I took a random wild guess, and found that if they quit blowing billions of dollars on over-complicated technology, they could do a lot more to take care of real world problems, like food, clothes and shelter for the homeless.

I do get that, yes it’s more complicated than I can fully wrap my brain around as well. But it also starts to beg the question, how many billions of dollars does it take to reinvent the abacus?

Again, I realize there’s a bit of a stark difference between the technologies, but when does the pursuit of over-complicated technology stop being worth it?

Shit, look at how much energy these AI datacenters consume, enough to power a city or more. Look at how much money is getting pumped into these projects…

Ask the AI how to deal with the energy crisis, I’ll only believe it’s actually intelligent when it answers “Shut me and all the other AI datacenters off, and recycle our parts for actual useful purposes.”

Blowing billions on quantum computing ain’t helping feed, clothe and house the homeless…

What’s to research? A fucking abacus can hold data longer than a goddamn hour.

There’s a dime stuck in the road behind our local store, tails side up, for over 15 years. And that doesn’t even need error correction.

Why does it sound like technology is going backwards more and more each day?

Someone please explain to me how anything implementing error correction is even useful if it only lasts about an hour?

Life? Unfair to me?

I’d say it’s all in the Right To Repair movement Vs Planned Obsolescence. I grew up learning how to fix stuff, make stuff, swap parts, etc.

And I still have those skills, but these days the big companies don’t want the little guys to have access to proprietary parts and tools anymore, making many repairs that would otherwise be pretty easy actually almost impossible.

They just want you to throw away all your old stuff every year or two and buy an entire new product. I don’t care what if any deity you believe in, I don’t think the good spirit intended on people throwing everything away and turning Earth into a huge dumpster.

Apparently not Yahoo, I had actually forgot my changed password for like 7 years, then once I finally remembered the answer to my custom recovery question, I found the account was still up 👍

I do actually check it every few months or so, spam spam spam…

Meh, I don’t particularly use it anymore, but I’ve had my Yahoo account for over 20 years, before GMail even existed. My account there still works, but I gave up on actually using them after they shut down Yahoo Groups.

My username on Yahoo is the same as here on Lemmy. Feel free to email me, I’ll promptly never check my email LOL!

Reyna - Does Mrs Claus Do That?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7T7ZIpa0B-g

Just a heads up, the creator of the Obscurest Vinyl AI music channel is half crazy, but in a really good funny way!

Nope, Gulf Coast USA. But yep, that plus a couple other items would be my loot.

I also have a couple fun cards in my wallet, one is a Fresnel magnifying lens, which can be used to start fires, and another card is a folding pocket knife.

Edit: Also a multitool plus a spiked watch wristband coming up very soon. I’m not a fan of metal detectors LOL!

Those are all the same item though. Unless you have more than one…

I’m hungry.

What distro?

A pair of glasses that nobody else can see through, a fixed size watch that will only fit the smallest of wrists, and a mostly empty wallet with cryptic notes in it going back over a decade.

LOL, I don’t think Mississippi ever cared much in the first place. Back in the day, Mississippi actually did require inspections, for all of $5.

They didn’t bother checking the brakes or much of anything really, except make sure all the lights and the horn work. Sometimes they might even make sure your seatbelts are intact and latch correctly.

I remember sometime in the late 90s helping my dad push his Buick into the inspection bay. They didn’t even care that the car literally didn’t run, he still passed inspection, because all his lights and horn worked! 😂🤣

You might start by passively testing his sense of smell every now and then. Like, do these flowers smell nice? Does this food smell good? Does this expired milk smell bad?

You never know, he just might have a weak/failing sense of smell now. I have a friend that totally lost his sense of smell after a bad vehicle accident.

In response to your other comments, yes I should have said plates instead of tags. Here in MS, they’re basically one and the same, every year you stick a new tag sticker on your plate.

Oh, by the way, here in Mississippi, when you go to get a license plate, the office you go to is the tag office.

Same thing, at least here anyways.

Wait, other states don’t? I dunno, I live in Mississippi, I always thought the other states did the same. Guess I never really paid that much attention.

If it counts for anything, at least Mississippi doesn’t require two tags, one for the back and one for the front, they only require the rear tag.

Also, our vehicles don’t require inspections anymore, which is both a bonus for your wallet, and also very frightening when you realize how many vehicles out there are on the verge of brake failure or something equally dangerous.

I’m afraid of null

It haunts me every day!

Things I don’t understand and also don’t make any sense, I naturally make assumptions about.

My assumption is that someone shoved a banana up his ass when he was young.

My assumption means nothing though, but it’s about the only rational thing I can imagine to lead up to a fear of a stupid banana.

Okey dokey, people do be weird sometimes. I’ll still never understand how anyone can have a fear of an inanimate object, food or not.

But did I just invent the idea of trypophilia?

Where there’s a phobia, there’s also others that are attracted to it, a philia…