Chick-fil-A is turning down artificial intelligence in its drive-thru lanes, choosing human employee interaction over automated order takers as competitors embrace voice technology.
I mean, there’s a reason humans are still tribal in 2026, and it’s not exclusive to conservatives.
We evolved to handle the social load of less than 200 other humans, that’s the entire world we evolved for…
Everyone else is a “them” and we can juggle a couple groups of them, lumped by superficial characteristics because that’s how tribes identified themselves.
We couldn’t know every member of every tribe, so we judged everyone by their tribe.
People who strongly identify as LGBT, hate Chick-fil-A more than they hate McDonald’s, despite McDonald’s working closely with trump, treating their workers much worse, and serving vastly unhealthier food. And their CEO probably being just as against LGBT as chicfila’s.
All that matter is chicfila is “a bad tribe” so anyone that doesn’t treat that specific tribe as 100% an enemy, becomes an enemy of everyone slightly connected to LGBT in their eyes.
It’s not logical, but I understand why they’re doing it.
It just sucks that same behavior is exploited for issues much larger than a fucking chicken sandwich. If they “fight” chicfila with shit like comments in this thread, they get the same dopamine hit as doing anything productive, and then are less likely to actually be productive.
Bread and fucking circuses man.
The only way out of that maladaptive wiring, is treating every individual as a tribe of one, it’s just hard and brains are lazy.
I mean, there’s a reason humans are still tribal in 2026, and it’s not exclusive to conservatives.
We evolved to handle the social load of less than 200 other humans, that’s the entire world we evolved for…
Everyone else is a “them” and we can juggle a couple groups of them, lumped by superficial characteristics because that’s how tribes identified themselves.
We couldn’t know every member of every tribe, so we judged everyone by their tribe.
People who strongly identify as LGBT, hate Chick-fil-A more than they hate McDonald’s, despite McDonald’s working closely with trump, treating their workers much worse, and serving vastly unhealthier food. And their CEO probably being just as against LGBT as chicfila’s.
All that matter is chicfila is “a bad tribe” so anyone that doesn’t treat that specific tribe as 100% an enemy, becomes an enemy of everyone slightly connected to LGBT in their eyes.
It’s not logical, but I understand why they’re doing it.
It just sucks that same behavior is exploited for issues much larger than a fucking chicken sandwich. If they “fight” chicfila with shit like comments in this thread, they get the same dopamine hit as doing anything productive, and then are less likely to actually be productive.
Bread and fucking circuses man.
The only way out of that maladaptive wiring, is treating every individual as a tribe of one, it’s just hard and brains are lazy.