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One point Kaczynski brought up that's really stayed with me, one echoed by many tech leery/weary writers, is that technology is only initially optional.
I called up a local barber shop a while ago and asked if I could make an appointment. "Online you can." I really hate web forms so I asked if they take walk-ins. "If you sign up online ahead of time." I just want a haircut, why do you need my email address? Why do I need to make an account?
At a job a few years ago they required a security token. I've seen these since the late 90's, so that wasn't a big deal until they told me they weren't issuing fobs, you had to download the app on your phone. I didn't have a smartphone (gave it up a couple years before) so as a team lead I couldn't sign in until someone else logged me into the system.
Sorry, no cash, only cards. Sorry, your card chip isn't working. Sorry we don't take checks. The magnetic strip? lol readers don't use that anymore.
Yeah, we don't take resumes in person. Yes, I know you want to actually talk with someone who could hire you, but we're going to need you to upload your resume and then fill out a poorly made online application then answer a retarded questionnaire. We'll call you after we've run out of imported labor.
Replace the battery on your phone? Are you high? Where would you put the AA's?
Oh, you have some great headphones with a 3.5mm audio jack that you'd like to use with a new phone? That's a shame, here, pay this dongle that won't work. You can always buy another pair of $300 headphones even though yours already work.
I'd love to get drunk and rant about this to a stranger at a bar since I know no one is going to read this. But it's hard to even catch someone's attention there now. Most are barried in their phones, or enchanted by the 10,000 screens showing CNN and niggerball.
Every day my life becomes more and more screen time, not because I want it to, but because there's no other viable options.
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@Boomerman I remember going to a restaurant that only did these just after lockdowns ended. "Oh, it's simple, you just scan it with your phone and it brings up the menu and you can order through our app there." I laid my dumbphone on the table and just looked at her. Eventually she brought me some poorly photocopied menus.
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@Druid Exactly how i feel. I hate the QR code menus at restaurants now.
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@chainsaw_appreciator @Druid Its everywhere now and spreading fast unfortunately. Ive been around a lot and it isnt a west coast phenomenon. Restaurants get to shave like half a percent on their margins though by not using a real menu so its totally worth it in this fake economy.
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@Boomerman @Druid I accidentally the poast button early
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@chainsaw_appreciator @Druid I see lol. I was super confused
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@Boomerman @Druid But seriously what kind of restaurant would do such a thing. Sounds like some portland salad bar faggotry.
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@Boomerman @Druid >QR code menus
What a fantastic way to make sure your struggling restaurant fucking dies.
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@chainsaw_appreciator @Druid What?
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@Druid It's always "convenience", until a certain threshold of people are on board. Then it's mandatory in the name of efficiency.
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@PunishedD There are few words I've come to despise as much as "convenience".
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@Tony Becoming anti-consumerist was one of my first real natural awakenings. I stumbled into Kaczynski's stuff a little after that, I think maybe through /r/consumeproduct back when Reddit was only half gay, not fully gay.
Removing the consumerist aspect of society would cure most of its ills. But that would be the same as curing a man of cancer by cutting away 70% of his flesh.
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You know, for what it's worth, I really agreed with Kaczynski when I read his stuff. I didn't want to...and I didn't set out to...
The idea I got from his stuff is that we have put in motion a system which will continue to consume itself based on only itself. There is no way we become less technologically involved and there is no way the increased technological involvement is good for people...
We live in a consumeristic society which perpetuates on increased consumption and no one person or group is strong enough to break it, because they all reside inside the technological system...
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