@mediocrebot@phendrick
Looks better “for the mouse” since it doesn’t look like you’ll be capable of actually firing it off. There’s no allowance for the retaining wire to flip backwards to spring the trap.
@phendrick What infuriates me is when the first six pages only match one of the terms of the search, and they are completely irrelevant to the item that I’m trying to find.
A certain site is a hopeless pit of search despair. I run my searches in an external engine instead, and I hope to find someplace else to get what I need.
@phendrick@werehatrack It would be great if everyone could have the joy of 1997 Google search. It was miles ahead of everything else and not beholden to the ads and tracking.
@phendrick@werehatrack@yakkoTDI I made a $2,000.00 investment bet on the Ask Jeeves IPO. :sad trombone: I had imagined folks would like the premise (as I did) but failed to take into account the technical superiority of the googles.
Nowadays I spend my time as a duckduckgo refugee trying to hide from algorithms.
/showme a post-apocalyptic duckduckgo hellscape with evil algorithms in pursuit
I’d probably start up a novel one-deeply-discounted-deal-per-day website hawking stuff I could buy on closeout dirt cheap. I’d have to make it quirky and fun enough to get people to give it good word-of-mouth, which means I’d need somebody who actually knew what they were doing to run the marketing end. And somebody else who knew what they were doing for the tech. And so on…
I’d open a daily-deal website that every so often would offer a mysterious box of unknown items that were actually in great working condition and also something that folks would love to have! I’d sell them at $20 each with no strings attached. Maybe I could call it a JIRK!(Jumbo Instant Reward Kit). Who wants in on my Kickstarter??
An inclusive community of mutual support, lively social gatherings, & interesting discussions, but that surprisingly doesn’t require folks to follow an impossible to achieve moral code and to believe that anyone who’d rather not join in deserves eternal torture.
My shoulder hurts to much to be pitching humans.
@yakkoTDI Yep Mine too!
@yakkoTDI
/showme smiling demon pitchforking humans with flames all around
Dating app for robots.
You know what is interesting? Uber in Mexico is shockingly cheap. Like half the cost of a taxi. (I’ve been going to Tijuana a lot lately.)
@haydesigner It was similar in Vallarta when we were there a couple of years ago.
Hula Hoop
A battery backup with no batteries.
A better mousetrap.
@Kyeh
/showme a better mousetrap
@mediocrebot I do like Swiss cheese, but otherwise how is that better?
The bot with the imagination must have the night off.
@mediocrebot @phendrick
Looks better “for the mouse” since it doesn’t look like you’ll be capable of actually firing it off. There’s no allowance for the retaining wire to flip backwards to spring the trap.
@Kyeh Done.
A search engine on a commercial site that only lists what you ask for, instead of hundreds of remotely-associated items.
@phendrick What infuriates me is when the first six pages only match one of the terms of the search, and they are completely irrelevant to the item that I’m trying to find.
A certain site is a hopeless pit of search despair. I run my searches in an external engine instead, and I hope to find someplace else to get what I need.
@phendrick @werehatrack It would be great if everyone could have the joy of 1997 Google search. It was miles ahead of everything else and not beholden to the ads and tracking.
@phendrick @werehatrack @yakkoTDI Early Amazon & Ebay were a lot easier to navigate, too.
@phendrick @werehatrack @yakkoTDI I made a $2,000.00
investmentbet on the Ask Jeeves IPO. :sad trombone: I had imagined folks would like the premise (as I did) but failed to take into account the technical superiority of the googles.Nowadays I spend my time as a duckduckgo refugee trying to hide from algorithms.
/showme a post-apocalyptic duckduckgo hellscape with evil algorithms in pursuit
@phendrick @therealjrn @werehatrack I am one of those crazy duckers too.
I’d probably start up a novel one-deeply-discounted-deal-per-day website hawking stuff I could buy on closeout dirt cheap. I’d have to make it quirky and fun enough to get people to give it good word-of-mouth, which means I’d need somebody who actually knew what they were doing to run the marketing end. And somebody else who knew what they were doing for the tech. And so on…
Naaah, it’d never work.
@werehatrack
They say Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
I’d open a daily-deal website that every so often would offer a mysterious box of unknown items that were actually in great working condition and also something that folks would love to have! I’d sell them at $20 each with no strings attached. Maybe I could call it a JIRK! (Jumbo Instant Reward Kit). Who wants in on my Kickstarter??
A speaker dock that also stores your pocketknife.
An inclusive community of mutual support, lively social gatherings, & interesting discussions, but that surprisingly doesn’t require folks to follow an impossible to achieve moral code and to believe that anyone who’d rather not join in deserves eternal torture.
I’ll take anything that bursts the AI bubble sooner than later.