A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit
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How can you not have time to buy groceries? It’s not that big of a process.
I understand not having a car though. Some places are not very walkable.
That's an hour or 2 you may not have.
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I agree. Personally I have made multiple amazon accounts and subscribe to prime on each of them. It costs me more upfront, but I get more cash back on my orders. Plus, by buying different raw materials on different accounts the feds are less likely to discover my moonshine operation
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Nah if I'm going to shill for any Manhattan grocery store, it will be Fairway. It's also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you'd go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off. Their cheese counter has prices per 1/4 pound for some of the cheeses but then if you get some $15 per 1/4 pound cheese it will taste so good that you'll think it was worth it. I haven't been there in years but I still long for that cheese.
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Often times the services have a fleet of accounts, they have them do reposts of old popular posts with titles and some content rephrased, then some of the rest of the fleet copies the top comments and rephrases those and posts them below.
This builds a history of realistic and semi popular looking posts in a way that is fairly easy to automate . Anyone who looks closely could potentially figure out a given account, or even cluster of accounts, is farmed, but it takes effort and time to prove it, more effort and time than it takes for them to spool up another batch of bots.
fleet of accounts
I like the use of the term "fleet" in this context, bc it brings to mind the Battle of Midway but re-done with bots online.
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hello guys yea i love [insert ad company name] products please buy [company product name] its so good trust me
I was just reminding a discussion with a guy about Reddit, who thinks Reddit is getting close to the real dead internet theory, just bots talkimg about whatever.
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I guess I don't really understand the purpose, here... You don't like having rich friends?
why would people like having rich friends? it's not like they're likely to share their wealth, or they probably wouldn't be rich..
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Amazon "grocery" delivery is bullshit and stupid expensive, plus there's a ton of shit they don't carry.
it's such a fucking baffling concept to me, i don't even understand ordering groceries from the fucking grocery store, just go there and buy the stuff
ordering stuff just.. isn't better..
there's no benefit unless you simply cannot buy the thing in a nearby store. -
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You know, use of long dash is the same kind of tell as an image having 6 fingers. Not impossible to find in human interactions but generally very rare, especially in online conversation. (I'm not even sure if my phone can do a long dash, just these fellows: ---).
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hello guys yea i love [insert ad company name] products please buy [company product name] its so good trust me
Meanwhile I know people already asking ai what they should buy for this and that. This surely will end very well for
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How can you not have time to buy groceries? It’s not that big of a process.
I understand not having a car though. Some places are not very walkable.
It's not so much that you literally have no time but spending the extra money is a way to get the time you would otherwise spend on groceries to do other things like spend actual time with the kids before they sleep and walk the dog before it's dark.
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it's such a fucking baffling concept to me, i don't even understand ordering groceries from the fucking grocery store, just go there and buy the stuff
ordering stuff just.. isn't better..
there's no benefit unless you simply cannot buy the thing in a nearby store.It used to make sense during the COVID lockdowns, but at least where I live most stores stopped offering that service soon after the pandemic
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why would people like having rich friends? it's not like they're likely to share their wealth, or they probably wouldn't be rich..
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It sounds like you need better friends, regardless of their financial status
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Why? I know several young families that just don't have the time or a car to get groceries for the whole week, delivery services help them a lot
Also elderly people. Me or other family buy groceries for an aunt, she has Amazon for emergencies.
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You know, use of long dash is the same kind of tell as an image having 6 fingers. Not impossible to find in human interactions but generally very rare, especially in online conversation. (I'm not even sure if my phone can do a long dash, just these fellows: ---).
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I use the em-dash a lot. It's not just about the presence of one, the issue is that LLMs know they exist but don't know where they go. It's sort of like a semicolon, which goes where neither a comma nor a period feel right. An em-dashes simply goes where neither comma nor period nor semicolon feels right
Edit: I should clarify, that's simply how I use them. I'm not smart enough with words to know stuff like "parenthetical clauses" or w/e. Point being, AI just throws them in like they're sentence enhancers
On my keyboard, I just click the button on the bottom left to see punctuation, and then long-press the hyphen
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How can you not have time to buy groceries? It’s not that big of a process.
I understand not having a car though. Some places are not very walkable.
They're on that fuckin grindset, workin eight 16 hour days a week lmao they don't have time to step on a bus or walk down the street
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That's an hour or 2 you may not have.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If you don’t have an hour to buy food a couple times a week, there’s something supremely fucked up about your priorities.
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If you don’t have an hour to buy food a couple times a week, there’s something supremely fucked up about your priorities.
It usually has nothing to do with priorities, and everything to do with the crushing weight of capitalism giving you no time for leisure or recreation otherwise. Have kids and two jobs? Good luck spending much time with them.
I don't personally use grocery delivery services but I can see their appeal and use.
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It used to make sense during the COVID lockdowns, but at least where I live most stores stopped offering that service soon after the pandemic
grocery stores have offered it here in sweden for years now and i still do not understand the value proposition, like they're charging like 20 bucks for delivery...
in what situation is transport of my food worth 20 euro? I'm going to have to go outside every day regardless, why wouldn't i just bring the food with my on my way home?
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I don't think that's actually an unusual conversation for people who live in Manhattan to have. The comments about relative prices are accurate in my experience - I live on the same block as a Gristides and I still never shop there because of how expensive it is, even compared to Whole Foods. I get most of my groceries in Brooklyn on the weekends.
I also know a woman with a whole stack of different credit cards, so she always has the one that gives her the most rewards for whatever specific thing she's buying. I'm sure she has one for grocery shopping.
Yeah but also, Whole Foods and Amazon and other companies absolutely are doing this. They'd be stupid not to. The companies that aren't paying for spam bots online will go out of business soon.
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It usually has nothing to do with priorities, and everything to do with the crushing weight of capitalism giving you no time for leisure or recreation otherwise. Have kids and two jobs? Good luck spending much time with them.
I don't personally use grocery delivery services but I can see their appeal and use.
I do have kids and two jobs. I’m not sure what your point is. Half the time I use grocery store runs as way to talk to my kids in an environment where they’re not distracted by technology.
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You know, use of long dash is the same kind of tell as an image having 6 fingers. Not impossible to find in human interactions but generally very rare, especially in online conversation. (I'm not even sure if my phone can do a long dash, just these fellows: ---).
An em dash — when used properly — is perfectly fine, but a little academic. iOS will do one automatically with two hyphens and a space.
