That is true.

Excellent answer.
And I really want to emphasize Location matters.
At a Chucky Cheese or a McDonald’s, I would be pleasantly surprised if you offered drinks. And any adults that dare can rummage through the leftovers from the kids if they are desperate or masochists. But, if we’re at a regular restaurant, then this is clearly not about the kids, this is an adult gathering with the kids as an excuse. There better be at least some kind of appetizers or light snacks. And they should have communicated that clearly. The amount I expect to be fed is directly proportional to how much I had to dress up. If I can roll up in my PJs, shove my child out the car door, and drive away, then I expect nothing from you. Sweatpants and whatever shirt I pulled off of the top of the pile of clean laundry? Then I expect a place to sit and some water. If I had to put on my good sweats and find a shirt without holes or stains, then we are entering charcuterie territory. But, if I need to put on a jacket and tie, then you can bet that I expect appetizers, a steak (or steak equivalent), and liquor or dessert.

Don’t want, both jobs are being decimated by AI, so you should have plenty of time to learn whatever you want real soon.

Unfortunately, we never were. They have just stopped pretending at this point.

And that is how I found my exe’s account on Lemmy…

Holy shit, I didn’t know about that one… And holy shit, I wish I could un-know it now.

For those of us who are old enough to remember peak Google, it is understandable.
They revolutionized and opened up so many things that were grossly monopolized before they got involved. Android broke the telecoms insane grip on cell phone designs and features. Several people have already mentioned how Google fiber changed things in local connectivity, but Google dramatically changed global connectivity way before Google fiber. There used to be only a few international (under sea) connections, and not only was it slow and congested, but entire continents could just drop off the internet for weeks or even months at a time. They broke MS Office’s death grip on basic productivity tools. There was a time where private individuals, even grade school students were required to buy an entire professional productivity (Office) in order to deliver basic school work like writing essays. I can think of almost a dozen ways right off the top of my head that they revolutionized the world and really did take the “Do no evil” slogan to heart.
But, as with every company that “goes public”, they slowly changed from "Do no evil’ to “Do know evil” and now they are exactly the soul and life destroying parasites that they used to free us from.

It will take at least a year for full on enshitifcation to ramp up, so you could always just switch once it goes to shit.

“ran a survey”, this was the only clue I needed to realize that they never planned to do it in the first place. Surveys are so easy to manipulate that if someone tells you they made a decision based on a survey, that you can immediately assume that what they are really saying is that they made a decision that they knew would be unpopular, obviously biased, or otherwise disastrous, but they wanted to blame the decision on “other people”.

And holy shit, she’s 50? That’s three miles of bad Tennesee road.

Alcohol can be rough on the body.

If only scammers went that extra mile…

My son really liked that one, and he would watch it over and over. I can’t even guess how many times I’ve watched it at this point. Although that number pales in comparison to Wall-e. Before he moved on to How To Train Your Dragon, he would watch WALL-E literally on repeat. I used to whisper little prayers of thanks to whatever caused his little brain to fixate on Wall-e rather than some of the other movies he could have fixated on.

FYI, most newer cars have a way for you to turn off the auto lock feature. It is usually a setting in menus, but some might have you do things like close all the doors, turn the car on, and then hold the unlock button for 10 seconds.
Worst case scenario is it has to be done through the programming tool, so if you can’t figure out how to do it yourself, then the next time you have it serviced tell them to turn off the auto-locks.

If I remember correctly, when auto locks were first introduced some countries saw them as dangerous so automakers were required to provide a way to turn it off.

Maybe Uber is trying to start a new dating app. “The best way to pick up chicks is to trap them in your car.”

One of my first jobs out of highschool was a retail job that required a lot of customer interactions (specialty store). I worked there through most of college and now, literally decades later, I still find I have to restrain myself from helping other shoppers who have that “I need help” look.
The best for me was about 5 years after I had moved on from the job, I was in a similar specialty store buying something, and one of the customers that I used to help all the time at my old job saw me. She recognized me and her face lit up like she had been saved. She came over and asked me about something that, thankfully, I knew a fair bit about. And then I spent the next 15 minutes helping her out. When she had everything sorted out I walked to the register with her and we got in line to check out. After she checked out, I put my two small items I’ve been holding on the counter and the employee rang up my purchase. The person I had been helping watched me get out my wallet and start paying for the items, got a very perplexed look on her face, and asked me “wait, don’t you work here?” I shook my head and the look of absolute mortification that crossed her face made me both want to laugh my ass off and give her a hug and console her at the same time. She was like, “I thought you were just waiting to help me put this in the car!”. I told her I was going to help her put it in the car, I just need to buy my stuff first. She was so embarrassed, I wasn’t even wearing anything like the store employees, she was like “I thought you were a manager now!”. I told her nope, I don’t even work retail anymore. When she asked why he didn’t say something to her to let her know, I told her that I knew what she was asking about, and that she was one of the really nice customers that I enjoyed helping at the old job, so I helped because I wanted to.

Lemmy only exists because the people who were too much of an asshole for reddit (they got banned) decided to make themselves a place where they can’t fully be banned. So, ya, there’s still that core of the “I hate everything” asshats that can’t be gotten rid of.
On the other hand, the huge influx of people that abandoned reddit for moral reasons or because they became a fascist propaganda machine are typically very liberal and open minded (woke). But I find that there’s not much room to have nuanced discussions when every such conversation gets brigaded by the small group of haters and their army of alt accounts and bots.
I also have noticed a massive influx of paid shills here pushing divisiveness, “anarchy”, violence, and “social tolerance” fatigue (they ostensibly are promoting social awareness and causes, but go out of their way to insult what is already a woke group). Unfortunately, this attack on social values works well when you have a group that hates everything already. People just aren’t interested in nuanced discussions when any opinion they voice gets them attacked by what appears to be “both sides”.

People sue the us government all the time over just about anything. It’s only under this guy that it seems dangerous. But even then, as long as they bribe him, they can steal from the US government all they want and he won’t do anything.

Spying.

You smoke cigarettes and go on 2 day long bicycle rides for fun? That’s like being a vegan who will eat meat but only if the animal died in some truly awful way.

No, just dumb as dirt.