I blame Alton Brown.

Hear me out.

Alton Brown is undoubtedly a legendary figure and he did a lot of good for the modern state of culinary entertainment. His scientific, experimental approach was authoritative. He came up with what was scientifically the best way to do a thing, demonstrated why, and did it in a very entertaining way.

But with that, came scores of fans who saw “this is the best way to do a thing” and interpreted that as “this is the only way to do a thing, fuck you you’re doing it wrong.”

Alton wasn’t doing what other TV chefs were doing. Emeril and Julia presented really good recipes, they’d add some flare and say hey, this is how we do it around here. Bourdain explored the world and showed off a lot of great ways to cook. He was reluctant to criticize and clearly just loved the food.

But Alton Brown, for all the good he did, opened up authority to fans who didn’t know shit about fuck. He spoke with confidence about how his method was the right method.

Right about the time the Internet was coming in to it’s own and arguing about nonsense online became a hobby a person could have.

Now, there’s a culture of being right about cooking online. People who log in every day just to bitch about how somebody else cooked something.

Obviously it’s not exclusively Alton’s fault, and Alton is as open to new and interesting ways to cook things as Bourdain was, a fact you’ll discover if he ever happens to visit your home town and read what he says about the food there on his Facebook page.

But there is a through line there, and it starts at Good Eats.

I read that in an incomprehensible British accent

Well in the US, no one was originally intended to vote but the male landed gentry, who clearly could afford to travel for several days to their polling place, get plastered on local liquor, and just shout who they were voting for at whomever was supposed to jot that down. Them that person would go off and vote for whoever they wanted, in case the peasants had gotten any silly ideas and voted for the wrong guy.

Where my FF8 homies at tho

So it’ll be paid off sometime between the last star dying and the first black hole evaporating.

This is great and advisable.

But what about online only games that can be nuked whenever the publisher feels like it?

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

-Napoléon Bonaparte

-Michael Scott

Calling it mental illness isn’t just a stretch it’s just fuckin wrong my dude. I get what you’re saying but bro, that’s just how humans work.

For the vast majority of people, belief in science isn’t fundamentally different than belief in religion. Very few people actually know. The rest of us are taking it on faith that the scientific method is working. Even when it isn’t (that’s a fascinating story, btw, a lot of scientists confirmed findings before it was ultimately debunked.)

Taking things on faith is part of why we work as a species, knowing a thing to be true without ever seeing it is critical to a functioning culture.

The fact that that well has been poisoned with bullshit is a natural consequence.

That’s extremely the aesthetic I love about cyberpunk. Sure the story in Blade Runner is great but look at all the neat shit!

On the inverse I’ve found it to be quite bad at that. I can generally count on the AI answer to be wrong, fundamentally.

Might depend on your industry. It’s garbage at g code.

AM I BEING DETAINED AM I FREE TO GO??

Wasn’t that zeppelin in Germany? When he said no ticket, and everybody got theirs out, but he was speaking English.

Just think of the rabbits.

My money is still on Paul Le Roux.

Listen the teacher spelled it wrong, hardly the student’s fault

Bro just throw a rock

45 minus to fully caramelize.

If you don’t want them that dark you don’t have to cook them that long.

I dunno, 3 Body makes a good argument for China being the country of origin for the person that ultimately betrays humanity to the aliens because how much worse could it actually get?

It’s a cheap LED pen light, they hand them out like candy where I work. Most of us have our own flashlights anymore.

What happens when those three pedal the other direction?

It’s stats, it’s a descriptive term. It just literally doesn’t mean what you’re saying it means.

A driver in stats is just an item or a group that has a significant impact on the final result. What that means is going to vary from study to study.

Anyway, you can hold on to your belief about what a driver is, you are factually incorrect, and you were also kind of an asshole to the other guy. I’m out.