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being a third generation myself (parents and grandparents lived under a "regime"), as long as you tell them how it was for you, the kids might be the ones who will stop eating the poison bread and tell the clowns to take off their makeup

i think there's a balance, where you know where you want to get to and strive to course-correct towards it over time, but allow your present circumstances to choose which one of the infinite ways is going there today

my theory is that restaurants used to just close when the owner / chef / patrons ran out of steam to keep an excellent place afloat

it seems to be more popular now to buy a struggling business that seemed highend, give it a new coat of paint, swap the menu for something from a university cafeteria, and keep it making money for a couple decades

because that was the point... i guess...

the restaurant was fully booked. No warmth. No conversation. Just a long wait and a closed door.

Here’s where most stories would end with “so they moved everything online and fired the reservation staff.” That’s not what happened. They did move to online booking, but they kept the entire reservation team and repurposed them.

wait, so the restaurant owner's answer to a fully booked schedule is to... change everything?

clearly whatever is happening is working

i live in the US and cant get something sent here to save my life

i used to get weekly packages from indie european stores and samples from asia

since tarrifs, that has dropped to zero, with 90% of my shipments being returned for cryptic reasons (like 'incomplete address' when the full address is correct and visible) or outright 'No' from sellers

its starting to feel less like random failure and more like "system working as designed" :(

whenever i want to play a video game with someone, theres no way to just pick up a couple of controllers and jump into a game without waiting for something to start, or update, or sync, or...

im building a tiny handheld video game (think GBA) where simply turning it on starts the game and you can immediately start playing. no os to boot, bios checksum screen to wait through, or scripts between you and the game. if another person turns their handheld on, they join your game and it becomes multiplayer seamlessly

esp32-s3 based for dual cores (screen updates / game loop) and bluetooth for "local" wireless multiplayer matchmaking, currently making the game itself be like a cross between puyo pop and tetris (an actual mashup of the rules, not just two games in one cartridge)