Bwahaha:

4. Even if you do want a pizza, you should probably be careful with this provider. In testing, I once nearly ordered every item on the Domino’s menu, which would probably have been expensive and embarrassing.

Reminds me of the old adage:

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila.

No mitigating circumstances

I wonder what would be a mitigating circumstance?

We read the reviews, we figured it couldn’t be that bad. It was worse. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vd7ce36pNzdWb5vRA

I think, I hope that search engines could solve this?

Is is pronounced eye-vee-eye, or pipe-slash-(slash-?)slash-pipe(-pipe?)?

Reminds me of that time McDonald’s held sole rights to sell chips throughout the London 2012 Olympics, preventing independent food outlets from serving chips with any meal.

For me it’s Half Life 2 because I have such a specific and vivid memory of playing it the first time in my rainy London flat in 2004.

It was this exact moment when I had the experience, for the first time in my life, that:

I’m in this world, I am a part of the game.

Funny OP calls out Half Life: Alyx as one of the best VR games, when VR is all about being ‘immersive’.

But for me that moment 16 years earlier will always be the moment I first experienced being ‘immersed’ in a video game.

I think the USA’s National Weather Service Twitter presence is a good example.

If you look deep enough you’ll see caveats like “supplemental service provided by NWS” and “Twitter feeds and tweets do not always reflect the most current information”, but the truth is that a lot of people (and news organizations) depend on Twitter as their main interface to the NWS, and rarely if ever go to their website.

That obviously creates a tension, which bubbles up in scares like this:

Before last weekend’s storm, the National Weather Service’s Baltimore-Washington office sent this tweet saying that because of a new Twitter policy, automated tweets that show advisories, watches, and warnings might not load.

Contrast that to a world where NOAA (the federal administration which runs NWS) has their own instance: they get the benefit of being able to disseminate updates in a consumer friendly ‘social media’ style and they retain full control of platform and can be sure the service won’t be held hostage, or go down in the middle of a storm.

Finally: if you’re reading this from the USA, consider contact NOAA/NWS to let them know you’d like a fediverse presence, I did!

Source: @jensorensen@mastodon.social