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AI Alberta
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This on my Facebook feed, an AI generated image (or at least I think it is, I've driven most of the roads there and don't recall seeing this...)
Best Reddit Burn Ever and r/darwinawards
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Following the assassination attempt on Trump one user responded with perhaps the best summation I've seen...
And I've just discovered the r/darwinawards reddit thread. Social Media & Cellphones means video proof of Stupidity with the highest consequence, never as refined as American Politics, but - been watching the RNC and Biden and this is a hell of a lot more cheerful.
July 18, 2024
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And it begins. A fire in the distance, visible from my apartment, the plume of smoke, the ceaseless sound of water bombers.
Last night a quick thunder and lightening storm that dropped little for rain but lots for lightning and - from the rainiest spring I remember to - in the span of 2 weeks, what is likely to be another record year for forest fires. A slight haze this morning has become already a pall upon the town.
The Cantino (El Centro)
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Tuesday, Taco Tuesday and I'm headed off to the Cantina for a lazy snack.
They pride themselves on their fashionability, with their fancy servers (fashionable) and the sidewalk stamped with "Agave" leaves where you're supposed to line up to be seated.
There are a couple of people ahead of me in line, the server is busy running inside-out to the patio, inside, look through the window, the restaurant is empty. Outside, the patio about half full.
Wait. Wait. They subscribe to the "Make people wait" philosophy, like what you get at fashionable nightclubs where there's always a line even when the nightclub is empty...
After a time the man first in line, judging by his accent and demeanor a British Twat on vacation, starts berating the server...
"How long do we have to wait here...????"
The server is apologetic, not her department, she'll grab the hostess inside...
And then walks off.
Next time she crosses to the patio he's had it, gives her a piece of his mind, and - while I dispute his delivery, his means of telling her, which is just rude, he's right.
They walk off, and I give up. Inside the restaurant is still empty.
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9:30 PM AM and I'm still hungry. I walk down to try again at the Cantina.
Inside, empty, more staff than customers. Hostess, server, numerous cooks. Outside, patio, waiter crossing again, 2 tables. One is getting the bill. Waiting in line, waiting. Maybe they're closed? No one comes to acknowledge me. 10 minutes later and the waiter is still standing beside me, on the patio, talking to the customers, and I give up yet again. Service here is a bunch of fancy tattoos and dreadlocks, admire them for their fashionability, otherwise non-existent, it looks like this summer I'll be cooking for myself.
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