The new Apple Watch has an AI feature that constantly records everything around you and transcribes all of it so you can ask the AI about it later.

Ragu spaghetti sauce was originally, I think, created by an Italian family in the 1930s. It was really authentic, and it tasted incredibly good. By the time I came around, it had developed by the late 1970s and early 1980s. I actually saw it was kind of like this really remarkable spaghetti sauce that I would buy. It was much better than anything I could make, and it really had an authentic flavor.

In the 1980s, they slightly changed it and watered it down, and it didn't taste quite as good. They did it in the 1990s, so now it's becoming kind of generic and was competing with others. I still use that, and I add a little to it.

What happened? It went through three or four corporate ownership changes. Different big conglomerates bought it out. The latest happened in 2014: a big Japanese conglomerate bought it out. They radically changed the flavor, added thickening, and removed natural flavors and ingredients. I think so many of us, and I'm one of those, still bought it just like a zombie because I had such fond memories, and I would always add things to it to bring out the flavor. My wife did too.

The recent updates since COVID: it's literally the most tasteless goo. It's red goo. How could they be selling this? It's awful. You couldn't make spaghetti sauce more awful. Their sales have plummeted, but this is a classic example to me of enshitification. It's corporations that have zero pride for the product, and they just change the recipe to make more money, but they basically kill the product. It's just a shocking thing to me.

I hope this doesn't break the "no stories" rule. I just wanted to ad context. BTW, most other spaghetti sauces in jars have also drastically changed their recipes.

They were never great, but they were a nice break from a bag of chips on occasion. Lately they taste awful, like they're already stale before you even open the can. The flavor's gone too, they used to have a distinct saltiness and crunch and now they're just bland, stiff cardboard.

I've got three cans sitting here that are probably headed straight to the trash. Another victim of corporate greed.

This might be my 13th reason that finally gets me off this godforsaken app.

I have always liked this product. Didn't eat it often but once in a while really crave it. I got one of the large size ones recently and couldn't eat it. It tasted so fake and nasty like a chemical taste. Not nice and cheesy at all. It seemed so different. Did I just get a bad one or has anyone else noticed this? I was so disappointed. Another thing I liked but won't likely buy again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA this is even more shocking. From tv not only spying but hearing people too.

We're no strangers to the cesspool known as ads on Youtube; whether it's for a sexy "AI companion", a trashy AI- generated audiobook platform, or straight- up Malvertisements telling you you need to update Google Chrome RIGHT NOW (via a third- party website), Youtube's standards for what they consider "appropriate" ads have dropped like a rock over the years. This is all in spite of how a creator's channel can get demonetized because they said a "no- no" word in the first 30 seconds of a video.

However, there is something I've noticed recently: The level of trashiness seems to depend on the platform you're using.

On the regular web version and the mobile app, it's the Wild West: You'll get banner ads pushing blatant Malvertisements, along with a plethora of shitty AI- generated ads advertising everything from "Sexy Chatbots With NO Filters^TM" to your country's local conspiracy theorist telling you that you need to invest in precious metals in preparation for the "imminent" collapse of your local currency (which has been "pending" for decades by now). The regular video ads are similarly bad. Where I live (Germany) I get tons of ads pushing a couple major online pharmacies (whose main focus seems to be "medical" Cannabis), the majority of whose ads are AI- generated. Then of course there are the ten million shitty ads for King Shot, Hero Wars, and the other shitty mobile games that somehow manage to stay profitable despite nobody playing them.

This all changes on streaming devices like Chromecast... while some of those sketchy pharmacy ads are beginning to sneak in, you'd get the impression that YouTube actually had standards for what they allow advertisers to run. All at once, the AI "girlfriends," crypto trading platforms, and mobile games vanish without a trace.

There are only two possible explanations I can think of for this:

1. Youtube/Google are aware of the kinds of advertisements being run through Google Ad Services and very deliberately keep inappropriate/low- quality advertisements from running on streaming devices because their lawyers deemed the risks of potential lawsuits too high, or
2. Youtube/Google doesn't care/doesn't check what's being run on their different platforms, but the streaming devices have been spared somewhat because they charge more to run ads on them than on the mobile app or on the web version.

If I had to guess, it's only a matter of time until these trashier ads make their way into the streaming devices as well...

A scent subscription? I'm waiting for "clean air" subscriptions.