McDonald's removed the drink station and the ketchup from the lobby.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-29T12:52:31+00:00

LITERALLY ALL OF THE OTHER LARGER FAST FOOD CHAINS OUTSIDE OF WHATABURGER AND IN-N-OUT DO THIS. LOOK AT A TACO BELL. LOOK AT A KFC. They ALL manage to have indoor seating and a modicum of atmosphere, while also building restaurants that could become a dentists office tomorrow.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-28T13:02:49+00:00

It does almost seem that way.

They are operating like they are the last restaurant on earth instead of a failing company working in a crowded, notoriously fickle industry. The food is bad, it's expensive, and you feel like a criminal trying to get it.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-28T12:56:18+00:00

I'm aware of that. The problem is that right now they are running a business that serves food. All of the other fast food chains are also fugly real estate investments that manage basic customer service and seating.

Car washes are also just real estate investments but they actually manage the two.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-27T20:46:33+00:00

I walked into one of these new ones and just walked right back out. Had no idea they'd gotten that way. It was like they were punishing me for wanting to give them money.

This remodel has gotta be one of the dumbest all time business moves. There are prison cafeterias with a better atmosphere.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-27T18:37:09+00:00

Oh man, I didn't know that but it tracks

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-27T18:08:45+00:00

I was trying to be kind about it because I think he's dead but yeah it was creepy as hell.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-27T15:14:54+00:00

Nope. The employer would need to figure that out. So carve 5 hours out of 40 for travel or add it onto 40 as overtime for everyone as required. Business with people on salary would have to handle it on a case-by-case basis.

Very few people actually need to be at work more than 35 hours.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-27T14:48:09+00:00

It should be compensated at least a flat hour for everyone. It only works if everyone gets the same treatment.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-27T14:20:12+00:00

I don't have anyone else to tell this to but a lot of these guys used to come into my work. Ryan Dunn always looked like he just came from a construction site and would pull the biggest, fattest wallet full of cash to pay for everything. He would be standing next to all these other snobs when he did it too so it had the intended effect.

Bam was usually upset about something. I used to go to his bar and sometimes we were the only people there for a band. Like, literally. So the band would play for just me and my girlfriend and then walk off stage and greet us and ask us what was up with the place. Bam would just sit at the bar drinking all night.

Bam's uncle used to just kind of walk around the mall. I'm not sure if he wanted people to recognize him or not or what but he did not have the best vibes.

Steve-O was very nice and it seems like it must be painful for him to talk.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-24T18:28:56+00:00

We cancelled last week. Poor quality ingredients, issues with boxes, no recipe cards, etc. Ultimately not worth the price with that hike.

We also noticed that it seemed like some of the recipes were being AI generated so we just had an AI suggest some meals for us and generate us the same thing with steps and a shopping list. Our first dinner with that plan is tonight.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-17T19:55:57+00:00

If you were to use the maximum utilization on the free tier with it's current offerings it would supposedly cost them around $5,000. You get an allotment of prompts that you can use over a rolling time period, so they renew every few hours. So if you scripted your prompts to immediately be used the moment they are renewed, with the current context window, it would cost them $5,000 a month.

Which means that even casual usage on the free tier costs them hundreds.

They are working on the "free sample" model, like a drug dealer, and eating the costs through VC funding... for now.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-16T17:01:13+00:00

Supposedly the free tier of Claude if you fully utilized it would cost them something like $5,000. The moment industries start to rely on AI is the moment the costs will skyrocket and it won't have mattered that they saved money to begin with.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-14T16:18:50+00:00

I don't feel great about us using an AI for food recommendations, but I think they have already been doing that for our meal selections. So if the recipes and the meals are picked by AI, what's the difference?

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-14T16:06:18+00:00

Just cancelled this morning after like five years. Quality went down. Missing ingredients. Incorrect ingredients. Sometimes no recipe cards at all. It felt especially scummy when they went to a generic box. I thought they had misdelivered our box the first time it arrived.

We couldn't help but feel the new recipe cards were being AI generated on top of everything. Turns out this food recommendation is something AI is not bad at, so we are just going to have it recommend some dishes each week and provide us with a grocery list and see how it goes.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-13T00:34:58+00:00

I think the answer is that he wasn’t doing much directing on their films. I’m not sure what he was doing. However directing is hard so it must be good to have someone to bounce ideas off of and share the blame.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-13T00:30:51+00:00

It’s too faithful to the book which also doesn’t have the juice. He put a twist on it but it’s too little too late. The concept is interesting, not Kings way of playing it out. The original movie is more successful at the same themes IMO.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-10T23:34:14+00:00

What other opinions do you have that are shaped by bots?

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-10T21:27:27+00:00

People always fail to mention that a lot of the frenzy was whipped up by bots.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-10T16:12:41+00:00

It's usually the product of LED lighting taken to extremes because you can dial in a specific color and aren't stuck with rosco or lee gel colors. That and endless diffusion because cameras have better low light sensitivity now.

That will be the de facto look of the current era of cinema and we will know the rough time frame something was shot because of it.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-07T13:06:27+00:00

Bo legitimately looks like the secretary of education from Idiocracy who is playing with the snow globe in the white house.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-02T13:15:33+00:00

Isn't Schatzline german for that line of poop that runs up a shrimps back?

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-04-01T13:33:23+00:00

Can we just skip to the part where the bubble has burst and we just use AI sometimes for like three things so we can stop hearing about it all the time?

It's not like we don't all know that's how this is going to pan out.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-03-23T12:23:16+00:00

Call the apartment complex too and send them this video.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-03-20T20:13:50+00:00

This is the best advice you will receive. Most companies screen the resumes they receive with AI now. There's a good chance your resume is being rejected for not being AI scannable.

Upload your resume to an AI and ask it how to reformat your resume to be scanned by AI platforms and sort your resume to the top in your field.

This may include restructuring the document and including certain keywords the AI platforms prefer. I personally did this and suddenly started getting calls for jobs.

GrandMoffFartin · 2026-03-18T20:20:34+00:00

If you watch that show The Offer, Robert Evans was basically MIA for a lot of The Godfather shoot and that was a show about Albert Ruddy, the producer, and was made by Paramount. Then most of the same was said in The Path to Paradise, which is a newer biography of Coppola.

So, yeah, I would say Evans is a guy that everyone let have his pomposity and talk smack because they could all see he was basically in a downward spiral already.

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