PhilipTheBucket

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 25 points 2 weeks ago

No emotional response. Something crazy starts happening and they're just dead calm, reacting sort of with a poker face. Usually that is a strong sign that it's not their first rodeo and sometimes in the past it has not turned out okay.

My treadle sewing machine is roughly 100 years old

My sister has one of those, it still worked fine (although she preferred the electric one just because it was more convenient.) Those things are just immortal. It is a damn shame to see what the world could be without planned obsolescence making everything into Ikea.

I glanced up from desk and the first thing I saw was a leather postcard that somebody sent to my great-grandmother back when she was "Miss." The postmark and date are worn away, but the art is copyright 1906. It's such a weird little artifact... someone clearly just cut out a mini-postcard from a hunk of leather by hand, and then printed an owl and a moon on it, and then "GET WISE Come to" and then someone scratched in pen where they were supposed to come to, but that's worn away. And on the back is space for filling in a name and address (which it kind of looks like was done with a burning tool, that part still readable, a little unsteady but mostly in this big-style ornate cursive like the Constitution), and not space for anything else. There's no message. Just "Come To (scratches)."

I have no idea why they made a leather postcard, but if they were looking to make a little novelty item that people would consider as special they succeeded, because for whatever reason I still have it well over a hundred years later.

18:05 if you want to hear him get to the damn point

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention working on saving the oceans, cleaning up all the PFAS, reducing the impact of global warming, all this stuff. There is an absolute shitload of work that needs to be done that needs a massive amount of effort and manpower. This idea "well how are we going to create jobs when AI can do everything and we have enough web marketers I guess" is looking at the working world through the entirely wrong lens.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. I kind of hesitated to post it for exactly that reason. It is not really exactly the take that I would have taken to any of what it is talking about. I do think some of the underlying facts are important and so I posted it anyway, but I do pretty much agree.

Specifically I think a lot more of what is happening is that "powerful" jobs are going away, and "underclass" jobs are becoming more common, and he's interpreting that as "male" and "female" jobs respectively.

Remember in Tommyknockers, when the reanimated appliances are all in the woods attacking the people, and the woods are on fire from the fighting, and one of the appliances is a smoke detector and some remnant of its former duty and function is still intact and it starts doing its smoke-alarm beeping in the middle of the forest fire / appliance war? This is that beeping.

"You are 100% accurate but (a) we know (b) that's not even the biggest of our big problems right now."

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Skipping backwards to the segments where Kieran Andrieu is doing updates talking to the camera is helpful to make sense of the context.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're just not prompting it right

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