Put cool ass toys in there again and we’ll start buying again. This isn’t even a joke. I’m in my early 40s and my generation just really really falls for this. Something that glows in the dark, something linticular? Bam. Sales.

As a regular breakfast cereal eater type, the shrinkflation has been pretty crazy.

How many mom and pops order from Sysco, though? Just because it’s a one-off, small restaurant doesn’t mean they’re hand-making everything either. (Though I grant it is significantly more likely.)

McDonalds has been upfront about the eggs forever, and the rest of the pre-made stuff is pretty obvious.

They’re now claiming they can finally start using NFTs for their intended purpose, which is...something something contract or signature authentication or something something I dunno. It’s alluded to in this article. There is apparently some magical valuable “use” for NFTs beyond just overcharging people for a…

Whenever an article critical of NFTs was posted back in the day people would come out of the woodwork defending how valuable and revolutionary they would be and how you just “didn’t get it”. Where are those people now?

A good and expected result.  Now can we never talk about them again?

That was my immediate thougt, so I tried to look it up.

“Hickory residents asked for the road to be fixed or properly barricaded before someone was hurt or killed,”

I’d say they bear the ultimate responsibility. The owners are definitely at fault and Google definitely has some fault in they received multiple complaints and did nothing. But it does finally land on the town/county/state to protect motorists on that route.

Yes, he is evil. His job is evil. It doesn’t make him unique. “Like you get he works [as a senior executive] for a big corporation that wants to maximize profits” exactly!! That’s what makes him evil!!

“Spencer then added that being elected God-Emperor of Earth would be yet another ‘career moment’, as would a successful military conquest of the moon by an army of trained hamsters”

I would hate for them to buy Nintendo. First of all, "their success lies off their hardware" means they would kill the Switch and move things onto Xbox. Second of all, no I can't argue this anymore it's just too awful to consider 

Holy shit, just when I thought I couldn’t dislike Phil Spencer any more.

Dude’s idea of success is ‘buy all the competition’ rather than, you know, actually investing in his own developers to make better games.  Sure buddy, try to buy the company that has consistently trounced the shit out of you in console sales…

Yeah, I don’t think people realize how much of what makes Steam cool today is because of its leadership. I hope whoever follows Gabe and his crew keep the same vibe with the platform.

The ideal, pro-consumer solution is for all content to be available across a variety of streaming services instead of being exclusive and make the services compete by offering the best service, but that’ll never happen.

I predict a classic tactic used in business, politics and negotiations. You want $50 but your target will be incensed, angry that you’re asking for it. So instead you ask for $500, you incur a little wrath then say “Ok, how about $50?”. Your target says “Whew, ok $50 isn’t so bad” when in truth, the $50 would’ve been…

If you live near forests, chances are there’s a decent nature non-profit or local/state mushroom society that leads field trips in spring and fall for learning common edible mushrooms. Spending an afternoon with an expert in person is a huge supplement to a reputable book (which you should also have).

But the Mycologists will NOT be eating them. 

I’d been ready to make some sort of joke about “benefits of poor decision making playing out in real time”.