I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better
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The restaurant that forces you to use their app doesn't exist
Here is one such restaurant (have to use their website via QR code, but same idea) near where I live: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6LhBMo5duVzSB9HE9
That said, it's clearly not the only restaurant in town, and nobody is forcing a gun to your head to eat there.
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Yeah, idk what the other guy was talking about. But, I've ridden with someone that apparently got dependent on that automatic braking feature. He "used" something like 5 times during a 1.5 hour trip.
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Technology absolutely helps advance science and helps the disabled, It’s greedy fucks that destroyed good tech
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Some parts of life have gotten massively easier. The other day I called my pharmacy to delay my next prescription refill because I still have pills. I was able to do this entirely through voice interaction with an automated system. Huzzah. I get texts when my scrips are about to be filled or ready, and reminders if I don’t pick them up for a while. I can also see this info on demand in an app if I want. What’s not to like?
My entire medical group runs on an app now. I can make appointments with my doctor, see the documentation from prior visits, pay bills, see test results…
Oh but boo hoo this author had to download an app to order a drink. First world problems…
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I think you hit the head on the nail.
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On my small fleet of Logi M570 trackball mice, I occasionally have to crack them open and tweezer out the wreath of hair that has built up in the mouse wheel which obscures the sensor. It'll be a mix of mine and my cats hair.
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Mate, it's a cheese quesadilla. It's two tortillas, cheese, and heat...
Joking aside, there are a few out there. A lot of people are surprisingly into figuring out copycatting popular fast food.
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I had an Amazon bot lie to me. I told it some item didn't show up and I wanted a replacement. It said it would send one and it would show up in my orders. It never did. So I requested a refund later. So tedious.
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Yep, I want to be a contrarian, that why I brought politics in a discussion about tech. Oh, wait...
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That sounds super uncomfortable, the emergency braking is quite brutal...
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We don't blame the whip, we blame the slaver
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This is weird take on an op-ed. OP didn't alter the title. The onl ways I can conceive of a headline being "misleading" is when it declares a falsity (this doesn't; it's an opinion) or doesn't match the content of the titled text (this doesn't; it matches the text).
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Open-source technology absolutely is making the world better.
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Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It's like any other tool, when it's used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects
