• Trekman10@sh.itjust.works
      224·
      10 months ago

      Neurodivergent people everywhere appreciated how it made them go to being 5 bucks at a gas station instead of 20 + shipping

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        54·
        10 months ago

        I never said I hated them. They’re just absolutely useless is all. Ball bearings and other rotary bearings actually serve a purpose. Hell, even Lego blocks tend to serve more of a purpose than fidget spinners.

        Literally amongst humanity’s most useless contraptions.

        • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
          72·
          10 months ago

          But what is purpose? Video games serve no purpose, flavoured drinks serve no purpose, pets serve no purpose… Unless entertainment and distraction is a purpose, in which case fidget spinners have a purpose too.

          • over_clox@lemmy.world
            47·
            10 months ago

            Video games challenge the mind, flavored drinks might at least contain some essential minerals (like Gatorade), dogs warn and/or protect against intruders, cats chase away and/or eat rats, and even pet fish can be used to filter hydroponic gardening water.

            What’s ya point? Fidget spinners are totally useless.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    54·
    10 months ago

    The craze for self-driving cars, especially if the current machine trend is anything to go by. Two issues with it I can’t help but understand is that driving needs a human factor and that if the freedom of being in the driver seat wasn’t an issue, we’d be significantly closer to desiring a system of long distance personal rails instead of cars. I’m all for metasystemic road reform.

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      10 months ago

      Building that amount of steel infrastructure really isn’t as easy as you trainbrain idealists seem to think, we really shouldn’t destroy the planets climate just to make a huge grid of expensive to maintain tracks when there are far better options - such as fleet managed self driving cars.

      If course trains are great for medium length journeys on high volume routes, commuting for example but they’re not a one size fits all solution

      • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Both options are pretty destructive to the environment (though I was thinking more monorail-esque than trains), but roads and cars I would think do more negatives, from the road construction to the CO2 to the car accidents. And it might not even be rails that are the best option, I just know our traffic system is horrendous.

        • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          We need mixed mode integrated transport networks, trains and trams are great in many situations but they’re not ideal everywhere. Current car culture is pretty terrible but self driving electric cars have huge efficiency advantages over other means of transport especially when fleet managed.

          I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to rely on buses and they have a lot of downsides, one thing interesting is the bus Island and bus desert effect - buses end up pointing to corporate shopping areas where retail rents go up because there’s more foot traffic, nice little independent shops get priced out and relocate to areas where no one can go because there’s no buses… of course you’ll say just have more buses but the logistics get really messy, you need everyone to be going to the same places or you’re running empty buses. Trains are even harder to determine routes for because you either need it to be able to handle 100% of use cases or to also have a road network.

          We absolutely need more rapid mass transit like trains, self drive fleet managed electric cars could make that possible even in rural areas