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To be fair the bagging area issue is usually caused by a bad configuration, and usually weight based, not camera recognition.

Different stores setup those systems with varying parameters, some are so strict that just regular product variances go outside their limits.

Digg died once, it will die again.

They'll still further increase prices citing this as the reason to maximize profits further, knowing consumers don't actually shop around much.

All these fast food places seem to have forgotten the place they sit in the economy. They're now the cost of a regular restaurant in many places, and often take just as long now. They just happen to have a drive thru window, and even that's not a guarantee for many of them anymore.

Why should I pay McDonald's $15 for a burger meal when I can get the same thing at the same price from a better quality fast food place, or an actual restaurant burger for the same price?

The only reason people are still going there is because they haven't looked around to realize that other businesses haven't inflated their new prices under the guise of inflation the same way, and those other options are now a much better deal.

They're all going to say they're new hires and weren't educated about any limitations.

DOGE isn't technically new, that requires Congressional approval, Trump just renamed The US Digital Service, a little known department tasked with digital modernization formed after the Obamacare website issues. Then he let Musk do whatever the fuck he wanted with it.

I doubt there's a single USDS employee still there, meaning everyone would have to be new hires with less than 4 months there.

"You can't put your hands on the students"

"Okay"

You don't have to be smart when you're born with a silver spoon like most of these fucks are.

Notice that the actual first generation wealthy aren't the vocally supportive ones. It's the generationally wealthy, the ones that didn't actually make the break into wealth, the ones lucky enough to be born into it.

There's a few exceptions, but they're the ones advocating most vocally for the heinous shit, not just the money making shit.

They just tell him what Putin would like to happen. No leverage necessary. Trump admires dictators, it's clear he wants their approval.

That's exactly most likely an example of my last point. CG can look perfectly real. If you have the tools and references needed, or the time to do everything manually frame by frame, which adds up extremely fast.

Based on the result in The Thing, CGI team almost certainly had no references from actual shooting apart from the bare footage, and even composited shots were inconsistent from each other.

Just install Signal, say you're a journalist, and wait to be added.

This 100%. CGI should be used to enhance traditional special effects, not replace them entirely.

Also, planning properly for CGI can dramatically reduce both the cost and quality of CG. For instance, recording reference lighting to provide the CG team so they can more accurately make any fully-rendered elements. Don't just say "they'll fix it in post". That's where CG cost skyrockets.

I never discounted the meat and dairy industries. They're an issue as well. However...

Fucking almonds use 14% of the water in the State and 2/3 of that is exported. That's a ridiculous use of water for a single shitty crop no matter how you cut it.

Almonds could be removed from most people's diets entirely with very little change on their part, hell most probably wouldn't even notice, and recovering nearly 10% of CA's water usage alone would do more than swapping showerheads. People would definitely notice the result of beef and milk availability dropping by a similar amount. You need to start with the things people won't have to make active changes for.

Dairy is a big issue, like you mentioned... And milk alternatives are much better than dairy when it comes to water usage. But even then, out of those alternatives, nut based options like almond milk use a lot more water in the process than something like oat milk or soy milk. If people are already reducing their dairy usage with alternatives, there should be a larger focus on the ones with larger impact.

Also, everyone always talks trees and CO2, they're a fraction of the global cycle, algae converts 40x as much CO2 as trees do. And it does so much faster, with a higher growth rate. But everyone is always so focused on the trees they ignore easily available alternatives.

Human usage of water, while massive, is a fraction of industrial and agricultural usage. A much larger impact would be seen from limiting controlled water usage for the growth of high usage crops.