If the bubble doesn’t burst in 10 years, it might be that it’s not a bubble.
I’ve been hearing about the housing bubble for my entire life. It hasn’t burst. I think maybe we’re using the wrong word there.
AI is weird one because there’s such a mind boggling amount of investment in something that hasn’t brought any financial returns yet. Either the Visionaries see something we don’t, or it’s going to collapse or contract after one or two more earnings calls.
Sizing is unacceptably insane. There has to be an explanation other than “everyone in the clothing industry is an idiot”, but I haven’t seen one.
Just got underwear for an 18-24 MONTH old and they’re bigger than my 14 year old niece’s underwear.
Serious answer:
If the internet didn’t exist, I’d be peer pressured into following whatever norms are followed by all the people in my physical surrounding. I’d take my cues from what my parents and family and classmates told me were “right” and I wouldn’t question outside it.
I’d probably spend more time “socializing”, which as an introvert would exhaust me. But I wouldn’t know any different, so it would just be The Way It Is.
But you asked if my social life would be “better”, and better is hard to define. Better for… general community compliance? Probably. Better for my general mental health? Probably not.
I like spending 15 minutes catching up on my Lenny communities and reading what you degenerate fucks are up to. I am less excited about “going out with friends” every night and “doing something”.
A Way Out was the weakest of the bunch but it was also their first. That studio is absolutely rocking couch coop.
And one clown, as the old joke goes.
The thing that’s helped pull people back from AI dependency at work has been to frequently ask “how much time did AI save on the whole thing?”
I mean, ChatGPT is amazing at writing bash scripts. But if you spend 40 minutes iterating over a solution before the clanker gives a usable solution, didn’t AI just cost time?
People refuse to accept they aren’t gaining anything from AI until they repeatedly look at the big picture.
My in laws have a second home in the US and have been faithfully going back and forth pretty regularly to maintain it.
Now we’re finally getting to the point where they’re uncertain about going and talking about selling it.
I think there’s a lot of people coming a bit late to the party. I don’t think we’ve stabilized those numbers yet.
I tried them for a few months and cancelled.
For me, the quality of the recipes was poor. It was the kind of stuff I’d make when i’d just moved out from home and was learning to cook for the first time. Boring. Simplistic.
There’s also way too much trash. There’s a big cardboard box, a few ice packs, and a mound of pre-portioned ingredients each in little plastic bags. They cheerfully say you can keep the ice packs and reuse them! How many fucking ice packs can one person use?? Anybody can use a couple of ice packs. No one alive needs 2 new ice packs a week.
If you aren’t a confident cook and/or you need some inspiration for new things to make, it’s totally worth it for a few weeks or months. After that, though, I think most people will outgrow it.
I think the more interesting version of this question is “how long can really good sex keep you from noticing all the bullshit?”.
Everyone has blinders on at the start of a relationship, but once you reach a point where the amazing sex is “your regular sex”, when do you start to have uncomfortable conversations about your future?