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“View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth. https://t.co/QljN2VnL1O”

We are throwing money, time and energy out the window for fun and fame. So that one bored individual can have a laugh.

And let’s not forget that SpaceX is also funded by the US citizens: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html.

#waste #spacex #shame #musk #tesla

A virtual reality game to reduce stress.

You’re having a bad day because you have a shitty boss or a pointless job? It’s okay, just do 30 minutes of VR and you’ll be fine. Now you’re less stressed and you can go on your robot life.

What is the best way to keep people buying iPhones? Do not give them the time to think! If you’re feeling bad, take some meds or play some VR but do not think about quitting your job or living a different life!

Instead of finding the reason why people have burnouts, let’s just prevent the burnout from happening. It’s like taking pain relief medication when you have a broken bone. It’s not gonna do anything but you’ll feel better.

A VR game represents a huge amount of money, work and energy just for a cover up. And they want to actually sell this thing! Like it’s a viable and thoughtfully considered solution to stress. It is the equivalent of using a chainsaw to chop a carrot.

#AnAppForEverything #VR #stress #health #VREverywhere #burnout

On top, the former Parisian bicycle sharing system.

Below is the new system.

Pretty much the same thing, right? The bikes are pretty much the same and are almost as heavy as before. As a user, your experience is unlikely to change much.

Nonetheless, the new system is handled by a new operator that had to remove 20 000 bikes from 1400 stations [1]. 20 000 new bikes have to be made and installed, 20 000 have to be removed and recycled.

We let millions of euros go to waste, we generate tons and tons of waste, just so that a few persons can make millions.

A beautiful allegory of modern society, of innovation and of fake progress.

[1] http://www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/transports/le-nouveau-velib-plus-leger-mais-difficile-a-trouver-02-01-2018-7480539.php

#waste #gaspillage #paris #bicycle #vélib #shame #honte

Why have health care when you can have an APP? Seriously, this is so cool!

Now, you can know how bad it’s gonna be. Whether you can afford medical care or not, at least now you can feel bad about it.

Hey, maybe you can buy an insurance to the very people that tells you you might be at risk, right? Wouldn’t that be swell?

What a wonderful world we live in.

#medical #app #technology #health #avc #AnAppForEverything #healthcare #stroke

But who needs that??

Please.

For 2018.

Less features.

#lessfeaturesplease

Translation:

Not choosing green electricity when it is at the same price is like saying: species that may go extinct? Never mind, we will find some other ones.

Seriously, green electricity? How do you do that? You suck electricity from plants? Maybe you should start using technology for something else than two colors bullshit ads.

For fuck sake, what is wrong with you? You burn the planet to tell us to stop burning the planet.

Yeah, OK, I guess they tried using the whole screen for once, and not for ads!

But if it’s just to display PDF files, please, just print the damn thing, no one can see a 2mm letter.

#anlcdforeverything

HD monitors cause I don’t want aliasing on those stations’ names guys.

Seriously, if we had to find the percentage of pixels used for actually displaying something of value we would have to kill ourselves for being the most stupid animal on the planet.

#anlcdforeverything