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Personally I’d say every single product and service being transparently wrapped in a personal information honeypot
Just give me your ID bro. It’s totally to protect the kids bro.
So like… all of it?
In case someone needs help:
Uber/Lyft
Airbnb
Bitcoin/Crypotocurrency
ChatGPT/LLMs
Because you have 2/4 general terms:
- Rideshare
- Short term rentals
- Crypto
- LLM
Cryptocurrency not Cryptography to disambiguate again
Thanks, new anxiety unlocked
Cryptozoology? I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE FUCKING BIGFOOT!!!
Sorry, at this point the term “crypto” has been thoroughly claimed by the shysters.
Tales from the Crypt
“Rideshare” is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren’t sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.
Taxis/cabs are legal. Also, perhaps because of age, I tend to view taxis and cabs as phone numbers you call for a car to show up (or go to a taxi stand), whereas I see rideshare as reserve via an app.
I think ride share really just means a vehicle that is used not solely for commercial purposes
They are legal if you follow the regulations. The problem with the “rideshare” companies is that they don’t. We should just call them “unregulated taxis” rather than pretending that they are a different service. I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).
They literally changed the name of the company from UberCab to duck regulation.
It would have been cool if they’d renamed themselves “Calloway”.
I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).
I’d like to point out this probably would have taken another 10-15 years to achieve had it not been for the disruption of said ridesharing apps.
I use a local cab company. They smartened up after getting crushed by uber in the first couple years of their existence. Now they have an app that’s similar to uber, but I just call and use the web link that shows me where the car is.
It’s literally the same service, but I have to give my info to Uber’s app to get it.
shouldnt 4 also include AI generated images?
Llms generate those afaik
No, those are generally diffusion models, not large language models. Language models generate text.
I like those note-taking apps that require my location for a better user experience
What do you mean you don’t want location tags in your notes?
Omg stop it, you are making me nervous. Okay, I will Accept terms and conditions
Forgot “Glorified Pump-&-Dump scheme” (NFT’s)
NFTs are basically Bitcoin and fall under fake money for criminals.
Nah it’s worse. Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses. (Yes, they are a minority of actual usage, but they exist.) NFTs are only useful for speculation, gambling and money laundering.
Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses
Ransomware.
Bitcoin’s only legitimate use cases are a worse, slower and more expensive eletronic money transfer. In other words, there aren’t any.
Stamp collecting for criminals
“Expensive cartoon monkey pictures”
I personally hate the “thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives” ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.
Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.
I swear there are some people watching Black Mirror and furiously taking notes
And it was such a heartbreaking experience, I dont know who saw that and said yes daddy please.
Well black mirror is a documentary
Also the hit comedy Small Wonder that ran from 1985-1989?
I HATED that show.
On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?
You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.
yeah was gonna mention those too but hate the relatives one even more passionately so focused on that.
That’s a pretty cool idea for a story, actually. I’d totally steal that if I wasn’t so lazy
The Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.
How about
- reinventing trains but worse
- rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
- we deliver everything but once we take over it’ll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
- we deliver any food by people who can’t drive (for slave wages)
- we’ll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
- we’ll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
Need to add illegal gambling to the list
Naw, crime is legal now.
What’s worse?
Illegal gambling in traditional sense (poker, dice, slots, etc) or legal gambling loopholes like video game lootboxes? 🤔
Probably loot boxes since it more directly targets children
It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country’s laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.
sometimes
and sometimes firearms are used in defense.
do the valid reason justify the illicit reasons? you’ll certainly say they do but I’m a bit more undecided.
Even and especially in those cases cryptocoins are a very bad idea. Just because it’s “a” solution doesn’t mean it’s a good one
Where’s “video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them”?
Where’s “removal of a common phone feature, because if you don’t buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you’ll be okay with a pair of raycons”?
Where’s “video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them”?
This new and groundbreaking technological innovation?
So gatcha games are just video games returning to their roots?
It gets funnier when people do everything they can to not even play them, even paying to cheat
It’s like Idiocracy and the waiting guy
https://media.tenor.com/k8VaJE8rchAAAAAM/patience-waiting.gif
What would we do without capitalist innovation? Before capitalism, nothing was invented. Look at us now!
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To be fair, all money is fake and used by criminals
The leader of the country that prints the world’s reserve currency is a convicted felon so that tracks.
Yeah but is it destroying the environment? Also yes.
Except real money is used for taxes and government spending. Fake money is needed only by criminals.
“Exploiting immigrants to deliver food”
Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!
Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?
I like this meme every time I see it here on anarchist forums.
well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
… maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….I wish it was literally everything. I want to buy Trump insurance.
Oooh 16% chance by December! You’ve brightened my day.
well that percentage is just determined by
bettingpurchases of stocks related to the outcome of a prediction….
and i think magats are over represented on there, so i’d put the odds at higher than that.
i’ll put the cynicism behind a spoiler tag butspoiler for brightened days
president jd vance will be worse than president trump… also trump being impeached was always part of the Proj 2025 plan. We could end up with V.P. Steve Bannon, then JD could resign and then, Adolph’s your uncle.
I like this comment every time I see it posted in response to this meme. Then I hit subscribe, then I SMASH THAT BELL ICON SO YOUR MOBILEK SHIVERS WITH ECSTACY IN YOUR POCKET WHENEVER I POST AN UPDATE
Found the Funholeite
Hmmm … the technology that is literally driving people insane so a few investors can make advertising money
