You forgot "cable television, but over the internet and no one has all the channels."
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Personally I'm a fan of fake certificate that says you paid money for one of the plagiarism machine's works
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I swear that most commenters are young people because back in the 90s-2000s, taxis and hotels were hot fucking garbage.
Taxis would go on joy rides to up the cost or refuse you if you were black.
Hotels would tell you to go suck a dick because their price listed outside is not for you, and if you want a place, they have a room with roaches near the heater.
Uber/Airbnb were gamechangers that broke that monopoly.
Unfortunately, they have gotten to shit. But you know what? Taxis and hotels have cleaned up their act. Because the moment they go to shit again, Uber/Airbnb will come in and eat their lunch.
Taxis in my country would routinely ask for extra (usually 25-30% of the total fare) or have you pay them a fixed amount that's way higher than if only the meter was used (about 2-3x the normal fare) . There are also taxis that have meters that are way too fast. Uber was a godsend when it first came out here.
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When you call a cab it was often a game of 'will the can actually show up?"
Ah yes, I too remember the good old days of stumbling home drunk in the dark because my cab never came.
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I only know taxis and hotels as normal boring things in this time range.
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Calling AirBnB "a hotel chain" is an insult to hotels.
Hotels don't require you to clean somebody else's house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn't even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.
I would be charged a cleaning fee even though we're asked to clean anyhow, regardless of how well we cleaned. Toward the end, I stopped doing any basic cleaning and disputed additional fees relating to my not doing their job for them. Now I don't use them at all.
I have two younger kids. We can very close to renting a hotel on our last in-state vacation. It would have actually been somewhat cheaper. The reason we still went for the AirBnB was because our kids are asleep by like 7:30 and we didn't want to be 'trapped' in the hotel room and didn't want to rent a second. AirBnB made it significantly easier to find a house to rent.
That said, the number of AirBnBs in that area of the state has really grown. I can't imagine that's doing the people who live there any favors.
I use a AirBnB if:
- I'm bringing my dog. A house with a fenced yard beats a hotel for that hands down every time.
- Using the house is a major feature of the vacation. We live in an apartment in a city so sometimes it's nice to just spend a week in a cabin in the mountains or a long weekend at a house with a pool.
- I'm traveling with a group and I actually want to spend time with those people. It's nice to have a private social space that isn't someone's bedroom.
I prefer hotels if:
- I'm traveling solo. If I'm not renting a whole house, I want the hotel amenities. Plusi can pretend to be a bachelor again and act like a slob.
- I have an action packed trip planned. Every time I've been to Vegas I was pretty much only in my room to shower or sleep.
- I'm traveling with a group and know I'll need some personal space.
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It is really terrible for the housing market when real estate investors buy out homes on the market for the sole purpose of renting them out in AirBnBs.
I doubt that anyone would want to live next to an AirBnB house.
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What about hyper-intrusive handheld ad machine?
I see no one has mentioned Nazi microblog platform yet.
Hey, Lemmy is a Marxist microbloging platform! The Nazis are mostly ... oh, you were talking about X, weren't you?
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Doorbell camera surveillance network
Tough question. I'm a big fan of making the plagiarism machine pretend to be a text based adventure game for my amusement, but I also like that the illegal cab company will also deliver food or groceries when I don't feel up to leaving my house.
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Money for criminals*
Until everybody ruined it. When people started investing instead of spending, we were fucked.
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Hey, its not fake money for criminals! It's barely legal casino, sheesh!
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- User-stocked adictive digital social circle.
- Digital news media sources using Pavlovian click-response headlines.
- Human subconscious-targetting product promotion systems.
- Automated individual tracking and digital-model building systems.
Plagirized reddit
Trust me bro, Capitalism is necessary for innovation, just trust me bro
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Intellectual property is a figment of our imaginations. So I’m voting for the magical copyright violator box.
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I'll take the surveillance cameras strapped to a garbage screen strapped directly to my face with controllers
"Fake money for criminals" The US dollar has been around for quite some time...
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Can we have option 4?
-Love all the disruption and none of the intended product
Edit: or the option where I can count…
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Image Transcription: Twitter Poll
Adam Kotsko, @adamkotsko
What's your favorite tech innovation?
Illegal cab company [16%]
Illegal hotel chain [17%]
Fake money for criminals [32%]
Plagiarism machine [35%]
Normally I don’t find these things funny but this one is hysterical.
In case any of you are confused about what these are supposed to be:
Uber/Lyft
AirBnB
Bitcoin
ChatGPT
all money is fake tho?
Yesterday I went to a shop and they let me take away some stuff after I handed over some colourful bits of paper. Seems real enough to me.
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