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Posted on 09/24/2026 6:03:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
You open FoodNeverComes, pick from 22 cuisines and start scrolling. Butter chicken looks good. So does bibimbap. You add a few dishes, watch the total climb and hit checkout. A tracker says a rider is on the way.
Then you get a dummy AI-generated call from inside the site. He is outside your building, he says, but cannot find your street or door. Except there was never any food in the first place. The order exists only on the screen.
"Order the food. Skip the bill," says the site. Its slogan is blunter: "The food never comes - but the dopamine does."
Built by two 26-year-old software developers - Purvansh Parmar and Anshul Sharma - from Udaipur in India's northern state of Rajasthan, FoodNeverComes says it has attracted more than 2.7m visitors since its launch in June.
It now offers 22 kitchens, 327 dishes and 319 real recipes, complete with fake prices, a simulated checkout and a fictional delivery experience.
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The founders have since taken the idea beyond food. A second site, TripNeverLeaves, lets users plan a holiday - destination, flight, seat, hotel and activities - then sends them on a virtual flight that never leaves the runway. They say it has attracted more than 100,000 visitors.
Who those visitors are is harder to establish. But Lembke says younger people may be especially vulnerable to reinforcing digital rewards because the "developing brain is a vulnerable brain".
"In childhood and early adolescence, the front lobe, which acts like the brakes on appetite, is not yet fully connected to the emotion centres of the brain. Hence, teens are more likely to take risks without appreciating the negative consequences, and more likely to get addicted to reinforcing substances and behaviours, once exposed," she says.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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Dang. Sell crazy somewhere else...
A good imagination or dream wish does the same I think. One could write it down to make it more real in a journal or notebook.
How bizarre
WTF, seriously
Read the article. No shoplifting involved.
Sadly.
It was a joke...................
Mile? Bro u musta been awful close to school. I had to walk 2 miles, UPHILL, in 2 ft deep snow. Both ways.
Oh, forgot - I was barefoot too.
Yeah but were you barefoot and rolling a big rock? If you weren’t, then you got nothing to complain about! LOL
Don’t know how many eons ago it was. I’m a 90s kid.
Heck my kids still have the scholastic book fair.
But it’s been around forever. Easily my fondest school memory.
You had feet?!? Luxury.
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Humans have left weird and are now down right strange.
Yes, it’s like an art form for them.
I would not cook or bake without sampling! That is a critical part of that work, for me.
IKR we should just vote for commies!! That’ll show ‘em!
/s
The last time I was in Cracker Barrel, I was waiting on someone in the restroom and watched a guy take his little boy through the merchandise room. The boy would pick something out and Daddy would say, ‘You want that?’, and carry it with him. The kid was having a field day and must have chosen over $150 worth of stuff. Daddy had his arms full. Then, Mom came out of the restroom, and they headed for the door. Just before exiting, Dad dropped everything on the floor by the door, and they all walked out to their car, as happy as can be!
How bizarre
Every time I look around
It’s in my face
Porn is similar and AI should give the minor tweaks that the incels need to make it even more like this.
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