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New comment by croon in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

croon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:58:35 +0000

IANAL, so I won't quote relevant text from previous link, but I believe promotional photos need to be of the actual food (ie not substituting shaving cream for whipped cream to deal with melting issue), but it will likely be a very picturesque version of it, though they are indeed (less, but still) askew in those photos. I looked a bit further, and it seem the American BK uses similar (though not exact) photos of their JP counterpart now, maybe it's a trend, but I did find a rather stark contrast with their AU counterpart (naming is another story):

https://www.hungryjacks.com.au/Upload/HJ/Media/Menu/product/...

compared to the Japanese:

https://www.burgerking.co.jp/images/menu/web/main/2025/09/04...

New comment by croon in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

croon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:40:37 +0000

That would be the charitable reason, but I wonder if it could be more related to their laws on accurate representations in ads (Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations [0]).

[0] https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2303/e...

New comment by croon in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

croon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:05:43 +0000

Describing something does not equal condoning something. Whether GP is correct in assessment or no, they are describing a pattern they see, as an observer. I don't see a value judgment in their language unless I'm missing something.

Whether they are correct or not I'm not going to weigh in on, but I will make the claim that figuring out why something happens is the best way of preventing it from happening again.

New comment by croon in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

croon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:55:41 +0000

The joke is specifically that they can repost it without changing it each and every time.

It's not the joke's fault.

New comment by croon in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

croon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:10:30 +0000

If the artists have live shows, it's generally a good indication it's not AI (for now at least).

New comment by croon in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

croon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:02:45 +0000

Monkeys don't generally like killing other monkeys though.

New comment by croon in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

croon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:23:42 +0000

Being a customer of a bank and being in a Palantir dataset is not the same. The people in the data are not the customers of Palantir.

New comment by croon in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

croon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:29:43 +0000

> The opinion I may not 'deserve', is that I'm not playing your/ this game.

It's your game regardless if you vote or not. Not voting is in practice the same as voting for who wins. That is the only choice you have at election day. Beyond election day you can try to participate in a movement that pushes congress to implement ranked voting or help get other primary nominees etc, but anything other than voting for the least bad candidate in a two party system is naive.

New comment by croon in "Arm AGI CPU"

croon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:22:17 +0000

Huge IANAL disclaimer to start, but your post started off with:

> No. For it to be securities fraud, Arm would need to make a materially false statement of fact that misleads investors. Naming the CPU in this way doesn't clear the bar because:...

The EVP statement doesn't say "our CPU does AGI", sure, but is it unfair to suggest it makes some form av AGI claim, which isn't there from the naming alone?

It's no longer your point A) "clearly product brand" if the established usage of the term "AGI" comes out of the EVP's mouth.

And yes, their (albeit very vague) claim is clearly wrong IMHO.

New comment by croon in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

croon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:28:42 +0000

The difference, I think (as an "over-user" of computers all throughout childhood) is that there were no basis for "they said same about video games", but there is a lot of basis for "social media is a net bad" now.

Do I believe the UK is doing this for the right reason or the right way? Absolutely not. But I also don't agree with the comparison of now and when I was a kid/teen.

New comment by croon in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

croon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:12:57 +0000

There's a case to be made for "real wages" not capturing what they're meant to capture though, at least if you look at housing [1].

And this isn't even considering the productivity growth over time having a widely asymmetrical distribution, ie not captured by the median person.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-american-income-vs-...

New comment by croon in "Arm AGI CPU"

croon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:57:46 +0000

I was on board with A through C, but then with D it's either clearly a lie or stupidity. I guess it's not a lie technically if they believe it though, so the latter then. But I also don't want to assume someone in their position to be stupid, so then I'm back to the former.

New comment by croon in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

croon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:47:22 +0000

I've rebought games on Steam I had on Epic for free, just because the platform is so terrible. As far as a metric goes, that's pretty clear.

It's definitely not about lock-in for me. It's everything from local streaming, to linux support, to cloud saving working properly, to 100s of other things that become apparent if you try to do anything other than launch a game in a bog standard way on a windows machine.

New comment by croon in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

croon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:20:13 +0000

Yes, but it's easier to fail when the markdown (or NIH markdown in the case of Confluence) is far removed from the code it describes. Which is why you should document closer to the products. Markdown files living by your code and even generated from code is way better than any experience I've had with Confluence (which is closing up on two decades soon enough).

New comment by croon in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

croon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:52:17 +0000

By that definition all terrible aspects of the concept are the same as the fun.

New comment by croon in "First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3B"

croon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:07:04 +0000

They "obliterated" their nuclear program last june [0], unless you're calling them liars?

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/irans-nuclear-fa...

New comment by croon in "Blacksky AppView"

croon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:38:46 +0000

The point isn't "literally everyone can run it", but to refute that "only Bluesky can run it and thus lock everyone in".

New comment by croon in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

croon — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:36:49 +0000

You're snart. You can figure out why those 3M files they were legally required to release weren't released. Also, the article specifically mentions thks.

New comment by croon in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

croon — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:55:37 +0000

38k mentions in the released files. 3M files not released (among which for example [0]). We all know why.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-t...

New comment by croon in "We Will Not Be Divided"

croon — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:35:14 +0000

Not one person in the current administration or its party (or yourself) would agree with you a few years ago in regards to the administration having communications with Twitter/Meta over a laptop story, regardless if any strongarming even took place at all.