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  • Not if you’re selling whole burgers, but the “set dressings” are allowed to be fake.

    You can use fake pancakes to advertise a syrup, and fake syrup to advertise pancakes. McD’s can’t use fake mayo on pictures of burgers, but you can use it in the “serving suggestion” picture if you’re selling frozen burger patties.









  • There was this old book in my school classroom I remember that was speculating about the future; it had illustrations of robot butlers and maids helping people about the house in that 1960s-painting style. Think the future as seen in “The Jetsons”, or Andrew from “Bicentennial Man”.

    That’s the “robot assistance” I was promised. So I’d say to my robot “Hey, can you turn the lights down?” And a humanoid robot would walk over to the light switch and turn the lights down.

    Of course, it turns out building robots like that is hugely expensive so it’s easier to just sell smart lights that connect to a voice-activated app on your phone. That’s just not the same as a true general purpose robot, dammit! There’s no whimsy. Generative AI is ruining the Internet and for what? I’m no closer to my true robot butler and flying car than I was 20 years ago.




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    2 days ago

    I think some cultures are entirely unfamiliar with the idea of not eating meat at all.

    Like that line from Big Fat Greek Wedding. “He doesn’t eat meat? Is okay, I make lamb.”

    They treat it the same way we might treat the phrase “he doesn’t drink.” Which means no alcohol, not “no consuming liquid of any kind.”

    No meat is just taken to mean no whole meats, like cuts of steak. So you get “no meat in the soup, just a bit of the chicken stock for flavour.”