I understand the common cultural sentiment that tipping has gone too far. I don’t think that we need to abolish the system altogether because, under a tipping system, waiters and bartenders are actually able to make a living wage in America. I don’t trust that if waiters were making a fair hourly wage, they would …
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Dude Freaks People Out by Claiming to Invent AI Bot to Talk to Women on Dating Apps
As if there weren’t enough problems with dating apps, people are often fake in the way they present themselves on them. Catfishes and fake profiles are a common occurrence, one that experienced Tinder users become adept at dodging. Things are about to get a hell of a lot more difficult, though, because there have been …
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DALL-E Is Making Crazed AI-Generated Art Pieces That Speak Volumes About The People Behind Them
If you’re somebody that spends a lot of time on certain corners of Twitter, you may have recently found your feed clogged up by a particular type of monstrosity. I’m not talking about the latest flavor of ridiculous discourse, or that one guy you follow who is the living definition of a desperate need to …
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Absurdly Intricate Gadget Packaging Has Twitter’s Imagination Running Wild
If you happen to be a cat or a baby, the best thing about receiving a gift is often the box that it comes in. Nothing sets off the imagination like a plain cube full of packing peanuts, after all. Consumerist garbage that we are, the rest of us don’t tend to share that same …
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4-Year-Old Starts Adorable Budding Friendship With Siri
While they might secretly be stealing all our personal data and occasionally telling us good ways to murder ourselves, it’s easy to get attached to our virtual assistants. Without going full Her (2013), it can be nice to feel like we’ve got a friend in our servile devices that may or may not one day …
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Jamba Juice Robot Gets Dunked On For Failing Miserably At Its Job
If we’re really living in the future that the tech bros want and we’re getting automated out of our jobs, you would hope the machines that replace us at least do things properly. Well, bad news for any juice mixologists out there: it looks like the robots are coming for you, but they don’t have …
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