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Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q He put 99 smart phones in a wagon with all of them running Google maps in drive mode. Google interpreted this as a traffic jam, and made other cars avoid the area.
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They are places, commonly run by volunteers, where people with financial problems can get a food package at regular intervals, e.g. weekly. They sometimes rely on food donated by supermarkets with a 'best before' which has passed - which isn't a big deal for certain types of food such as rice and pasta.
I have never heard of a food bank in Ontario offering food with passed expiration dates. I previously volunteered there and most of the food was from grocery stores/corporate donors, but not expired.
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Not in Ontario, but I helped sort canned goods for a charity a few times, and they were compelled by law to be much more strict with "best by" dates and dented cans than I would be at home. I assume that approach is pretty common across North America.
Actually in the US there is a law that protects charities from being sued for providing spoiled food. The Good Samaritain Food Donation Act.
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/08/13/good-samaritan-ac...
the model is all over the place, there's no sensible link between first and second sentence, even if it were about a typical Restaurant, let alone a food bank.
personally, the 'cannot miss' part as tourist spot, doesn't ring alarm bells, since tourist are in spending-mood when on holiday, and seeking new experiences - every little helps.
It may be raising eyebrows because of a socio-psychological effect , such as caused by shame or embarrassment linked to such display of poverty.
Well "AI" might be further along than I thought, that's actually a good and creative suggestion.
I know this is funny and LLMs and all that, but it's worth mentioning that the Ottawa food bank are good folks and can always use donations. https://www.ottawafoodbank.ca/ I recently learned that a friend from high school passed away. I hadn't seen her in twenty years almost. She'd been living rough in Ottawa for a few years and the Ottawa food bank was almost certainly one of the groups that had been helping her out…
Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
During the solar eclipse of 2017, I drove to a small town in eastern Nebraska. The town had a 10k race that day. There were about 3 cars, including mine, on this stretch of road. Stop-and-going inbetween the runners. While my wife drove, I watched Google Maps. It accurately put a short red line on our part of the road. Amused me though that it only took 3 cars to accomplish that.
A few days after the eclipse, we were driving through Custer State Park in South Dakota. There were relatively few cars on the road but Google Maps would inexplicably show these very short red traffic jams.
We quickly realized that we could anticipate upcoming bison sightings as people slowed down to take pictures of them walking (or sleeping) on the side of the road.
It bothers me that the headline says this is the result of AI but the article says: > The article is credited to "Microsoft Travel," and it is likely the product of a large language model (LLM) Can journalists not investigate claims before writing articles on them? Yes, it's probably LLM-generated, but it wouldn't have been hard to find out and have facts in hand in the article.
I know this is funny and LLMs and all that, but it's worth mentioning that the Ottawa food bank are good folks and can always use donations. https://www.ottawafoodbank.ca/ I recently learned that a friend from high school passed away. I hadn't seen her in twenty years almost. She'd been living rough in Ottawa for a few years and the Ottawa food bank was almost certainly one of the groups that had been helping her out…
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I know this is funny and LLMs and all that, but it's worth mentioning that the Ottawa food bank are good folks and can always use donations. https://www.ottawafoodbank.ca/ I recently learned that a friend from high school passed away. I hadn't seen her in twenty years almost. She'd been living rough in Ottawa for a few years and the Ottawa food bank was almost certainly one of the groups that had been helping her out…
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