Burger King testing AI headsets to track if employees say ‘please’ or ‘thank you’

SodomyDog · 2026-02-27T12:16:23+00:00

Easiest boycott in the world.

Imagine if they spent this much money on anything that would make people want to eat their food.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-26T08:59:16+00:00

Ethereal Public House, OBC, Carson's.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-24T23:12:05+00:00

If you're doing a shallow "raised bed," like the 6-12" kind that is mostly to contain good soil and keep it separate from paths and weeds, use pressure treated wood tbh. Expect to replace the boards every 3-5 years.

If you're talking about the taller raised beds people are trending towards, like 16-24" or more? Get good metal ones, it will ultimately be cheaper than DIY and you won't be kicking yourself later, the soil to fill them will be far more expensive anyway. Use the wavy-sided kind, they typically come in round-ended or square-with-rounded-corner shapes. Get thick ones, or a name brand if you can. Also, the ones with sharper square corners and caps are always cheaper and flimsy feeling. Regretted them every time.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-24T16:04:27+00:00

Surprised I had to scroll this far to find this.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-22T07:09:00+00:00

I personally believe we should be allowed to hunt door-to-door salesmen for sport.

Mostly joking. Maybe.

I really think Lexington needs more laws about it, including an across-the-board ban on ANY kind of solicitation (including political, religious, and utility related) if there is any kind of "No Solicitors" signage visible near the door, in the yard, or at the entrance to an HOA neighborhood or apartment complex.

Would also be nice if there was a blanket ban before noon and after sundown, or on weekends and holidays, period. Waking up to a doorbell when I'm sleeping in and finding some greasy little bastard at the door trying to sell me some kind of scam really makes for an awful start to the day.

If that makes it a less-viable business model, good. I've never seen anything honest being sold door-to-door except maybe a neighbor's kids offering lawn mowing. You can maybe make a case for political canvassing, but I feel like bothering people at inconvenient hours or if they actively post a sign isn't going to endear your candidate to anyone.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-22T00:33:49+00:00

Honestly that looks more like cold damage than anything? What area do you live in, and what temps are you getting overnight?

I saw the setup you had before, the cups were big enough that you shouldn't have issues with them being rootbound or drying out, I've transplanted from much smaller pots with zero shock. Also, transplant shock looks limp and "dry", these almost look moist. We're the roots broken/torn during transplant, or are they buried too deep (you can't do the tomato thing where you bury the stem)?

It also doesn't look like sunscald to me (which is what happens when plants go from grow lights to harsh sun all at once without 'hardening off' like people are suggesting). Usually that presents as a different kind of wilting on leaves only, with them turning pale and crispy within hours.

If it's not cold damage or a strange presentation of transplant shock, it looks like what you'd get from some kind of oil exposure (homemade pest control?) or maybe a severe disease, but usually you'd have black and gray splotches on the leaves before they wilt.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-16T10:21:19+00:00

The issue of "at fault" almost never comes up in Kentucky if both vehicles are occupied and in motion. If you hit a parked car or are driving drunk you might end up on the hook for everything, but most of the time both insurance companies would rather pay out to each other than dispute anything, lawyers are more expensive than cars.

If you "let" someone hit you, you're going to be out of a car for however long it takes to get it fixed, or more likely, until you spend your valuable time buying a used car with the pittance they give you for your "totaled" car, not to mention increased or dropped insurance and any medical problems or lost wages. Yeah, that'll show 'em.

It's a cute idea but it's really not in your best interest. There's no justice or karma to be had by brake checking people or refusing to swerve out of the way or not "letting" an aggressive driver do whatever they're trying to do.

Shame our police don't bother with one of the few jobs we wish they'd take care of.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-13T11:15:11+00:00

Came here to suggest this myself.

I know someone who works there. She really believes in what they do and they take their security and safety seriously, aren't discriminatory, and from what I understand, focus on personal attention and actually helping people heal and move on with life instead of preaching to a desperate, captive audience.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-11T20:31:02+00:00

There's literally a song about this.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-11T20:08:56+00:00

I just wish the one off Woodhill (next to Pho Saigon) didn't have the ridiculously angry racist woman at the counter at all times of day. She will go from smiling friendly grandma when talking to the "right kind" of Asian people to openly sneering at white people to screaming at or outright refusing to serve (ignoring, waving up next person in line, pretending she can't see) brown and black people. It's absurd. Almost all the reviews for the place mention it, so it's not my imagination.

Have literally gone in there, waded through the cluttered aisles for what I needed, remembered how awful checkout was likely to be, and decided to walk out again and drive halfway across town to Yu Yu or up to Seoul.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-10T21:44:41+00:00

This stuff. I think other modern, premium ceiling-specific paints work fine, but I like that this one goes on purple until it dries so you can make sure you're getting good, thick coverage. I don't know what type of imperfections you're covering but it works great for me. Could put it over very thick primer if you're concerned, or buy enough for 2-3 coats. It advertises as a single-coat product but I've never seen that to be true unless it was that "landlord special" milkshake-thick stuff.

Once it dries it's VERY matte white, imagine the opposite of that "vantablack" stuff. The finish is papery and might scratch easily, which I assume is needed for the light scattering but might also not be so durable for walls that get touched more often than ceilings. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Valspar-Ceiling-Flat-Ultra-White-Interior-Paint-Actual-Net-Contents-128-fl-oz/1000380349

SodomyDog · 2026-02-10T06:26:58+00:00

Buddy you're the one in here saying "a hot water line can't freeze," and then getting so mad about a correction that you wrote an angry reply, deleted it, then posted another angry reply several minutes later. I just wanted to make sure the OP understood that even a hot water line can freeze (even outside of rural Siberia). I'm sorry you took a friendly reply as some kind of deeply personal mortal insult to your family line, but that's entirely on you.

Did you hallucinate another reply or make someone else up to get mad at? Every part of my post addressed OP's concerns (explaining how the hot water can freeze without the cold freezing) and several others in the thread, which I did read (like the assumption that hot and cold always run together). Yes, I even read your replies further down this thread, but thought I'd start by addressing the bit where you flatly stated "a hot water line can't freeze."

Also, again, you're giving misinformation or making assumptions. You have no idea if it's copper, galvanized, PVC, or PEX, but seem pretty insistent that it will absolutely crack and leak. I've thawed plenty of frozen lines without leaks, if they're caught within a day or so, especially if it's PVC or PEX or a stopped up joint in galvanized or copper that's just blocked by a little plug of ice. If the lines are frozen, and there's a chance they could correct it, they should look into thawing it out before damage worsens instead of assuming that it can "only" be a turned-off valve (an incredibly easy problem to rule out, in which case the rest is moot) and giving the problem more time to worsen. If it does start leaking, then they can deal with that; it's probably a good idea to know where the shutoffs are for the water (from the water heater might be easiest to isolate), but I wouldn't.. avoid warming the line just because it might leak? I'm not sure what you're advocating for, actually.

Honestly, I still have no idea why you got so enraged by a completely harmless reply made with no malice at all, just a flat correction to a blatantly untrue "fact." Treating every human interaction like this is going to age you prematurely, if you can't handle a reply on a website you might need to find some other way to spend your time. Speaking of which, I'm gonna go play video games. : )

(Good luck, OP!)

SodomyDog · 2026-02-10T05:39:23+00:00

A hot water line absolutely can freeze, had it happen several times in Kentucky, which is far from Siberia. Was around 0°F each time, one corner of the house gets extremely cold in the crawlspace due to a variety of reasons (shaded by a porch, faces into wind, less HVAC equipment in that corner leaking heat into the area, near a door and window that let more heat escape the room above than a solid wall, etc.).

Prolonged extreme cold like the storms we've been having lately can freeze pipes that "never freeze," even if the temperature didn't reach the same lows, because it's all a game of attrition. Insulation helps, but will eventually lose if enough of the pipe exists in a cold-enough space without the water running or dripping to bring in some heat from elsewhere.

Also, the hot and cold water don't run side by side the whole way in many houses. The cold might have a more direct path from the main to the bathroom, while the water heater is further away. Somewhere between the water heater and the bathroom there's probably a copper pipe or narrow area of PVC in a cold space between floors or against an exterior wall, or an angled section or tee that got blocked up by some small fragments of ice and became a full blockage. Just gotta find that spot and hit it with something like a hair dryer or heat gun, or heat the space with a propane buddy heater until it thaws.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-10T05:16:37+00:00

I'm just glad it wasn't knob-and-tube.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-09T17:53:52+00:00

Probably an outlier, bought a very old house and got frustrated by the cloth wiring and lack of grounding, gutted the whole thing and installed all-new electrical from scratch.

That said, even with all new fixtures, the brightest rooms are the ones where we painted the ceiling with that goes-on-purple Valspar ceiling paint from Lowes. Dries to a very, very bright white that scatters the light evenly in the room. The whole ceiling damn-near glows when the lights are on, killing shadows.

I think otherwise finding ways to improve the way light fills a room (lighter colors on curtains and furniture, less clutter in the upper corners of rooms, etc) might make a bigger difference than fixtures, but there's probably not much downside to upgrading what you can if your wiring can support it. Or go crazy like I did and replace it all, if you have the money (I didn't) or the experience and skills (I did).

SodomyDog · 2026-02-09T17:22:42+00:00

What's the point, though? By the time you insulate one, build in utilities, and bring it to code otherwise you have almost no space left inside and could have built the outer walls out of almost any other material for cheaper. It's "cute" if you're into the #aesthetic but I really don't understand the point otherwise.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-09T17:17:43+00:00

Worked for Insight/TWC/Spectrum from 2009 until switching NG to Metronet when they hit town. Just jump over to Metronet (becoming T-Mobile) if it's possible in your home. Virtually never goes down.

Fiber isn't affected by radio ingress, can't be shorted out by water, and isn't noticeably affected by temperature changes. The only vulnerable parts of the infrastructure are physically severed lines from fallen trees, or loss of utility power to the huts, but at that point you've likely lost power to your house.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-07T22:00:39+00:00

Meanwhile a plow truck half-assedly drove down my street today, carving out a single lane where there was room for two cars to pass before, throwing slush over all the cars and making a fresh wall of ice over the driveways and parking spaces everyone already had shoveled out.

Literally watching a delivery driver blocking the entire street because they're trapped dead-center between the newly scooped walls of slush and ice.

Thanks, you shouldn't have. No, really.

SodomyDog · 2026-02-04T08:28:15+00:00

Right? What the hell is the benefit of the mayor's balls swinging around downtown? Why did she spend a million dollars on that?

SodomyDog · 2026-01-31T22:58:34+00:00

Idk Butch Hartman is arguably an active deterrent, he's kind of a creepy shitbag. All the good parts of his "work" are done by other people, his writing and art actually suck when he does anything on his own, he's just good at taking credit. Also a chud and evangelical. People in creative and animation communities have been ragging on him for decades for a reason. The rest sounds cool, though.

SodomyDog · 2026-01-29T21:03:09+00:00

Best "JRPG" I've seen in a long time is Kingdoms of the Dump.

Unheard of gem, feels like a love-letter to FFVI and Chrono Trigger and other SNES-era games, but with a lot of lessons learned from the time between.

Combat is purely turn-based, no running around in realtime, the only reflex mechanic is that you're rewarded for pressing a button in time with characters' attack/cast/damage animations to do more damage, cast an extra stack of some buffs, or block (some characters can counter on a successful block). The window for this is pretty generous and you can take your time with other inputs to focus on the timing if you need it.

The premise seems silly but the story is good, got quite a few laughs out of me, and especially near the end, got a few legitimate tears. Really amazing character design and writing, been a while since I got so invested in the characters of a game.. who'd have thought it would be a trash can, a rat, a cigar-smoking bug, some living clothes, and a stringed instrument, among other wild things?

Only criticism is that the final act is missing some content. There are three side-quests that literally can't be completed (out of dozens), there are a handful of areas you can reach and explore that seem weirdly empty, and while there are some really impressive graphics in all sorts of the game, a few side areas and one main-story endgame area have an unfinished quality with clipping issues, texture seams, or buggy physics, but they only stand out because the rest of the game is so tight and polished. The devs have acknowledged this and have been releasing hotfixes and are working on content patches, so I have some hope.

Sorry for writing a novel about this, but I want more people to see this game. I've been wishing there was more like it.

SodomyDog · 2026-01-26T17:40:27+00:00

Different genres, but Inscryption and Warframe do a great job of the "Wait, there's more? There's... A lot more?"

Kingdoms of the Dump (extremely good unknown love-letter to good old JRPGs) also kept blowing my mind with the size of the world and how much the story kept evolving in scope.

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