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teft , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...
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Anyone who has ever washed clothes by hand understands this. That shit is difficult af.

athos77 ,

I remember watching some BBC documentary and they said that whenever a household for enough money that they started to buy appliances, the first one they bought was almost always a clothes washer.

smashboy ,

And to think, back in those days people also often had 5-10 children. Imagine the amount of laundry 💀

Ghost33313 ,
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Been there. A freshening up wash isn't bad, but if you have a stain, forget it you will be cursing.

sab , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

Some consider it the greatest invention of the industrial revolution. Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberation.

...hmmm.

Sivar , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

There’s this amazing TED talk by Hans Rosling about this. Worth it to check it out! ted.com/…/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_machine

Edit: sorry, someone posted this earlier. Lemmy not showing comments…

Hypx , in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...
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Did Washing Machines Change The Global Economy More Than The Internet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvsz_vc7B0

Economists have pointed out the washing machine had an arguably larger improvement on productivity than the Internet.

teft , in TIL A disgruntled Chinese man, who was recently single, organized for every odd numbered seat to be bought for the premiere screening of a romance movie on Valentine's Day, forcing couples to sit o...
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That’s some chaotic evil shit.

coldv , in TIL A disgruntled Chinese man, who was recently single, organized for every odd numbered seat to be bought for the premiere screening of a romance movie on Valentine's Day, forcing couples to sit o...

I mean… I have no choice but to applaud the creative execution of this pettiness.

suckslumps , in TIL married people who undergo gastric bypass surgery and lose significant weight are twice as likely to get divorced.

I feel like very heavy people who are in marriages are often married to people who are into people who are heavier. I once saw an episode of My 600lb Life where the husband left the wife because she was losing weight and he wanted her to be as heavy as possible.

chackl , (edited ) in TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat...

Don’t some communities that reject most modern technology still use washing machines?

Usually_Lurker , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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Nice try bot. You’re not going to get me.

Candelestine , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

… I used to really like the word “theory”, once upon a time… ~sigh

hughperman ,

It is more of a hypothesis, alright

Eccentric ,

Tbf, the article itself calls it a conspiracy theory

BaroqueInMind , (edited )
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The word has mutated into common parlance meaning "hypothesis" and I literally hate it so much.

Azzu , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

That’s just what the bots would want us to think!

LegalAction , in TIL the UK’s oldest joke is a crude riddle that features in the Exeter Codex and dates back to the 10th Century AD - What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked bef...

That’s surely not true for a number of reasons. The UK wasn’t a thing, and modern English wasn’t a thing. Beowulf has a fair bit of jokes in it, and that’s some 200 years earlier, in Old English, than this thing.

Hell, I’m pretty sure Plato’s Symposium starts out with a three word pun. That’s Greek and not English of course, but the idea of picking out an earliest joke is just ridiculous.

DreamySweet , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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More info: forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-intern…

TheKingBee , (edited ) in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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I think there’s also an adjunct to this that a lot of the internet is locked in discord and other unindexed or searchable locations. Just dead knowledge never to be seen again.

dedale , in TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content
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It's not just a theory. Anyone who've seen internet before 2015 knows the difference.

An unforeseeable and unfortunate side effect of humans interacting daily with bots masquerading as humans is that we mimic them.

And that we lose our ability to see humanity in others. Being flooded with machines who cannot understand or be touched, influenced, which whom we cannot empathize changed the way we see our fellow humans.

I don't think there's any coming back from that. Hopefully there's a way forward, now that AI's aren't a big secret anymore.

borkcorkedforks ,

It was far more tinfoil a few years ago. Especially when the "bots" were far more likely to just be people paid to post things from a script. Back then there just wasn't much evidence of the tech being that good. Like human made content on YouTube has a noticable difference from generated content and that generated content probably still had some human help.

It has more legs today with chatgpt or similar tech. It clearly been used for pumping out crap articles and videos or being used for automating the early steps in scamming. There are even a few AI generated influencers and a few chatgpt based things designed to simulate a relationship.

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