u/xStacey

the voice activated remote used to only repeat back what i had said, or something simple like “getting that from youtube”

as of about a week ago, it has a new voice (way more “human like” in a gross, uncanny valley way) and is suddenly REACTING to what i’m searching.

I searched for a show called Cheer and got the response “that’s.. a little vague.. do you want me to recommend some upbeat shows for you to watch?”

I’m sorry but who is this for??? Who wants a fake person getting snarky with them while searching for a show? Every time I search something now it adds a little commentary about what the show i’m searching is about. I know, i’m the one searching for it..

Is there a way to switch this off??

I’m using a fire tvstick, not a fire tv. In settings, there are no options to change anything with Alexa. It just tells me to get the Alexa app, but this seemingly has nothing to do with the fire stick? Can someone explain to me how to use the app to change Alexas settings on fire stick?

Help is much appreciated!

my theory is that Josie knew she would be able to blame everything on Kristen. She was already stalling to start her broth the day before, telling Kristen she was about to do it now and then waiting until the end of the day to say she would actually start it tomorrow.

when Kristen told them she wanted to plate things to order, Josie saw the opportunity to sabotage. first she made sure that the cameras caught her telling the boys she thought serving a la minute was a bad idea. then on day 2 she took forever with the broth so that there wasn’t enough time to add gelatin, which then necessitated changes to the dish that she could then tell the judges were Kristen’s idea, not her’s.. she also became completely inept during plating. you can see her just standing there staring with Kristen constantly having to tell her “keep going” as they’re plating. it’s malicious incompetence. the end result is that she gets to blame every failure of her dish on Kristen when all of those choices were actually made in reaction to her failings.

i’m not sure what would have been the best way to plate. maybe Kristen’s way could have worked if everyone was working hard to pull it off, or maybe not.. but josie saw a way to blame Kristen for her poor time management and she wasn’t going to hustle to make Kristen look good.

i don’t really know how Kristen could have recovered the situation other than to have pushed back at judging about josie’s decisions to start her broth later and later. i think if the judges had known that she actively misled Kristen about her timing, they would’ve sent her home. instead Kristen tried to take responsibility as exec chef saying she told her not to do the gelatin, but she didn’t explain why that decision was necessary. I think Kristen wanted to be the bigger person and not make herself look weak by pointing fingers at Josie, but the judges had incomplete information. Josie took advantage of that fact and completely threw her under the bus.

You can see Gail clock it with Josie but once Kristen “fell on her sword” and took full responsibility for the failed dish the judges don’t have much choice but to eliminate her.

i can’t be the only one who finds it really scammy that they charge you a full week in advance of your delivery with no warning beforehand. it’s happened to me a few times that i forgot to skip an order and got charged, yet they insist there’s nothing they can do to cancel it at that point, even though delivery is still over a week away.

this week I was told the day of my delivery that it would be delayed a full day. When I called to tell them I would be out of town and they would have to cancel the order, they said there was nothing they could do to stop it from happening. I did ultimately get a refund for the delivery, but I had to fight for it and also call multiple times. Huge hassle, and then the food was still delivered which was just a waste.

The fact is these food delivery services need to have some degree of flexibility built in, since people can’t always be available to put things in the fridge at whatever day or time they give you. It also sucks that they can change up the day on you whenever they want, yet if you want to cancel six days in advance you’re SOL.

Oh and hope you like having your doorbell aggressively rung over and over, since that’s what they always do until someone comes to the door.

The food is ok, but the service is so bad I really can’t recommend them. I only ordered a recurring box because they were running a promotion and it is nice to have ready meals sometimes but i’m actively looking for an alternative service.

UPDATE: loving all these juicy answers, thanks everybody! 👑

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