The death spasms of a dying empire.

It isn't just restaurants, but also supermarkets.

They don't produce food; they produce shareholder wealth. That's their goal.

Healthy food, grown naturally, not sprayed with chemicals, harvested in the last week, is just not a cost-effective plan for them.

I want AI in VSC as an assistant, but that's it.

If I could have set a systemwide setting to say "Only add AI to things I want", then I would have ticked that box a long time ago.

Maybe YT could add an option for "filter out AI slop". I might pay for YT if they did that.

We humans are never happy. We might be content for a while, but that is it.

Smart people see farther than the end of their noses, and so they can effectively project out into the future, and that future always involves work and hardship, and neither of those things brings happiness.

Smart people also know that happiness is a mere moment, not a state one can be in. You have it, and then it is gone. It's like trying to grasp smoke to save it for later.