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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who understand Ironing's utility as a status symbol, and those who make robots to automate things serving no purpose other than to perpetuate the aesthetic signaling goods in the face of time precarity.https://t.co/5tWVBthxVO
Laundromats are perhaps named so off concept of automats (A way to replace unpaid labor from 1897)Coin operated mechanical self-service clothes washing as linchpin of modern society? But also a rent seeking parasite due to high cost of initial capital.https://t.co/v4vyhQX9l8
"Laundromats are a time sink that social enterprise could hack. Users travel to reach them, wait for a machine to become available, and then watch their laundry for fear of theft."https://t.co/VoTyRdIcTN
I can't use laundromats. It turned out that much agony of skin conditions during my childhood were due to not being able to afford a washing machine in our house. It is not just my desire to undermine soap brand's effect on society that makes me hate them.https://t.co/YzHsOHa2GT
"You're rooting for clothes, when you really get down to it..."https://t.co/mMxIlzsad5
"But how can you be so sure?Because it's signals Jerry, It's signals.... 🤦♂️"https://t.co/ma4xuKYaMj
"No! No! No! Don't interrupt the cycle.The machine is working. It, It know's what it's doing..."https://t.co/2rLzcbzrBJ
"Thus, in order to manufacture and sell washing appliances at an affordable price, the producers are squeezed to design and build malfunctioning junk that "saves the planet" while the consumers of these products are saddled with green-induced landfill"https://t.co/YScitf4qRa
Unlicensed repair people coming into your home and fixing things. The nerve.https://t.co/Ul05Z93zPt
Illegal car repairs?https://t.co/HfnYgJvENW