DavidGarcia @ DavidGarcia @feddit.nl

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at least that would be visually cool. currently we have none of the benefits of feudalism, but all of the downsides. Like at least during the massive wealth inequality around 1900, they built shit like this:

The gun of one of my fellow hot dogs was ripped off by a gang member bear while he was eating a dick?

it's melted animal fat + leeched wood ashes (lye)

Don't worry, the real economic crisis is just now coming with the Fed planning on raising interest rates next year. That's been a pretty reliable indicator that shit is about to hit the fan for the last few financial crisis. What we got after the Pandemic was just a little entrée.

TIL gizzy means hot dog, gun, dick, or gang member

Santa in his Santactum Santactorum judging who across the galaxy has been naughty or nice.

Boomer? I barely know 'er

if mass rape was a competition, they definitely would have won it in WW2

christianity is the sole reason why genetically engineered crocodiles exist

the future is going to be so weird when we have living street lamps and genetically-engineered rats&pigeons that are compelled to clean up our all our garbage. perhaps we'll have genetically engineered crocodile engineers to fix up our infrastructure too. genetically engineered wasps that clean our building facades. genetically engineered window cleaning birds with a squeegee shaped beak.

i think the issue is more that people don't really understand what is good about cash and what is bad about the alternative

and the economic and societal reasons why cash is vastly preferable.

because they didn't want to piss off the blue-collar demographic, they're a huge voting block and drive trucks for work.

that's politics for you. creating nonsensical laws that aren't made to fix problems, but only to curry favor, be that with voters, lobbyists, whatever

Alien TV shows about humans be like:

government filling up a secret section of every factory-fresh hard drive with CSM and terrorist material in case they ever want to lock you away

Thanks, that's great and useful advice.

It would be cool if all TVs were just dumb displays + a standardized dedicated spot for a module for whatever internals you want to put in it.

Maybe I should petition the EU for this lol. cuts down on e-waste.

Yeah, this disposable economy is in large part thanks to the destruction of the middle class. If the bottom 80-90% got their "fair share" of the economic pie again, people could actually afford quality (and save money in the long term).

I'm not as doomerish about the future. If people can be educated on what the real problems are, it can be fixed. As long as social media stays relatively free and unmanipulated, it is inevitable. What I'm seeing currently is an educational revolution, even if everyone likes to rip on social media.

AI is a wildcard however, not sure how it will change things, could go either way. Since open source models are just a few months behind at worst, things could go better than expected.

Another factor is that once technological development starts to slow down, companies have to compete on quality. The gap between cheap smartphones and flagships used to be huge, but since smartphones mostly don't change anymore the gap has become really small.

Basically as technologies mature, the only unique selling point that is left is quality and reliability. Once we run into the physical limits of computation by the end of the century (unless efficiency growth slows down), devices will stop being so disposable. Then a device you buy 30 years later won't be significantly better than the 30 year old one. In the past a 30 year difference roughly translates to a 30k times difference in performance. That's why electronics are so disposable.

I think smart devices will eventually either mature to reliablity and minimum necessary features or we'll return to dumb devices again.

how can anyone so completely miss the point?

All I want is a dumb devices brand.

So sick of smart devices that don't need to be smart. The more unnecessary things something can do, the more it can break.

I wonder if we'll ever get reliable, long lived products ever again or if planned obsolescence has won forever.