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    Their drive through is gonna get busy with all the “ai startup founders” who cant afford their ai anymore in there like “before I place my order, I’m going to read you 31 million lines of code, I need you to change the color of the login button to green”

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    8 hours ago

    I’d like to order a big Mac, but I’m scared. Calm me by playing every Beethoven concierto so that I can order food.

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    11 hours ago

    My dad died last fall and when I called the funeral home we had chosen to come collect the body, the answering service I got was AI. It had a weird accent that wasn’t from anywhere on this planet, strange background noises also not from this planet, and when it read back my dad’s name for confirmation, it said “Bob common name Smith common name?” Like, what in the actual fuck. I should have just hung up and called a different funeral home but I was too shocked by what I was interacting with.

    For good measure, their funeral director (who just happened to have the same last name as a character from The Sopranos) kept cracking jokes during our meeting with him, completely ghosted me for a week, and then finally delivered the urn with my father’s ashes in it at 8 PM the night before his interment ceremony. Naturally enough, he left it on my porch and split before I could talk to him.

    It is so much fun living in the future.

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    11 hours ago

    Some of the Wendy’s near me have AI drive thru systems. One of them stopped offering the 4-for-4 deal. Their AI menu shows an item code next to each item you order. I found the code for the 4-for-4 meal and went to the location that stopped offering it. I asked for [item code] and the AI rang it up. The employees who understandably don’t give a shit did their best to make it for me haha

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    13 hours ago

    Let’s start a new TikTok trend: McDonald’s Tokenmaxxing.

    Except somebody else needs to start it because I don’t and never will have TikTok

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    15 hours ago

    Just adding this to the hatred for McD… Their WiFi requires you to install and trust a McDonalds WiFi cert. Man in the middle https decoding. Anyone who has done this has given McD their creds to various sites.

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    here’s me, wondering how they have still customers consuming their ‘product’

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      Same. I stopped going to McDonald’s 2 years ago for several reasons:

      1. Their “food” got way too expensive for the shit quality that it is,

      2. You won’t catch me dead with a fucking fast food app on my phone, and

      3. the final straw was their tacit endorsement of Donald Trump when they refused to reprimand the franchise owner that pulled that stupid stunt in Pennsylvania.

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        I hadn’t gone to a fast food place in years and figured fuck it, on my way to a morning meeting one day where I had to leave a lot earlier than normal. I got a breakfast meal with a small coffee. That shit fucked with my insides so much it convinced me I’m just never going to eat fast food again. With how much prices have increased at fast food places these days you can go to a sit down restaurant and not spend all that much more. Wild world we live in.

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        Mcdonalds pancakes for 4$ are the only thing I still get every once and awhile when I don’t want to cook for the kid but that’s it…

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      It’s fast, convenient, and tastes pretty good. After feeding the goats in the morning i swing by McDonald’s with my kids and we get the hotcakes. They are happy and I’m happy.

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        I totally get this and it’s the reason I get fast food with my kids sometimes. But McDonald’s? I haven’t had a meal I could finish from McDonald’s in like twenty years. It just gets worse and worse every year.

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        I taught my kid how to microwave scrambled eggs as soon as reasonable, or he slaps together a pb and j, or he eats leftover chicken, whatever…

        your goats probably eating better than your kids. its, just, so lazy, not just in motion but intellectually. not nice to say but christ

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        Also it’s cheap if you use their stupid app, depending on what you get. When I’m trying to pinch pennies but don’t have time for anything else, it comes in handy.

        Their app really is stupid though

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    McDs used to be my favorite fast food - i love a mcchicken. Then the kiosk came and i can’t add onions to my mcchicken. Then the price increases came and 1 mcchicken is now the price of 3 mcchickens. Then you need to have an app. Now AI. McDs really doesn’t want me back do they?

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      I hate app requirements and avoid McDonald’s just because I don’t want to pay extra just to not install one.

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      16 hours ago

      McDs near me charges $1.25 for extra onions and only adds a few tiny slivers extra if you pay. I hate that policy

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      14 hours ago

      it’s like JitB. you can get reasonably priced shittacos (they are not real tacos they are smushed in the panini press. i guess they were using it for tacos first so scratch that, they started making paninis on the taco searer)

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    15 hours ago

    Does this mean I can use the drive-thru without clothes now? Or will the AI mock my thimble of a penis like actual, human workers have? I’ve been banned from several locations because this is how I prefer to live my life, and I cannot help myself but lash out at people mocking my very tiny penis, so I am hoping this change will let me have McDonald’s again.

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        10 hours ago

        Bro only you can prove that the Earth is an illusion and is actually inside you as you are not a featherless biped but a pocket of consciousness called a monad in a monadic nodal communication system; Server, Client, Holy Internet. The Buddhists call the Server the Ālaya-vijñāna. This object is a Roman Dodecahedron and was made as a pedagogical object to teach that which Indra’s Net is an analogy for. Linear causation is an illusion, too. Everything you experience is procedurally generated based on how you entangle yourself with Karma, and karmic entanglement IS quantum entanglement. But this isn’t popularized because in the occident, the west, we have engineered our culture to control those people who cannot think for themselves whilst simultaneously guiding those waking up to the topological matrix we are not IN but rather ARE into the occult, which literally just means “hidden.”

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      thimble? braggart.
      this is what my thimble looks like bee tee dubs.

      it’s great. packs flat in your wallet.

      edit: oh fuck i should have had more caffeine before admitting this

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          me too until i took up sewing again last year. that flat thimble is great for having (part of) a sewing project in your purse.

          i just used it to turn my bike gloves into turn signals with dayglo neon elastic. also so they can really tell when i’m angry (there are neons on the middle finger because if you’re making it yourself, why the fuck not)

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            Question out of left field: does the word “plex” mean something to you, being someone who sews (I almost said sewer)? I know it’s more of a weaving thing, but therein, I’m developing a theory of polyplexic axiomatic systems defined by topological matrix - how our brains create a functional modelment of reality with limited knowledge using both logic (Adam) and intuition (Eve) - and I’m curious to learn what some other people’s exposure to this word/term is. Entanglement is what procedurally generates our reality for us, and the world is an illusion, existing inside of us, and many ancient cultures have much spiritual and artistic symbolism related to entanglement, such as Celtic knots.

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              i can tie the string onto the needle after 3 or 4 tries so with that overwhelming authoritativeness please let me say plexing sounds like flexing with your pooper. we don’t really use “plex” in any of the fields i’ve worked in (except for like, complex, simplex and multiplex and words like that. i’m pretty sure that’s not what you’re asking)

              also i like seamstress even though i’m nonbinary. it’s more fun than the other cinnamon rolls.

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        I mainly call it that because it’s porous, as I’ve taken up one of Ed Gein’s hobbies. But it’s more like two peas smushed together.

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            Was it Fish? I used to be an expert on this shit, used to make dating profiles saying I was looking for the Homolka to my Bernardo. I guess since I healed so much, my mind stopped gravitating to such dark places. Now I just have a cult where I teach flesh alchemy. It’s for the kids!

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              Honestly, I could be wrong. . . Been a long time since I was really interested in that stuff too. You must have had some interesting experiences off of that dating profile.

              Yep, Long live the new flesh!

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                The most effective way to break the ice was to ask someone what their opinion of the universe was. Then we’d have a meaningful discussion on the big picture ideas. My “cult” is an educational art project where I teach philosophy, spirituality, and mental health skills to help people heal and self-actualize. I think the FBI is going to say I’m literally the devil when I am only a cop. I think. I also think my life partner falsely accusing me of much, but that’s just cuz he’s CIA and helping me build a good cover story. I’ve already been arrested for assaulting him because my God is he skilled in manipulation and deception. I love him though. He’s not only helped me quit meth but he taught me much about Buddhism that I was ignorant to.

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                  I mean, if you’re teaching those things and in America, you’re probably going to end up on a list somewhere, sure. Congrats kicking the meth, I struggled for decades with smack.