It’s not too much of a wish to break up these massive fraudulent companies that serve no one except scammers and ad agencies pushing products that are broken by design.

They should be broken up and shut down no matter what will be “shifting” as a result (whatever that is supposed to mean)

The brightest minds of our generation are working on making us click more ads — its dangerous and an unimaginable waste.

Why the hell was this flagged? It’s an excellent and funny read that finally makes an original point regarding the decay of academia and great outlook how digital media and LLMs will and have changed literature culture.

How the hell was this gem flagged @dang? One of the best things I read on HN and I almost missed it…

Damn and I thought I was the only one who had this genius idea…

Which means?

i don't know enough about the topic to derive any meaning unfortunately

Here are the changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cancer_Alley&diff...

Here’s the talk page of the person who removed the content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bon_courage#January_...

Some strangely interesting flame wars there about similar edits.

Strange as hell. No job is worth this - I would rather cleaning toilets in some shithole than spend all my time commuting

Particularly if that commute required going through TSA, sitting in an economy seat. Even with pre-check it sounds unpleasant.

I have heard stories of people supercommuting via train, which at least is not totally dead time and is more comfortable.

I commuted once per month by train (meaning I took the train once per month to work in office for a week) and it was fine - most of the time wifi works and it’s reasonably comfortable. It’s kinda bad if wifi doesn’t work and the train is super full.

Doing that twice every day would also be torture, spending 8 hours in the train daily. I can’t fathom what would a human compel to do this.

Dominos has the best checkout experience I ever experienced online. Nothing can beat it IMO, at least nothing I came across.

Now they only sell (arguable mid) pizza, but when I order there it’s delightful (to use an overused 2023 marketing buzzword)

They do a lot of interrupting the buyer with up-sell attempts. I'd have singled them out as notably bad, among fast food pizza chains, actually.

Interesting, which ones would be notably good in your opinion?

To be fair we don’t have many fast food pizza chains in my country, it’s mostly dominos and a few small ones (with abysmal online order experience)

Well, I was maybe a little unfair because the competitors have at least partially “caught up”, but at one point, of Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, Godfather’s, plus a couple online pizza store SaaS used by smaller local chains, Domino’s was the only one that would interrupt me to make me click “no thanks” to some offer or other before proceeding, including during checkout. Multiple times per order, in their case—they’d do it once or twice in the checkout flow, plus sometimes after adding an item to the cart. I dropped them from the “oops we failed at getting dinner ready, what can be delivered and is cheap-ish?” rotation for a while over it.

They’re still the worst about it AFAIK but more of their competitors now do that at least once an order now, too, so the difference isn’t as large.

Off topic: once worked at a company that built a "domino tracker" of some security service we were installing on customer hosts. The company spent more time and money on the tracker than the service installation. The installation tooling failed most of the time and threw errors out for "ephemerality". Good times.

Their regular round pizzas are ok, but now that PizzaHut is gone, the Dominoes pan pizza is my go-to.

Pizza Hut is gone?

Nope.

I worked in a Pizza Hut delivery place when I was in college. I just took my son back for a campus visit and yeah, 30 years later, its still there - same location and save a few minor changes, the building still has the exact layout. A testament to whoever laid out the original floor plan.

That's because they need you to hurry up and pay for the terrible pizza before you change your mind.

(I too eat Domino's on the odd occasion the app doesn't take long enough for me to change my mind).

In my city they used to have a 25 minute (!) click to door delivery guarantee. Extremely impressive.

baking on the delivery motor

As someone who worked a long time in service (not in America, in the anecdotally much more socially cold Germany) I was friendly and welcoming to all customers (unless I had a really bad day for some reason, so about 95% of the time) and I always meant it.

It just makes your work much more fun and time pass faster than being sullen and distanced. It hs nothing to do with my wages being on the line, I literally had zero obligation to be nice to customers. But every once in a while I had a pleasant interaction and that made it worth the effort.

I would bet it’s the same for your crockery clerks. That kind of work is very boring and repetitive and social interaction is the only respite you get from it. Just something to keep in mind when you are feeling cynical about them greeting you friendly and so on.

Thank you for sharing.

I agree that growing equality is a problem but the farmers are far from poor. In fact they had rising profits for the last decade or so.

There is some interesting data here - by the way data from 8025 yearly reports by farmers, so I think we can assume this is accurate: https://www.situationsbericht.de/5/52-buchfuehrungsergebniss...

See this graphic especially: https://magazin.diemayrei.de/storage/media/situ/46722.jpeg

The only ones who had sinking profits are the winegrowers. Wheat producers increased 27%, cattle too, all the while help by the state fell by 10%.

So I’m pretty much over the poor farmers protesting in Germany - of course the growing inequality __overall__ is a huge problem.

The problem is more corrupt politicians, a more and more unhinged “free market” and just the dystopian hellscape that capitalism is becoming. Of course cutting social services and benefits for 30 years+ straight will have some effect on the general population. Thank Schröder and the SPD for starting this and Merkel and the CDU for decades of inaction until it was too late and there was no more room for action. Now we will have a far right government next election cycle and the best plan they can come up with is to peddle the same lies that the AFD is spouting: that immigration is to blame for growing problems - when in reality immigration is the one thing that props up this failing system.

Speaking as someone who had to maintain a Discourse instance for two years: It’s mature and proven but still a lot of work to maintain. We went away from Discourse because it was not a reasonable use of time and not trivial - so you needed someone with dev skills to take care of it.

What are the alternatives that are less work to maintain?

Slack was the alternative. We use a service that creates a static page from all Slack conversations so this way we have a searchable index and can work around the messages disappearing due to the free plan. There are other limitations but it works well enough for a community of about 4-5000.

Discord is much harder to manage, has many security risks, kids raiding your server, exposes emails from every user easily, and has a very shady business model.

I would never use it for something professional/business related.