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martyb
on Thursday January 24 2019, @01:34PM
from the Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept dept.
from the Hit-rock-bottom-and-keep-digging-dept dept.
You know how it is, it's a Saturday so you go out into the garden for a quick interface with nature before the next 10 hr Fortnite / Netflix combo binge to find your dog has left numerous piles of digested food all over the place. What do you do? Get online to AirTasker to post a job requesting someone come over to pick up the shit. Yes, seriously, that's what they do these days when help is just a click away. Need a pack of ciggies but are "too unwell" to go get them for yourself? Airtasker! Need a couple of vibrators in a hurry? Yep, someone on there will help you. For a price. Just when we thought with Facebook that humanity had hit rock bottom. How low can we go?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Thursday January 24 2019, @04:16PM (3 children)
WRT food, smokes, beer, etc.
Where I live, I can have any or all of those things delivered to my door 24/7 and the delivery person is happy to get the US$3.00 (US$4.00 if it's particularly cold or nasty out).
And it's just a phone call away. I could do it online, but that would mean getting up off my fat ass to open a browser.
And I can do so for more than just that. House cleaners, plumbers, hookers, drug dealers and all manner of other products and services. This isn't new, nor is it particularly interesting. I guess the suburban troglodytes are finally getting what us urban troglodytes have had all along.
No phone app, you might ask? Nope. See, I actually *like* talking to people. And when you have positive verbal interactions with people, they tend to treat you better and are more likely to do better if they see you as an actual human. I know, I know, that's just crazy talk.
Here's a new and novel concept: having conversations with people. It's never been done before. I feel a patent coming on.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday January 24 2019, @05:54PM (2 children)
If only someone could gather a listing of the local companies, and deliver it to your doorstep at least once a year, you wouldn't have to open a browser ever !
I suspect that would be a fairly big book. But maybe advertising could pay for it, and it could get recycled as a fire started, shooting target, or maybe even something to prop things up?
Nah, it will never work.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:07PM (1 child)
Very good. They used to leave stacks of them in the vestibule of my building, but it's been at least ten years since they did that.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Friday January 25 2019, @01:41PM
I sometimes think of the mobile/pre-mobile world.
This morning, I got up, read the newspaper on the toilet. I then took some of the papers from my outbox, rifled through them, and composed a memorandum to a colleague. I then put on some records for my progeny to enjoy while dressing.
The "book of local service providers, supported by ads" business model went *directly* to the internet without modification.