And all the things you listed as proof are what AfD is firmly against. You also forgot gay couples having children as something that should be allowed only to the party leadership.
It looks trivial because it is. Overuse of stupid as a label does not mean that there are no stupid people and noticing their existence does not make you automatically join their group.
Your definition of scam is too narrow as you seem to think it must include lying.
Mine is more dictionary based, meaning "intention to deceive". And prominently putting strawberries or merino on the label while not mentioning what constitutes most of it would fit it. It's especially egregious when nutrition facts are printed in low contrast with tiny print I have difficulty reading even with my glasses.
As an aside, around here traditional jam has more fruit than sugar (per weight and volume). Otherwise you are really just eating flavoured sugar.
Because there is generally no intent to deceive. Processed foods are developed to optimize their quality, longevity, and price. Not the order of ingredients on the label.
Nutrition facts are printed in black and white at a readable size when there is room for the full panel, this is by law. It's not up to food manufacturers.
And I don't know what you mean by "around here". Traditional jam has equal amounts of fruit and sugar. Like the kind your great-grandmother made. Of course it is essentially eating flavored sugar. That's literally what jam is and why you spread it thin rather than eating whole spoonfuls of it.
I have to check the official recipe here in Argentina.
Obviously there is no official recipe, but "Doña Petrona" is very close to that. She was very famous in 1930-1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%C3%B1a_Petrona I just looked at her book and it says "1000g Strawberry and 600g Sugar". Here is a webpage that says that they lifted the recipe from the book https://anis-estrellado.blogspot.com/2011/12/mermelada-de-fr... and says "2200g Strawberry, 1000g Sugar + 100ml lemon juice (optional)"
So at least here it's like 2 to 1 by weight. From my memory, I remember the 1 to 1 rule, but I think it was "by volume" instead of "by weight". But note that strawberry have a lot of water inside them, so it's also misleading to think that they have more strawberry than sugar.
Anyway, I agree with you that traditional jam was already "flavored sugar". In particular they used a lot of sugar to prevents the grow of bacteria, so the jam can be store without a refrigerator.
Around here means Slovenia. No idea what my great-grandmother made because I didn't know her, but down the line they didn't use this much sugar and my mother would be downright appalled at the idea.
Down the line, what was made is likely preserves and not actual jam. Jam has a specific texture associated with it, and the sugar is used for not only sweetness but to help it gel properly.
I find this view fascinating. After decades of observing users getting lost by minor changes to UI or sometimes just different "paint" I am now to believe that we will all enjoy using completely custom UI customised not only to what I would want but what the app will think I need at particular moment and get on with it just fine.
I actually do think generating UI has some future, but I remain sceptical it can realistically go as far as promoters claim. It is especially bizarre to me when this is done by ostensibly UX people.
I am with you. For example - this post has a comparison of a recipe app from 5.6 and 6 for comparison. They look different. Now if every time I ask for a recipe, it decides to render a new UI because of either the model changing or the recipe goes from stove to oven or something, it’s going to become annoying very quickly. It just seems like he current generation of models have been tuned to create better UIs than previous one and people interested in the UI are getting hit with excitement.
I really do think we are headed toward a world where stuff is hyper customized like that.
As a developer, it already feels like this with internal company tooling. Anything I have the source code to and a build pipeline setup for, I can just pop open a new tab and tell it what I want changed, and it just gets done for me.
Even my home assistant setup at home now, i hooked up codex to it via an MCP, and when we put out the blow up haloween lawn ornaments I was able to just pop open codex on my phone and tell it to throw together an automation to run them for me, and 5 minutes later it was done, with an override button on my dashboard. It's a shockingly nice workflow!
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just tell your app to reconfigure/rewrite itself to remove those "what the app will think I need at particular moment" features that you dislike? Maybe have it remove a bunch of the whitespace, getting rid of the lazy loading infinite scroll, whatever you want. It's the GPL dream, except you don't need any coding ability, just a subscription to a megacorp.
I do the same with Home Assistant and my many EspHome devices. HA works well, and it has a lot of nice features and extensive community-built integrations, but configuring and laying out the UI is a disaster. You can choose between WYSIWYG UI tools that are limited and cumbersome, or you can deal with raw YAML that stretches far beyond what YAML should be used for with deep nesting, and it's poorly documented to boot. It feels like a proprietary workflow engine, where you'd rather just write it in a real programming language.
Agents cut through all that crap and allow me to make changes without learning a new overwrought configuration language that thrashes syntax every few months. The fact that it is open and fully modifiable redeems it, because I can ignore all the annoying parts while achieving what all that was envisioned to allow.
Based on current capabilities, I'm skeptical as well. However, over time, I do think they will get better at understanding our intent. Also, I would be more forgiving of an app I vibe coded in this manner, that's only meant to be used by me. Of course that assumes appropriate security guardrails are in place.
I'm normally quite unopinionated on UI styles, but there's something about this style that feels actively hostile to my ability to concentrate on the content. It's not so much that I don't like it, it's just uncomfortable visually to me.
I assume it's only me, but would be interested if others have the same problem.
He was a fabulist who certainly was more scrutinized because of his skin color, but it really shouldn’t be disputed that he plagiarized and lied profusely.
That doesn’t mean remotely he deserved this.
I also have little hope that everyone who contributed to this sordid tale, from Cambridge, police etc. will have to account for their profound failures.
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