In thinking about it, yeah, it aligns to some understandings of pricing math, though it is weird.

If you do X4.88, you jump away from common numbers, specifically intervals of 5 and 0.99. Your brain rounds that up.

So X4.88 can "feel" cheaper and feel like savings. A pretty Wal-Mart strategy.

Just to let you know, still didn't forget about us getting lunch together!

Come to scenic [LOCATION WITHHELD], we have great amenities such as:

and:

The printing on the notepad isn’t centered.

iT’s NoT CeNTeREd.

Before anyone asks: no, that is not a shadow on the chair.

It’s not a shadow -at all-.

She still owes me lunch.

I’ll never get that lunch, probably.

Where yall think I practice technique before I step into ranked play at the Chili’s parking lot?

Also, where else can you get THE BEST WAFFLES?

...now I'm just sad I can't by great cosplay fabrics anymore. 😭

Yeah, srsly. Used these things in the 90s, lol. Dis ain’t AI. 🤣

Delicate topics like this deserve kindness, patience, and nuance.

We can be firm about facts and negative outcomes to using something, absolutely. We should share important facts like this with one another.

But we also deserve to treat one another with respect when discussing those things. Period.

I research AI. I'm also not a fan of AI. I'm more than aware of its many pitfalls, resource drains, bad actors, and malicious usages.

But I also saw 0 people point out that AI developed to recognize the shape of bread was able to identify cancer cells.

Cancer cells ALSO look like bread.