Well, that depends on how good you make it, and on if the other person likes it.

If you actually can cook, make a dish that a) your mom likes and b) that you can easily make because you have done it often enough.

Producing something from a random recipe off the internet, or worse, a chatbot, that happens to look fancy, but you are doing this first ever on this day, well, that is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

Exactly my thoughts when i checked it out.

Saw that in Cambridge (the original one, in UK), and they had insane prices. We went to the market, and found the same shirt for a quarter of the price.

We had a bee shop at the fair yesterday.

At least three of them in Amsterdam, for whatever reasons. Independent stores, not multiple shops from one company.

Würth?

There are at least three of them in Germany.

There are several, for some unknown reason, in Amsterdam.

I’ve been in not one, but three different round the year Christmas stuff stores.

There is a chain of stores in Europe only selling Gouda cheese (Henri Willig).

In Hamburg I’ve been in a shop specialized on umbrellas.

In Rotterdam I’ve found a shop selling only socks.

Is there a link to this page, so we can all use the “I have the same question” button?

Not only the color. The food selection has turned rather minimalistic and bland.

When Thor is calling.

Not a tornado, but I’ve been on the Autobahn once in rain so heavy that the wipers could not cope with it at the highest setting. Under every bridge crossing the Autobahn, bikers were parked on the hard shoulder. I left the Autobahn and parked for an hour before the torrents ended.

Not experienced personally when it happened, but…

There is that forest valley we pass through on our annual pilgrimage. We have to take a wooden bridge over a small brook there. That water is so small that pilgrims even crossed it by removing shoes and socks and wading through at a time the bridge was broken.

Five years ago, there were heavy rainfalls and flash floods in the area. At the point where that bridge was, the water ran 8m/26ft high. Imagine standing there and looking up the cliffs left and right where once were trees. The bridge has been replaced, but the valley definitely looks different.

The main horror is not that it’s closed, but that it is ketchup.

I don’t deny those problems existed. But in comparison to today’s situation on the net, they were basically irrelevant.

I’ve been on USENET back then (I wrote software for it), and it was nothing like the Internet of today. The amount of spam was neglectable, and perpetraters were quickly taken care of. Spam started to be a problem with Sanford Wallace (may he fry in the deepest hell!), and that was an email issue.

And the “expert systems” from back then were not even close to modern LLMs. They used rather sparse resources (even the big ones), they were “hand-made”, single problem oriented, and did not even try to look intelligent in any way. And nobody shoved them down your throat at every corner. A typical “expert system” of the time was an OCR system or a statistical analysis software for optimization purposes.

If it only did. Do you even know the Internet in the '90?

No ads, no spam, no AI. At least not at the beginning of the '90.

Which is absolutely worthless, especially if it is based on English pronunciation, which is basically random. That’s why I was asking for an audio file.

Any pointer to an audio-file for that phrase?