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oh god these ghouls are going to roll out personalized ads on door-thin displays the moment they can afford to, aren't they?

This was a long anti-tech rant

do you even know where you're posting?

that somehow neglected to mention what their actual issue was

ah yes, their "actual issue". definitely an enigmatic mystery not surmised by the literal post title or a significant amount of context placed in exposition throughout the first part of the post, absolutely ineffable!

go work on your reading comprehension. and maybe also realize that the world isn't composed of single-issue considerations. or don't! you're free to continue being a clown

post still seems up here. try old.reddit if attempting to view from mobile (the "new" reddit site is remarkably rabid on mobile)

recently reread that and: heh yeah, remarkably on the nose comparison

also, GNU Terry Pratchett

hey @self - can we add clacks to awful? :D

look just because there’s whole generations that only learned house construction by Sims wall placement and emotional conveyance by floating diamonds doesn’t mean they definitely think regulatory controls work by clicking the sparkly wand button to apply new society settings!

(chonker of a /s ofc)

Yesterday I saw a link to some podcast/post float by, of an interview with some genml company “discussing people falling in love with, having relations with, and even wanting to marry”, where the ceo is “okay with it”. didn’t click because ugh, but will see if I can find it

and ofc all these weird fucking things will pop the moment their vc runs out or openai raises prices or whatever. bet you they don’t have any therapy contingency for helping people with their ai partners suddenly getting vc-raptured

yeah here in ZA we've had futuristic banking since the 00s (straight-up USSD banking services were available), chip&pin have been around for probably a decade if not more

it did take a little while for NFC to roll out (probably because our banks are dicks and charge vendors for payment terminals, which many would bother not replacing while their existing ones work) but even that is well into "you can nfc-pay at shops in towns in the middle of nowhere"

afaik US banks are still working on the really, really hard problem of .... same-/next-day interbank payments. you know, that thing that most other places have figured out 2~3 decades ago? yeah

Also checks, lol???

the US (banking system, but not exclusively that) is living in the past to a stunning degree

couple years back when I visited (mid 2010s), in DC I had someone make a physical imprint of my CC for a payment, and in NYC doing card transactions on the subway ticket machines it doesn't ask for card pin but instead for zip code (and as a non-resident, you just enter 0000 (never tried to see if others work))

checks/cheques are still a rather frequent way of inter-business/inter-person value transfer

it going co-evolution on the same path as cybercoins did is chefskiss.bmp

STTP 301 https://awful.systems/post/2119241

(sneer text..)

Initialism for the multiple main schools of thonk from the weirdos, so-named by Gebru and Torres

igwym (haven't dealt with it myself but have seen the Named Famous Food Truck Enterprises phenomenon which sprung forth from that) but that's not quite what I meant

we just don't have food trucks here - we have some roadside spaza shops, interspersed on some more of the busier intersections of cities. largely these will be packets and produce. some of the ones in very high traffic areas might do hot/cooked foods, but off the top of my head I can only think of 4~5 places in my side of the city where these exist

(and since I figured this would be unfamiliar to anyone who isn't from ZA, I briefly checked the internet to see whether there's decent imagery to convey what I mean and .... no. there is none. so I guess I'll have to go create it)