My teriyaki sauce is pretty cheap, but I don't know what you're paying for ingredients. Just soy sauce, brown sugar, fresh garlic and ginger, MSG, and corn starch slurry to thicken slightly and that's always good enough for me. Looks good though, I made pork teriyaki this week.
Yeah exactly, because although it's possible to do more with technology sometimes, you're actively de-skilling at the same time. When we invented the written word yes it legitimately made everything better, but also we lost oral traditions and the capacity to memorize large volumes of storytelling, songs, and histories. Now you can burn the books, and the knowledge dies. It's a real risk.
Everything is like this. Every technology has a cost beyond its price, and making a decision of whether to use it or not will always be in error unless you think about what you're losing in the process.
Well sure, I haven't lost all hope for the future. I'm just less invested in my own. People my age were born towards the end of the party, nothing but shreds of boa and a massive tab to pick up. If we can get things cleaned up for the next big bash, I can be content with that.
We all saw this shit coming and it still happened, I don't know what to tell you. History enthusiasts love to say that, but historians are usually even gloomier.
How much of a feckless doofus babybrain do you have to be to see this and not imagine that the monster they're creating will be turned on minorities, dissidents, and ultimately anybody inconvenient to the regime? Even if you're a twisted sack of shit who likes the sound of that, you're about as sharp as a sock full of soup if you think this will work out for you.
I was too young to be in the thick of it, but I participated. It wouldn't be until a decade later that the pieces started to come together for me. It's weird to grow up gradually realising you're from not one but two of the wickedest countries in history.
The maddening thing is that the anti WTO protesters said this would happen, then it did, and now that China is an economic power house the general policy on offer - rather than meet the situation we created on its own terms - send to be a return to mercantilism and a general retreat from the pax Americana.
eBay has a darker history than GameStop fwiw (Behind the Bastards did a couple episodes on that). I do think it could be a beneficial merger, pivoting to online sales should be a winner, especially with reused hardware becoming more attractive thanks to fkn LLMs.
I'd love that, but I'm not in the habit of believing things just because they feel good. Does that ever happen?