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  • This wouldn’t end world hunger. This is what would happen long before the robot even reaches the floor of the UN:

    • A sandwich company would buy the robot, its design, and its patent, for an incredible amount of money.
    • Making a whole robot is redundant, so they’ll refactor the robot to a significantly more scaled down sandwich printing machine.
    • The sandwiches will be sold for a very high price, much higher than a regular sandwich, as it can be sold as “ethical”; no animals killed for the meat, no land use for the bread and vegetables. Carbon neutral.
    • Company makes HUGE profit margins. World hunger stays the same.

    To end world hunger you don’t need to invent infinite food. You need to end capitalism.










  • I remember watching this TV fashion contest thing quite a long time ago. The host of this contest was this old, wrinkly French lady who was a long time veteran in women’s fashion (apparently).

    So in the episode the upstart designers had to create… I think… Three fashionable pants for women. One of the contestants created all three of her pants with pockets, and I think one of them had some excessive pockets.

    She was dismissed by the host immediately, before the model even wore any of the pants. Basically the episode was already decided, as that contestant got eliminated on the spot.

    The reason? Well, that veteran fashion designer stated something along the lines of; “The female form is the most beautiful and powerful thing we have, and we can’t have pockets ruin that. It’s for women to accessorise with a handbag”.

    This stuck with me for all these years, because I was so revulsed when I saw that. What a load of bullshit. A load of pretentious garbage.