When I go to Wendy's, which is the only fast food chain I've been into in a while, they come see me at the register promptly even when there is drive through traffic. And there usually is, because most of their orders seem to go through there.

When I eat hot food out, and it's not in a restaurant, I park someplace promptly and eat it. You can always ask your GPS to find you a park, or even just zoom out a bit and look for green shapes.

But I do agree that it's bananas to spend big money for delivery when food is a short drive away. This is the freedom people are talking about in car ownership, to not drive?

Isn't this subjective? For my part I would rather drive to town and get my food as hot as possible and as fast as possible, and without anyone mooching any of my fries.

It doesn't make sense as a reply to this story, but otherwise it makes perfect sense... To anyone who's not a Nazi.

You didn't know who saw it, but you don't know that now. I don't look at everything on a web page. I block out as much irrelevant bullshit as possible, some with my brain, some with tools that may not make it clear that I didn't see the ad.

You only know who clicked the ad, and even that you can't be sure about. But you could know before who was responding to your ad if your ad contained an offer, by who came in asking for it.

That would be a great argument if the volume of the waste was all that mattered.

Did your parents have any children that lived?

Oh look downmodded, I guess the answer is no.

Some dumb fuck on here always wants to tell you how to solve your problems in ways that won't work.

Will you pay my down payment? I did all the right things according to slashdot but my credit score is still only in the low 700s, so it's not enough to access first time home buyers assistance.

My concern is the opportunity to lie.
An empty room is tough to gauge the size of (even in person).
A staged room, with a bed and dresser gives you a better idea of how spacious or not spacious the room is, and how you might furnish it. This is valuable information when forming an opinion about the house and its suitability.

Realtor photos already have a fisheye problem with a lot of the pictures and video as they trying to show more of the room at once which causes scale to be tough to determine.

Add AI staging to that and it is even more problematic, because they can stage it with furniture that isn't scaled correctly. I've seen some AI staging where things are just scaled wrong, like the bedroom dresser is only 4" deep, and couches are sunk into walls. But its not obvious to look at it. Or there's two cars in the garage but they're 15% smaller than they'd actually be so it looks more spacious. OR there's two large couches with a large coffee table between them with a fireplace off to the side, and room to walk around it all and then you realize that either the fireplace is 8 feet high and 12 feet wide and the ceilings are 25' high ... or the furniture is scaled to 25% actual size.

Oops, we forgot to have a society women would want to have children in. Maybe try making it not massively disadvantageous in every way to have children. People's kids used to be low cost workers. Now they are just expensive. Defray those costs if you want people to have children.

If you want women to have kids then make it an attractive option. If you don't care enough to do that then you don't care.

"Maybe Kristi can do an ad for that too."

At least the costume will be cheaper for the taxpayer

You didn't say what size the TV is though or where you sit.

I have an 85" TV in my media room and we sit quite close to it maybe 8-9' away from it.

The difference between 4k and 1080p is very noticeable when watching 4k content. I also use this screen for gaming, and text is noticeably clearer and sharper and easier to read at 4k from the couch (shout out for factorio).

Most movies and games don't really benefit though. I'm just happy when i get good actual 1080p content without lots of compression and other artifacts.

If you are buying a TV to put over the fireplace (too high to sit close comfortably) and/or your living room is laid out that your seating is 15' - 20' away, and you are putting in a 44"-55" TV... you aren't really going to see a difference from 4k.

That's the key: for 4k to be really 'worth it' the TV needs to be BIG and you need to be pretty close to it.
And once you have that - then the content really matters too.

I have yet to see use case for 8k. The same BIG + CLOSE argument for 4k vs 1080p applies but now it needs to be even bigger. And there's practically no content.

Most people are only streaming everything now, and with compression, the image quality is way worse than what most TVs are capable of displaying.

By literally clicking the app icon for Apple CarPlay, in a Volvo, you would have had it.