ChickenLadyLovesLife

Don't cry, babe -- at least I didn't say Visual Basic.

I'm all into tokenmaxxing except that means more money for AI companies.

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.

It's a fact!

I am actually chickenless and male and I hate life. My name is a Kids in the Hall reference.

Ah yes, Raymond gripping hands with James.

We had a zoom meeting with my elderly mother's investment adviser recently and expressed our concern about the AI bubble. He of course said he didn't think it was a bubble; his main argument was "these CEOs are smart people and they're legally obligated to preserve the financial health of their companies so they wouldn't be going in for anything that had the potential to be a bubble". Conveniently ignoring all the other bubbles in history when the CEOs were "smart people".

Wow, this is a tough one. I can't decide whether young Spencer Pratt from The Hills had a more punchable face than current Spencer Pratt.

I felt sorry for you until you mentioned the Browns. Now I feel really sorry for you. Browns Bros Untied!

Where I live now (Philly suburb) there used to be a local bakery which was beloved, but their landlord raised their rent on them and they had to shut down. The location then sat vacant for about 7 years. I'm no finance wizard, but how does it make any sense to go from whatever their rent was previously to zero fucking rental income? A couple of months ago a fucking Wonder finally opened there, so maybe that explains it -- no real business can possibly compete with a company burning through venture capital.

The new GoBlo Yourself.

Needs more snails.

Why do bars have parking lots?