Horse and Sparrow Theory.

Raphael Ravenscroft for anyone wondering. His daughter Scarlett Raven is a successful visual artist combining traditional impressionist paintings with augmented reality.

I imagine either the “Oh God-mass God!” Version of the song either is the first version she learned whilst very young or she was taught this “fact” by someone who she trusts unquestioningly. It’s very hard to convince people to reasses beliefs they’ve taken on in that way. Maybe you could give up that dream and work on gently leading her to a compromise of doing a verse of each?

This sort of confusion is why I think we need to always define economic and social political positions separately rather than lump them together.

On the day it happend I watched the videos being shared by the people participating amongst each other. There were tremendously more than 200 people.

This kinda just feels like “what single question would you ask ChatGPT if it was omniscient” so my mind is just getting lost in the arcane and complex structuring and restructuring of the question to get the answer you want rather than one that literally answers the exact question you asked.

Assuming though that you actually do just get the answer to the intent and spirit of your question the only rational one I can think of would have to be some variation of:

“What answer could you give me that would offer me the most peace, contentment and sense of resolution to my life?”

Otherwise I’d spend an eternity (or however long I’d have to consider my question) pondering how to ask that question without getting an accurate and correct response like:

“A really good one.”

All you’re arguing is that the web is decentralised, not that any given website within it is.

Sadly that’s unlikely to ever get a remake as noone can agree who owns the rights to do so.

YouTube music seems to hit a perfect blend of stuff you know and stuff you don’t.

YouTube music pays artists slightly less badly than most services fwiw.

I wouldn’t trust a sandwich made by one of his companies.

I just hope there aren’t too many consequences for other people along with it.

To be clear, he did try to make them use his own work instead and it was awful so they pushed him out to protect the company.

He buys companies and lets the actually competent people do the work while claiming credit.

No he doesn’t. He meddles and interferes constantly and convinces himself that he’s adding value by doing so. That’s why Neuralink is dangerous. Meta or Alphabet or Microsoft or whoever can be trusted to let the scientists and the legal team ensure there’s very little risk of everything blowing up in their face horribly. Elon’s little empire is constantly on the verge of an absolute disaster. I would not be remotely surprised if Neuralink messes everything up so much that it sets back brain implants and BCI’s in general by decades. Purely because Elon can’t just supply the people at his businesses with the tools they need then get out of their way.

It’s slightly different when you show consumers you’re willing to screw them out of nowhere than when you show businesses that you’ll do so. People shake that stuff off as an annoyance because they aren’t dependant on those businesses behaving decently in order for them to keep the lights on. When a partner shows it could randomly kill your business at any moment for no good reason, you tend to realise the importance of disengaging from them.

So you do enjoy the nicest foods more. You just don’t enjoy them proportionally more relative to how much more expensive they are?

I think it probably makes more sense to relate it to the cost of something else rather than an actual dollar amount (as that will always change over time.) IE. If a meal out costs more than three visits or McDonald’s or whatever it may be. FWIW, the Amendei Porcelana bars are about £12 and the Grenada co about half that.

I’m curious, do you think it’s more that you notice a difference but it doesn’t add much for you or that side by side you couldn’t tell which bite came was ordinary good quality food and which was exceptional or special if you were told?

As others have noted proper good quality fresh truffle is really worth it (unlike all the “it’s no nicer than regular food but we’ve served it on a statue, covered it in gold leaf and sprinkled salt onto it off the top of a bald man’s head” fancy food you can spend a fortune on.) Freshly shaved truffle is like if Willy Wonka decided to turn his hand to making the perfect savoury food experience. It smells like the most satisfying food ever and then the instant your teeth slightly penetrate the surface of the shaving it somehow seems to instantly fill every space in your head with that scent at double the intensity and your whole mouth is awash with a uniquly rich and warm flavour.

I love single origin chocolate and was once gifted a bar of Amedei Porcelana (sometimes called “the most expensive chocolate in the world.”) It was, unsurprisingly, a perfectly executed bar of chocolate. Texture, balance of sugar to cocoa etc were all flawless. The flavour was delicate and perfectly balanced. It was like the most refined expression of the exact central archetype of what chocolate should taste like. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who would like to experience the most perfectly chocolatey chocolate. Personally I found that while it was a flawless execution of a straight down the middle chocolate and I am very glad to have had it, I prefer a bit more character and so my favourite bar is still the Grenada Chocolate Co 71% (which slaps you in the face with big juicy tropical fruit flavour and is overall not quite as refined as Amedai Porcelana.) Though I’ve not had the chance to eat either in several years so I suppose it’s possible they may have changed since…

Truffle is one of the few rarified expensive things that I’ve had that is genuinely incredibly more tasty than anything like it. It’s one of my favourite foods but I have not had many opportunities to eat it.