Yes, the advertising is straight up misleading, saying shit like it protects you from viruses, and hides your browsing history from your ISP and lets you get international Netflix. It literally does nothing for viruses, it just exposes you to a different ISP (Nord), and Netflix is usually pretty quick about VPN blocking.
Chipotle was only one of the bigger players, but there were tons of smaller local burrito shops which simply don’t exist anymore, at least not on the east coast. Maybe things are different in California and Texas, but like I said in another comment, my college town had two amazing local burrito places which I ate at all the time, and they both went out of business in the mid/late 2000s and were unironically replaced by a Cava and a bubble tea shop. If you can’t tell, I am still bitter about this. The children are wrong and they need to understand why.
From my perspective Chipotle was just a bellwether anyway. I remember all of a sudden around like 2004 or 2005 when it just seemed to switch from people ordering 80% burritos to 80% bowls overnight. I don’t even remember them advertising bowls heavily until after the (objectively incorrect) shift in consumer preference. It killed the local places, it killed the “overstuffed” wars, and now it seems like your average chipotle cook can’t actually roll a burrito properly because nobody orders them.
I see people blatantly run red lights almost every single day. In terms of the intersection between malicious and just plain stupid, it’s hard to get much worse imo.
There was definitely a culture surrounding burritos in the late 90s, with all the different fast casual Mexican restaurants competing for who had the biggest or most overstuffed burrito. And it was also the prime drunk food up there with pizza - I remember a local college dive having “the dumpster” with french fries and mozz sticks. In popular media, burritos were generally trendy, and now it’s basically just disappeared.
Good. Rice/grain bowls are fucking burrito nihilism and the worst thing millennials have done. If you want a fucking burrito then order one. Take it with you and eat it on the go. It’s a sustainable, self contained, portable meal, unlike its deconstructed evil cousin which involves plastic and utensils and you can’t even eat it while walking. Seriously fuck these things so hard. I fucking hate how they have completely killed burrito culture and innovation because some delicate fucking tryhards refuse to eat with their hands as God intended.
I work with the city housing advocacy board as a navigator who helps get people housing vouchers. Though I was mostly leaning into the doom posting, not really asking a question.
Definitely. They just don’t have the balls to do it.
What are you doing about the homeless crisis?
I would even take the issue getting equal time with gaza amoung internet slacktivists. Unfortunately the propaganda value for US politics is low, so it is what it is, I guess.
I don’t understand how older or clumsy people use these without falling in their own shit on occasion. I feel like even for a relatively athletic person, the probability of an incident surely approaches one given enough time.
I think it’s funny that there have been a bunch of stories about how genZ is smoking again because it’s some kind of nihilist counterculture and I’m just like… Yeah I didn’t quit smoking because the priest gave me a very stern lecture. I quit because I got tired of hacking up half a lung every morning.
I have found Gemini the hardest to jailbreak tbh. I have been able to get Claude and CGPT to straight up give me a list of curses and slurs it isn’t allowed to say, but Gemini will only do it if you say the words first.
Is this rage bait?
Affordability and battery life. I am team linux and android normally, but you really cannot beat a MacBook as an SSH terminal or remote development terminal because they are reliable and the battery lasts all day.
I’d probably just jerk off again tbh.
IM A KERNEL PLAYING A KERNEL DISGUISED AS ANOTHER KERNEL
I’m not concerned I’m rooting for the dementia
It’s just stupid all the way down. It’s stupid that gas prices are even a primary political issue in the US, and it’s really, really fucking stupid that the Trump fascists didn’t realize that bombing the middle East would be a political liability.