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Another example of this are the compasses at my school. The 9th grade students use compasses and I spend a lot of time fixing the compasses.
"we could just buy a new set"
A new set would cost less than the ostensible hourly rate for my time. But I'm not paid by the hour, and happily everyone agreed that throwing away broken compasses was disgusting. It would set a bad example for the children.
But every year I have to fight over this.
This isn't very rational. The biggest mistake of companies and markets is ever thinking that people were rational at all.
There are things we need, experiences we want that can't go on a list of features.
Repair is a ritual that speaks to deeper needs than a working phone, or the latest camera lens configuration.
To repair electronics, to watch them be repaired is an almost religious experience.
And no matter how much I'm willing to pay it seems this cannot happen.
I want to go to a little grubby shop, cluttered with parts and watch an acerbic guy with a monocle cluck at the crack and then fix as I sit on an old diner stool fixed with layers of duct tape.
I want to watch the subway cars pass on the elevated, and run off to get cash to pay since it's the kind of shop where you get a discount when you pay cash.
I do not want to go to the "genius bar" I do not want to mail it in and probably just get a different phone back.
I want MY phone fixed.
I would like to get my phone screen fixed.
I attach a kind of irrational shame to the sight of a crack phone screen. It makes me feel deeply "unemployed" ... and maybe that's because so often putting up with a crack was what I had to do when times were tough.
But as of late I've been putting up with a crack for a year, and it's not because I can't buy a new phone for once in my life.
I want to get it fixed.
I love how the contrast on this is just on the edge of the visible. It's like a dream... but it still feels very real. I feel like I'm in a kayak and everyone else is still asleep as I paddle around looking for more scraps of wood for the fire.
Never believe that anyone you actually want to win in an election is "up double digits"
It is most prudent to assume that the person you want to win is up by exactly 4 percent. This is not depressing, but you know you can't slack off an expect them to win.
Why? Some people might even lie about a big lead and hope that bad weather and "apathy of the young" throws an election. Diabolical! Don't fall for it.
@dnavinci Cholula is too spicy for him.
The spice must FLOW.
I am becoming the Milton Friedman of hot sauce only.
True, but it takes work to match those faces to identities. This app would make a very robust and consistent data set in a way that other sources would not.
It makes it much easier. Seem silly to be so helpful.
I think he assumes that if I mention something is "racist" I must be angry. MT shows up in my replies like clockwork with that word.
*waits*
"you want to pass laws to restrict speech that used to be considered comedy in the Eddie Murphy SNL years"
When did I say this?
In this context, who would that be? Who are you concerned that I'm mad at?
Who is "they" ?
Of course not.
It was so useful for finding out what lobbyists politicians had hung out with.
Though I think some people used it for more sinister things too so... probably sensible to limit it. Although this tech is exactly what the police still have.
Abusing the images of powerful people may be the only thing that gets some of the guardrails back.
Remember when you could use a reverse image search on a human face? That has been totally nerfed.
It was too powerful.
I guess it is kind of "disruptive" ... so there is that.
There is an endless stream of news stories about people finding every possible terrible, misinformation driving, disrespectful, copyright infringing, racist and annoying use for these video apps. And so AI gets to be in the news again.
One last gasp of hot air into the balloon.
This isn't new tech, this is just taking away the perfectly sensible guard rails to "give 'em what they want"
And what they want is terrible.
And of course I would want to put "me" in something that I'd find funny or flattering, but ... what could other people do with your face?
Probably put you in porn or something.
I'm concerned that so many people don't see that this is literally a face stealing demon of yore come to life.