koenigsaurus
koenigsaurus t1_j6fw8sn wrote
Reply to TIL that modern store mannequins can now record video, sound and automatically analyze demographic data and customers reactions to products from facial expressions analysis by human8264829264
I would just like to be able to exist in public without my every movement analyzed and sold, holy fuck
koenigsaurus t1_j415ccs wrote
Reply to comment by loquacious706 in Fyre (2019) The infamous rock festival conceived by an overly ambitious egotistical entrepreneur (CC) [01:25:28] by ghostmrchicken
It was pretty wild that they released pretty much simultaneously, and both have a unique perspective that adds to the story. I watched them back to back while sick at home with the flu and it was a little comforting to watch all these people having a worse time than I was at the time.
koenigsaurus t1_iy6utcx wrote
Reply to I worked for a slaughterhouse in the Midwest. You think you're buying beef at the grocery store, but you're wrong. by GTripp14
Damn, good thing I just started transitioning to a veg only diet.
koenigsaurus t1_je08yw0 wrote
Reply to comment by Designer-Arugula-419 in TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God. by Khysamgathys
Yep. This practice is still very much alive in modern Western culture, it’s just got different names now because monotheism is pretty strict about the definition of a god.