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Or locked behind 100 pages of unnecessarily paginated content. Seriously, one of the best features that a webpage has over a physical printed page is the ability to search it for what you were looking for... smh:-(.

Of course it does.:-D

Just bc vim is superior? (/s :-P)

Don't forget that they will then switch sides and try to copyright "their work", preventing others from even thinking about their work without paying the toll.

Hey, what if I were to draw two circles...

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!

I mean... in this instance what he is cooking is explained in the OP: he uses Taco Bell ingredients to "cook up" something "special". Which he then allows you to smell - he's so friendly to share like that.:-P

That's the same reason that the Windows OS sucks so bad: the "customer" is the companies paying for licenses, not individuals wanting things to "just work" without an entire IT department at their backs.

Although I would guess that even stockholders would not like the fact that these companies lost billions of dollars.:-|

Believe it or not, but at one point Google (and similarly many of the products that it owns now, like YouTube) did not have ads in them either...

I am okay with adding ads to them though, to help support future product development. And likewise contributing packages delivered as open source, ofc I am happy with that.

I just do not like watching products, like Google search, lose out on services, not b/c of traditional ads but rather the newer style of ads in the form of SEO, i.e. not "ads" so much as "misinformation", which Google made far too easy to game the system with as compared to the previous incarnation, where it was based more on "reputation" e.g. linking to & from other sites. Though similar to ads in that it is a way for companies to promote themselves, jumping straight to the front of the line rather than play "fair".

Nowadays you can zoom in on Google maps and not see the store you are looking for until you are practically on top of it or manage to click it directly - instead Google prioritizes what it wants to show you, based on who ponies up what amount of dough to Google, rather than what you as the customer want to see.

And as for AI, it simply was not ready. It was itself an advertisement to executives from people trying to sell it before having made a viable product yet. Thus I am not surprised that they lost billions due to mismanagement of this highly interesting and promising field, that will eventually offer everyone a great deal, one day.

Omg I love their rice. One thing I like about Chipotle is their choice to purchase locally-sourced ingredients. Ironically that might affect your experience. I am sorry you had a bad experience with their cybersecurity - probably cash payments would avoid that but you are already burnt on them at this point so that's fine I am not pushing.

I recall driving through Iowa a few times where in Des Moines I would often stop off at a Taco Bell (or Burger King, or most often bbq b/c it's really good there), but in Iowa City I would always instead go to the Chipotle nearest the university, where with the constant turnover of ingredients (by all the students & staff) it was really good. Not all places are as good, especially if not fresh, so Chipotle is more hit-or-miss I guess, as compared to Taco Bell that seems fairly consistent.

Also I agree they are 100% different styles - Chipotle is fairly basic ingredients, made very well but quite limited options, whereas Taco Bell is a flavor cornucopia, no doubt about that. Both can be hell on your asshole, but them's the breaks:-). California Tortilla is way better than either, especially for flavor I mean, but also more expensive, although avoids trans fats so way healthier. Chipotle is an odd mixture there where most things have no trans fats, but the burrito (and soft taco) shells do, so you'd have to get a bowl or crunchy corn tacos to fully avoid those. Chipotle is impressively healthy though for what it is - except still loads you way up on salt and calories. Hey, I am old, so I remember splurging occasionally and getting guac on a Chipotle burrito - yum! (it was ONE WHOLE DOLLAR! before Trump destroyed the industry and now it's like triple that) Ofc, eating at Taco Bell is when you just give up on all of that, and just enjoy the flavor regardless of what it will do to you:-P.

In the realm of fast burrito shops though, nothing compares to what is available in Texas that I have ever seen or heard of. Freebirds is noice, definitely worth a try, except that while it has expanded significantly beyond its initial offering in Texas A&M University, it is not available anywhere outside of Texas.

Fair - but I would hope for a functional product supported by delivery of ads, rather than ads that exist for the purpose of ads so that there can be more ads delivered along with the ads (oh yeah, and somewhere in there, a product... which itself is little more than merely another thinly-disguised advertisement).

Google is the perfect example: it made its name bc it WORKED, then it started to be supported by ads - okay fine so far - then the ads took over and now very often, it merely passes on SEO "ads" (except crucially: remember that was supposed to be the product) rather than show actual results. Plus on top of that, it also shows the ads. The latter are fine but the former are most definitely not, especially when it pushes out real results so that like even on page 5 you can't find what you were looking for, which might still be the very top result of DuckDuckGo hence cannot be that hard to produce. It exemplifies the process of enshittification for us all.

Meh, but the comparison here is vs. Taco Bell, so keep that in mind. Both are fast food but one is real food and the other is "cellulose fibers" that I'm not sure anyone truly knows what that means:-P. Delicious but... an abomination of science nonetheless.

Also, Chipotle is best when it is fresh, so at a slow shop during an off-time, yeah. I've never found that it matters for Taco Bell though.

Maybe they should try making products that work instead of trying to shove ads down our throats? How's that for a business model: give the customer what they want?

Answer: not yet.