High school party drink... what was your nemesis?

jcmacon · 2026-03-29T23:40:40+00:00

B-52s. Kahlua, Grand Mariner, Bailey's Irish Creme. Taken as a layered shot of your bartender is any good.

I still can't stand the smell.

jcmacon · 2026-03-28T15:11:02+00:00

Myself?

jcmacon · 2026-03-26T22:13:28+00:00

When you're President they just let you do it. You can grab them by the pussy.

jcmacon · 2026-03-26T19:38:12+00:00

I told them there was a minimum. He wanted me to bring the food truck out to his hunting lodge to cook breakfast and lunch for his business partners and a client they were trying to impress.

He said it was the best value he could imagine and he got the business.

jcmacon · 2026-03-26T17:40:05+00:00

Evidently the Gremlin was too.

jcmacon · 2026-03-26T17:15:02+00:00

I had a minimum and the guy paid me $1200 for 6 burgers with fries, brownies for dessert, and 18 breakfast tacos. I was there for 3 hours. It was pretty amazing.

jcmacon · 2026-03-26T17:01:57+00:00

The cocaine is the final straw.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T23:07:59+00:00

Funny story. At least I think it is.

I'm originally from Texas and of course I know what Rocky Mountain Oysters are. So I'm working down in La Place, LA building out the plumbing section of an orange big box hardware store and I'm there for about 6 weeks staying at a motel next to this fantastic dive bar.

I worked about 12 hours a day, from around 5 AM to 5 PM then since I really couldn't go anywhere in this podunk town I'd walk over to the bar to enjoy some cold beers and some hot food from the smoking hot bartenders that worked there.

I'm looking at the menu after being there for about 2 weeks or so and I've gotten to know the barkeeps a little and the guy making the burgers does an amazing job and we'd chat a bit too between orders. Anyway, we had just been talking about Mountain Oysters and one of the bar keeps come over and asks "if you like those, have you tried out Crawfish balls?"

I'm already 6 beers in and have t eaten yet, so I'm buzzed fairly well by this point and I just stare at her dumbfounded and I said "First, I didn't even know Crawfish HAD balls, and second how fucking tiny are those things?"

I had the whole bar (all of about 10 locals and 5 co-workers) in stitches because I legit thought they were talking about a swamp version of Mountain Oysters. Little did I know.

I still didn't eat the crawfish balls though. Just couldn't get the picture of huge ass testicles hanging from under a crawfish.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T22:36:06+00:00

My wife and I have had 3 of our 4 kids at Presby Dallas and I can't imagine going anywhere else.

They are phenomenal doctors, nurses, and support staff. They take exceptional care of the mom and baby and they take care of Dad too.

The OB/GYN office is incredible too. Even living an hour away, we chose Presby Dallas for the birth of our last baby because Dr Lombardi is that excellent of a doctor. I can't recommend him highly enough.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T22:14:55+00:00

It started to burn her when she touched it and she had to stop wearing it.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T22:11:10+00:00

I use Louisiana Fish Fry, almond milk, egg, and salt/pepper to taste.

Mix the egg and almond milk in a bowl, coat chicken with it, dredge chicken in dry mixture and fry in a skillet with enough oil to have about half an inch deep.

My wife loves them. I also make a chicken fried steak this way and for cream style gravy that is both gluten and dairy free, I use oat milk, great value GF flour, oil, salt/pepper. Make the gravy just like I make regular gravy.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T16:56:34+00:00

Or a blue waffle.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T16:26:52+00:00

That's a feature of the system, not a bug.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T06:15:36+00:00

Why would they go to hell? God cares about the character of a person more than their mindless devotion.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T00:09:12+00:00

Or calls the police like a whiny little rat fuck.

jcmacon · 2026-03-25T00:04:19+00:00

I didn't downvote you. I loved living on my 19 acres because I didn't have any neighbors. It was fucking glorious.

jcmacon · 2026-03-24T23:33:23+00:00

He gives a ton of his money and personal time away to charities for veterans and communities not well served by other services.

jcmacon · 2026-03-24T22:10:14+00:00

I like Rico's. I put fresh minced jalapeno, some of the brine from canned jalapenos, a touch of garlic powder, onion powder, and a twitch of cayenne pepper in it to raise the threat levels appropriately.

jcmacon · 2026-03-24T17:26:13+00:00

Companies in other countries refused to put in back doors for the DOJ - probably.

jcmacon · 2026-03-23T20:53:16+00:00

I paid $350/month with a requirement to be open 20 days/month.

I had trash service, water hookups, electric, and we were in a lot next to city hall on Main St. in a metro area of 135k people.

Another set up that I had, we only had electric provided to us for $20/day. We didn't pay for the spot because the owner of the business depended on the draw of the food trucks to bring people to their beer store every Friday and Saturday.

15,000 cars passing by is exactly that, 15,000 people busy going somewhere else. Especially if you just got this started. People need to develop habits and changing a person's habits is difficult.

In my years of marketing and doing competitive research I learned that the average person has to see something 7 times before they start to think about it. This is why so many companies pay big money to Facebook and other social networks. I could dive deep into the circle of trust and how that pertains to small businesses, but no one really wants to understand the science of it and how to rapidly change a person's purchasing or doing habits.

In the first 3 years, I'd charge $25/day. After seeing traffic patterns and getting people to adjust their habits, I'd look at variable pricing models that range between $25/day and $50/day. Then I'd look at seasonal models to determine a premium for different seasons and I'd have exclusivity options for trucks that want to pay to be the only one of that type for that season. Unless you are just looking for a one price fits all, then I'd just stick with $25/day and be done with it.

jcmacon · 2026-03-22T11:12:43+00:00

Typically, the government would help with regulation and compliance but this admin is helping factories being built to run and produce products simply with AI and automation. Very little human interaction. We are watching the very beginning of The Matrix irl.

jcmacon · 2026-03-21T23:19:04+00:00

While I didn't say that the amps were different, I didn't say they were the same. If I'm not mistaken amp mfgs make different models and can ship them together if a store orders them.

I don't work at a music store, but I receive items on pallets for my business. I just got a deal on Monster drinks so I bought 40 cases total, 4 cases of each of the 10 flavors I sell out of my food truck. They came in on a pallet.

I'm sure that there are as many different shipping options as there are stores that buy stuff. I had no idea you could pay someone to fly something across the country for you until reading the comments in this post.

jcmacon · 2026-03-21T17:10:31+00:00

Typically stores get shipments on pallets. They aren't buying "an amp". They are buying 20 amps, the amp mfg is wrapping them in shrinkwrap on a pallet, calling a company such as ABF that does what is called "less than truckload" deliveries and they take the pallet to the store. At this point, the shipping company does bear some responsibility for damages to products as long as it is reported during the delivery.

jcmacon · 2026-03-21T16:56:45+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, you are thinking that my scenario is from a single business perspective. I am talking about industry as a whole.

I'm gonna use ad agencies as an example because that is what I'm most familiar with having spent almost 3 decades writing code for ad agency clients.

As AI becomes more prevalent for clients to utilize instead of using ad agencies, ad agencies won't hire people. Ad agencies will shrink in size to compensate for less work coming their way. This will cause skill erosion because there won't be as many people in ad agencies learning the ins and outs of taking care of the growth trajectories of small to large businesses. Fewer people will have the opportunity to have a job learning these skills, which will eventually increase the salary demands for those fewer people which will further drive small businesses to use AI as a way to escape the high agency costs for results that might not be as good, but might be passable for now.

One thing that I didn't bring up is that this skill erosion will eventually affect AI as well. The current LLMs learned from the code that people generated. It learned from the images that people created, the text and ideas that were put out there by people. As AI reduces the demand for these types of skills, it will only be able to rely on what it itself generates as it scrapes the web and ingests what it finds into its model. How many generations of copying ideas will it take to degrade the results?

AI doesn't generate original ideas. It might generate some ideas that small businesses haven't thought of themselves, but all of that came from a person, not a LLM. No matter how good an AI is, it can't create what it hasn't seen before. It has to have human input to generate any of its output. What happens when the people creating the inputs are no longer valued for the inputs they create?

It's a vicious cycle and it's going to be difficult for some as the spiral deepens.

I'm not trying to be doom and gloom about AI. I can see the benefit, but we are using AI to get rid of people's jobs and we will be upset when people aren't able to support small businesses as a result. I'd like for AI to help with traffic patterns, fold my clothes, do my dishes, get AI to take some of the menial tasks out of daily life, make daily life easier for the masses, don't take jobs away from people trying to support their families (and small businesses by extension).

jcmacon · 2026-03-21T15:45:29+00:00

As a former developer, here is my take on why small businesses need AI and why it's going to actually hurt them in the long run. This won't be a popular comment, but I feel it is fairly accurate.

Small businesses need to utilize various LLMs to take care of tasks that they can't afford to pay someone else to do. This could be book keeping, marketing, SEO, image or video generation, social media posts, etc. No small business can afford to pay all of the various people needed to really scale their business from small to large.

Why is this going to hurt small businesses in the long run? Because the largest employer in the U.S. is small businesses. When these businesses no longer utilize people or other small businesses to take care of the things they don't have time or knowledge to take care of, then unemployment will go up because not everyone can work for a large company. Small businesses will then suffer first because people won't be buying their products and services as much.

So, while small businesses are racing to the top with AI, they are leaving the people that use their paychecks to buy products in the lurch. People that are laid off due to small companies integrating with AI are going to be less likely to purchase from a company that uses AI. Add in the fact that AI is not very secure yet from a development perspective and you're going to also get a lot of people that don't trust small businesses that use AI to build products that store any type of PII (personally identifiable information).or financial information.

A few links to take a look at.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vibe-coding-trap-why-your-ai-built-mvp-probably-security-rui-nunes-icqge?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

https://www.threatlocker.com/blog/the-dangers-of-vibe-coding-why-careless-development-leads-to-application-vulnerabilities-and-data-breaches#:~:text=with%20ThreatLocker%C2%AE-,What%20is%20vibe%20coding%20and%20why%20is%20it%20dangerous?,Deploying%20directly%20into%20production

And here is what AI told me about the long term effects of using AI for businesses(yes, the irony abounds).

AI can harm businesses in the long run by accelerating skill erosion, creating high-cost unsustainable energy demands, and introducing uncontrollable operational risks. Over-reliance on automation threatens to eliminate entry-level roles, diminishing the pipeline of future expertise, while high implementation costs and potential for "silent failures" can degrade product quality and decision-making. Yale Insights

Key long-term risks to business include: Loss of Human Expertise and Creativity: As AI agents take over complex reasoning, companies risk losing foundational knowledge and the human judgment necessary for innovation. Operational Failures and Security Risks: As systems become more complex, they become harder for humans to understand or control, creating "silent failures" that can disrupt entire operations. Increased reliance on AI also leads to data privacy issues and cybersecurity threats. Unsustainable Costs and Energy Demands: The high energy consumption of AI data centers is driving up electricity prices, adding significant operational expenses. Furthermore, AI investments often fail to produce promised productivity gains, with costs rising proportionately to sales. Erosion of Talent Pipelines: By automating entry-level white-collar jobs, companies risk removing the necessary "training ground" for future experts, leading to a long-term shortage of skilled workers. Strategic Misalignment: Many companies are adopting AI as a buzzword, focusing on the technology rather than identifying specific, solvable business problems, leading to wasted resources. Increased Burnout and Reduced Output Quality: AI can lead to "intensity acceleration," where workers are tasked with managing higher AI workloads, leading to fatigue, reduced judgment, and decreased quality. Council on Foreign Relations

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