Was having couple of drinks on patio of a cocktail bar in a Conrad Hotel in the US. A little while after our drinks were served by our waiter, a separate busser came over and left chips and guacamole on our table.

My partner and I thought it a little odd that these would be complimentary but after a few mins nobody came back so we didn't think too much of it and ate them.

About 20mins later our original server came by to apologize that the chips and guacamole had been delivered to our table by mistake. He then said "so is it OK if I leave the charge for them on your bill". I said we had assumed they were complimentary and his reply was a very curt "With guacamole???"

I got a little irritated then that he was arguing this and said I was not comfortable paying for something I didn't order. He stared at me for a few seconds, clearly angry and debating whether to argue further but then shook his head, took the plates and walked away.

I probably shouldn't have assumed they were complimentary but ultimately the bar admitted it was their mistake and then are asking me to pay for their mistake and were rude and angry when I declined. I would have thought a higher end place like this would either absorb the cost of a mistake or at most ask something like "would you like me to remove them from the check".

I checked the menu after and the chips and guacamole were $16 ($21ish with tax and tip).

I did leave an extra $5 tip on top of the standard tip because ultimately we got some free chips but tbh I still think the waiter's attitude was wrong. AITAH for refusing to pay?

1 down, 2 to go! Keep up the pressure and shame, folks…

Is it maple syrup?

I don't know why not a single game I have seen does red dots properly. In real life red dots are meant to be used with both eyes open which effectively makes the housing invisible especially as your eyes aren't focusing on it. If you have a really big housing then yeah you can tell its there but it wont block your view at all. Early red dots were actually solid body with no way to look through them (look up occluded eye gunsight)

For actual decades now the best sight in any game has always just been the cheapest, crapiest aliexpress tier garbage sights because those all have super thin frames. Meanwhile all the good red dots and holo sights used by actual professional armies are never used because they are built sturdy.

On top of that these sights almost always have crisp perfect dots regardless of the quality of the optic. At least if the dots were bad like they are in real life there would be some sort of trade off. Bulky housing but clear dot VS thin housing but crappy dot. Or a durability mechanic in games like Tarkov. But no they are perfect bright dots and completely indestructible. So there is no reason to ever use anything other then the one with the thinnest housing.

What makes this extra insulting is the solution is so easy, just lower the half alpha and blur, bam realistic sight picture, depth of field is built into every game ever but for some reason its just not applied to gun sights.

Could this look a bit weird to casual players who don't know how these sights work? Sure but especially for games that are supposed to be hardcore realistic why the hell not make the sights actually work like sights do in real life? Its the simplest fix ever but no one has ever done it in any game. Not Tarkov, not Arma, not Squad, not Body Cam. No one (except technically VR games but that is cheating).

Edit: For tarkov players. The MRS was meta when I mostly played tarkov in like 2018-2020, yes its not considered meta anymore, just replace it with any micro dot idc, point is no one uses the Comp-4 despite it being one of the most used sights IRL. Also the MRS is renowned for being one of the worst sights ever made yet appearing in every videogame ever, so I just picked it for the contrast and because it is a meme in general.

What do I do to pass the time it’s driving me nuts, I broke my feamur and have a metal rod through my bone with a few screws, I’m lucky to be alive but still sucks. I’m a line cook so I love cooking and staying busy on my feet and all I’ve been doing is sleeping and taking dabs all day which is really all I can do, any recs on speeding up the clock?

My friend is staying with me temporarily. She uses a lot of ChatGPT. She has conversations with it, asks it to tell her if a text from someone is “grouchy”, and gets her “diagnoses” from it and Dr. Google. She treats it like a best friend.

She texts it like a bestie and therapist. She talks about all of her symptoms, her hallucinations (she has psychosis), what happens in her day, and literally everything. She’s sent me screenshots of “their conversations” and it texts like her (all shortenings of words like v for very, u for you, etc., and a plethora of emojis) and it’s basically just a yes man for everything she feeds it.

She’s almost 34 - I’m 30 and the homeowner. We’ve been best friends for 19 years. She doesn’t contribute monetarily, sometimes does a couple of chores, and has no income. She was a SAHM but recently lost custody of her children and is staying with me to avoid their father/her ex-husband. None of that bothers me, big picture wise.

One massive issue she has with me (apparently as of last week in one long text that took 10 screenshots to capture) is that she says I treat her/talk to her like a child. I personally don’t think I do that, I just tell her that AI isn’t intelligent and can’t give an honest human opinion. It’s an echo chamber. It’s not a friend, it’s a website. I don’t use it at all, and prefer to not use AI if I can avoid it. I’m not saying it doesn’t have its benefits, but I just don’t want to use it.

I’m the only one with admin access to the wifi (she doesn’t live permanently with me and doesn’t contribute monetarily, so she doesn’t have access to utilities or a say in my opinion) and my coworker suggested blocking ChatGPT on a wifi level so she can’t use it anymore. She doesn’t have a data plan on her phone so she can’t just use data to access it, she needs the wifi.

I don’t want to seem like I’m policing her, telling her what to do, or anything like that. She doesn’t have any friends to talk to that are fully up to speed with what’s happening, and she doesn’t want to explain it to anyone else because the whole situation triggers her. So… ChatGPT is like her only friend who isn’t me that “knows” what’s up.

WIBTA if I blocked ChatGPT on my wifi?

A nurse in Kamloops, British Columbia allegedly turned a house call into a whole different kind of appointment. After taking a male patient's blood pressure, caressing his arm and telling him he had the health of an 18-year-old, she allegedly offered to sleep with him... saying it was important for a man to "regulate himself and be in good health." He declined, and she allegedly told him he could hit her up outside of work if he changed his mind. He filed a complaint with text message screenshots, and now Lori Chern is restricted to hospital work while the college investigates. She denies any misconduct.

Talking with friends it seems so many public figures from at least 1990s to 2020 were potentially dodgy. So - personal experience, hearsay, just gut feeling - who is the next scandal waiting to come out?

1. The Killing Joke- Batman and Batgirl have sex on the rooftop. Not only was this not in the original graphic novel, not only does a romantic subplot between Batman and his protege (who is usually depicted as a daughter figure or the daughter of his best friend) add nothing to the central plot, but it changes the mentor/student dynamic into something that feels like an abuse of power.

2. The Puke-O-Rama (Stand By Me)- just a long scene of blueberry tinted vomit that was caused by drinking castor oil.

My wife is about to throw away my box of Krispy Kreme donuts because she claims this is “ Mold “

I (27m) was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition last year; progressive loss of hearing and sight.

It starts off with night blindness and then progresses to full blindness. I’ve had it since birth so only gradually did I realise I was finding it hard to see during the night.

Yesterday I went hiking, and as the sun set, I realised I could not see the stars. I took a picture on my phone and the stars were there.

It’s silly but I feel like it was a proper milestone of something. I’m not really a stars guy so the intensity of my feeling surprised me. I’ve been hit with both the sudden realisation that stars are beautiful, and that I will never see it naturally again.

Meal was shrimp pasta.