• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    4·
    20 hours ago

    “We’re living in the future. I’ll tell you how I know. I read it in the paper. Fifteen years ago.”

  • finkrat@lemmy.world
    2·
    18 hours ago

    Having watched enough Kitboga I think we’re underestimating the impact of the sheer joy and catharsis fake money for criminals ends up causing

  • Wilco@lemmy.zip
    10·
    1 day ago

    Hmmm … the technology that is literally driving people insane so a few investors can make advertising money

  • brewery@feddit.uk
    25·
    2 days ago

    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
    • acantharea@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      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?

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    201·
    2 days ago

    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”?

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      78·
      3 days ago

      Because you have 2/4 general terms:

      1. Rideshare
      2. Short term rentals
      3. Crypto
      4. LLM
      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        381·
        3 days ago

        “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.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          5·
          3 days ago

          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

          • kevincox@lemmy.ml
            21·
            3 days ago

            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).

            • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              2 days ago

              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.

              • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 days ago

                Just because there’s a inconvenience for consumers doesn’t mean you make workers suffer instead of fixing the problem.

                • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works
                  11·
                  1 day ago

                  I’m assuming/ hoping you mean the taxi drivers when you say workers.

                  I empathize with anyone who’s livelihood is affected by changes in society. But stagnating progress because someone somewhere will be negatively impacted only assures no progress will ever be made.

          • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
            6·
            3 days ago

            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.

      • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
        23·
        3 days ago

        They literally exist as a way for tech bro libertarian idiots to circumvent laws around Taxis and Hotels because “Its totally just people rending their own stuff/time bro.”

        Like, the idea of Uber where its “we go to work along the same route,lets share a ride” is vaguely admirable, ie “rideshare” where it startrd. But its become people’s job and its literally just tsxis without the rules.

        • Grimy@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 days ago

          To be fair, they were popular at first because they were highly convenient. I remember Uber as the first to have a GPS map that told you where your taxi was. Most taxi companies and hotels were seriously lagging behind in terms of use of technology.

          That being said, they were malicious companies from the start and the whole business angle was built on taking advantage of loopholes. I’d be fine with a lot of them if they were nationally owned companies though.

          • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            3 days ago

            They were also presented as being cheaper and more ethical. You didn’t risk being roped into paying a higher price because the cabbie deliberately took a long route, or be surprised by the price being different in person. You could order an Uber, and you’d pay only what was in the app.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Due to how much circumvention goes around here (India) anyway, Uber/Ola actually ends up being a better option overall.
          And the map feature ends up being pretty useful.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        13·
        2 days ago

        dependent on where you are, they are textbook skirting the law. uber got crushed when they launched in sweden because taxi drivers need to do basically the same training as bus drivers. it’s an extra letter on your license, with all that entails of age limits, theory and practical tests, x amount of time driven a year etc.

        nowadays ubers in sweden are just taxis, which hilariously means that they by law have to have a price list on the cars. which basically kneecaps their entire business model.

      • Eq0@literature.cafe
        13·
        3 days ago

        Taxis and hotels used to be strongly regulated industries. For both, permits were required as well as regular checks. But Uber/Lyft/Airbnb created a system outside of the standard legal framework, allowing them to run an almost lawless business. So I wouldn’t say illegal but ethically grey.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          0·
          2 days ago

          oic, I guess it doesn’t make much of a difference where relevant laws are either pretty lax or inadequately executed.

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    58·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        151·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • lorty@lemmy.ml
          32·
          2 days ago

          Bitcoin’s only legitimate use cases are a worse, slower and more expensive eletronic money transfer. In other words, there aren’t any.