Egregoros

Siri has problems beyond the LLM, it activates only when you don't want it, and when you try to use it, it bumbles like an idiot. Post-Steve-Jobs Apple ☠️

Firewood almost by definition requires a certain amount of manual labor, but wheat planting & harvest is 100% automated, and #2 straw is basically a byproduct.

Europeans in general do a lot more inventing of labor-saving tech. The best splitter right now is a computerized electric thing that basically looks at your rounds as they feed through on the belt and it decided how far to advance before sending the ram for each split. And that's an Italian machine.

Also European labor is expensive because payroll taxes are roughly equal to the paycheck itself. The US is really focused on cheap labor, so they end up not adopting a lot of stuff like that.

I never understood the concept of slavery. You still have to manage the people, and they hate their job so management is 10x harder, and you're making them do shit that the Japanese probably already have a robot for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Okay yeah, like pre-1940, it kind of made economic sense, but now it's just dumb every single time.

Mining asteroids would be way easier to do with robots. You don't even need to carry air and food with you, they run on solar.