I used to do the 'keep the change' thing but I don't pay much in cash anymore. I do tip (in cash of course, always in cash) deliveries in bad weather tho.
I was in the states a couple years ago and they were using cards like in the nineties. When paying at a restaurant they take it, then come back with the bill, you write the tip and sign it, and then is charged... my European (visa!) cards didn't like that shit one bit and would get rejected half the times.
Over here, for the Americans, the server brings you the bill, if they don't already bring the terminal you tell them you're going to pay with a card. They enter the price, you put your phone or card close to it, they ask 'd'ya want the ticket?' 'No, thanks' 'ok thank you! Have a nice day!'.
I just think that many people are underestimating a very powerful tool. Taking labor from humans is the good part! Oppressing, controlling, spying... are the dangerous and scary parts. Even the adds! Imagine the level of personalization they can get.
I do dare to equate them. Sorry if it offends you but I'm not religious or spiritual. Thought, reasoning, consciousness... are just the product of the computing power of the human meatware. There's no reason that computing couldn't be done by electronics instead of chemistry. Are we there yet? I don't think so. Will we? Who knows. Equating llms to an autocorrect is like equating a lightbulb to a modern computer.
And answering your first two paragraphs: no they aren't doing great at that. In fact search engines have been going to shit in the last few years. And no it's not ai's fault, I would say it's seo's and upper management's.
When I'm asking a question I don't want to hear what most people think but what people that are knowledgeable about the subject of my question think and LLM will fail at that by design.
I mostly use it to ask about something that I can describe but I don't know or can't remember the word/name. But I've also asked it more specialized and even pretty niche questions. Some simply as a test. And it's done pretty well.
All for what ? Having an automatic plagiarism bias machine ?
Coming back to the point of the comment, you could argue that people aren't much more than 'automatic plagiarism bias machines' either.
I don't know why people downvoted you. It is surprisingly little! I checked the 500 tons number thinking it could be a typo or a mistake but I found the same.
All the things I've read say that a majority of tipped workers (as well as the general population) prefer the current tips system. Maybe it's not true, but looking at the comments here it seems accurate.
'AI isn't reliable, has a ton of bias, tells many lies confidently, can't count or do basic math, just parrots whatever is fed to them from the internet, wastes a lot of energy and resources and is fucking up the planet...'.
When I see these critics about ai I wonder if it's their first day on the planet and they haven't met humans yet.
Not a yank, as you've already discovered. But to answer your question, I don't know about suburbs and the like, my experience is only with apartment building hoas and no, you can't leave them. The thing is part of the property is shared–like corridors, stairways, lifts, any space that is not a home, even the facades...
Excuse me if I'm wrong but central hvac system, the word 'complex' instead of just 'apartment building', no junkies, soundproofed walls... doesn't sound like 'working class high density housing' to me. At least that's not a thing where I'm from.
Now a 'major city' without rats and roaches??? It has to be a cold as fuck city, definitely not a thing in temperate climates.
I live in a 'high density working class neighborhood' in a big dense city, and have for most of my life except some years I moved to a small village. Certainly not healthy, I would be even hard pressed to call it 'community'. 'Rat race' or 'crab bucket' seem more appropriate.
I live, and has lived for most of my live, in a big and dense city, one of the biggest in the eu. I lived, for a few years, also in a small village (~2k-3k people) that's now my (adopted) hometown. The city is definitely much more concrete heavy than the village. My sister still lives there in a much bigger home than me and her utility bills are identical to mine even given that I'm not at home half of the days for work or visiting her, so no the power consumption is much more dependent on the quality of the buildings. The other points are probably right, but I prefer the power lines to the rats and cockroaches, the garbage piling up on every corner, the smell, the noise, the crazies and junkies (we have those in my small hometown too but not even near in quantity or 'quality').
I get the impression that all the proponents of these 'high density' housing ideas haven't lived in a high density working class area ever, and probably wouldn't last long if they get themselves in one.
Denser housing doesn't lead to more sustainable communities, it leads to more insanity. Even grouped single family houses start to be awful with hoas and shit.
To be honest they were super cheap. A Barbie doll or another name brand toy cost the same as the euro store crap this side of the pond. When I visited the states I brought Barbie's and Levi's jeans as souvenirs! Literally the same price as the shitty key rings I bought at the airport.
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