My story is more tame compared to the others listed, but still a wild 15 minutes for me.

I was walking from my house to a friend’s on a warm April day. As I left my house I saw some rain clouds but figured it was a quick 15 minute walk and I’d be fine, no need for an umbrella.

The first five minutes of my walk, the clouds quickly changed, shit, rain was coming. Sure enough, downpour. Buckets of water coming out of the sky.

Then it paused, for a moment, only for it to start hailing. Bright sun but hail dropping from the sky.

Then nothing. Clear skys, bright sun, a beautiful April day. I picked the exact wrong 15 minutes to go outside.

I assume the person making the dough is also prepping by chopping vegetables and meats, as well as babysitting the machine.

Zero people is impossible (since regardless someone has to load the machine), but reducing from 3 down to 2 or down to 1, that could be possible.

Exactly, the dough alone is a whole job. I found other robots online that pull dough balls directly from a fridge and press them out, so those seem like they would save time.

And those robots also put the pizza into the oven, remove it, and cut it.

if you’re doing all three of those steps, dough, toppings and cooking, that would save some time.

You do still need someone for prep, making the dough balls, cutting most ingredients, filling the various machines, etc. But those robots could be helpful at reducing labor costs. Could being the key word.

If these things break I don’t know how long they take to fix. Sure people “break” too, but they’re easier to swap in.

Kindell previously used Picnic’s robots at T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners, a baseball team.

Usually, he’d need about 10 people to make pizza in such a setup. With the robots that number fell to just two.

So I’m not familiar with the T-Mobile Park setup and I don’t know which specific robot they used, but I found a video demo of the Picnic robot. There is no way that system reduces the number of employees from 10 to 2.

First off you don’t need 10 people to make a pizza. The robot does the “toppings” step, which is the easiest step. You know how I know it’s the easiest step? When you have kids pizza making parties guess which step the kids do? The toppings step.

If he had said it takes 3 people to make a pizza and the robot brings it down to 2, or that the robot speeds up production by 30% or so, that’s believable.

Also the pizza making machine is huge. You’re losing a whole prep area with that thing. If you’re only making pizza then maybe that’s ok, but most pizza places I’ve been too also make sandwiches or other things. A robot making things is a novelty so maybe if you plan a new restaurant with this specifically in mind you can justify the space, but I don’t see this fitting into an existing kitchen.

Yeah Discord is definitely seen less, but it’s also more niche/focused. As an example I saw a post the other day about Linux support for a game .

Something like politics is more public generally speaking.

Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, they are all shared the same way because they are all shaped the same way.

Plus once sharing images of text became the norm, it happened everywhere.

I mentioned deleted content, but what about private content? Discord content is private, so how is it shared? As an image.

Deny, deny, deny

So the reason is historical.

There was a time when Twitter was the source of information. So people got used to linking to Twitter because that’s where the conversation started.

However linking to Twitter is an extra step. If I sent you the message,

“Finally! I knew I was right!!! twitter.com/some/tweet/abc123”

then you have to click to know what I’m talking about. If I include inline the tweet “@nasa: Red balloons are stronger than blue balloons” then you have all the context immediately in whatever app you saw the message.

Plus what if that tweet is taken down/deleted? Now I have to explain what was said.

A solution to this is inline previews. Many news sites use this method and many apps provide an inline preview. But this doesn’t always work, especially if sites, like Twitter, would prefer you to follow the link.

Another reason is how people use social media sites like Reddit or Lemmy. Many of these apps/sites default or have an option for a “card” view or layout. The card layout is great for images, but not so great for text.

As an example visit https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/c/asklemmy , which defaults to the card/large view and just start scrolling mindlessly. If you visit right now you see a large man’s face, a bunch of text, and then eventually a Toy Story meme.

Now try, https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/c/workreform and do the same. You get nice big pictures, mostly tweets, but big pictures. The giant photo of Mitch catches the eye and you can quickly see the context.

Now try both communities again, but switch to the compact view. It’s a completely different experience.

It’s also why sometimes you get communities where the title is the same for every post or “I can’t think of a title”. The title isn’t important, it’s just images.

That isn’t to say that I think one layout over the other is wrong, it’s just a different way to explore.

Sock, sock, show, shoe.

Sometimes you grab two socks and then one of the socks is wrong. I’m not walking around in one shoe to fix my sock problem.

Though my intent isn’t necessarily to get it banned

Oh I agree. Generally speaking the bot is following most rules. But the owner of the bot should claim it properly.

I run a number of bots for the communities I moderate. Their job is to post TV/film discussion threads when that particular media is available. Additionally because a bot posts it the bot sees the reply and not me so I can avoid spoilers. However I am only posting threads for things that I will eventually comment on.

When I look at these bots posts, I don’t completely hate what they’re posting. I think it’s a good jumping off point for discussion. But as you said I’m not going to post my comment to an obvious bot post if there is no chance someone might see it and reply.

In a place like the Fediverse that first comment is EVERYTHING. And not just any first comment, it has to be for lack of a better word “human”. The current state of AI/LLMs are a lot of things, but they’re not human. Not yet at least. Maybe never.

Who runs the “SteamAndEpic” bot?

FWIW the account is properly labeled as a bot, but doesn’t list an owner.

Per Lemmy.World bot rules,

The owner of the bot and contact details must be mentioned in the bot’s bio.

Other than that it doesn’t appear to break any of the bot rules.

I think reaching out to the bot to fill out these details would be appropriate, if somebody wanted to.

In terms of actual content, I agree I don’t find it useful and the fact that it is mostly ignored/down voted it would seem most people agree. I would argue the entire point of social media is human to human interaction.

Ad blocking is done client side in the browser, it’s impossible to hide.

You can obfuscate, but you can do that now.

Its not possible for them to not use Instagram for at least 1h when we meet up.

I don’t use Instagram, so what does using Instagram mean?

Do they browse Instagram, liking and commenting on things? It’s difficult to leave Instagram if the things they want to see don’t exist elsewhere.

Do they take pictures and share them with friends? Because that’s easier to move if the content moves.

Sure, but this was a film only thing,

The character was laid to rest on Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

So you’re not 100% incorrect, but does it happen in 2027? 2028?

Logistically it’ll probably happen eventually, but when?

AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake)

It’s the story of Metroid 2, told in the style of Super Metroid. It adds a bunch of quality of life features and also adds new content that fits the world.

If you like 2D Metroid, you’ll love this game.

I mean nowadays you carry a computer on your person constantly. Your hands are touching a computer, your eyes are looking at a computer.

Computer glasses are seen as the next step.

I’m not confident it actually is, but I understand the why it’s being tried.

So one the arguments around drugs like marijuana is that “under the influence” is difficult to detect and test.

For alcohol we have BAC or Blood Alcohol Content. It’s far from a perfect measurement, but it is measurable and we have laws that define “too much”. It’s also relatively simple to measure.

We don’t have a way to simply measure Blood Marijuana Content or any similar measurement. Even if we can measure it, what is “too much” is also not well defined.

Which I largely mention because “similar to alcohol”, while I agree, is easier said than done.

is it all posturing

we still value our physical culture. Rather than completely abandoning that, we are currently challenging ourselves to shift towards being able to think about and act on the important aspects of digital in parallel.

Yeah. They are challenging themselves to think about the shift.

It Sony doesn’t make disks or the PSwhatever doesn’t have a disk drive… Not much to think about.

It’s a good message, but just a message.

I’m guessing “Damage Control”, at least for Marvel.

They actually are in the MCU but seem to be taking on a different role.

We see them briefly in Spider-Man Homecoming, as them taking over the cleanup of New York being the basis for the Vulture.

We’ve also seen them in other MCU film/TV, but they’re more antagonistic.

There were rumors of a more cleanup focused show, hopefully we get one post Secret Wars.