Advocates for clear, plain English recommend using the second person and not to shy away from imperatives. [0] It makes it easier to use the active voice as well as use less words. As a reader of this article, I don't take issue because I understand that the author isn't actually commanding me personally to do these things. It's just a sentence structure that conveys the information in a more readable way.

> The app really does enhance the experience, order exactly what you want without human error, roll up to the drive-thru, give them the code, and they begin making the order at that point.

They're particularly good at getting orders right compared to some other restaurants, so the additional value here to me is negligible. It's actually negative value to me, since if I can do a transaction without having to sign up, that's what I prefer. The value is entirely in the other direction: McDonald's wants to monetize their customer's identity information.

Try ordering a heated muffin. My current success rate at the drive through is 2/8. The other 6 times it's not heated.

It's really location dependent. The one near me missed opening time by more than 30 minutes one day last week. I don't have more data because I only would splurge for a fast food breakfast when I need it.

You don’t know, the other 6 times the employees might have yelled at the muffin to make it angry.

It hadn't occurred to me until now that the pelican could overcome the short legs issue by not sitting on the seat and instead put its legs inside the frame of the bike. That's probably closer to how a real pelican would ride a bike, even if it wasn't deliberate.

Very aero

Because they're decent human beings trying to help the less fortunate. Good God, is the concept of kindness this foreign to us now?

Market distortions can be a sign of funny business. Nothing prevents grocery stores from donating and supporting charitable causes in other ways.

Do you have a specific concern? State it.

An example is retailer fraud, where the retailer exchanges SNAP benefits for cash. Another thing that happens is when you sell benefits for cash person to person.

> In Brazil you throw a party to people you like and they all have a hand in helping you, sharing the load. Everyone will be responsible for some part of it, all of it is organized informally, there are no real formalities to the event. No one cares about making a science out of it.

> I’ve never heard of a person complaining about party quality or comparing hosting abilities.

This is all true in my experience as well, and I live in the US. Maybe I don't go to enough parties, though.

This is sort of my thinking too. It's finding next token once the previous ones have been generated. Dashes are an efficient way to continue a thought once you've already written a nearly complete sentence, but it doesn't create a run-on sentence. They're efficient in the sense that they allow more future grammatically correct options even when you've committed to previous tokens.

You might have a point because the donut shops that I've been to have started moving to the "discount for cash" model. Same with restaurants.

Maybe take a longer route that avoids the narrow street.

Since we now have the technology to both 1) detect whether a headline is clickbait and 2) summarize and interpret articles, I'm surprised we haven't yet seen platforms automatically "de-clickbait" titles. Or, they could simply "spoil" the clickbait title with a concise blurb.

This article: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h... makes a pretty compelling argument for continued research on the link between amyloid-beta and Alzheimer's.

This article is incredibly informative and I wish the folks in this thread would read it. Doesn’t make the current result any less exciting.

Not saying it’s wrong or worthless, but do keep in mind that neither the author not the blog owner is in the medical field. That post is an outsider’s read of the consensus opinion from their investigation of the literature, including an estimate of the strength of that literature formed without expertise in the field itself.

Scott Alexander is in fact an MD