Doubt.

Wendy’s doesn’t make real food.

Older user here: My iPhone 12 mini is plenty big enough for me. I was happy with the iPhone 4, really.

Preachin’ to the choir over here.

I avoid it all as much as I can.

I wonder how the Washington Post feels about it?

Counterpoint:

It’s a bit surprising how many CEO’s express disdain for their users and employees.

When employees are reduced to an “input resource” number on a spreadsheet, and they sit insulated from user complaints, and likely surround themselves with sycophants, I suppose it’s inevitable.

Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.

Still holding on for HL3 before I die.

I’d only need the prescription lenses. There’s no way I’d go for more than an hour in the thing.

If it can be done, they will do it. Power is unconstrained by ethics, empathy, or morality. Never assume that anyone in power shares these traits with the rest of us, they do not.

The only thing that constrains power is enforced laws with teeth.

It’s not the songs I listen to. It’s the ones that play in my head for weeks at a time.

That’s a nice.

Flabbergasted that people will pay so much to have McDonald’s delivered.

Top Ordered Food Nationwide:

Fries

Chicken Quesadilla

Mozzarella Sticks

Garlic Naan

Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Pepperoni Pizza

Chips & Queso

Traditional Wings

Cobb Salad

Fried Rice

This is what they need to do. Give people the choice.

If it’s not technically doable, then we’ll do it ourselves, we’ll fight over which game is and isn’t full of slop. And, we’ll be wrong sometimes, but increasingly right. Because, soon ALL media will be full of slop, including games.

The only way to avoid it will be to play old games. Which is fine by me, but there’s always the next generation of gamers coming up who won’t be so picky.

Wake me up when it beats fossils:

The poll is here and includes many questions beyond this one that grabbed headlines: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-10/ABC-Post-Ipsos Trend Topline 10.21.pdf

Including these two questions:

For now, I can avoid AI because it’s easy to spot. Even product website AI chatbots are poor imitations of people. (Honestly, the mental acrobatics people must go through to talk to one of these things as a trusted advisor baffles me. It’s a fucking machine, you’re talking to a box, a piece of software. Stop anthropomorphizing the damn things. But, maybe that’s just me.)

In the near future I expect for anything important to me (namely, doctors, lawyers, friends, advisors), I’ll only trust face to face conversations--but then, no more so than I ever have. Because, they won’t perfect androids in my lifetime.

The threat is that for paid positions, like doctors, etc., the option for face to face may become too expensive for anyone but the rich. Because, you know the rich won’t take digital advice. Hell, they’re trying to replace teachers in public schools with machines, right now. The rich never let their kids have phones when they’re young. Or, at least not the parents who give a fuck about their kids, which seems not many filthy rich do. Let alone will they let some machine teach them in school.

I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren’t paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.

They’re using AI. They think it’s wonderful, they’ve barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think “data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don’T yoU?”

The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025 (none of which it does very well):

• Therapy and companionship
• Organizing my life
• Finding purpose
• Enhanced learning
• Summarizing content
• Generating ideas
• Generating code (for professionals)
• Improving code (for professionals)
• Creativity
• Visual art and design

During the pandemic I stopped eating out. I started making all of my own meals, and to make it easier to remember what to get at the store, I narrowed down to the same meals every day. It’s been over four years now, and I’m fine with it.

No processed foods. Fresh or frozen vegetables and some fruit, organic chicken and milk, cheese, and nuts. That’s about it. I spend 30 minutes per day total making meals. Once-a-week shopping is completed in 20 minutes, because I know exactly what I’m getting, and where everything is in the store.

I don’t get bored with the meals, because boredom is all in the mind and I decided that food is not entertainment. That’s all it took.