And the article only refers to airlines in east and southeast Asia.

Oh, I definitely wouldn’t say that “no contact” should be the only option. I think McD’s has taken it a bit too far; you still can order from a person at a register, but it’s pretty much an afterthought now.

But I do think that having those no contact options available for whoever wants to use them, for whatever reason, is a positive thing. If I’m having a particularly bad bout of social anxiety, just sitting at a table and eating my cheeseburger “like a normal person” can be very grounding, but it might not be something I’m able to do if I have to talk to a person to place my order.

Culver’s has started doing tableside ordering at some stores. Go in, sit down, scan the QR at the table. Takes you to a website where you can order and pay. They bring your food to you. It’s amazing, especially for those “I need a cheeseburger without having to talk to anyone” times.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-top-countries-by-wealth-per-person/

Average wealth per adult in the US is five times higher than median. Average wealth per adult in the world (well, across the 39 countries measured) is ten times the median. The difference between average (mean) and median (middle) is because a huge amount of wealth is concentrated in a small number of people.

Whether there is a vast surplus of resources or not isn’t relevant. Resources are power, and power enables collection of more resources.

He’d have died a long time ago.

Yeah, this opinion piece reeks of “buyer’s remorse” for having paid a premium for hardware that has the Apple logo on it, and then being mad that it’s very locked down. That’s been Apple’s thing forever, you kind of can’t blame anyone else for your purchase decision at this point.

For most people, the hardware and operating system are “one thing,” inseparable. Most people are not installing a different OS on their hardware, even if it is possible and relatively simple for people who are technically inclined. Does that mean that most people are “locked in”? Not really, not from their perspective. They bought “the thing,” and “the thing” either works for them or it doesn’t.

So we have this author lamenting that “the thing” he bought doesn’t work for him the way he’d like, without recognizing that if he had specific needs from “the thing” that it doesn’t provide, he failed to sufficiently research “the thing” before purchasing it.

Careful now, spez might see this post and ban you from reddit for it.

Better than those commie pinko two-cock manpits.

The assumptions that people make about age boggle my mind. You know that the people who made the internet are all “old” now, right?

I’d say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers — because most adults probably wouldn’t have the time for that much posting.

Challenge accepted.

Lemmy is a server application. Mastodon is a server application. Pixelfed is a server application.

I don’t use Lemmy. Never have. And yet here I am.

Yeah it’s even worse than that.

fedia.io is a specific “provider” in this context. fedia.io runs on mbin. Lemmy is analogous to mbin. Many “providers” run on lemmy: lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.wtf, etc.

What is being provided is fediverse access. “Fediverse” is not my mostest favorite term, but it’s the one that’s most accurate.

Oh god no. That’s like “I chose Burger King as my McDonald’s provider.”

Since you’re on fedia.io, which runs mbin, I can answer some of that for you.

Under a post (or a comment for that matter) there is a “More” link. “Open original URL” will open a new tab of that post or comment at the instance the user the post or comment was from.

So if I Open original URL on this post, it will open a new tab at fedia.io for this post - because you posted it, and you posted it from your fedia.io account, at that instance.

However, if I Open original URL for the comment by @meldrik@lemmy.wtf a new tab will open of that comment in this post at lemmy.wtf.

That’s how that function works, but the reasons you’d actually want to do it are limited. Perhaps the instance you’re viewing the post through is defederated from some other instance, and so you wouldn’t see comments from users at that instance. Opening the post “somewhere else” that wasn’t defederated from the instance you wanted to see comments from would then let you see them - but not interact there, unless you also had an account at that instance.

So far as I know, fedia.io is only defederated from a very small number of tankie-heavy instances (lemmy.ml and hexbear/chapo.chat are the ones that come to mind). I don’t think the thing you are asking about doing really has a use case.

alt.binaries

It’s okay, we’ll all be able to go back to Digg soon.

“Productivity” is a way to convince you to equate your value as a person with how much of the fruits of your labor you hand over to the ownership class.

Pea is stored in the nuts

[H]umans simply are not built for space.

Well … duh. In order for humans to be “in space,” we have to send them inside little bubbles of “earth.”

A good deal of the point of sending people to space is discovering how people respond to being in space, figuring out which stresses are acceptable and which must be compensated for.

I wish we could divert all of human space flight budget to automating probes. … Once we have space-based automated manufacturing, then it will be the time to bring in the humans.

And if we did that, we would still have to do the things we’re doing right now to figure out how to maintain human beings in spacecraft for long periods of time. There’s nothing wrong with doing both at once.

The fact also remains that it is much easier to operate a manned spacecraft than it is to operate an autonomous/remote one, at the scales of complexity that manned craft and their experiments employ.

Ah here it is (timestamped):

https://youtu.be/V8xarINsqDg?t=245

It is invisible from the driver’s seating position. And it looks like a complete afterthought. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was an option that not all Clios have.