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A Krispy Kreme delivery van containing 10,000 fresh doughnuts has been stolen, the US doughnut chain has reported.

The van was en route to various delivery sites in Newcastle when it was stolen from a Carlingford service station about 3.30am on Wednesday.

NSW Police are currently searching for the van, along with the sweet-toothed thief, believed to be a woman, who allegedly stole the van while the driver was inside the service station.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Her monotooth gleamed in the light as saliva dribbled from her face, the action of opening her jaw forcing her eyes to diverge. Her air intake snorkel wagged like a tail. RoboHelen felt exhilarated from the very base of her bio-tires to the top of her simulant-hair. She did doughnuts all the way home, and then some more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Beautiful! It's like AI wrote this - about a normal selfie lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who made this and for what purpose?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anywhere you'd recommend to learn more about this? I'm really losing touch with the speed of this stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The easiest is probably Bing Image Creator, using OpenAI's DALLE 3. https://www.bing.com/create. It's free. You will need a Microsoft account to login. If that's something you're comfortable with, it's the one I'd recommend starting with.

Other than that, there's Midjourney https://www.midjourney.com/home but that requires logging into Discord and is paid.

There's also https://clipdrop.co/ which is free (with limits) as well.

I don't suggest entering prompts with any of your personal info. General stuff like "person stealing a Krispy Kreme donuts van" is fine.

There are some you can run locally but you can look into it yourself later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try [email protected]

I use Bing's Dall-E (with a throwaway Microsoft account because stuff them). It's free and they run it on their computers so you don't have to own an expensive Nvidia graphics card. (Sadly the text-to-image generation world is mostly Nvidia-only, despite AMD cards being in theory completely capable, because Nvidia has a stranglehold on the software backends)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

those things lose all their value within 24h

[–] burntbutterbiscuits 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Police were able to recover only 9,000 of the donuts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They made plans to return the 8000 recovered donuts to the rightful owner.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This just in: all 7000 donuts have been returned safely

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The receiving paperwork confirms the delivery of the 6,000 donuts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The appropriate authorities have call it a night with 5000 donuts back on the shelves

[–] ElBarto 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A police officer has been placed in the area to keep an eye on the 4000 donuts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you know that cops only return 40% of the stolen donuts that they recover? It's true! Google 40% cops

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's actually only 34%. Google police rule 34

[–] ElBarto 11 points 1 year ago

Cops: We've been training all our lives for this!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I hope this food heist merits a mention on Intentionally Blank.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just call the diabetes clinics and ask if there's a Krispy Kreme van in the parking lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This could be a plot for The Simpsons.

[–] LazerFX 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you're telling me Newcastle is full of thieving cunts on both sides of the world?

Context: initially thought this was Newcastle, UK, and wasn't surprised.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thieving cunts and poor-quality baked goods, it would seem

[–] LazerFX 2 points 1 year ago

Yup, that got a fast exhalation through the nose. Good one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those vans hold 10,000‽ Krispy Kreme does more than 10,000 donuts a day? PER VAN? I understand why it, got got.

Edit: In fucking Australia‽

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m guessing it goes around to a bunch of stores. Could even cover the entire city. I doubt one store is doing those numbers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm looking for a dozen discount donuts. Hit me up.