Here in Spain i have had only good experiences and i love sometimes going to McDonald!

Here in Japan I have only had good experiences, but I can't say I love going to McDonalds. The breakfast offerings are decent and it's extremely fast service. During peak times seats will be around 95 percent full but the restaurant remains very clean. I think the cleanliness in part is due to the patrons being responsible.

I’m an American living in the San Francisco Bay Area who travels to Japan twice per year. McDonald’s in Japan is better than McDonald’s in America. McDonald’s in Japan not only is cleaner and has better customer service, but is cheaper.

McDonald’s in America wasn’t always expensive; I was in high school and college in the 2000s when the dollar menu had double cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, and small orders of fries. The regular menu didn’t break the bank, either. Prices started shooting upward in the 2010s; first the Double Cheeseburger on the dollar menu got replaced with the McDouble (one slice of cheese instead of two), then it exited the dollar menu and became 2 for $3, then 2 for $4. But after COVID, prices exploded. I remember the first time seeing a fast food combo meal selling for more than $10 sometime about five years ago, but it was the most expensive meal on the menu. Nowadays in my area $10-$12 combo meals are the norm. It’s sad and maddening; my salary hasn’t risen at this level!

Meanwhile in Japan, I could get a Big Mac meal for around ¥800. Even when the yen was strong, $8 beats $11. At today’s yen valuation ($5.09), it’s more than half the cost, and with better customer service at that!

I make six figures but I feel like fast food prices in California are a ripoff ($10+ for a crappy meal? No thanks!), and so I quit eating out except when traveling or for entertainment, such as hanging out with friends.

Yeah pretty decent in Spain. Give it another 10-20 years when McDonald's realise the customers need them more than they need the customers (ie addiction) and that'll change!

Yes here they have the Uber cheap menu4you option too. A double cheeseburger which is pretty much a big Mac (but with nicer sauce), fries and coke for €5

Spain has McBeer, right? Like Portugal? Different world!

In Portugal we also have Soup and Salad :)

But, tragically, no hash browns. :(

"In Amsterdam, you can buy a beer at McDonald's!"

So… taxpayers’ propaganda?

If you assume France is democracy )

The website doesn’t display correctly when I increase the browser’s font size, and it doesn’t work in reader mode. :(

I have poor eyesight, so I can’t read the content.

Huh? For me it works fine? Are you sure you are on https://dillo-browser.org/ ?

I have the same problem, and yeah, that's the site. Tapping the button to increase the font size just zooms the page in so now I have to scroll horizontally to read the content. Something on the page is preventing natural reflowing, I could probably figure out what if I was on my desktop. My hunch is it's the row of images.

It is because of this:

   .main {
      margin: 2em auto;
      width: 50em;
    }

So the whole page width just increases with the font size. I think they should have used max-width instead.

This also causes problems, when you resize your browser window.

Software ahas created a completely new economy and lot of new jobs. Could we say the same for robots?

And has meant that some professions are basically dead and fewer people are in lots of jobs. The folks that lose jobs aren't generally qualified for the jobs that opened and aren't always even located in the same country.

And that happens with a lot of advances. Creates but also takes away.

…Yes? Someone needs to design the robots, build the robots, administer and direct the robots, repair and maintain the robots, evaluate the performance of and improve upon the existing design of the robots… not to mention write the software that controls the robots in the first place, design the UI that users use to interface with the robots…

And the 1,000 people, who are replaced by 100 robot workers, are out of a job while the robot owners just get richer.

The robot revolution only benefits the people at the very top of the social stratum.

I’d guessing that the robot designers and warehouse workers are not going to be the same people.

This isn't special to robotics, though. Folks making software are generally not the folks that lost their jobs because of software either.

Pre WW2 the USA had skid rows and flop houses full of men who didn't make the cut to the new industrialized economy. People literally rented a rope to lean on for the night. WW2 changed things for the US where that was no longer a common thing.

People fear that we are heading back into that, with no plan other than 'things turned out fine last time this happened' ignoring the, you know, skid row, flop houses, etc and no idea what the magic jobfairy will bring us to be these new, magically appearing 'jobs to come'.

presumably if they become as popular as software, they would...

Yes.

I cannot stand Obsidian because I dislike its UX so much - if it were a native app i’d use it.

There is no connection between whether an app is native or electron based and its UX so not sure why you'd bring this up. There's enough and more native apps with horrible UX and plenty of electron apps with excellent UX.

I actually love the new design of System Settings.

Plus, pasta start cooking at 80 ºC. No need to keep the water boiling like crazy :)

Boiling like crazy or not, it's still just 100C if it's boiling at all isn't it?

I guess at a really low boil there could be cooler parts of the water.

It depends a lot from the quality of the pasta. some are more generous with the time and will get overcooked more gently.

Doesn’t the meaning of a word depend from its context ? Why the bottom of a map should be “bad”?