genocidal ethnic cleansing has been going on since the 'founding' of israel. if you say "hitler did the holocaust," that's true but not the complete truth, it misses all those key supporters who enthusiastically participated and without whose support the holocaust could not have taken place. placing the responsibility for a campaign of genocide enacted and supported by the political will of an entire nation onto the shoulders of a single scapegoat robs people of their agency and thereby tends to legitimize "just following bibi's orders" as a defense. you didn't mean to "perfect is the enemy of good" your way into the nuremburg defense did you? surely you must have had another direction in mind for scapegoating an entire genocide.

edit: also I'm pretty sure my aphorism was novel, or at least rare, not trite. see if you can come up with where it's been said before since you say it's trite. i tried.

edit: i found it. "a king does not enact his own will" is basically a summary of . pretty sure that's where i got it. you decide if it's trite.

im not missing the point of 'blame the Palestinian genocide on netanyahu.' im intentionally dismissing that point, after considering the merits presented. i decline the opportunity to ignore the broad social support within israel for the genocide in the name of "pettyfogging semantics" forsooth; words have meanings. (edit: and not incidentally, with which words' meaning do you say i am playing semantics?)

editing your comment to state your intention not to bother replying doesn't count as not bothering replying.

Surely if the person making the order sees 18,000 waters they would think, hold on this doesn’t seem right maybe I should ask the customer if they really want 18,000 waters?

The same applies for the ice cream with bacon on it which was mentioned in the article. I believe a lot of these could be resolved with a bit of common sense.

There are machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection though. They actually work decently well because exploits like this do in fact differ significantly from regular orders. Because they assume all anomalies are attempted exploits, their false negative rate is rather low while their false positive rate can be a bit higher.

Taco Bell has the capability to create a decently large training set from all recorded orders (which must all be valid and non-malicious) so they shouldn't have too many issues developing this model.

If an anomaly is detected, make a human verify it is indeed an irregular order.

I know the answer is “don’t get fast food and just eat at home”

No it's not. Well, at least not in terms of urbanism/mobility, anyway; YMMV on your household budgeting.

The answer is that you shouldn't have to get in a car at all between your home and your local coffee shop to begin with. It should be no more than a short walk (or wheelchair ride or whatever), door to door.

It's a mile, and across an interstate exit, to my nearest bus stop. And I live in the only city in the enormous state that takes public transportation seriously.

I think I feel bad when I read articles like the ones you posted, before this I'd cross the distances and not think much of it because my last two cities didn't have public transportation. Now I can't cross fast enough to beat the crossing light, and it's so incredibly unsafe if I fall. I feel like the problem, I guess

It's a mile, and across an interstate exit, to my nearest bus stop. And I live in the only city in the enormous state that takes public transportation seriously.

Your first sentence contradicts your second. Clearly, there are zero cities in your enormous state that take public transportation seriously.

It's crazy how most Americans have absolutely zero concept of just how bad even "good" infrastructure and city design in the US is, or how much better it could be.

yes.... it's improved dramatically.

which is why 18,000 waters got ordered instead of 8 (or whatever.)