“is this runoff full of poop or just pee???”

DO you interact with normal people? most of them don’t even have a computer anymore.

sure, but those are just numbers you pulled out of literally nowhere.

this certainly wouldn’t be a problem for Catholics since, like most Christians today and basically all Christians before the 18th century, they aren’t biblical literalists.

The integralists and post-liberal techbros are gonna get together to make an AI sedevacantist pope for their little fiefdom. Which would certainly explain why a gay billionaire would pick JD Vance as his political protege

yeah, I personally just check the fridge the night before and write down what I need.

I know I’m on the “technology” community of an internet website but I find that adding computers to something that is sufficiently addressed with some forethought and a piece of paper is just making things unnecessarily complicated. Call me Ted K I guess lol

it’s easy to do something in the heat of the moment when passions are running high (and your favorite show is in-between seasons) but let’s see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down and about 300 other new little fires from the current admin have come and gone from the headlines. That’s the true measure of these kinds of “low temp” protests.

see, this just makes you come off like a jagoff.

the rampant consumerism in nerd spaces seems to disprove the Lemmy title in the large, even if this specific example indicates the opposite wrt marketing by software firms aimed at developers.

the only thing I could think of with a smart fridge is being able to check the contents from your phone while you are at the store to see if you need milk or whatever…but that’s not really a problem that justifies ads and the absolute invasion of privacy and the fact that the thing is likely about as secure as a wooden fence on a bank vault

if you bought a smart fridge, you get what you deserve

seems like a common theme in most creative industries: the more money that flows in the less congenial to experimentation and deviation the industry becomes.

To quote a giant piece of shit, “Don’t Fuck With The Formula”

…or Do Not Play

way ahead of you there, guy

many mid-20th century French thinkers like Foucault, Debord, Deleuze and Baudrillard spent a lot of time writing about surveillance and technology. Lots of this stuff has turned out to be extremely prescient. (Ellul is another example, but as a Christian Anarchist his critiques of what he called the Technical Society, are a bit of an outlier from the other guys above who, despite a plurality of ideas and perspectives, were all coming from a pretty similar place wrt their philosophical backgrounds)

A pretty easy to digest example is Deleuze’s “Postscript on Societies of Control”, which is like 5 pages long and available for free online, written ca 1990 that is pretty spooky in how accurately it predicted the current state of affairs.

The real king here is Baudrillard but his writing isn’t always the most accessible

there’s a lot of mid-century French theorists spinning in their graves right now