Adam Hartling
henryObsessed with this quote from an AI bro who is under the impression that horses "can do whatever they want now" as a result of the invention of the car.
Jef Poskanzer
Daniel Gibson
TheOneSwitor into lasagne.
@TheOneSwit @jef @henry
I think that was later ;)
I think frozen lasagna wasn't a thing yet when a majority of horses were killed because cars replaced them
I think that was later ;)
I think frozen lasagna wasn't a thing yet when a majority of horses were killed because cars replaced them
there where two world wars in those times.
@TheOneSwit
well, yeah but when I think of horse lasagne the first thing that comes to mind is that scandal about frozen lasagne in German supermarkets a few years ago
well, yeah but when I think of horse lasagne the first thing that comes to mind is that scandal about frozen lasagne in German supermarkets a few years ago
Gabs
Thomas A. Fine 
Don't forget about glue. Very important to the glue industry for a long time.
Can't wait until the AI tech bros use my useless remains to make glue.
@thomasafine @jef @henry
using your non-edible parts would be too efficient and sustainable for AI bros
using your non-edible parts would be too efficient and sustainable for AI bros
Ian Douglas Scott
Per Vognsen@ids1024 @Doomed_Daniel @jef @henry I remember seeing a post by someone that wasn't so far removed. When young people no longer have jobs due to automation, we'll just send them into space.
@pervognsen @ids1024 @Doomed_Daniel @henry Pressure suits optional.
(I always assumed this was what was going on in Blade Runner with the "off-world colonies".)
@jef @ids1024 @Doomed_Daniel @henry Hah, that was literally the joke I made, which made me find the original post via search. https://mastodon.social/@pervognsen/115042001184309870
clew
Patrick Morris Miller@kentenmakto @henry I think it's linear, and even zero-based, but it sure looks like some weird log thing doesn't it.
Edit: On the left side. On the right, no idea.
@jef @henry Damn me, it *is* linear. It's just a) seeing exponential notation in that context is weird and b) when you're graphing growth and, uh, ungrowth, you just expect a semi-log graph.
("Three data points will almost always form a straight line on either a linear, semi-log, or log-log graph. So if you only have one kind of graph paper, you should only take two measurements.")
Jered Floyd@kentenmakto @jef @henry there’s some real chartcrime going on at the bottom of the y-axis scale. I assume it’s just interrupted from zero, but it means the last few datapoints are not clear.
So around 5x reduction on number of horses from peak? That’s actually far less than I’d guess.
@jered @kentenmakto @henry It's not though. I agree it looks janky, and for no reason, but in fact it's just linear.
Ryan1729@jef @jered @kentenmakto @henry Would have been slightly clearer if the 5 x 10^6 was written as 0.5 x 10^7 instead.
Gabriel Pettier@Ryan1729 @jef @jered @kentenmakto @henry "horses (millions)" (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30) would have been the normal thing to do, i believe.
Wade Roberts
Arthur van der Harg
(((Klefstadmyr)))
vozer 
@henry “women were liberated because of the invention of the washing machine”-ass statement
refraction 
Pip Gowenlock@henry and yet I think it is he who has the blinkers on.
*Winks at camera, tilts glass suggestively*
Tristan
Koen Hufkens, PhD
lp0 on fire 
donutage (Bill Cole)@henry The fastest children will be raced for sport, the rest sold to the glue factory. Freedom!
Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈@henry
(Sorry for the following rant)
EEESH , yeah I can tell he didn’t go to school, particularly history, or just real life experience on a farm 😳
Do ya really wanna know where all the horses went? Lots of ‘em were sent to slaughter houses & are still being sent to slaughter houses to this day.
They’re not “free” from work , people still have ‘em to ride, yet they send them to auction & they end up in a meat factory. So… sorry. You don’t know anything about what you’re talking about
(Sorry for the following rant)
EEESH , yeah I can tell he didn’t go to school, particularly history, or just real life experience on a farm 😳
Do ya really wanna know where all the horses went? Lots of ‘em were sent to slaughter houses & are still being sent to slaughter houses to this day.
They’re not “free” from work , people still have ‘em to ride, yet they send them to auction & they end up in a meat factory. So… sorry. You don’t know anything about what you’re talking about
XCondE
luca@henry This isn't as much true. Horses keep being breed by humans, used in races and steaks. The hard lesson is that humans don't return anything to nature, not even themselves.
The clear example is industrial revolution, after which humans haven't been freed from work, but just advanced to new forms of slavery.
Note that I'm truly convinced about the good from technological advances: I just see that humans, on average, can't change for good. The solution is beyond my humble comments.
The clear example is industrial revolution, after which humans haven't been freed from work, but just advanced to new forms of slavery.
Note that I'm truly convinced about the good from technological advances: I just see that humans, on average, can't change for good. The solution is beyond my humble comments.
@luc0x61 @henry Someone above mentioned the rock dove or “homing pigeon” that is probably the only example of “returning to the wild” that was relatively successful and rather invasive 😹 (but hey, at least they can survive urban cities better than most species 😹) . Before the invention of the telegraph and a secure messaging system (no telegraphs weren’t entirely secure 😹) pigeons were the fastest form of communication (I don’t know if this makes you feel any better 😹)
Paul_IPv6@em_and_future_cats @luc0x61 @henry
and perhaps they should still be in use. :)
Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.@henry I'd like to know when's the last time he saw a horse in real life.
Titia Schuurman
WesDym
KeithWM@henry There is some appeal to the thought that if AI can really do all the nasty work, we can all go do fun stuff. But apparently capitalism doesn't work that way...
Bernie Luckily Does It@KeithWM Capitalism could have freed most people from drudgery over a century ago. It didn't, obviously. But not for lack of AI or the like.
The moneyed classes just can't stand the ideal of 'lesser' people getting a 'free ride', even if that would make the best sense for everyone, including them.
I did a study on public transit once, and concluded that that's the only purpose of bus fares, because they DO NOT pay for bus service, and aren't even needed. They just make rich people feel better.
Robotistry
Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦@henry Glue certainly was cheaper for a decade or so.
Thommy
Liminal witch 🧙♀️ Sarah@henry this AI bro should’ve used pigeons instead of horses, they are definitely free to crap on everything, including this AI bro. I’m somewhat unsure he likes to be crapped on
I’m not judging anyone’s kinks
@em_and_future_cats To deal with reality he'd have to first know what it is.
@xgebi The last military homing pigeons were retired in 1994. A dozen of the best were retained for racing (human entertainment). The rest, according the Swiss Army, were eaten.
So fatten up, folks, Boy Wonder and his techbro pals have a plan for us, and it's not to run free in a farm upstate.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦also, he looks at working class people as horses? this is classic, “tell me you are holding hard to a caste system without telling me you are at the top of a caste system”
Thorium
PhDog