I bought some on clearance about a decade ago, my wife thought I was crazy buying 20 bulbs, I gave 1/4 of them away and I've still not run out.

I think the self tightening shoes would have been doable. But we still didn't get those.

"Quick and painless, or slow and horrible?"

The DOE, Energy Star, others

I definitely thought we’d have Ar glasses by now

Nike actually did make those. they sell them.

Those thin transparent screens you see in sci fi movies.

Only after the nuclear winter

Technically we have modular body parts. They are pretty damn good too. Just not good enough that people would replace them because they are vetter.

It's hard to synthesize the animal suffering that people crave

Yeah, one of the cool things about the Classic Rock era was how real artists would program their albums for flow. The Beatles were really the first to do that, and they completely changed music industry sales from a single format to an album format, which was far more profitable for both artists, and record companies, which only encouraged more people to become musicians, and record companies to make more albums.

So, yeah, when you get some special edition, and they start inserting alternate or demo or live versions INTO the original program, it totally fucks up the artist's intentions.

Luckily most of the time, they give us a nicely remastered version of the original on a disc alone, and all the other stuff on a separate disc.

But that's only if you use CDs, which more and more people are going back to, fortunately. I never left, I still have my original CD collection, about 5000 of them. Don't get excited I was in the music biz for years, a LOT of them were free, but still good. Got a killer discount, too, basically manufacturing cost, so about $3 a CD, back in the 90s. I would buy the entire catalogue of a band like Led Zeppelin, or Prince, or Talking Heads, or the Eagles, etc.

As for music from before recordings, I don't even like to think about it. Many of the great composers, like Bach, or Mozart, or Beethoven were known to be astonishing virtuoso keyboard players, who could improvise incredibly complex music on the spot. At a concert, the guest of honor, usually some local VIP, would supply a tune, and they would play it on the piano, and then build an entire work out of thin air in front of the audience. Can you imagine hearing a recording of that?

Computer phones. As in I just connect to screen and keyboard, and phone is my main desktop.

Cheaper EVs.

Working lab fusion.

There is very good 21st century music, which wouldn't have come had it not been for 20th century music.

Thinking igorrr, emergence of gqom (that's very pop for gqom), post rock emerged in the 20th and has a reminiscence of tripped out 70s rock bands, but bands like thee silver mount zion are also very early 21st century.

It's also not surprising we are hitting a barrier after electroacoustic music sort of enlarged the field a lot, the last major innovations were sunths, electronic soundFX and DAWs and these are all 20th century changes. The 20th century saw more innovation than the previous centuries. Fusion of styles, while older, has given interesting merges in the 21st century as well.

But the 20th century will be hard to surpass, pretty much as by the end of the 19th century classical music was running circles.

EVs are pretty cheap now. How cheap did you think?

Compassion, empathy, socialism.

As cheap as gasoline cars

this

Slightly cheaper than fuel by 10% for similar cars (including country of origin)

There are a few that you can buy, they just aren't cheap. KAT Walk is a usable omni-"treadmill", FreeAim has their motorized shoes. Again, not cheap, but still within the budget of a motivated enthusiast.

There's just really not a very useful reason outside of "because we can", so it hasn't really been a priority. Still, that's kinda the point of the Artemis program, so we're getting there.

if it ain't broke

Ironic choice of words

Usefulness is no fun. Those 80s and 90s attitudes wouldn't worry about something like that. We'd have done it just show off and/or to keep the Soviets from doing it first. Don't tell us we have rocks at home, I want space rocks. I want a bucket full of ice from the rings of Saturn. I want a slab of something that got melted by Venus. That stuff is cool.

I hope they do something fun with Artemis. It doesn't feel like most people are excited for space anymore and that bums me out.

For All Mankind is coming back in a few days, so that will have to do for now.

That is objectively a silly thing to say.

A deliberate sprinkling of irony helps me cope with existence

I've tried a lot and have not found any of it very appetizing.

Most has a very rubbery texture as soon as it cools slightly.

Very unpleasant.

I'd rather just not have any meat than have it.

But it you have had the good stuff, please send me your recommendations.

I'm not a vegan but I do believe that eating meat from an animal that suffered it's whole life surely passes on to the person who consumed it.

I don't eat meat that often but when I do I always buy free range.

I tell people, even if you can't go vegetarian or vegan (I'm one of those) you can reduce your consumption of animal products. Be more mindful of wasting animal products and always buy free range when possible.

If everyone scales back a bit that would make a huge difference.

I refer to - Not meat from animals.

You and me both buddy, although "sprinkling" somewhat understates my general approach.

Eh, the 80s and 90s were a marked shift towards usefulness. Gotta maximize shareholder value, dontcha know.

From my experience, what tends to get messed up is the internal wiring. The actual leds will continue working fine, but cheap/shitty wiring will make the lamp stop working

Phones that can be opened up and have internals replaced, like desktop computers

More of a pet peeve, but I thought IT would be way more stable by now. Everything has so many bugs and it's just accepted. I've grown pessimistic about new tech and I would prefer to wait a couple years before getting it. It's not novel if it's broken.

Side thought, I thought we would have hologram phone calls by now.

That was clearly not an engineer.

So like the Fairphone?

That's still weak compared to what a phone could really do though.

Android 16 brings that desktop functionality

I was hoping that by now technology and education would have helped all the humans to realize how to take care of each other and work together for a better tomorrow.

Instead we got this fucking mess that's going on right now all around the world.

Like the Motorola Atrix

https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-does-the-motorola-atrix-4g-lapdock-compare-with-a-laptop/?edge_reader_page

Too ahead of its time.

I interpreted this as real meat tissue grown synthetically rather that minced ingredients that mimics meat.

If you're talking about modern pop, I completely agree. But there's so much amazing music coming out every year, way better than anything before it imo. My guess is if you really do want to find great new music, then you're not exploring enough. Or maybe you're happy with what you already know.

That one is still exclusive to a few select countries and won't ship to mine :/

I'll cut you a deal: I'll hold onto your data for you—including data you never even asked me to hold—and you only have to pay me for forever. Good?

I am talking about Modern Pop, and Rock.

A lot of the problem is that most men grow up listening to rap, and women grow up listening to divas, and if they don't listen to those genres, then they listen to country. So many young musicians are growing up listening to mediocre quality music, and they tend to slip into genres that are somewhat less competitive, artistically, like Rap or Country.

That leaves fewer musicians to carry on the Classic Rock tradition. Besides, what's the point? The fact is, the Classic Rock era turned out the best popular music of all time. That sound like a wild statement on its face, but it really is true. What band emerging now seems like it could be the next Beatles, or Rolling Stones, or Led Zeppelin, or Pink Floyd? I can't think of a band that threatened to have that kind of influence since Nirvana.

There have been a few worthy artists, like Adele, and a few truly great singers, like Ariana Grande, but there are no other superstar Rock artists whose talents are undeniable, like Michael Jackson, or Prince.

Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Adele, and Ariana Grande are about all I can think of, and that is over about 30 years. Compare that with the 60s or 70s, or even the 80s, when artists were establishing MASSIVE careers that would last decades, on a monthly basis. At the end of the year, you were listening to a dozen classic albums by bands you hadn't heard of a year ago, and another dozen classic albums by your favorite bands. GREAT music was just pouring out, and it became popular not because of an enormous marketing campaign, but because the music was great, and the word spread. Hardly any of Pink Floyd's music was ever on the radio, and yet they established a career and a catalogue that sells to this day. Taylor Swift seems huge, but back in the day, she would have been outsold by a dozen other artists.

So why even bother re-inventing the wheel? There is already about 50 years of AMAZING music that young people today have never heard. I always get downvoted when I say this, but they are from people who don't know what they are missing, and think today's music is perfectly acceptable.

The music of the 60s and 70s inspired my to pursue a life and career in music. Today's music would not have inspired me at all.

It's really that. All that technology and we still didn't solve the most primitive and basic problems in this world's community.

Wasn't that something proposed in windows phone? I can't remember and am too lazy to look it up

Self driving cars. Ten years ago I said, "we'll have this worked out in 10 years". What a fool I was.