Please tell them to stop.

We got a new “split” (AC/heating) unit installed yesterday. Like everything these days, it has an app. I can’t imagine what use that might be, especially since our wifi is turned on only sporadically (but enough times that I had to rig a replacement for its broken plastic switch cover). Seriously, an app? Is the remote control not enough?

Meanwhile, it has absolutely nothing to do with “artificial intelligence,” which I prefer to call automated ignorance.

Nothing. Please tell them to stop.

Of course.

I haven’t lived in the Untied Snakes in almost 20 years, but I don’t remember blocked aisles in supermarkets being a regular occurrence, as they are here. I don’t think many supermarkets up north have such crowded aisles.

I’m going to go way out on a limb, and guess that it wasn’t a customer who left a ladder blocking the aisle. And with crowded aisles, you might think employees here would take more care not block them. You would be wrong, of course.

That would involve assuming the employees are paying attention, or care. Also, situational awareness isn’t really a thing in Uruguay. That’s nice in a laid-back kind of way. Sometimes.