All the McD*nalds in my area have been upgraded with order kiosks. Regardless of all the controversy around self-checkout, and minimum wage, and automation taking our jobs, I personally love them. I can take my sweet time composing my order, I can see the full selection (such as it is), I can see pictures and prices clearly...
Orville was amazing, everything I remember trek being from my childhood. Weirdly I rewatch that childhood trek now and it isn’t what I remember… But Orville does it right.
More often than not, the best way to hide is to simply blend in with the crowds – this also encompasses one’s choice for a username. It is relatively simple to make a single throwaway account – just come up with a username, and off you go – however, if one makes throwaway accounts often, the task of thinking of a unique,...
I think the yanks are having some sort of election, it usually is around Cup Day. They don’t have compulsory voting like us, so it’s a bit different attitudewise.
So I figured I would google it, evidently some USian reference… First few links were to when students drop out of Uni or other tertiary education, apparently they are referred to as turkeys, and turkey dropouts. For some reason. Or alternatively they break up with their partners.
But apparently that is a reference to dropping live turkeys out of a helicopter in a sitcom. It sounds somewhat bloodthirsty, and I do not want to see such a thing, though I can imagine… Terrifyingly that is apparently a reference to a real world event of dropping live turkeys from the back of a moving truck…
Okay. Huh.
I knew Americans were weird about turkeys and have a holiday set aside for them, but this seems ridiculous somehow.
A lot of solar panels are now semitransparent too, now, meaning as you said people can grow plants below them. I love the shading cars in parking lots idea, but no one seems to have impemented that in Australia just yet.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. But the former president will break routine Sunday, putting off his practice of quietly watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Plains....
…If he lives in a one storey house (makes me wonder seeing as most people do live in a one storey house, but I guess he could live in an apartment or something) why is there a picture of a two storey house in the cake photo? weirdness.
A couple who turn their conservatory into a free Santa’s grotto to ensure no family misses out on Christmas say they have been overwhelmed by the response....
"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
Cope (lemmy.world)
Just once I’d like a post where everyone is chill and positive about stuff instead of focusing on negative...
This fast food order kiosk accepts cash (mander.xyz)
All the McD*nalds in my area have been upgraded with order kiosks. Regardless of all the controversy around self-checkout, and minimum wage, and automation taking our jobs, I personally love them. I can take my sweet time composing my order, I can see the full selection (such as it is), I can see pictures and prices clearly...
When is season 4 anyway? (izzydata.xyz)
What should be used for anonymous usernames?
More often than not, the best way to hide is to simply blend in with the crowds – this also encompasses one’s choice for a username. It is relatively simple to make a single throwaway account – just come up with a username, and off you go – however, if one makes throwaway accounts often, the task of thinking of a unique,...
This may be the dumbest thing I've made yet. Sorry, Risa. (startrek.website)
You can always count on Garak ...or can you? (startrek.website)
For the American people of the Federation, today is voting day. (i.imgflip.com)
I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform (startrek.website)
Totally get why it’s infuriating but it does look pretty cool. Especially when it’s so subtle you don’t notice it easily without a closeup.
An unusual scene (startrek.website)
I fell for it
It's that time of year when Scotty's brain melts. (lemmy.world)
I'll take "Dyson sphere-level douchebags for 300" (startrek.website)
It's that time of year again... (lemmy.world)
Les Nessman, his bandaid replaced.
The world's largest single-site solar farm just came online (electrek.co)
New Portable Water Treatment System Vaporizes 99% of ‘Forever Chemicals’ (www.extremetech.com)
All you ever need (startrek.website)
Tamarian out of order sign. (lemmy.world)
Jimmy Carter turns 99 at home with Rosalynn and other family as tributes come from around the world (apnews.com)
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. But the former president will break routine Sunday, putting off his practice of quietly watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Plains....
I love mankind...it's *people* I can't stand. (pxscdn.com)
31 'very sick' babies have been evacuated from Gaza's largest hospital, where trauma patients remain (apnews.com)
Free Santa's grotto family floored by demand (www.bbc.co.uk)
A couple who turn their conservatory into a free Santa’s grotto to ensure no family misses out on Christmas say they have been overwhelmed by the response....