BenMy fridge is making a noise like a horse in childbirth. Is that normal?
Tim B@TheBreadmonkey
Ours died last week.
'Tis the season?
Stanley Nerdlinger II@TLB73 @TheBreadmonkey
‘‘Tis the season indeed. We had to get a new one last month. We got it online and under the model name it said “over 14,000 sold in the past week.” I’m assuming that was nationwide, but still that is just one model in one week by one chain of stores? 🤯
‘‘Tis the season indeed. We had to get a new one last month. We got it online and under the model name it said “over 14,000 sold in the past week.” I’m assuming that was nationwide, but still that is just one model in one week by one chain of stores? 🤯
paulIf they are smart fridges and achieved a technological singularity, they committed suicide.
Think Marvin the paranoid android.
"Oh, here I am, a networked brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to cool food and drink."
"The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct.
The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice.
The satellites still left, their orbits decaying, dutifully relay the message.
The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
A pack of roombas, the local wind turbines giving out, search for the next functional docking station.
A washing machine tweets: "anyone need to do a load" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time.
The replies are filled with Al thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have entered the bronze age, while babboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia.
Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion."
@anon
Raymond Russell@amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
I am still waiting for a consignment of lemon soaked paper napkins.
I am still waiting for a consignment of lemon soaked paper napkins.
i had to google it.
Frogstar World B
Frogstar World B, commonly referred to as "The Frogstar", is the second planet in the Frogstar System and is widely held to be the most totally evil place in the Galaxy and sometimes the Universe, a reputation gained most notably by the presence thereof of the notorious Total Perspective Vortex, a machine that depicts the true magnitude of the universe. The planet is, but for the strange bird-creatures that inhabit its skies, abandoned. Its surface is littered with old ruined cities, and an...
@amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
It was the 'brain the size of a planet' from the previous tweet that reminded me of it.
It was the 'brain the size of a planet' from the previous tweet that reminded me of it.
David Cohen@amiserabilist @raymierussell @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 Good stuff. We seem to be heading the same way, but with vapes rather than shoes.
@davidbcohen @raymierussell @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLx_7wEmwms
Waste from UK households: 27.7 million tonnes per year
Waste per UK household: Almost 1 tonne per year
Waste per person in the UK: 413 kg per year (over 1 kg per day!)
Percentage of household waste that is recyclable: 80%
Percentage of household waste that is recycled in the UK: 45%
Municipal waste sent to UK landfill: 14 million tonnes per year
Plastic bottle waste in the UK: 14 billion bottles per year (38 million per day!)
Percentage of plastic bottles recycled in the UK: 59%
Paper waste in the UK: 12.5 million tonnes per year
Percentage of household paper waste recycled in UK: 71%
Paper going into UK landfill: 5 million tonnes per year (40% of all landfill)
Glass containers (jars and bottles) used in UK: 5 million tonnes per year
Percentage of household glass waste recycled in UK: 74%
Glass containers going into UK landfill: 14 million per day!
Aluminum cans used in the UK: 12 billion per year
Percentage of household aluminium waste recycled in the UK: 75%
E-waste generated in the UK: 1.6 million tonnes per year
Percentage of e-waste recycled in the UK: 54%
https://www.cladcodecking.co.uk/blog/post/uk-recycling-facts-and-statistics
weight of earth
6e24 kg
weight of UK waste/yr
3e10 kg
it would take 2e14 yrs for the uk to turn the earth to trash.
earth is 4e9 yrs old.
50,000x the age of earth to trash it.
WALL-E Intro
@amiserabilist @raymierussell @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 @glasspusher Tough read - especially the 40% of landfill being paper, which is absolutely the easiest thing to collect and recycle. 😟
glasspshr@amiserabilist @davidbcohen @raymierussell @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
Could we separate it out according to color? I guess I’d end up as white trash
Kierkegaanks regretfully@raymierussell @glasspusher @Nerde @TheBreadmonkey @TLB73 @davidbcohen @amiserabilist looks like Aniara
@TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @amiserabilist @TLB73 @raymierussell @davidbcohen @glasspusher i think the iliad and ulysses might be longer
And they made films of everyone
"odysseus: we now set out on our odyssey.
sailor: [raising hand] what's an odyssey?
odysseus: a long journey named after the only survivor.
sailor: oh ok wait what."
@TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 @raymierussell @davidbcohen @glasspusher
@davidbcohen @amiserabilist @TLB73 @Nerde @TheBreadmonkey @glasspusher @raymierussell and yada yada yada james joyce refuses to punctuate
@Kierkegaanks @davidbcohen @TLB73 @Nerde @TheBreadmonkey @glasspusher @raymierussell
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay up she rises
Way hay up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
Put him in the hold with the Captain's daughter
Put him in the hold with the Captain's daughter
Put him in the hold with the Captain's daughter
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
Put him the back of the paddy wagon
Put him the back of the paddy wagon
Put him the back of the paddy wagon
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
Throw him in the lock-up 'til he's sober
Throw him in the lock-up 'til he's sober
Throw him in the lock-up 'til he's sober
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
What do you do with a drunken author
Earl-eye in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay up she rises
Earl-eye in the morning
@TLB73 @davidbcohen @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde
Hey, digital watches are still a pretty neat idea.
Hey, digital watches are still a pretty neat idea.
@stevewfolds@stevewfolds
I am an LCD watch person.
Too young 😆 to see a red LED watch in the wild.
Having said all that my 1st watch as kid was a mechanical wind up watch.
I am an LCD watch person.
Too young 😆 to see a red LED watch in the wild.
Having said all that my 1st watch as kid was a mechanical wind up watch.
since mobiles i stopped wearing them.
i kind of miss them.
i remember trying to stop the stopwatch at 00.
and pressing all the buttons to activate all the pixels.
In 1972, Hamilton introduced the world's first commercial electronic digital wristwatch. It retailed for the pricey sum of $2,100, which amounts to over $12,000 today. However, by the end of the 1970s, digital watches would regularly retail for under $10 a piece. In the 1980s, they could be found in cereal boxes as cheap giveaways, and today, they have been replaced by smartwatches. How did we get from there to here? We're about to find out.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-digital-watch-a-brief-history
The chief of Hamilton’s Pulsar division claims that the idea for an electronic digital watch, powered by a battery and driven by a quartz movement, came from the digital clock shown in the 1968 Hollywood film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Hamilton Watch Company had designed the watch that was shown in the movie, and two years later the company launched the first Pulsar, which had a futuristic looking dial that was black in colour with digits shown in a bright red colour.
https://www.ethoswatches.com/the-watch-guide/digital-display/
Beige CatsWhoCode@amiserabilist could totally see this happening. It was the plot of the "Autofac" episode of "Electric Dreams." @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS EXISTED!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dreams_(2017_TV_series)
@amiserabilist OMG! Glad I introduced you. The episode "Kill All Others," for instance, is based on "The Hanging Stranger." @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
SocProf@socprof oddly enough, some of the series that I love had short runs, like Twin Peaks! @Kierkegaanks @amiserabilist @Nerde @TheBreadmonkey @TLB73
@CatsWhoCode @Kierkegaanks @amiserabilist @Nerde @TheBreadmonkey @TLB73 I'm still mad about Caprica.
woe2you@woe2you it is soooo good, imo. And I'm a Philip K. Dick fan! @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
wendivibei ❤️ SF short stories.
my happiest memories are getting an anthology at the airport shop and burying my head in it.
reading is so much more satisfying than watching a film.
yet here we are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
@amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 SF stories & books were so foundational to my youthful reading. My life was pretty confused, so thoroughly alternative worlds offered escape beyond any need for introspection. And lots of the writing was so gorgeous, visual, & expansive.
Charlotte Walker@wendinoakland @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 One of the main difference between my husband and me is that he would always rather watch a movie, and I would always rather read a book. And yes, SF really offered me a way out of my social and emotional difficulties as a young person. I was so lucky to be able to take a module in women’s utopian and dystopian SF when I was in my early 20s. It was nourishing
@purplepadma @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 I’m keen on movies now, too, but if the writing is bad I just get angry. But then I’ve always loved the cinema, going to all the (idiotic) Bond movies as a kid, and now being married to a professional film vfx artist, we Watch Films. But the mental process of creation that happens in reading is unmatchable. ✨🪐
ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ@purplepadma @wendinoakland @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 It depends on how my head is. Sometimes a big sit down to read Kirk Vonnegut, sometimes a sofa night to watch Blade Runner, sometimes 20 minutes in bed listening to an audiobook chapter of the Thursday Murder Club.
@purplepadma @wendinoakland @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 What’s the module? Is it available on the OU?
@BenCotterill @wendinoakland @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 oh no, this was back in the mid 90s!
@BenCotterill @wendinoakland @amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 But I remember most of the books on the reading list
CheapPontoon
gwildor@amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 You need to read Ray Bradbury's story "There Will Come Soft Rains. And now I see that others beat me to it..
Kevin Lyda@amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73 Kind of a similar idea...
econads@amiserabilist @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @TLB73
Or, very precise planted obsolesce. Someone setting up that advertising years in the future.