I thought the title said “We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computers.”

My immediate thought was “That seems way too low…”

Cuts in to the bottom line profits. Can’t have that. The shareholders are more important than your 91 day old bricked TV.

Costco no longer has those return policies on electronics specifically because people abused them.

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It’s like the late ‘90s where they tried to connect every common activity to the internet, like bar codes in the newspaper for coupons online.

They got it “right” when they stopped trying to make non-internet things direct you to the internet and just moved the non-internet things to the internet.

Now they’re trying to cram AI into everything. What’s the next step…moving your brain into the AI?

Something for everyone.

Even if you don’t have the guns; liberty, beer, and tits are still pretty nice.

Bar Code was one. Cameras streaming patrons in other franchises in other cities so you could kinda interact with them.

How you know you live in a really small and remote town.

mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.

I don’t know. I’ve seen a few examples of women who have radically changed their looks via skillful application of cosmetics.

I don’t know what to do with that. On one hand, society expects them to use available techniques to change their appearance to meet standards of beauty very few can ever accomplish. Otoh, it’s dishonest because irl they’re not who they seem to be, so an app that shows them without makeup might be useful. But the catch-22 is that the app may not be right, or that we judge too harshly based on an unattainable standard.

Man, Beauty is fucked up in the West. CGI, photoshop, photo manipulation have destroyed reality in favor of manipulating what desirability is.

This was my thought. DNA isn’t stable so it’s a lousy storage medium. Degrades over time, mutations in living organisms, etc.

So unreliable except for what 98% of the world uses it for?

We live in a system that monetizes everything, then seeks to restrict access to those things in order to profit.

Knowledge is just one casualty.

All-out war, synonymous with hilarity.

A troll account is still a troll account spreading misinformation. That’s not “fun”.

It’s infrastructure. Too inconvenient to find a spot to charge, the apartments where you live probably don’t have chargers, your workplace doesn’t either…

I think for some it never takes hold. Ours are in the early teens and it’s barely starting to register.

A hard thing I try to get my kids to understand. The bus time is at [what:ever]. That’s when the bus leaves. Not when you roll up to the stop. Not when you step out the door. That’s butt-in-seat-leaving-time. If you’re walking up to the stop and the bus is pulling away at bus:time - too bad, so sad. That applies to many things that require you to be on time for. 5 minutes early is on time. On time is too late. Astonishing what a difficult concept that is to get across.

Put your salami in that and it’s gonna come out looking like chorizo

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