Nobody tell this guy that they used to be printed on actual paper and physically mailed, he seems like he’s having a hard enough time as it is.
Used to. They still are, but they used to be as well.
wait until he hears about phone books
UNICEF still does that, very happy of the use they make of my money
Ok now do actual physical junk mail
I really have no need to ever check my regular mailbox. It’s all junk mail. Everything else like bills are all online (even things like property taxes)
Physical mailboxes are good for junk mail and for court/legal paperwork. Neither of which I ever want to see.
Your mailbox is now a physical spam filter.
I have a tiny baby mailbox. I know the mailman is just walking away with the rare mail I want if its not empty.
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I think about this for all the work and resources that go into surveillance and psych manipulation on social media platforms.
Unfathomable amounts of hours and resources have been cumulatively spent by society to research the technologies and train the knowledge workers who make all of this possible and for what? Instead of having those smart, educated people do LITERALLY ANYTHING that would contribute to society, they’re spending their time and expertise to make people sadder and angrier to sell ads for things people don’t need. It doesn’t even need to be something “important” like curing diseases or fixing climate change for them to be more valuable than what they’re doing now. As long as it’s not actively making things worse. That’s the bar we’re setting at the moment. And then yeah I guess on top of that it’s probably wasting a lot of material and energy resources too.
What value does flooding my spam folder with Swedish spam create for anybody? I just hit delete sometimes.
And while we’re at it what’s with Google Drive Swedish spam?
I once ran a bunch of calculations on the carbon impact of storing things online. There’s a real impact.
Compared to impact of our transportation and food choices, it’s not huge. Though all aspects of carbon emissions are worth addressing.
Some of the big tech companies are aggressively working towards being carbon neutral or carbon negative, including Microsoft, Google and Apple.
We each move the needle some one way or the other ourselves with our daily transportation and food choices… as well as how many more photos we store in the cloud!
Was writing my thesis about rudimentary spam filtering and it blew my mind how a crushing majority of email circulating around is spam. Like, email is essentially a spam machine with a little legitimate mail thrown in as a treat.
Email has become like snail mail in that regard.
just capital
Like, eh, I guess?
Most spam emails are not corporations looking for customers but scammers looking for victims.
I appreciate the dunk on capitalism as much as the next guy but this feels kinda random
not corporations looking for customers but scammers looking for victims
In like 90% of commerce, these are the same thing. Profit exists in the unequal exchange of value. The more unequal the exchange, the more profit created. Capitalism is built on the idea that the investor is entitled to all of the profit, so the producer and the consumer are both providing value to a third party.
For sure, there are examples of industries where the transactions are more equitable than others. But corporations are exclusively profit-driven, and equality is anathema to profit.
I appreciate the dunk on capitalism as much as the next guy but this feels kinda […]
Welcome to the Fediverse!
Mmhm, it’s people trying to make money, not anthropomorphic “capital”. Not especially rich people either.
Broke my brain
