rant · moment 21 of 30
Partying With Joe Lonsdale and Tech Bro Weirdness
from Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny | The Tim Dillon Show #500 · #500
5 min
Tim recounts visiting Joe Lonsdale's house in Austin, describing the huge pool, the tech crowd's odd eating habits, an awkward conversation about building a rival city to Austin, and being invited to fake military shooting games.
- Tech people act like they've never grown up, treating all human interaction and emotion as just data sets.
- Tim went to his friend's house in the valley and they decided to go to McDonald's for the novelty of it.
- Every fast food restaurant is now all kiosks with screens stained in ketchup and covered in fecal matter from hundreds of people.
- Tim's McDonald's order is simple: Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, small fry, and sometimes a four-piece nugget just for the barbecue sauce.
- His friend's family stood at the kiosk for 30 minutes customizing each kid's order while the manager in back got increasingly stressed.
- McDonald's used to have a person at the counter who'd put food on a tray in front of you; now you order at a kiosk and wait at a table.
- An eight-year-old had to find his receipt to prove he ordered a McFlurry before the employee would give it to him.
- Technology replacing workers at fast food isn't more efficient, isn't better, and makes the experience worse—but it does make McDonald's more money.
- These used to be entry-level jobs for teenagers, but now teens are running around in mobs killing people and filming it for TikTok.