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Johanno , in laughing ass off at hacks

Ok it isn’t that easy to get the ai do what you want. So being good at writing prompts is indeed a skill. But it is not an art skill. I mean I can get a similar result by just bullshiting words at the ai. If I draw sth. By myself it’s is shitty and takes days. So well I appreciate the tool but I wouldn’t call anyone an artist who uses ai without any corrections. If you edit it so it looks better maybe you are an artist. Idk

shneancy , in Firefox + Ublock = 👑

I use Opera

(yes i know it’s “Chinese spyware” if the Chinese government really wants to know what youtube videos i watch for hours, what porn i browse, and what impulse purchases i make they can have it, i don’t fucking care, when i want privacy i use Tor)

anyway i use Opera, and despite the fact it’s been my browser of choice for over a decade i will switch to Firefox in a heartbeat if my ad blockers stop working and i’m forced to watch ads for over 3 days in a row (in uBlock devs i trust)

coolusername ,

wasn’t tor created by DARPA?

evidences ,

Nah it was the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

morrowind ,
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If you want opera without rationalizing what the Chinese government does to you, you can try vivaldi.

shneancy ,

nah it’s not rationalising, i really just don’t care. I mentioned it there because the second i mention Opera anywhere the first reply is always “but did you know it’s Chinese spyware?”

I like Opera’s features like workspaces, tab islands, built in adblock, built in vpn etc. it really suits my scatter brain self

morrowind ,
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I also used to use opera, and thought the Chinese ownership made me uneasy, I only left due to their short term loan scandal.

But honestly I don’t regret it because vivaldi has a lovely community. Opera just felt cold and faceless, and I didn’t even know anyone else who used it.

Vivaldi has all the features (except VPN) and a lot more, so you won’t find it lacking there

shneancy ,

huh interesting! is it chromium based too though? I think at this point i’d mostly want to make a switch off chromium browsers with all the rumoured forced ads nonsense

morrowind ,
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Yes, but built in adblocker like opera so it’s unaffected

shneancy ,

nah i’d not trust that, if chromium itself gets invaded by forced ads no chromium based browser is safe

morrowind ,
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Are you talking about manifest v3 or something else? Cause manifest v3 doesn’t force ads, it just cripples third party ad blockers. Also viv, (and some others, like brave) already disable plenty of Google stuff like FloC and privacy sandbox

shneancy ,

Well yea it’s the same thing to me. The built in browser adblocker is great but never fast enough to block google’s (and especially youtube’s) bullshit attempts at trying to shove ads into our faces

DumbAceDragon , in Meh burger
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The burger is fine, but the sides are usually amazing.

psud ,

If they’re good they’ll be overpriced

TexasDrunk , in Meh burger

There’s a bar here with that aesthetic. They do serve ok burgers at slightly reasonable prices, but the secret is to become friends with the cooks. Then tell them that you don’t care what the upcharge is, but you want them to make you the burger they’d want and to have fun with it.

Now I can go in and say “Tell them TexasDrunk wants whatever burger they want to send out” and 9 out of 10 times I get a burger that’s delicious (and sometimes insane). Usually they just charge me the regular burger price.

I don’t do it often, but I got good friends and good burgers out of it.

Rhynoplaz ,

Hell yeah! When I worked as a server, I would ask the cooks to make me a burger of the day for my lunch break. There was no “burger of the day” they just went wild and often times they required multiple “load bearing straws”.

TexasDrunk ,

People who go into cooking generally enjoy getting to be creative. I love those insane creations that require load bearing anything (although I don’t think I’ve seen straws, usually it’s toothpicks, skewers, or pickle spears).

My absolute favorite wasn’t the tastiest but it was definitely the coolest. The guy made a pretty standard bacon jalapeno burger, added some house made barbecue sauce, cut it into pieces, skewered it, and served it as the garnish for a pitcher of micheladas.

Note: A michelada is kind of what you’d get if a bloody Mary went to Mexico on vacation and added beer and spices.

sulgoth ,

Kinda sounds like what people do to Caesars around here. Buy a drink basically get a meal on a skewer sticking out of it.

TexasDrunk ,

It’s so strange, around here there’s no real difference between a bloody Mary and a bloody Caesar. I know what the difference really is but no one seems to give a shit at brunch.

However, folks around here are super proud of their micheladas. Everyone does the clamato juice with vodka, beer, and Tajin. But they all try to outdo each other with the other spices and presentation.

Other than my friend’s pitcher that I loved, the place that does the best micheladas in my opinion is Captain Tom’s. It’s the most mediocre seafood joint that is amazing when you’re getting over being fucked up. If I hadn’t been to Taqueria Ruby tonight to fix myself I’d definitely be there tomorrow morning trying to feel normal.

general_kitten ,

I do that often in bars when i want a cocktail and usually the result is nice

Emmie , (edited ) in Meh burger

Holy shit people. You are all incredibly whiny bunch

Maybe I am spoiled by my three good burger places in one kilometre radius from my house one of which declared me persona non grata

LordCrom , in Meh burger

Worst place I ate brought the raw burger to you next to a boiling hot slab of rock. I was expected to cook my own burger the way I liked it. Well fuck you, I’m paying you to cook my meal. Plus it just seemed disgusting to have raw meat at the table anyway

CookieOfFortune ,

Is this like American hot pot?

Agent641 ,

Australian hot pot, you have to catch the sheep yourself.

not_woody_shaw ,

It’s not a restaurant but the sheep looks kinda hot.

Funkytom467 ,
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Pretty common grilling meat yourself in Japan, but for a steak just asking for how you want it done makes way more sens.

Thebeardedsinglemalt , in Meh burger
  • Half the staff are wearing wool beanies in dead ass middle of summer
  • Sides are a la carte, fries come in a metal cup with newspaper-style wax/parchment paper
  • The bottom bun is falls-apart-soggy by halfway through
  • Claims to have a huge selection of craft beers…all IPAs, a stout, a sour, and PBR
leisesprecher ,

You forgot the black gloves! Those are required by law.

raspberriesareyummy ,

Lol that is so spot-on I can’t believe the parallels never occurred to me. One exception though, I really had good burgers in such a place in Haarlem / NL.

Nfamwap ,
  • Burgers are served on a scaffold board/shovel/roof tile
  • Coleslaw is always referred to as house 'slaw.
  • Menu prices omit the $ sign/£ sign.
    Eg. Triple cooked fries 4
DJDarren ,

Menu prices omit the $ sign/£ sign.

“Gourmet bacon and cheese burger - 15”

15 what? Pence?

captain_aggravated ,
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run by four interchangeable lumbersexual white guys in their mid 20s who are having the time of their lives and one white chick in her late 20s who is just so over it.

RadicallyBland ,

This is so like… 2014

captain_aggravated ,
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yeah that’s about the last time i walked into one of them places.

FALGSConaut , in Meh burger
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And the opposite of this, if the menu is plain text and pictures of food that were taken with a digital camera from 2009 then its going to be fantastic

Toribor ,
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Burger place with yellowed ceiling tiles and a laminated menu? That shit is gonna be good.

KingJalopy ,

Because these places are passionate about food. The fancy ones are passionate about money and profit. I see it all over California, it’s absolutely true.

DJDarren ,

Best burger I ever had was in this weird, kinda yellowing, almost dirty place in New York. They didn’t have tables as much as seats with like a board that came across, like one of those school desks you see in movies.

If I’m ever in New York again I’m going to try and find it, though I’m fucked if I can remember where it was or what it was called.

supertrucker , in Meh burger

The best burgers are found in places that look like you have to bribe a health official to get a barely passing grade

ArmoredThirteen ,

Not just burgers, that seems to be the best food in general

The_Che_Banana ,

see: all of Spain

dvlsg ,
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The best of those that I’ve found are often restaurant/something else in the same building. Like restaurant/laundromat. Or restaurant/rug shop.

Agent641 ,

An angry Turkish man who doesn’t say hello, just glares sullenly at you until you order.

superkret ,

Or the absolute worst. And they did bribe a health official.

TheOubliette , in Meh burger

Copy + paste small business tyrant investment. Like a ghost kitchen. They all just copy each other because it returns a consistent profit.

There is probably some kind if grotesque item in the menu as a “draw”, too. The Tower of Cheese. The Bacon Bun. The [town name] challenge, a dish made of 34 kinds of flesh. Get in here, techbros! Get your grub.

garbagebagel , in Meh burger

This is absolutely not true.

Sometimes it’s a very mediocre $8 taco.

4oreman , in Coffee

It’s not polite to refer to your woman as a ‘coffee maker’ as if its her name, especially when she is doing this to you.

SSJMarx , in Meh burger

Bar around the corner of my house is like this. I’ve never been because they’re across the street from a hole in the wall Japanese place that is really, really good, so whenever I’m walking out of my house to eat that’s where I go.

Ithorian , in Meh burger
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The only good thing is that most of those places have some sort of black bean or veggie burger.

space_comrade ,

I’ve tried a lot of these veggie burgers and tbh at least where I’m from most of the time they kinda suck. I’ve had a few really really good ones but mostly they tasted mid.

UltraGreen ,

It’s the most hit or miss thing I can get as a vegan. It’s either a really great in-house, well seasoned patty. Or just a morning star frozen thing with grease as it’s only seasoning.

Verito ,

And even then, you need to ask if it contains egg.

roux ,
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It can be hit and miss from my experience as well. We have a bar and grill place that has a black bean burger and the fucking patty is 1/2 lb and an inch thick. The burger tastes good but it’s way too much bean and it ends up being a chore to eat. We have a fast food place that has a black bean burger that is pretty thin but you get a lot of veggies on it and it is all pretty balanced. We have a local hipstery joint similar to the meme posted that has amazing food all around but they have a beyond burger and a black bean burger and it’s actually nice to have that option but they also always have like 3 other vegan options.

Ithorian ,
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I agree on most of them being kinda mediocre but at least I can always get something when my friends are in the mood for burgers.

SSJMarx ,

Since the rise of Impossible/Beyond those are the only veggie burgers I can stand. If I want beans then I’ll order beans, ya know?

Vespair , in Meh burger

Facts. We have a burger place like this that people love for some reason, but I swear they most the mid-quality burgers for $20+. It’s crazy that people keep going there, imo.

Adkml ,

A few years ago I would immediatly leave if I saw a burger for more than $15 on a menu regardless of how many unnecessary toppings they had one it.

Now it costs more than that for a plain cheeseburger with a 6 Oz patty.

Idk how anybody is still eating out we can take the money we’d spend on a meal in a restaurant and cook something that’s better quality and we have leftovers for 2 days. The only benefits off eating out are to get cheap slop you would feel bad about cooking for yourself.

keepcarrot ,

I eat out or uber eat if I’m too exhausted to do cooking from work. Or if I tried to do a bulk cook and by day 2 of eating it my brain just says no. Apparently I will just starve instead of eating the same thing

ElHexo ,

Idk how anybody is still eating out

You make enough money that you wouldn’t really notice if you’re paying $15 or $50 for a burger, and you’re tired enough not to care anyway

Faydaikin ,
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People like to think they have refined taste, most do not.

And not just when it comes to food. But art and even basic decor and fashion as well.

It has a tendency to come down to “Is it expensive? Then It’s fancy”.

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