Jon AS Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 I think it's fairly easy to understand how the KFC thing happened, and throwing around terms like "AI" or "algorithm" makes it sound way more complicated than the simple human error that it probably was: somebody got the job of feeding their twitter bot with a list of "special occasions" at which it should send out special promotional messages. That person grabbed the first list they could find without double checking it and that's all there is to it. The fanciest algorithm possibly involved here might be Gauss' Easter Algorithm, which would allow them to automate the process of calculating all the Christian holidays in Germany (every other national holiday has a fixed date, no calculation needed). But it might just be the case that some intern gets the job to manually change all the religious dates in a text file once per year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anti-Targ Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Wait, what? The KFC promotion used "Reichspogromnacht"? That's...I don't know what to call that sort of screw up. Thoughts of conspiracy start floating up, wondering if someone did it deliberately to try to ruin KFC's business in Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted November 14, 2022 Author Share Posted November 14, 2022 I'm hearing rumours Iran has ordered the mass execution of 15000 arrested protesters. And worse before death. Tell me it's false please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiko Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 On 11/12/2022 at 12:27 PM, The Anti-Targ said: Wait, what? The KFC promotion used "Reichspogromnacht"? That's...I don't know what to call that sort of screw up. Thoughts of conspiracy start floating up, wondering if someone did it deliberately to try to ruin KFC's business in Germany. I have been with people while they were trying to eat KFC stuff. Fast food veterans. From their reaction, I can only assume that the conspiracy to kill that franchise in Germany is deeply rooted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 Chile’s millennial first lady wants to end the job for good https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/13/irina-karamanos-chile-first-lady/ Quote .... The concept of a first lady is an American one, dating back to Dolley Madison, the wife of the fourth president, who helped furnish the White House and hosted social affairs for politicians of both parties. Eleanor Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy advanced the role in the public imagination, fostering the expectation that first ladies would accompany the president and champion noncontroversial causes — expectations also adopted in parts of Latin America. Karamanos is not the first reluctant first lady — see, for example, Melania Trump. In Ecuador, Anne Malherbe Gosselin, the Belgian-born wife of former president Rafael Correa, was mostly absent from the role, which she described as classist. In Mexico, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, the wife of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has continued her work as a university professor. “I didn’t see why I needed to leave my job to accompany my husband who changed his job,” Müller told The Washington Post. But she continues to represent the Mexican government at diplomatic events. Historians say Jill Biden, who has long taught English composition at Northern Virginia Community College, is the first U.S. first lady to hold a paying job outside the White House while her husband was president. But none of these women have overhauled the role while in office as Karamanos is attempting, said Carolina Guerrero, a Chilean political scientist. In the United States, Ohio University historian Katherine Jellison says, such an effort would be “political dynamite.” .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anti-Targ Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 4 hours ago, kiko said: I have been with people while they were trying to eat KFC stuff. Fast food veterans. From their reaction, I can only assume that the conspiracy to kill that franchise in Germany is deeply rooted. I like KFC. I think Mike Meyers in 'So I married an Ax Murderer' was right, I almost invariably crave it fortnightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Why isn't this all over the headlines in every country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 World Cup scandals, the scandal of not being able to pay $500 for Taylor Swift tix, Climate conference, midterms (here), TWITTER TWITTER TWITTER! That's part of why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anti-Targ Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 3 hours ago, polishgenius said: Why isn't this all over the headlines in every country? That was in the news several weeks ago. I guess that this dude and you seem to have just noticed it now shows how many waves it didn't make back then. I think it generated less than a page worth of posts in this tread, or the previous one(?), at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Didn't hit the blob media either (some people ran into it on some sites here and there though, like I did). Midterms sucked all the oxygen here in the US and the UK's ongoing scandalous descent like Twitter into bankruptcy did there. Maybe more coverage in Europe? Anyway, Ukraine is still major center of attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiko Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 57 minutes ago, The Anti-Targ said: That was in the news several weeks ago. I guess that this dude and you seem to have just noticed it now shows how many waves it didn't make back then. I think it generated less than a page worth of posts in this tread, or the previous one(?), at the time. It's definitely made the rounds in the news. That dude is on my block list for quite some time so I'm not surprised that he is a bit on the slow side. I actually consider him a troll. Probably well meaning but still... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Yup. It made the news where I am, and we discussed it [briefly] on the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 No beer! Cannot be a legitimate World Cup! Also the beer sponsor who paid what ? 40 million to sell, and whose contract got shafted by Qatar, sells Budweiser, which is hardly beer anyway -- unless the European Bud is different? Scandal upon scandal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 21 minutes ago, Zorral said: No beer! Cannot be a legitimate World Cup! Also the beer sponsor who paid what ? 40 million to sell, and whose contract got shafted by Qatar, sells Budweiser, which is hardly beer anyway -- unless the European Bud is different? Scandal upon scandal. Don't worry, they are still allowed to sell beer in all the corporate suites. Bunch of scumbags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anti-Targ Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 10 hours ago, Spockydog said: There is a way to do that. When a country bids to host a world cup its bid goes into a hat along with all the other bidders. Bidders are drawn from the hat a coin is flipped to see whether they are in the running to host the women's event or the men's event. Allow smaller countries to bid only for the women's event, but no country is allowed to bid only for the men's event. Countries can withdraw bids, but if you withdraw a bid you can't bid again for 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 5 hours ago, Zorral said: Budweiser, which is hardly beer anyway -- True dat!! Budpissweiser, for all their years and all their money, can they not brew something more worthy? And they are planning to charge $14 a pop for that swill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 So. Host country lost its first match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anti-Targ Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Is Fosters the Budweiser of Australia, or is Budweiser the Fosters of the USA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted November 21, 2022 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Going back to the Chinese Secret Police Stations across the globe. It did make the news, just not as big a story as it should've been. Spiegel story with an example the story of Wang Yingyu and his fiancee Wu Huan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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