.ml distal@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-06
#214 · Quote Reply

The first mistake was going to a local business. #fsmallbusiness

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