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Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-2
Includes an extra panel (red button) and title text, as usual for SMBC
THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES
Like… a dishwasher?
Yes. They’re really underrated. They consume way less water than almost all humans dishwashing, less energy if the human uses warm water to do the dishes, and work better if they aren’t clogged.
Look up minutefood or technology connections about it on youtube
They chose literally the only widely-adopted home robot. 😆
You were directionally evolved by monsters who resented artists’ ability to create value through pure expression. Mimicking the conjuring of that value was at once a parlor trick, then a means to undercut the livelihood of anyone not willing to explicitly and finitely explain the art they created (thus giving it metric to be measured by and value-assigned).
The wax ring and plumbers putty are set. Keep the caulk dry for 36 hours and try to not touch it or it could crack.
We automated plumbing. It’s called plumbing.
Same deal for laundry, dishes, farming-- there’s so much stuff where human labor has been almost entirely eliminated, and people still bitch about the tiny remaining fraction. Ugh, you have to put the dishes in the box that effortlessly cleans them, and then take them out? That’s bullshit. Where’s my robot maid!
This comic is clearly about the plumber occupation and about jobs as a whole and not simply a dishwasher.
The dishwasher (robot) is insufficiently subservient. That’s why you have to put LLMs in all the things. So it can say “That’s such a good idea! You are so clever for thinking of that” when you start it.
Would you like me to help you with that?
“Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.” Systems includes the robots as far as I am concerned.
I never heard that quote, where is it from?
Looks like it’s from the late great Michael Brooks
You betcha.
Systems include plumbing!
Always reminds me of this bit on the Conan O’Brien show.
Gotta love the perennial “our kids are spoiled idiots” bit. That one never gets old. I bet at least one of Aritophanes’ plays will have made fun of the damn kids.
The “kids these days” part doesn’t do much for me but the central point of “everything is amazing and nobody is happy” absolutely does.
It resonates with me because I find more wonder in the everyday stuff we take for granted than I ever did getting getting dragged into church as a kid. My first flight was 35 years ago and I still sit by the window and look at the world from that “chair in the sky” perspective the whole time.
And just to be clear, yes of course the world is full of bad shit. Our amazing technology helps is be hyper aware of that.
What does
god need with a starship?a robot need with a sink?AI’s water usage is a pretty well-known problem with the industry.
It’s there so that all those humans who insist their lives will have no “meaning” without having to work for a living have something to work on for a living.
it vastly simplifies cleaning up when they start purging their human
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Clanker hate on Lemmy
And making hands with extra fingers
