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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 100 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love how you can easily assume he's French

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

hon hon hon

[–] Pissnpink@feddit.uk 20 points 10 months ago

Those smug cooks, making a few dollars above minimum wage.

[–] DrM@feddit.de 75 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love QR Code menus, especially when you can order through them.

But I hate when restaurants force them on you. Just give me the fucking choice so that everyone can order in the way they prefer.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but they can't data track you through a paper menu, and a company choosing to lose revenue?? impossible

[–] DrM@feddit.de 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

most of them only link to a PDF containing the menu anyways, they can't track you there either

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pretty much any webhosted service out there essentially needs to track ip's (unless they want to be ddos'd), so even the server thats serving the pdf can and will track you

They could even go the easy route and use something like bit.my to do it for them too

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[–] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 65 points 10 months ago

This, but unironically

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 months ago
[–] Japan_50@sh.itjust.works 44 points 10 months ago (11 children)

The boomers are right about this one

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I prefer the menu on my phone. I can't be the only one

[–] Japan_50@sh.itjust.works 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While I think your opinion is vile, detestable, loathsome, abominable, and evil, I don't understand why you're being down voted.
Thank you for sharing your abhorrent, outrageous, and revolting opinion as it does contribute something meaningful to the discussion.

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did anyone check what that qr code in the image points to?

[–] BillMurray@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lun0tic@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Should have been a link to their own website to the page where this picture was uploaded.

That would be so meta.

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  1. Scan QR code

  2. Hello would you like to let cookies into your life?

  3. Time to navigate the decline cookies menu

  4. Tap menu button/item

  5. Goto 2

[–] Nahodyashka@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago
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[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago

Ben garrison is being called out

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't know, man, I always hate political cartoons that feel the need to label everything. Like, is that necessary?

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 143 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not necessary. That is why this cartoon has them.

This artist makes cartoons that are parodies of over-labelled political cartoons. He satirizes by imitating his target's crappy form.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

In that case, well done.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

also if youre reading this and if you're not familiar with his work - the statue of liberty crying is in practically every cartoon as well.

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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 17 points 10 months ago
[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 30 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the old "insult everyone involved" gag.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, the onion is on point these days. I don't know how they can produce satire in today's America.

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[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

Just been in a restaurant in France that thought a tablet would be a good idea for a menu. Fucking dimwits hadn't switched off the screen sleep though, and you had to tap it to wake it every thirty seconds

Plus it was an iPad, which only pensioners use, it was fucking awful

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[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I like the way you managed to use the correct "whom" to sound posh then completely fucked it up with the "at" on the end :)

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Kelly cartoons are done by a progressive pretending to be a conservative. The Onion often gets hate letters from progressives who think it's genuinely conservative, and more glowing letters from conservatives who think the same.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

Taking into account that this is the Onion, it's probably aimed at at everyone like the good ol' days.

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[–] rabiddolphin@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love how lady liberty is crying in all of these

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[–] pastaPersona@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

God I hate the way this dude draws joints on people, elbows and shoulders are jutting out way too much and the people look like weird bony aliens wearing human skins that don’t fit right

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

Those are crucial features of political cartoons

[–] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I love people’s absolute moral outrage about scanning a QR code. The same folks crying bc they have to ask for a plastic straws or wear a smal piece of cloth on their face in the grocery store.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago (12 children)

It’s a genuine security risk.

Menus aren’t killing the environment either.

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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 28 points 10 months ago (12 children)

It is a privacy/security issue, not moral. A QR eatery will probably not accept cash either.

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I dislike qr menus mostly cuz their websites suck and I often don't carry a phone.

Edit: Let me just add that as a coder my dream is to one day be hired for a really expensive and complex project and to give them a solution that only uses paper.

Paper menus are just full color e ink large foldable ipads that don't weight a thing and are cheap, and have a super accessible interface.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

I wear masks, carry stainless steel straws so I don't have to use paper ones. You want me to eat at your establishment more than once, don't make me use my phone at meal time.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Had anyone gotten the code to work?

Closest thing I got was a Google image search near match for an xvideos qr

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

its not a real qr code,
there is no timing pattern between the 3 big squares.

there has to be a black and white alternating pattern between the inner corners of the three squares, that afaik is used to determine the size of pixels while scanning.

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