Probably if I tried.

If a) you have a good butcher and b) have the time and experience to prepare the steak properly.

I wish I didn't have to work...but I can see the value of spending my hard earned cash on a good meal from time to time too.

I am guessing you never have been to a good steakhouse then. Find a Ruth's Chris sometime...

There is a HUGE difference between the "grocery store" beef, which is primarily grain fed, mass produced beef, and grass fed beef. You CAN taste it!

There is also the cut of the beef and the dry aging, both of which will improve the taste and texture. A proper dry aged steak is aged for at least 21 days...which also contributes to the cost of your meal.

If beef isn't your thing, this may be wasted on you, though...but for someone who enjoys a good steak, there really is no comparison.

Alternatively, you can also find a good local butcher who has grass fed beef, and dry age and prepare the steaks yourself...

Was actively trying to be a dick about it. Just because that individual can't afford it doesn't mean that such establishments don't have a place in the market. I don't eat at such places even REMOTELY regularly, but for a special occasion or to treat a date, I will absolutely spend the money on a good meal!

Well, that, and when you start out, you don't have some of the best stuff unlocked yet.

"nosebleed"...uh huh. /r/howtocoverupamurder more likely :) (joking, completely joking)

A Big Mac costs $6 these days...so $23 for crab cakes is reasonable...ESPECIALLY at a nice restaurant like this one!

You have obviously never eaten at a good steakhouse in your life. There are plenty of places where a steak is worth that much (or more)...and yes, it is quite different from your average steak at Chilis or wherever you get your $15 shoe leather served.

It's a high class steakhouse outside of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. If you pale at the thought of paying these prices, don't worry, you will never step foot in such an establishment. Just stick to Applebee's and Outback for your dining needs.

Starship orbital test flight definitely, and hopefully followed by another flight with a successful landing of both the booster and the main ship!

Well, in theory, practice is the same as theory...but in practice, it's not.

And they can build all of the "factories" they want...without the MACHINES that can produce the chips, all of the buildings in the world won't help them!

They don't have EUV, and they never will. Nor will they be able to make the newer lithography machines that are replacing EUV.

It appears that we have a better grasp on the politics and reality in general, than you do!

They can't replicate the high end chips, nor the lithography machines to make them. They HAVE shown samples of "7nm" chips, but can't produce them at scale. below 7nm, forget it. You aren't a very good China troll are you?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-10/china-has-painted-itself-into-a-semiconductor-corner-behind-taiwan-south-korea

Facts still matter.

They can try to skirt sanctions, sure...but 1) any country caught helping them will also face repercussions, and 2) China doesn't have a culture of innovation. Anyone who can think for themselves is usually, fired, imprisoned, or shot.

LOL, sure. And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn! How, exactly, are they going to have cutting edge AI without any chips to run it on?

If it was an app, it was probably Facebook. But no, no one searched for "Tektronix". It's not a company I use nor one I have EVER searched for. My co-worker told someone on the phone "It's a fluke..." and I piped up, "No, it's a Tektronix!" (geek humor, both Fluke and Tektronix make test equipment)

THE NEXT DAY I got ads for, you guessed it...Tektronix. That wasn't random, and that wasn't me searching for it. That was my phone listening to my conversations and picking up a keyword, then feeding me ads in chrome.

right.

Lots of quality issues with the Surface line too...although they have been getting better. Still overpriced for what they are, though.

And I don't care if it was 15 years from the RROD. They followed THAT up with forced Kinect integration, and were trying to foist heavy handed DRM on everyone to kill the 2nd hand software market...it was only through IMMENSE consumer backlash that they backed down on both...and only on Kinect after sales were affected.

The fact remains that MS is a miserable company when it comes to hardware.

Came here to say this.

If he had the Duo 1 and 2, that means he "invested" over $3000 on bleeding edge tech that's already obsolete.

I resisted the very notion of ever going to Apple for years...I finally got sick of Google spying on me (I would get targeted ads on chrome based on what my phone heard me say!), so I finally pulled the trigger and got an iPhone 13 Pro Max. Haven't regretted it at all. There was some adjustments to be made (like NOT having to close background apps all the time), but overall the experience on iPhone IS better than Android. It's far from perfect, but MILES better than even the best Android handsets out there, and I was using Android since Gingerbread and a hardcore supporter of the platform!

Google has had their fair share of hardware failures too...Stadia comes to mind.