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Tasting at ice cream shops should not be allowed. Getting the wrong flavor of ice cream is not a high stakes enough decision to justify multiple swings at it. Pick a flavor.

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

I watched a woman at an ice cream shop the other day eye a group of 5 or 6 young folks walk in, and *immediately* tell them, "limit of 4 flavors to taste" (FOUR!). And I realized, the tasting is just part of the "I'm having a decadent experience" indulgence of the whole thing.

11/10/26, 3:46 am0 reposts6 likes

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

They know what Rocky Road tastes like. In the case of this place, they could even guess what the cardamom crunch tasted like.

Laurie Voss

@seldo.com

It offends me. Things should be efficient!!!

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

Inefficiency is the very mark of luxury now. Tradwives on TikTok making an elaborate display of baking a cake for 6 hours. Efficiency is for the poors, until they're replaced by LLMs.

@yoyoyoyo.bsky.social

it is very efficient to give grokbot my credit card, as is traditional.

Laurie Voss

@seldo.com

If I am on the opposite side of an issue to tradwives I feel like this strongly reinforces my correctness.

@yoyoyoyo.bsky.social

Why?

Laurie Voss

@seldo.com

I don't even understand the question. It's axiomatic to me.