All posts tagged: eats

It’s Time to Quit DoorDash and Uber Eats

It’s Time to Quit DoorDash and Uber Eats

Published by skeptic

This month, GQ is asking writers to share their counterintuitive wellness resolutions for 2025. Find all of the stories here. I was never a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. They seemed almost damaging to me—choosing an arbitrary date to focus on one lifestyle decision when you probably have much bigger problems. Lose ten pounds when you hate your job and your boyfriend? Stop vaping when what you really need is to stop being a walking doormat who vapes to relieve the stress of being a walking doormat? Then, a New Year’s resolution changed my life. Last year, I decided to stop using food delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats. What I discovered is that in order for a New Year’s resolution, or really any goal, to be effective, is that it must be about tackling a small part of a much larger problem. By attempting to live up to that goal, you also learn a lot about how your brain, life, and the world work. Technology has so suffused our daily existence that …

Love Island winner Liam Reardon forced to move out of home after sinkhole ‘eats away’ driveway | UK News

Love Island winner Liam Reardon forced to move out of home after sinkhole ‘eats away’ driveway | UK News

Published by skeptic

A former Love Island winner has had to move out of his house due to a sinkhole “in his driveway”. Liam Reardon, 25, won the 2021 series of the reality show alongside girlfriend Millie Court, 28. Speaking on the pair’s podcast, Mr Reardon said he and his family had only moved into their new home in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, “a few months ago”. Hours before the sinkhole first appeared on Saturday 30 November, he “drove over the part where the hole is”, he said. “We get a call at 2pm, saying we’ve got a small sinkhole at the end of our drive, and from there it progressively got worse and worse throughout the evening,” he added. Image: Pic: @MerthyrCBC The situation deteriorated on Sunday morning while Mr Reardon and his family were having breakfast. “All of a sudden our front gates and our front wall… disappeared into the hole, and our driveway started eating away,” he said. “So then everyone’s on the street like ‘Get out of the house’.” Mr Reardon is currently living …

Crypto mogul eats banana he bought for .2 million and offers to buy 100,000 more from fruit vendor

Crypto mogul eats banana he bought for $6.2 million and offers to buy 100,000 more from fruit vendor

Published by skeptic

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more The crypto entrepreneur who bought a banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2 million last week has eaten it. Justin Sun knew he wasn’t meant to eat the banana when he originally purchased it. Yet, in a room filled with media personnel at a hotel in Hong Kong, the 34-year-old TRON cryptocurrency founder swallowed the banana like it was any other. Before taking a bite, Sun sang the praises of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, arguing conceptual art was similar to cryptocurrency as he described the banana as “iconic.” “It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun proclaimed. “It’s really quite good.” Cattelan, 64, debuted the artwork at Art Basel in Miami, Florida, in 2019, titling it “Comedian.” The banana, which was regarded as “the most …

It Eats Plastic. You Eat It.

It Eats Plastic. You Eat It.

Published by skeptic

This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to work in remote locations or disaster zones. The agency wanted a system that could convert food wrappers and water bottles, among other things, into usable products, such as fuel and rations. The system needed to be small enough to fit in a Humvee and capable of running on little energy. It also needed to harness the power of plastic-eating microbes. “When we started this project four years ago, the ideas were there. And in theory, it made sense,” says Stephen Techtmann, a microbiologist at Michigan Technological University, who leads one of the research groups receiving funding. Nevertheless, in the beginning, the effort “felt a lot more science fiction than really something that would work.” That uncertainty was key. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, supports high-risk, high-reward projects. This means there’s …

Ikoyi chef justifies £320 tasting menu as he teams up with Uber Eats for ‘cheap’ delivery option | UK News

Ikoyi chef justifies £320 tasting menu as he teams up with Uber Eats for ‘cheap’ delivery option | UK News

Published by skeptic

For two days this week, people will be able to try one of the world’s best (and most expensive) tasting menus for a fraction of the price. Ikoyi, which currently ranks 35 in the World’s Best Restaurants, has teamed up with Uber Eats to offer a scaled back version of its £320 dinner. Executive chef Jeremy Chan says the five-course delivery is probably the most “technical and refined” takeaway in the city, though some of the original dishes have been tweaked so they travel better. To compensate for this, and for the trouble of having to fill up your own water after each sip, your bill will come in at a less eyewatering £60 per person. But if you’re thinking this venture is a concession to those who baulk at the price of Chan’s two-Michelin starred menu (which comes in at almost £100 more than those at similarly lauded Core by Clare Smyth and The Ledbury)… it’s not. “I don’t think people pay enough money for food, I think we charge too little, [but] we …

Don’t Panic if Your Dog Eats a Cicada. Here’s What to Know

Don’t Panic if Your Dog Eats a Cicada. Here’s What to Know

Published by skeptic

My sweet dog is addicted to eating cicadas. Every year, for the five years she’s graced this planet, my dog has scarfed down all of the cicadas that emerge all summer long, only to yack them up (dead and alive, to the horror of my family) in my living room. Due to her proclivity, she isn’t permitted to go outside during cicada season without human supervision.  For the longest time, I thought this was simply a bizarre trait unique to my pup, but with a massive emergence of cicadas on the horizon, I’ve learned that a penchant for snacking on cicadas is pretty common for dogs.  I know firsthand how scary it can be the first time your dog eats a cicada — and if your pet happens to have a taste for an emerging brood, you may be worried about what could happen if they consumed too many.  Even though I’m pretty experienced with what to do when my dog eats cicadas, there’s always more I can learn to better take care of my …

Dog Eats Chocolate Bar as Final Treat Before Being Put to Sleep

Dog Eats Chocolate Bar as Final Treat Before Being Put to Sleep

Published by Sam

A man gave his dying dog a chocolate bar – a treat dogs love but that is toxic to them – as a final gesture of love before she was put to sleep on April 23. Footage recorded by Miller Hurtado Toro shows his dog Sharon enjoying the tasty sweet before she was injected with euthanizing drugs Toro told Storyful that Sharon was 12 years old and had been fighting the tick-borne canine disease ehrlichiosis for two years. “We tried to take her to find more treatments, but they saw that she had lung cancer, with metastases in her lungs and liver that were making her weak from just lying down,” Toro said. “The day before yesterday, she could not get up again, and that is when I made the decision,” he explained. Toro said he had often denied Sharon a taste of chocolate as the candy is notably bad for dogs’ health, but that he thought she should try it as her final treat. “No dog should leave without first trying chocolate,” Toro said. …

Uber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won

Uber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won

Published by skeptic

On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November 2019 to pick up jobs delivering food on Uber’s platform. The news raises questions about how fit UK law is to deal with the rising use of AI systems. In particular, the lack of transparency around automated systems rushed to market, with a promise of boosting user safety and/or service efficiency, that may risk blitz-scaling individual harms, even as achieving redress for those affected by AI-driven bias can take years. The lawsuit followed a number of complaints about failed facial recognition checks since Uber implemented the Real Time ID Check system in the U.K. in April 2020. Uber’s facial recognition system — based on Microsoft’s facial recognition technology — requires the account holder to submit a live selfie checked against a photo of them held on file to verify their identity. Failed ID checks Per …

Quitting Subscriptions to Netflix, Uber Eats and More? Try These Free Options Instead

Quitting Subscriptions to Netflix, Uber Eats and More? Try These Free Options Instead

Published by skeptic

See at Peacock Best for streaming TV shows and movies Peacock View details See at Crackle Best for streaming older movies and TV shows Crackle View details See at Nike Best for exercising Nike Training Club View details Show 1 more As the cost of household staples keeps going up, you may be looking for ways to stretch your dollars. That means subscriptions for streaming, groceries and other services could be on the chopping block. Popular apps like Netflix are raising prices while offering new choices like a cheaper, ad-based tier. And Peloton raised its subscription prices in June (while lowering the up-front cost of buying a bike). But it still might not be enough to make a dent in your monthly budget. Many services you’re paying for — including Hulu, Apple Music, Grubhub and DoorDash — can be swapped for free alternatives. You might not end up with the exact same product, but you can often get pretty darn close. And it might be worth trying if it allows you to stretch your budget further. Unlike …