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Is this satire??

• allears 1y ago
  Um, yeah, but I'm still trying to figure out if it's funny.
  • fuzzfactor 1y ago
    This was amusing: >Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Actually it went like that in reverse. They didn't really mass-market microwaves in the 1970's until they were capable of cooking a whole turkey faster than ever, and then developed free microwave cooking lessons well-attended at appliance stores. Where they demonstrated how to cook a whole Thanksgiving dinner, live. You can't make this up. Smelled wonderful :) There was a very prevalent attitude that the emerging microwave could be nothing less than a major appliance, and there was not yet a concept for launching anything that was not thought capable of replacing a conventional oven right away. They weighed about 75 pounds and were naturally big enough to hold a turkey. This is the kind of microwave ovens that Dire Straits was lamenting about delivering at the time, before they got better gigs, with less stress on the hands & fingers. Don't ask me how I know . . .
  • jzb 1y ago
    If you didn't laugh, I would say "not funny". I didn't find it funny, myself, but I did find it to be a pretty good takedown. It's not funny (to me, anyway) because "humor equals tragedy plus time". It'll be funny in 10 years if/when we're not living in an AI slop hellscape and being constantly bombarded with AI marketing/having it shoved down our collective throats. Right now it's just "ugh, so true".
  • cpach 1y ago
    IMHO it was hilarious :)
• TheAlchemist 1y ago
  It's satire describing the current state of AI hype. Pretty accurate in my opinion (although not very funny).
  • MBCook 1y ago
    Really? I found it absolutely hilarious.