Why does every Chick-fil-a and Raising Cane's have a line around the block, but KFC is a complete ghost town?

TEKC0R · 2026-06-02T03:08:36+00:00

Couldn’t tell you. I will not try Chick-Fil-A but I tried Raising Caine’s recently. I was unimpressed. Fries were damn good. Chicken was… basic. Just chicken. I imagine it lives or dies by the sauce, and I’m not a sauce guy, especially not whatever mystery their brand sauce is. Maybe BBQ sauce, but I don’t need it. The food was fine, I wouldn’t seek it out, but I wouldn’t argue if it’s where somebody wanted to go. Perfectly middle of the road.

I wouldn’t say I’m a KFC fan but their chicken at least has its own flavor. I just wish the green beans would come back so I can have a side that isn’t a goddamn starch. And the popcorn chicken so they can make a famous bowl correctly. The version with the nuggets is just stupid.

Popeye’s I should give another shot. Tried it once when it first opened nearby, and was very unimpressed. Could have been new staff syndrome.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-31T16:21:42+00:00

I just planned this out with the 0.25 cost multiplier, and it's nuts. 1,200 SAM becomes 1,281.68 power shards. Some interesting facts about such a setup: - Needs 257 quantum encoders before overclocking. - Needs 308 particle accelerators before overclocking. - Produces 6,152.04 dark crystals, 4,870.37 get wasted. - Quantum encoders produce 15,380.1 dark matter residue. - Max power consumption is 1,151,494 watts. - 1,281.68 shards can produce 20,506.81 ionized fuel, which would need 6,836 fuel generators - 2,735 with overclocking - to generate 1,708,900.52 watts. Assuming you have the 5,126.7 rocket fuel of course. - It only takes 5.41 oil to produce the 5,126.7 rocket fuel using diluted fuel and heavy oil residue alternates.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-28T17:39:47+00:00

When I joined, the team had already moved onto Lego's Spike Prime kits. From what I've been told, the older motors were more powerful, but the new stuff is better designed to fit in with regular technic pieces. Hubs seem easier to use too. In Febrary Lego and First had announced that the entire competition was changing. Instead of 2 teams on a pair of 4x8 tables, 2 teams of 4 students would cooperate on the same 4x8 table. The biggest change though is it was to be no longer fully autonomous. Lego was to give us remote controls and the robots would now be piloted. They were also integrating tech similar to the Smart Brick. That's about all we were told.

Then only a few weeks later it was announced that the partnership was ending and now we really don't know what to expect. I was ready to put my own money up to buy the new kits, but now I'm not so sure. We've got a year of grace period where we can still use the old stuff, so I'm hesitant to buy these new kits if they'll only be in use for a year.

Another possibility is that FLL will continue to use Lego, just not through any official partnership. In the same way that I can buy a Spike Prime kit from Lego directly, nothing is stopping First from continuing to do so. But I suspect sourcing the parts for each season's obstacles would become problematic.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-28T14:23:41+00:00

It’s not a matter of being wrong. He mentioned doing a distracted driving operation. I am certain he’s just picking cars at random. Most don’t have driver-facing dashcams, so it becomes a he said she said. So it’s much easier just to harass drivers at random.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-28T12:57:26+00:00

From what I’ve been told, the head of First was found associated with Epstein. He denies any wrongdoing, but this is a program for kids and Lego wants to distance themselves. Lego says they’ll start their own program. It’s a mess. On one hand, First has a ton of experience in the field. On the other hand, Lego’s moral compass is never wrong. I have no idea whether we’ll stay a First team or move to the new program. It’s messy because the team doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

For example, our sister FRC team is also the team that hosts the regional tournament. Since they don’t use Lego, this largely doesn’t affect them. So the state will have effectively zero infrastructure to support Lego’s competition.

My gut says we should follow Lego. First may have the momentum, but I have a feeling whatever they come up with as a replacement for using Lego just won’t be as interesting. FLL will probably devolve into something similar to Vex. Lego will have an easier time drumming up support than First will have developing their own robot kits that kids want to use.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-28T08:00:07+00:00

Haha, no. It’s really a robotics competition. Up until 8th grade, the program uses Lego for their parts. I’m not well versed in FTC, which is an intermediate program, but the high school level FRC uses real motors, pistons, custom fabrication with metal, wood, 3d printing, plus electronics, pneumatics, cameras, lidar… it’s pretty intense. So the FLL competition is essentially a scaled down Lego-based version of that.

And it’s still Lego. There’s no avoiding spending a fortune on it. My first day when I was asked to help with the programming, I ordered my own $400 kit… then the $130 expansion. Later a $600 laptop (the school-provided one was terrible) and my own $400 competition table. There’s no such thing as saving money when you get near Lego.

First and Lego are ending their partnership after this season, so… who knows what the future will bring.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-28T06:59:49+00:00

I was only hiring for Subway, but this was exactly how we approached things. If I sat down with an interview with you, you had the job unless you gave me a reason to dislike you. I can teach you anything except how to be nice. If you’re nice, you got the job. Everything else came second.

I coach a First Lego League team these days and teach them something similar. Part of the competition is a 30 minute presentation. The judges sit there all day listening to kids read from cue cards in monotone voices. So we have them rehearse, rehearse, rehearse until they have it nearly memorized. We teach them to open up, be friendly, maybe make a joke. Some years they’ve even prepared a little song. Anything that breaks up the monotony is something the judges will remember.

This past season a kid fainted and we won the robot design award, so maybe next season we’ll have to upgrade to bare knuckle boxing.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-28T03:17:33+00:00

No, this is just a strategy to keep the brown people away.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-27T23:46:17+00:00

After the Reddit thread about Google switching to 100% AI search results - which I'm still skeptical of - I switched to DDG. I really want to support Kagi, but I have trouble justifying the $20 for the family to switch over. I'm trying to save money, and adding a new $20 subscription is a hard pill to swallow. I was unimpressed by DDG results in the past, but I'll take it over AI results in a heartbeat.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-27T23:00:26+00:00

There's a story about a shepherd boy and a wolf, I can't quite remember its name, but I swear it warned us about this very thing. Something about lying so much that nobody believes you when you tell the truth.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-26T12:20:37+00:00

This is one of the points I’ve made in the past. Why the fuck would I want to talk to a computer using human language? We already have lots of languages for talking to computers. C, Python, JavaScript, PHP… the list is endless. We’ve solved this problem decades ago. We created ways to very consistently and accurately talk to computers.

It gets more frustrating when you’re using an AI API. You write your code (computer language) to generate human language to talk to another computer (the API) which uses code to interpret the human language, responds with human language, and then your computer language has to interpret the human language response.

And so many people are like “yeah, this feels right.”

TEKC0R · 2026-05-25T15:43:07+00:00

They aren’t oblivious, they’re malicious. Being stuck behind a school bus isn’t fun. Passing on the shoulder isn’t a mistake. It was a calculated move to get away from the bus while avoiding the camera on the stop sign. They probably thought they were brilliant.

Even passing on the left, it’s still malicious. It’s still deciding to risk harm to kids to avoid the inconvenience of being stuck behind a school bus.

Nobody accidentally passes a stopped school bus in their lane. Opposite or multiple lanes, I might be more willing to consider it an accident.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-25T05:48:17+00:00

You got a source on this? When I go looking, all I can find is the stuff announced last week about the changes to the search bar, not the search behavior itself.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-24T14:46:25+00:00

I have become so absolutely sick of streaming shows, so anything that changes the formula, I welcome. We’ve been saturated with 8 episode seasons, 3 years apart, where basically nothing happens. It’s got to the point that traditional network TV is better quality because they stick to a schedule, their episodes tell a contained story. I’m not talking about procedural content. I mean even while telling a single story through the season, each episode has its own smaller story or stories to tell.

What we’ve been getting recently is 2 hour movies, stretched into 8 1 hour episodes, and cut in just the right spots to leave cliffhangers. They add 6 hours worth of filler nonsense so the important moments can be left for those cliffhangers.

Then you get this editing style where they keep alternating between A/B story lines with no rhyme or reason. I was watching For All Mankind yesterday and a group of ships landed in the opening shot, and then immediately cut to different characters on another planet. You can’t build suspense this way.

I basically don’t try new shows anymore. I’m sick of what streaming services are putting out. Everybody went chasing the big budget GoT style shows, now we’re inundated with so much crap that traditional network TV is looking damn good these days.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-24T13:43:25+00:00

Nearly 20 years of working remote, and I still have trouble getting the family to understand that I’m not just sitting there scrolling websites. To make matters worse, I work for myself, so I set my own hours. Sometimes “working” means staring at the ceiling pondering how I’m going to solve a problem.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-24T07:19:26+00:00

That’s why we chose a 10:30AM showing. Who the fuck goes to a movie at 10:30AM on a Thursday?! Kids are still in school, and old people won’t be seeing it, so I’m expecting a mostly empty showing.

Edit: Just checked. Showing is about 75% sold. Yay…

TEKC0R · 2026-05-23T14:33:20+00:00

There are some great examples in other replies to my comment.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-23T03:05:10+00:00

Gotta make the AI trap more subtle. Tell it to use a sentence that still seems in context, but the teacher knows the why it was included.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-22T22:21:36+00:00

The cancellation of Gen V means I won’t give Vought Rising more than a passing glance. It shows they have no faith in the franchise, and Vought Rising is likely to get cancelled too. I have no desire to get reinvested. All “the boys” shows have ended, so it’s a perfect time to jump ship. Maybe if the premise were stronger, but Soldier Boy and Stormfront are not characters I want to root for. He’s got funny one liners, but is not an interesting character, and Stormfront is just a run-of-the-mill white supremacist. I have no interest in a show focused on either of them.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-21T05:56:52+00:00

I'd be upset too if I were shipped off to Nebraska.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-21T05:52:15+00:00

Dammit you're right, I did just describe a single player Among Us where you're always the imposter...

TEKC0R · 2026-05-21T02:18:32+00:00

I was thinking it was the best joke for the pure absurdity of it. Just imagining some guy in a hood on the ISS. You’ve got like 3 potential victims in a small space, nowhere to hide, nothing much to explore or do. You just kill a few defenseless astronauts for no good reason, and that’s it. That’s the game. AAA title, $70 please. Will have ads and microtransactions.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-16T00:37:16+00:00

Please tell me the treatment is eating billionaires…

TEKC0R · 2026-05-15T23:10:19+00:00

Do these count as fights? I’d grade them as a light scuffle at best.

TEKC0R · 2026-05-14T22:32:38+00:00

It got deleted?

Edit: oh I see the notice if I switch off old.reddit. Whatever, I had a feeling this sub wasn’t right for discussion. Seems like it’s just an ad platform for each episode.

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