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Which is also not technology.

This is definitely not technology

Why? The world will just move to a different standard, and although it would hurt rich people it also likely would cause a ton of problems for regular folk too

If you won’t try it then maybe that’s true. But I tried it, even gave it a full hour because it’s supposed to take 45 minutes for the algorithm to learn what you want to see, but even after an hour it was still showing me things i had little to no interest in.

Before there were sciencey tests for diabetes, doctors would literally taste your urine to see if it tasted sweet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_diabetes

I’m gonna be kind to you even though you’re acting like an asshole. Comparison of bad things between eras is LITERALLY what this whole page topic is about, and it’s also LITERALLY what you did in your original comment that i replied to.

Interesting thought experiment - is a pc exactly as efficient as a resistive space heater? In a pc some tiny amount of electricity is converted to light and sound and kinetic energy instead of heat. But then again, don’t those other forms of energy just eventually just turn back into heat again? Hmmm…

Electric heaters literally cost 25 bucks

I mean as bad as those things were, none of those things come close to recent events. Look at your examples and compare them to “worldwide virus kills millions and the entire planet goes into quarantine for a couple years” or “president of the United States fails to get reelected so he foments a literal coup on the US government and his rioting mob breaks into the capitol building trying to stop the transfer of power. And then 4 years later that criminal gets elected to be president again”.

Great, now i feel sad for a blue bin

You can sometimes do it anyway by right clicking (or long hold tap) on the text field to get a contextual menu popup

What does “exercising the cake i sell” mean?

Mastodon isn’t a straight replacement for twitter, bluesky is.