20 points

Non rebellious printer

Baby wristlet with heartbeat sensor (this one will make you go proper crazy)

Car that breaks down as soon as you buy it

'cause fuck cars.

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Those baby ekg socks and bracelets are crazy. My wife bought one and it just made her crazy. And then even the dumb thing moves you get everyone jumping to alerts and beeps and are stuck with a baby who isn’t going to sleep anytime soon.

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They exist they’re called LED Printers, you have to do a bit of searching for them though because they’re often mislabeled as Laser Jet. If you go on Amazon for example and look for laserjet printers in the type box right at the bottom they’ll tell you if it’s really a laser jet or is actually a LED printer. Get an LED printer, Brother makes some good ones.

They are lightning fast even for color printing. They use toner like laser jet (which I guess is where the confusion comes from) but they work in a different way.

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How different? They still use light for drum polarization, right?

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Yes but LEDs are smaller and more powerful than a laser assembly so the whole process is faster.

In the time it takes to energise the drum with a laser, the LED panel can do all 4 inks.

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🤘 fuck cars

There’s a community for that if you aren’t subscribed already.

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Baby wristlet with heartbeat sensor (this one will make you go proper crazy)

They have socks that do this. Bluetooth app connection to your phone.

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Car that breaks down as soon as you buy it

BMWs are already pretty mainstream

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It’s 2023, BMW is upper middle off the pack reliability wise. If you are going to make fun of Germans it’s Merc you are looking for.

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Yep, Mercedes is NOTHING what it used to be… they put in Peugeot engines in new models 🤦… which is not bad, but at the price these cars sell, excuse me, but I want a Mercedes engine in there.

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Some sort of device to remove the heads from the ruling class

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Yes and let’s call it a guee-oh-teen

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Trebuchets are relatively easy to assemble, made of readily available wood, and more than capable of yeeting the fattest of fat cats. They are also legal to own and require no permits.

#YeetTheRich

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Personally, I’d love to turn it into a sort of Punkin’ Chunkin’ type event. Have different categories for accuracy and distance, then a separate division for non-traditional “cannon” type launchers.

Lastly, separate the launchers based on how the launcher is powered; Cannons may be pneumatic, but there should be a separate category for human powered launchers. Just like in Punkin Chunkin, the person has a limited amount of time to “charge” the launcher, via some mechanical means. Treadmill, hamster wheel, rowing, etc are all acceptable, as long as the launcher is entirely powered by the one person.

And just like in Punkin Chunkin, the shots only count if the billionaire is intact after launching; If they’re completely turned to mush while in the air, the shot is disqualified. Bonus points for keeping them conscious and screaming/flailing in the air.

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The up coming weight loss drugs. I’m moderately over weight and been fighting it 20 years.

Having some help there would be a god send for a lot of people and I’m slightly optimistic on this round of drugs.

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We’ve literally wasted decades because we’ve treated obesity as a personal failing rather than researching the problem.

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Perhaps I’m ignorant, but obesity is largely a personal problem, no? The core issue is consuming more calories than the body is expensing, so how is that anyone else’s’ problem?

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Do you think people magically started overeating just recently? There have there been changes in our food, changes in how we digest and our gut microbiome, pollutants like microplastics and forever chemicals, or other factors could have an influence on why we are getting fatter.

We created narcan and methadone even though that is at least as much a personal failing.

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Yeah, companies starting an obesity epidemic by pumping us full of government subsidized corn syrup, only to solve that by getting us reliant on an exorbitantly expensive drug that you have to inject every day. How I love capitalism.

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God fucking forbid we take any self responsibility.

I eat pretty much zero processed food and it’s incredibly easy and inexpensive.

I’m fat because I eat and snack too much and it’s 100% my fault.

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I’m fat because I eat and snack too much and it’s 100% my fault.

I eat too much junk, too, but I am in pretty good shape.

I also know quite a few people who just don’t have the urge to eat a lot. They tend to eat small amounts, don’t finish their meals, sometimes forget to eat a meal when they’re busy. It is completely not relatable for someone like me.

Between the fact that people can eat a lot without getting fat, and that people don’t all have the same baseline urge to eat, I’d recommend you go a bit easier on yourself.

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What are these drugs?

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Semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy)

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Ozempic is the big one, but there is Rybelsus, Trulicity, Wegovy, and others. They are for treating type 2 diabetes, but have been very popular for preventing type 2 diabetes, aka weight loss.

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That one thing, with the whatchamacallit that does that super useful thing…

You know…

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They are delicious

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useful implementation of AI silo’d to the applicable function.

some examples:

  • “rename these images with X pattern, add their description to the meta data”

  • “correctly capitalize all the names in my address book and tag them by how i know them”

  • “show me how much i spent on fast food last month”

  • actually good and useful autocorrect / spell check

  • find all the emails about Jane’s wedding next year and let me know where we are with the planning

  • find me an app for windows desktop that does XYZ

edit to clarify: I know there are algos and LLMs that do this, but I don’t want a “machine” that does all of them, I want a machine that only does each one really well.

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LLMs would do all of those incorrectly with 100% confidence.

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