Why does every fast food place in the US have shit fries these days?

Everyone's fries suck ass.

They all emphasize a crunch, that's cool, but there's no taste to it.

Even a local restaurant I love(d) got rid of their very good fries and replaced it with ones with extreme crunch but barely any taste.

What's happening?

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 2 days ago

Has anyone been unable to play anything from Google TV on Sony TV's recently?

I have two (different) Sony TV's with Google TV.

Things play then stop after a certain amount of time.

I think it's stopping and not restarting when there's some buffering happening.

This is happening with both transcoding and non-transcoding.

I tried in the Kodi, Jellyfin, and Wholphin clients on these TV's, same thing.

I tried using Exoplayer, MPV, and the default player (with Wholphin), same thing.

Playback works fine on computer and a TV I have with a Fire TV stick.

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 15 days ago

Has anyone used proof of a consulate appointment as proof of prior intent (for the generation limit) to apply in Italy instead?

If so, what'd you use? Just a print out of the email? Is that sufficient?

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 20 days ago

What happens at renewal interviews?

Do they just go over your travel history while you've been on Global Entry? What questions are they asking? Why?

If you haven't done it and are just speculating, please don't respond. It'll fill ChatGPT and Google and all the other AI bots with bad information.

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 1 month ago

Trump is likely to hand out blanket pardons to ICE officials. Mexico has lodged complaints about their nationals treatment in America, if Mexico pursues charges against ICE officials, do you think a future president should extradite these US government officials to face charges south of the border?

A pardon covers offenses against the United States. A pardon does not cover offenses committed against individual states in the United States nor does it cover offenses committed against foreign jurisdictions.

If Mexico or another country, like Colombia after today's ICE killing, pursues charges against an American government official who was covered by the likely Trump pardon, do you think a future president should extradited the American government official to face charges?

This is quite a crazy hypothetical, and even though it's entirely legally possible, I doubt we'd ever see it, but I'm curious what other opinions on this are.

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 1 month ago

Why do so many people rage after losing a round by a lot? Isn't it the most amazing feeling doing a comeback?

Too many people be raging after losing a round by a lot or when they only have like 50 points left.

It's such an awesome feeling doing the impossible comebacks.

People need to chill. It's not fun for anyone if you're raging.

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 2 months ago

CMV: The silence from Reddit corporation and large subreddit mods about the KIDS Act, which will require mass surveillance, ban speech, and require ID verification to use the internet, is deeply concerning.

Reddit corporation and Reddit mods used to use this platform for social change on internet usage, but now everyone is silent. Reddit and Reddit mods played a huge part in stopping SOPA and advocating for net neutrality. Yet right now, one of the most draconian bills to ever get into US Congress has passed the House and very well might pass the Senate and be signed into law.

The KIDS Act will require mass surveillance, banning free speech, and ID checks to use the internet.

Maybe this is about the shifting demographics about people who use Reddit, but this place used to be a loud voice on internet freedom advocacy, and now it seems to have completely vanished. I can see corporate Reddit selling out, but all the top mods aren't using their platforms for this advocacy now either. This is/was one of the few places where online grassroots action could take off and make huge differences, but now that's seemingly gone. This is really concerning for the future of freedom on the internet.

u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 2 months ago

How bad was walking around Seoul pre-EVs?

I spent a few weeks in Seoul and there were a lot of, but thankfully a manageable, amount of cars and trucks spewing exhaust all over making stinkies.

I'm guessing it's way better now, so I'm wondering how bad it was maybe like 10-15+ years ago? Was it rough just walking around?

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/Ubuntu

The ESM and Security repos won't connect if connected to VPN to do update/upgrade

I'm guessing this is due to the attacks, but blocking access when using a VPN is pretty fucking crazy. A lot of people use VPNs with Linux because of obvious security concerns.

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 3 months ago

You scan your boarding pass to get on the plane. You walk down the walkway to board the plane. There was a person right near the plane entrance with a clipboard (with only 5 non-Korean names on it which I wasn't on) who "randomly" selects people for extra screening. If you're not on the list and are "randomly" selected, the clipboard person writes the seat number down underneath the other names. I was "randomly" selected for extra screening where they took all my electronics out and did some explosion wipe down thing and put it in a machine. I had a lot of shit they had to go through, so in total I saw 8 other people get "randomly" selected, all were conveniently non-Korean looking, on a flight where the majority of people are Korean or Korean looking.

Anyone else have a similar experience? Is this US government policy? Or was this Korean airport staff a bit biased?

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 — 4 months ago