Wow, that story took an unexpected tragic turn. But I’m glad you’re still paying tribute to this man’s artistry.

Brasilian BBQ is awesome.

Absolutely. I was just recalling in an earlier thread a dinner I had in Cornwall near Tintagel, at a family run Indian place. I was keen on trying vindaloo, but the owner talked me down to madras - and I was glad, because that madras was at the perfect edge of my hotness tolerance and was delicious. The vindaloo probably would have been too much for me.

Near my house in West Seattle there used to be a little hole in the wall place called Lee’s Asian, whose Seven Flavor Chicken I regard as one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Sadly they had to close because developers flooded in and all the commercial rents doubled. Thank you, density-hungry Seattle city council. Density! Density! But hey, at least we can buy $5 donuts now.

Fun size!

Regardless, lots of people express that idea strongly and I assume they’re sincere.

I think it throws shade on the pretense that younger generations are less superficial and more intentional and thoughtful.

I say “my property taxes” because it’s what I individually pay on my individual house, but sales tax is generic and I just say “sales tax”.

Generally “my taxes” refers to income tax, which is figured out individually, so they are literally paying their taxes. It’s also a linguistic quirk, like saying “my cold got better”.

I can’t think of an example but definitely yes in non-political tech discussions about subjects like 3d printing.

The high seas have always been a constant battle. Are you really asking why both sides keep trying harder?

Really sick of “let’s talk about how something or somebody sucks” posts.

Yes just get me there, I’m not here to watch the show.

LOL do ya really think customers who still put up with overpriced shitty food are going to balk at the AI? Remember the “backlash” when inflated COVID prices never went back down? And yet here we are. I’ll believe this one when I read about empty McD’s closing.

Well it’s not a ban but I guess not trying to lure them with more gifts is a baby step, kinda.

Yeah, it looks like they first turned a profit in 2024, like $25 million and last year it was half a bil. Maybe what I saw was that they lost money for 17 years before that, I dunno.

That reminds me of how in old Star Trek they had those colored plastic data storage blocks, which they called “tapes”.

Don’t you worry about Wall Street, let ME worry about blank!

Wat? Capitalism knows exactly how to deal with this situation. People who still have faith in the companies will keep loaning them money or buying their stock or investing in them in other ways, and people who don’t have that faith will stop doing those things. Eventually each company will either succeed or run out of believers and die. It’s a very common scenario.

edit: answering the people who mentioned bailouts and government loans, as if to invalidate what I’m saying here.

1. Bailouts are infrequent special cases where governments intercede when there’s fear that corporate failures might cause widespread unemployment or other economic consequences. The entire AI industry isn’t even in that leage - it currently employs around 25-30,000 people. The largest one (OpenAI) only has about 8000. The largest of them could fail without disrupting their industry. This is nothing like a situation that would spur an industry-wide bailout.

2. Same goes for large government loans or loan guarantees. These aren’t handed out like candy whenever anyone asks. The scale of the consequences from company failures simply wouldn’t justify it.

The overwhelmingly likely scenario if AI companies fail is mergers and acquisitions. There’s even a class of investors known as “corporate raiders” who specialize in buying desperate companies and selling off the assets. None of this is new, it’s normal business activity that happens all the time, just part of the ecosystem. Believing AI companies are bulletproof because the government will simply hand them money simply isn’t supported by history. For a counterexample read up on the dotcom bubble of the late 90s, when tens of thousands of web startups went under without getting bailed out.