You forgot "cable television, but over the internet and no one has all the channels."
"...and it all still has ads."
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Personally I'm a fan of fake certificate that says you paid money for one of the plagiarism machine's works
You mean the Amazon rain forest destroyer machine?
I swear that most commenters are young people because back in the 90s-2000s, taxis and hotels were hot fucking garbage.
Taxis would go on joy rides to up the cost or refuse you if you were black.
Hotels would tell you to go suck a dick because their price listed outside is not for you, and if you want a place, they have a room with roaches near the heater.
Uber/Airbnb were gamechangers that broke that monopoly.
Unfortunately, they have gotten to shit. But you know what? Taxis and hotels have cleaned up their act. Because the moment they go to shit again, Uber/Airbnb will come in and eat their lunch.
Taxis in my country would routinely ask for extra (usually 25-30% of the total fare) or have you pay them a fixed amount that's way higher than if only the meter was used (about 2-3x the normal fare) . There are also taxis that have meters that are way too fast. Uber was a godsend when it first came out here.
When you call a cab it was often a game of 'will the can actually show up?"
Ah yes, I too remember the good old days of stumbling home drunk in the dark because my cab never came.
I only know taxis and hotels as normal boring things in this time range.
Calling AirBnB "a hotel chain" is an insult to hotels.
Hotels don't require you to clean somebody else's house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn't even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.
I would be charged a cleaning fee even though we're asked to clean anyhow, regardless of how well we cleaned. Toward the end, I stopped doing any basic cleaning and disputed additional fees relating to my not doing their job for them. Now I don't use them at all.
Where is “social media surveillance apparatus”?
“Illegal surveillance of activities, contacts and communications”
What about hyper-intrusive handheld ad machine?
Doorbell camera surveillance network
I see no one has mentioned Nazi microblog platform yet.
Hey, Lemmy is a Marxist microbloging platform! The Nazis are mostly ... oh, you were talking about X, weren't you?
Tough question. I'm a big fan of making the plagiarism machine pretend to be a text based adventure game for my amusement, but I also like that the illegal cab company will also deliver food or groceries when I don't feel up to leaving my house.
Money for criminals*
Until everybody ruined it. When people started investing instead of spending, we were fucked.
Hey, its not fake money for criminals! It's barely legal casino, sheesh!
I misread "Illegal crab company" and was so confused.
We actually experience reality a fraction of a second in the past.
I actually live in the now. It’s just everything else that’s slightly ahead.
Plagirized reddit
Intellectual property is a figment of our imaginations. So I’m voting for the magical copyright violator box.
Trust me bro, Capitalism is necessary for innovation, just trust me bro
What's the plagiarism machine?
Self-driving road killer machines.
"Fake money for criminals" The US dollar has been around for quite some time...
I'll take the surveillance cameras strapped to a garbage screen strapped directly to my face with controllers
Can we have option 4?
-Love all the disruption and none of the intended product
Edit: or the option where I can count…
Normally I don’t find these things funny but this one is hysterical.
Image Transcription: Twitter Poll
Adam Kotsko, @adamkotsko
What's your favorite tech innovation?
Illegal cab company [16%]
Illegal hotel chain [17%]
Fake money for criminals [32%]
Plagiarism machine [35%]
In case any of you are confused about what these are supposed to be:
Uber/Lyft
AirBnB
Bitcoin
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