BenCan everyone please stop innovating. We're done. It's finished. We don't need electric pants or a dishwasher who's also your best friend. Social media spaghetti or a new wearable for your orifice. Just grow some wheat and make some bread. Talk to your children.
spanghero@TheBreadmonkey Don't tell my air fryer about the dishwasher or it will stop talking to me. I already feel I'm cheating on it when the washing machine makes eyes at me.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESmeanwhile your bed is creeping on you:
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
Jonathan Kamens 86 47@TheBreadmonkey Oh, I don't know, I'd like to hear more about that wearable.
thejikz@jik @TheBreadmonkey is there a kickstarter for this Wearifice device?
NickThey definitely would be
Seth of the Fediverse ⁂
RolloTreadway@TheBreadmonkey My dishwasher hates me.
Cowboy Who?@RolloTreadway @TheBreadmonkey What my theory presuposes is: maybe not? https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0?si=BDGYG8y5a-F2Y1oE
Your dishwasher is better than you think (tips, tricks, and how they work)
Whyyyyyyy. If you send me a half an hour video about how to use a dishwasher you know I have to watch it.... 😭
@TheBreadmonkey @RolloTreadway I'll CW next time
Bruce Heerssen@TheBreadmonkey @CowboyWho @RolloTreadway
Your dad teaches how to properly load a dishwasher
Your Dad Teaches Loading the Dishwasher | MasterClass Parody Trailer
Bill
maybenotthey stopped innovating around 2010~2014, now it's just "New Even More Useless Garbage slapped onto an Old Product"
only area where there's genuine innovation is rent-seeking
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Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧@TheBreadmonkey I have children?
Curious@TheBreadmonkey oh come on. I know you want the AI toaster that (badly) predicts when you want toast, using 40 times the power to do this incorrect calculation than actually cook the toast (which burns your house down at 2am when it jams.)
@TheBreadmonkey ah! So you're a waffle man! https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?si=RHCrV8f6vEGzHH1X
Does Anyone Want Any Toast? | Red Dwarf | BBC
greatquux@CowboyWho @TheBreadmonkey it’s crazy how this bit has become more relevant over the years!
Oreo Speedwagon II 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦Can I just say on behalf of everyone who works in healthcare: Sure would be nice to have tape that doesn't stick to gloves or vice versa.
Ivan G.@TheBreadmonkey we stopped innovating around 15 years ago. In the last 15 years is only enshittification of products, and adding useless/unrequested features!
leif@TheBreadmonkey but maybe i want electric pants. or, dare i dream, electric disco pants.
Reay@TheBreadmonkey … but what if the social media spaghetti could talk to our children instead?
Erin@reay @TheBreadmonkey an efficient solution, with no possible downsides! Speak-ettiOs coming 2026
Light Owl ☸️@TheBreadmonkey If you'd wave a magic wand and make all the Dark Triad personality types magically go away (miraculously healed), I think that would be a much better solution.
bernardo_olafson@TheBreadmonkey cure for cancer would be still neat though...
OK BERNARDO I WAS JUST MESSING AROUND A BIT 😂
Fine. I suppose we should probably try to find a cure for cancer. And also a solution to the plague of the infinite cycle of clothes washing.
Kees AntiFA van Malssen@TheBreadmonkey @bernardo_olafson The first is indeed a big challenge. The second is easy: just don't!
Big family with two kids school age. It is relentless.
paul@TheBreadmonke
Things I want from a kettle: make water hot.
Things I do not want from a kettle: an engaging interactive experience.
Parade du Grotesque 💀I read part of your post as 'social media spaghetti wearable for your orifice' and I though that I had just stumbled upon a brand new kink.
Alas, it was not, and I am very disappointed right now.
LukeSpaghetti-OOOHHHs
And here I was, imagining sultry dialogue like 'Cook me like one of your Roman girls, Daddy'.
So, so disappointed.
@ParadeGrotesque @TheBreadmonkey Kinks must start somewhere…
Log 🪵@TheBreadmonkey Anyone else that only needs one want to go halfsies on a pair of electric pants?
@amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey Leftovers. Or rightovers. Depends on which leg.
Maxicus Overitus@TheBreadmonkey I don't know, I think there's a market for app controlled internet connected lip extensions.
Gondor@TheBreadmonkey my car came with an app. 🙄 You know for preheating etc...
Haven't touched the app ever. Car still drives as i expect what a car has to do.👍
Funny to see posts in forums complaining about this'n'that...
Only when i once listened to a voicemessage on my phon on loud (phon)speaker i got a message on the dashboard display: "I didn't understand. How can i help you?"
I... i don't like when my car is listening to me all the time.
I like my car dumb and deaf.
It's when it disagrees with you you have to start to worry
@TheBreadmonkey 😬 yeah
At least it has no OvertheAirUpdateThingi (afaik).
Had to get used to a routine "turning" off some "assistants" before starting to drive though.🙄
(Who the hell needs a lane assistant ? 🤨 Excuse me?)
At least it has no OvertheAirUpdateThingi (afaik).
Had to get used to a routine "turning" off some "assistants" before starting to drive though.🙄
(Who the hell needs a lane assistant ? 🤨 Excuse me?)
I'm sorry, @grootinside. I'm afraid I can't do that.
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Gawain the Scarred@TheBreadmonkey The problem is that the remaining problems are either very challenging/maybe impossible(AGI) or are social problems that the people in control don't want fixed but without "innovation" the whole structure seizes up.
So we get crap innovation instead until someone makes a breakthrough and that breakthrough becomes the next big thing.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@TheBreadmonkey Don't look at me. I've been recycling ideas from the '70s and '80s for the last couple of decades.
Shinydan@david_chisnall @TheBreadmonkey you know, I've got the time written down on a piece of paper here...
locse@TheBreadmonkey AI buttplug is a thing now.
Of course it is
Ann AnnasHi, I’m your dishwasher! But you can call me the Fediverse Dishwasher :D
@TheBreadmonkey Sorry but Adaptive Cruise Control is the single biggest improvement to driving since the automatic transmission. In the places where I drive at speed for long periods of time normal cruise control is almost completely useless because the majority of my fellow drivers are idiots who drive with the forethought of a single-celled organism. ACC allows me to largely ignore the throttle while not having to worry about getting too close to the car in front of me.
Chris RealYou need to own arable land for that.
Unless somebody creates an app to turn concrete into soil (although the landlord/housing committee is unlikely to allow it).
So, no.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesI understand your sentiment, it echos that of Lord Kelvin who asserted that all discoveries were made, or Planck's professor who stated that Physics is basically done.
We certainly don't need Bluetooth airfryers or Internet fridges.
But we are on the verge of post Einsteinian physics, our materials science is not far from stone age, our additive manufacturing is nascent, long way to go before atomic layers.
Energy storage needs plenty of #innovation as does transmission.
Weve been two years away from #fusion for the last 20 years, I would say #AI is promising although likely terminal for humans, but then so were nukes so there may be hope.
Biotech and nanotech are in its nascency. Mathematics holds some fascinating promises. And that's just off the top of my head.
Innovation on its own is not the peril.
Concentration of wealth is a greater threat to humanity IMHO.
Conservatives want us to freeze in time, that's a recipe for stagnation and regression.
Captain of the SS El Faro@n_dimension @TheBreadmonkey Almost like there's a difference between "innovation" and innovation
Von Xylofon@n_dimension @TheBreadmonkey Obligatory reminder that there is no record of Kelvin ever saying that.
I love a good research challenge.
What you say is true, that claim is disputed, however I found one credible reference;
"Kelvin is also known for an address to an assemblage of physicists at the British Association for the advancement of Science in 1900 in which he stated, "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." A similar statement is attributed to the American physicist Albert Michelson.
That's quite specific.
The Max Planck professor quote is;
“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." -Philipp von Jolly, 1878.
It seems that if Kelvin has actually said that (as opposed to written in a thesis), it was more of a glib comment to his peers. However, he was reflecting what was a wide belief (apparently) at the time amongst many Scientists.
Which is understandable as the late 19th century was a period of remarkable discoveries.
Paul Drye@TheBreadmonkey Uh... Do you happen to have the link for the electric pants?