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[–] dual_sport_dork 229 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You forgot "cable television, but over the internet and no one has all the channels."

[–] [email protected] 144 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"...and it all still has ads."

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

🏴‍☠️

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[–] Zehzin 189 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Personally I'm a fan of fake certificate that says you paid money for one of the plagiarism machine's works

[–] Sheeple 36 points 10 months ago (7 children)

You mean the Amazon rain forest destroyer machine?

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 115 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I swear that most commenters are young people because back in the 90s-2000s, taxis and hotels were hot fucking garbage.

Taxis would go on joy rides to up the cost or refuse you if you were black.

Hotels would tell you to go suck a dick because their price listed outside is not for you, and if you want a place, they have a room with roaches near the heater.

Uber/Airbnb were gamechangers that broke that monopoly.

Unfortunately, they have gotten to shit. But you know what? Taxis and hotels have cleaned up their act. Because the moment they go to shit again, Uber/Airbnb will come in and eat their lunch.

[–] cottonmon 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Taxis in my country would routinely ask for extra (usually 25-30% of the total fare) or have you pay them a fixed amount that's way higher than if only the meter was used (about 2-3x the normal fare) . There are also taxis that have meters that are way too fast. Uber was a godsend when it first came out here.

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[–] Aolley 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

When you call a cab it was often a game of 'will the can actually show up?"

[–] TheLowestStone 23 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, I too remember the good old days of stumbling home drunk in the dark because my cab never came.

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[–] banneryear1868 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I only know taxis and hotels as normal boring things in this time range.

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[–] MargotRobbie 95 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Calling AirBnB "a hotel chain" is an insult to hotels.

Hotels don't require you to clean somebody else's house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn't even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.

[–] Aleric 29 points 10 months ago

I would be charged a cleaning fee even though we're asked to clean anyhow, regardless of how well we cleaned. Toward the end, I stopped doing any basic cleaning and disputed additional fees relating to my not doing their job for them. Now I don't use them at all.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where is “social media surveillance apparatus”?

[–] SuckMyWang 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

“Illegal surveillance of activities, contacts and communications”

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago

What about hyper-intrusive handheld ad machine?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see no one has mentioned Nazi microblog platform yet.

[–] randon31415 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hey, Lemmy is a Marxist microbloging platform! The Nazis are mostly ... oh, you were talking about X, weren't you?

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[–] qevlarr 45 points 10 months ago

Doorbell camera surveillance network

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Tough question. I'm a big fan of making the plagiarism machine pretend to be a text based adventure game for my amusement, but I also like that the illegal cab company will also deliver food or groceries when I don't feel up to leaving my house.

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[–] Xanthrax 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Money for criminals*

Until everybody ruined it. When people started investing instead of spending, we were fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hey, its not fake money for criminals! It's barely legal casino, sheesh!

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[–] Heavybell 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I misread "Illegal crab company" and was so confused.

[–] markr 25 points 10 months ago (12 children)

We actually experience reality a fraction of a second in the past.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I actually live in the now. It’s just everything else that’s slightly ahead.

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[–] Aceticon 24 points 10 months ago
  • User-stocked adictive digital social circle.
  • Digital news media sources using Pavlovian click-response headlines.
  • Human subconscious-targetting product promotion systems.
  • Automated individual tracking and digital-model building systems.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Plagirized reddit

[–] pennomi 18 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Intellectual property is a figment of our imaginations. So I’m voting for the magical copyright violator box.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Self-driving road killer machines.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Trust me bro, Capitalism is necessary for innovation, just trust me bro

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[–] kittenzrulz123 16 points 10 months ago

I'll take the surveillance cameras strapped to a garbage screen strapped directly to my face with controllers

[–] alienanimals 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Fake money for criminals" The US dollar has been around for quite some time...

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Can we have option 4?

-Love all the disruption and none of the intended product

Edit: or the option where I can count…

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[–] Furbag 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In case any of you are confused about what these are supposed to be:

Uber/Lyft

AirBnB

Bitcoin

ChatGPT

[–] Emerald 13 points 10 months ago

Image Transcription: Twitter Poll


Adam Kotsko, @adamkotsko

What's your favorite tech innovation?

Illegal cab company [16%]

Illegal hotel chain [17%]

Fake money for criminals [32%]

Plagiarism machine [35%]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Normally I don’t find these things funny but this one is hysterical.

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