He didn't say, “What if customers had to log in to discover that we serve mozzarella sticks?” He said “What if customers had to log in to discover how much we're going to charge them for mozzarella sticks?” Dynamic pricing.
There's a restaurant in Brussels where there is no menu: the owner comes to the table and tells you what they have. The "Buiten Verwachting" in Boutersem has its menu on a blackboard, because you get what was fresh at the market that day. These are restaurants I do.
My chest freezer was my mum's and I inherited it when she passed in 2009. I'd helped fetch it when she bought it secondhand from someone in Harrogate, using the van of a friend who ran an engineering company when I was 14. This year, it has been in our family's possession for 50 years and it doesn't know it ever left the old country. I pray every time I need to switch it on, so there is, I have to admit, a cloud connection.
yeah the dynamic pricing this is peak cringe. i just watched a hacker on youtube that figured out a way to change the prices using bluetooth of those dynamic price tags. he got 8000 bucks worth of stuff for a grand. lol
But seriously, we got used to thinking that asking for our e-mail was simply a ruse to send us "occasional offers". We can always decline occasional offers, or direct them to junk.
But now, that's less "it". Our identity is used not just to market stuff to us, but to determine how much it is we will pay for it. And I'm not entirely sure how "No, thank you" translates into a price the next time something's offered. iPhone is the access point to the world? Well, it is, but it's also the world's access point to you.
Just think, I was born in 1950 and I have seen the world around me change so drastically.Some things are better, but some things weren’t even thought about back then.My Grandchildren know more about phones than I do.
Dynamic pricing is really fun when you are buying Airplane tickets.. refresh and you had another 100 bucks. :) a bidding war.. IN THEORY ;) for that seat. uh huh.. so the CRAZY red head was giving out unscheduled stop information .. more on that too of the Southwest Flight.. turned out to be true.. in all my years of flying never happened before. :) well I need to go. :) get a battery
I don't fly - as a matter of principle. It's the same principle as applies to rock concerts, and it has nothing to do with dynamic pricing, but rather with being treated like cattle. Plus I think it's bad for the air. But I love air crash vids.
A few years back, cherries came in at over 18 euros a kilo. I baulked. But others didn't, clearly. The price stayed 18 euros, and they ate cherries and I didn't. Not that I'm proud of it, but I'm poor enough that I have to be wary what I buy. So I eat bananas (as long as they're not Chiquita) because they go down in price, and the odd treat of soft fruit. I hone my wants to my budget. But many people set their sights on the given product or service, and decide that, come what may, they must have it. I cannot understand fellow Scotsmen who incurred debt in order to travel to Boston to just be in the same city as their football team, without actually watching them at the park. Or those in the betting industry who support the notion of using a credit card to lay a wager: incurring debt in order to incur debt, in effect.
The price of a family pack of Doritos had to rise to $8.50 before people started to say - "This is an elite product and I will now buy the competition." I sometimes wonder whether they would shell out $8.50 for a bag of crisps if there were NO competition to Doritos. European distributor Carrefour just stopped stocking all Pepsico products, because the arrant price gouging was getting to the point of making them a laughing stock. Problem is that people say to themselves "I can afford it (even by incurring debt), therefore I want it," without ever addressing the question of whether they NEED it.
I am like you in that if the price goes up for something beyond my comfort or wallet, I do without. I wondered too about all those fans that travelled to see the FIFA Cup and how they could afford it. It's beyond me how people just through money away.
Ah Lilly Rose, just imagine how crazyx1000 will be when you are a grandmother. I’m a very old grandmother called memes by my now college students whom I absolutely adore. Life for me is now one disaster after another. My oldest son corrects all my “mistakes” on my phone or iPad at least once a day.
OMG, yesterday morning I spent two hours trying to get to a live person at Xfinity. Later their AI texted me to ask how my experience was. In the afternoon, I was notified that I could no longer just use direct deposit with my HOA. I would have to pay through some other group with a new account and password. I also gave up yesterday on trying to cancel some Amazon subscriptions. At 7 am today, I’m loading up with coffee before I try once again to deal with Prudential. I’ll probably have to decide which childhood friend was my favorite or explain that I don’t have a nickname. It’s all a full- time job.
all of the run around, just to get a human being on the phone! it's maddening! our credit card recently got the expiration date updated. we've had this card and number for a long time. but this time, my hubby got our old number again and I, got a new number. I always memorize my number, so changing it really irritates me. I guess they are wanting to track my purchases away from his. Nope, not going to happen. we called the company in charge to complain, but alas the people who watch over the card are not the ones we need to talk to. Ugh...so I keep using 'our' number online because they don't know who is using it and I use my other card for purchases offline.
Someone's new smart trashcan wanted his email address and paid subscription to open itself whenever he needs to take the trash out. What twilight zone fuquery is this?
I was a that parent that set off out with my kids to go shopping, school or to our caravan with NO TECH it was 12 years of happy living. Our kids grew up without a device in their hand, they actually played out on bikes, climes trees (one broke her wrist in the process) they got excited when the new Argos catalogue came out circling what they wanted for Christmas.
I feel we have lost something that was genuine, what memories are parents making with their kids today if the child’s world is on a screen?
Sunday’s were the best, I’d feed the kiddo’s then sit to read my newspaper front to back that was my treat then I’d start the Sunday roast, we always sat at the table for our Sunday dinners (no tv allowed) before bath time me & my husband would either play a board game with the kids or watch a film we rented from the video/dvd shop where the kids got to pick a film & of coarse the sweets they wanted to eat while watching. We all looked forward to a family Sunday, I look at families I know nowadays & it’s like most have lost the genuine connection 😢 I’ve noticed it’s only poor families who aren’t tied to the household tech, their kids still play out, the parents go on walks with them they’re the ones still living like we did because they can’t afford a PS5 for each child, a tv in every room the best phones, ultra fast internet to run everything as well as streaming films to every room of the house.
Question is how is all this tech going to affect the next generation? I think we have been shown in films & series where it’s going & no I don’t think they were warning us they were introducing us to be ready for it.
Two slot toasters were created for a reason. One smartphone in each slot, push the button down and badda bing badda boom just like that your smartphone becomes toast. 😁
Can't we relate!?! And don't forget, dear Lily-Rose, your many friends and fans out here somewhere in the blue (some even that pray for you and WW) are right here with you. God knows!
The Great News is this wackiness is crashing-down; not upon us but upon 'them', as we and the entire unified world reaches the first-ever Global Saeculum. Yep! God's Heavenly Clock is one 'click' from MIDNIGHT!
No, not The End, but the brand New Beginning the Apostle Paul referred to as, "The Fullness of Time" in Ephesians 1:8-10. Read it and weep, for JOY!
Stay precious in His Sight and ours, Lily-Rose, and KNOW that both you and WW are "Loved with an Everlasting Neverending Love" that no technology nor toaster will ever change.♡♡♡
And once again, everything digital and everything app soon becomes everything micropayments.
So-called "modern monetary theory" kinda believes that the state (and everyone else) trying to extort your hard-earned tokens on every step is what gives the "money" value (no, seriously. "Money has value because you have to pay taxes" is their selling point.). And at this point, there isn't much difference between taxes and other unavoidable payments anymore.
I dunno, I prefer things that possess value by themselves.
That happened when I was in a Hospital garage.. Somehow the TICKET I got from the Garage.. told the door to open. I was like wut? that was in the VA hospital center.. how did it communicate with the gate? very late a night.. we thought we were stuck in the Garage.. for the night. a lady used her "ticket/card" to open the gate.
Oof. The subtle temptations (to certain dishonest people) of these systems seems like entrapment . .like MartlaW has a camera in your face . . but that camera is a distraction really. The important cameras are above you recording every movement. (Maybe everyone knows this by now.) The parking lot that doesn't have a gate and lets people who are less honest drive on through. . . I wonder what would have happened to the driver if the passenger's phone had not "auto paid" (without her consent). No doubt the license plate readers are there, she would have been billed or worse.
We have lived off grid in our gracefully aging 35 ft sailboat for 15 years. We will be moving off this fall and living on land for at least the next year. Maybe for good. We will see how it goes.
We rented a small place in the middle of farm country in the Midwest. It’s pretty cheap. We don’t own a TV and won’t be buying one. Our kitchen look out over a cornfield. No parking meters in town. There’s not much traffic. But what little there is annoys me.
Oh. And the fridge is at least 10 years old. Praise the Lord.
Great writing. I’ll read it to my wife and she will laugh because if there is one single thing she hates, it technology.
mind if i picked your brain about boat life? that is kinda what i wanna do. i keep seeing decent sailboats on craigslist for around 10 grand and i figure buying the boat and fixing it up is way cheaper than living in a motel…
I am pushing back and saying I don’t have an email address to everyone. And I am just saying it’s because of spam but it’s really just because I am annoyed and sick of telling people http://stuff.At the pet store the other day I literally said can I just flat out pay you for this dog treat, and she paused and was Shocked but said ok. And so did the girl at Claire’s. I am done. I don’t want to share any other details at all ever again with shops. It’s so dumb.
Loved it Lily 👍 I remember as a kid going to the store with my father and we saw calculators for sale for the first time, $100. That was a lot of money back then. My dad looked at it and said “I wish I could have one. It would make my life so much easier with balancing my checkbook.” Person who worked there came up and said, “Would you like one? They’re really marvelous. Pretty soon everyone will own one.” I thought to myself no way, that’s never going to happen! No look at our society 🙄 all glued to tech of all kinds. Even the hat, reads your thoughts… https://www.wired.com/story/this-beanie-is-designed-to-read-your-thoughts/ “California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.” Who needs a QVC code when you can just put a hat on, right? 😫
I live off-grid, maka and store solar power, my reefer is a 10 year old unit that runs on propane and I get one country station on the radio.
Guess I'm kinda of a failure.
No, not a failure. It sounds dreamy compared to digital tyranny
According to Cheech and Chong I thought reefers ran on smoke. 😂
Burning gasses make my reefer fun, I mean, run.
YOU ROCK!
All the resistors rock. So, defintely, you, also f@ckin' kick @ss!!!
I love your sense of humour, and what you say is unfortunately so true.
Just wait until the smart fridge would says you are a dumb human lol.
I for one thnk you're living my dream.
Get a dog.
Doesn’t sound like you’re a failure to me
He didn't say, “What if customers had to log in to discover that we serve mozzarella sticks?” He said “What if customers had to log in to discover how much we're going to charge them for mozzarella sticks?” Dynamic pricing.
There's a restaurant in Brussels where there is no menu: the owner comes to the table and tells you what they have. The "Buiten Verwachting" in Boutersem has its menu on a blackboard, because you get what was fresh at the market that day. These are restaurants I do.
My chest freezer was my mum's and I inherited it when she passed in 2009. I'd helped fetch it when she bought it secondhand from someone in Harrogate, using the van of a friend who ran an engineering company when I was 14. This year, it has been in our family's possession for 50 years and it doesn't know it ever left the old country. I pray every time I need to switch it on, so there is, I have to admit, a cloud connection.
yeah the dynamic pricing this is peak cringe. i just watched a hacker on youtube that figured out a way to change the prices using bluetooth of those dynamic price tags. he got 8000 bucks worth of stuff for a grand. lol
But seriously, we got used to thinking that asking for our e-mail was simply a ruse to send us "occasional offers". We can always decline occasional offers, or direct them to junk.
But now, that's less "it". Our identity is used not just to market stuff to us, but to determine how much it is we will pay for it. And I'm not entirely sure how "No, thank you" translates into a price the next time something's offered. iPhone is the access point to the world? Well, it is, but it's also the world's access point to you.
I use a lot of cash.
I have no credit cards. And my vehicles were paid for in cash. I own my land and my dog obeys me, occasionally.
mostly cash here too. intentionally.
No one will ever know you were there.
Kinda the point. When I camp, I Leave No Trace.
You should be looking for me in Tierra del Fuego.
suits me fine :-)
Except flock cameras - and they will be uninstalled ( hopefully)
Yes. You still need to sneak in through the sewers for that.
Just think, I was born in 1950 and I have seen the world around me change so drastically.Some things are better, but some things weren’t even thought about back then.My Grandchildren know more about phones than I do.
Dynamic pricing is really fun when you are buying Airplane tickets.. refresh and you had another 100 bucks. :) a bidding war.. IN THEORY ;) for that seat. uh huh.. so the CRAZY red head was giving out unscheduled stop information .. more on that too of the Southwest Flight.. turned out to be true.. in all my years of flying never happened before. :) well I need to go. :) get a battery
I don't fly - as a matter of principle. It's the same principle as applies to rock concerts, and it has nothing to do with dynamic pricing, but rather with being treated like cattle. Plus I think it's bad for the air. But I love air crash vids.
A few years back, cherries came in at over 18 euros a kilo. I baulked. But others didn't, clearly. The price stayed 18 euros, and they ate cherries and I didn't. Not that I'm proud of it, but I'm poor enough that I have to be wary what I buy. So I eat bananas (as long as they're not Chiquita) because they go down in price, and the odd treat of soft fruit. I hone my wants to my budget. But many people set their sights on the given product or service, and decide that, come what may, they must have it. I cannot understand fellow Scotsmen who incurred debt in order to travel to Boston to just be in the same city as their football team, without actually watching them at the park. Or those in the betting industry who support the notion of using a credit card to lay a wager: incurring debt in order to incur debt, in effect.
The price of a family pack of Doritos had to rise to $8.50 before people started to say - "This is an elite product and I will now buy the competition." I sometimes wonder whether they would shell out $8.50 for a bag of crisps if there were NO competition to Doritos. European distributor Carrefour just stopped stocking all Pepsico products, because the arrant price gouging was getting to the point of making them a laughing stock. Problem is that people say to themselves "I can afford it (even by incurring debt), therefore I want it," without ever addressing the question of whether they NEED it.
I am like you in that if the price goes up for something beyond my comfort or wallet, I do without. I wondered too about all those fans that travelled to see the FIFA Cup and how they could afford it. It's beyond me how people just through money away.
Exquisite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSwx9LZtD8
Ah Lilly Rose, just imagine how crazyx1000 will be when you are a grandmother. I’m a very old grandmother called memes by my now college students whom I absolutely adore. Life for me is now one disaster after another. My oldest son corrects all my “mistakes” on my phone or iPad at least once a day.
OMG, yesterday morning I spent two hours trying to get to a live person at Xfinity. Later their AI texted me to ask how my experience was. In the afternoon, I was notified that I could no longer just use direct deposit with my HOA. I would have to pay through some other group with a new account and password. I also gave up yesterday on trying to cancel some Amazon subscriptions. At 7 am today, I’m loading up with coffee before I try once again to deal with Prudential. I’ll probably have to decide which childhood friend was my favorite or explain that I don’t have a nickname. It’s all a full- time job.
all of the run around, just to get a human being on the phone! it's maddening! our credit card recently got the expiration date updated. we've had this card and number for a long time. but this time, my hubby got our old number again and I, got a new number. I always memorize my number, so changing it really irritates me. I guess they are wanting to track my purchases away from his. Nope, not going to happen. we called the company in charge to complain, but alas the people who watch over the card are not the ones we need to talk to. Ugh...so I keep using 'our' number online because they don't know who is using it and I use my other card for purchases offline.
Joann - and in my world - HoA project managers & the Board of Directors are some of the most tyrannical & nasty people you will ever meet.
;)
I've been through the parking meter thing! Love this article Lily🤪
Someone's new smart trashcan wanted his email address and paid subscription to open itself whenever he needs to take the trash out. What twilight zone fuquery is this?
I was a that parent that set off out with my kids to go shopping, school or to our caravan with NO TECH it was 12 years of happy living. Our kids grew up without a device in their hand, they actually played out on bikes, climes trees (one broke her wrist in the process) they got excited when the new Argos catalogue came out circling what they wanted for Christmas.
I feel we have lost something that was genuine, what memories are parents making with their kids today if the child’s world is on a screen?
Sunday’s were the best, I’d feed the kiddo’s then sit to read my newspaper front to back that was my treat then I’d start the Sunday roast, we always sat at the table for our Sunday dinners (no tv allowed) before bath time me & my husband would either play a board game with the kids or watch a film we rented from the video/dvd shop where the kids got to pick a film & of coarse the sweets they wanted to eat while watching. We all looked forward to a family Sunday, I look at families I know nowadays & it’s like most have lost the genuine connection 😢 I’ve noticed it’s only poor families who aren’t tied to the household tech, their kids still play out, the parents go on walks with them they’re the ones still living like we did because they can’t afford a PS5 for each child, a tv in every room the best phones, ultra fast internet to run everything as well as streaming films to every room of the house.
Question is how is all this tech going to affect the next generation? I think we have been shown in films & series where it’s going & no I don’t think they were warning us they were introducing us to be ready for it.
Two slot toasters were created for a reason. One smartphone in each slot, push the button down and badda bing badda boom just like that your smartphone becomes toast. 😁
Nice, but my toaster tongs on a grill plate over the stove burner.
Can't we relate!?! And don't forget, dear Lily-Rose, your many friends and fans out here somewhere in the blue (some even that pray for you and WW) are right here with you. God knows!
The Great News is this wackiness is crashing-down; not upon us but upon 'them', as we and the entire unified world reaches the first-ever Global Saeculum. Yep! God's Heavenly Clock is one 'click' from MIDNIGHT!
No, not The End, but the brand New Beginning the Apostle Paul referred to as, "The Fullness of Time" in Ephesians 1:8-10. Read it and weep, for JOY!
Stay precious in His Sight and ours, Lily-Rose, and KNOW that both you and WW are "Loved with an Everlasting Neverending Love" that no technology nor toaster will ever change.♡♡♡
P.S. For all the "Show me your sources" humans, my favorite is @blkshpbible (Black Sheep Bible), "Midnight Is Here."
And once again, everything digital and everything app soon becomes everything micropayments.
So-called "modern monetary theory" kinda believes that the state (and everyone else) trying to extort your hard-earned tokens on every step is what gives the "money" value (no, seriously. "Money has value because you have to pay taxes" is their selling point.). And at this point, there isn't much difference between taxes and other unavoidable payments anymore.
I dunno, I prefer things that possess value by themselves.
On the subject of parking, I saw this yesterday, which takes the inherently dystopian concept of digital surveillance to a whole new level
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2078109967362543927/video/1?s=46
That happened when I was in a Hospital garage.. Somehow the TICKET I got from the Garage.. told the door to open. I was like wut? that was in the VA hospital center.. how did it communicate with the gate? very late a night.. we thought we were stuck in the Garage.. for the night. a lady used her "ticket/card" to open the gate.
Oof. The subtle temptations (to certain dishonest people) of these systems seems like entrapment . .like MartlaW has a camera in your face . . but that camera is a distraction really. The important cameras are above you recording every movement. (Maybe everyone knows this by now.) The parking lot that doesn't have a gate and lets people who are less honest drive on through. . . I wonder what would have happened to the driver if the passenger's phone had not "auto paid" (without her consent). No doubt the license plate readers are there, she would have been billed or worse.
I park at the nearby church
We have lived off grid in our gracefully aging 35 ft sailboat for 15 years. We will be moving off this fall and living on land for at least the next year. Maybe for good. We will see how it goes.
We rented a small place in the middle of farm country in the Midwest. It’s pretty cheap. We don’t own a TV and won’t be buying one. Our kitchen look out over a cornfield. No parking meters in town. There’s not much traffic. But what little there is annoys me.
Oh. And the fridge is at least 10 years old. Praise the Lord.
Great writing. I’ll read it to my wife and she will laugh because if there is one single thing she hates, it technology.
mind if i picked your brain about boat life? that is kinda what i wanna do. i keep seeing decent sailboats on craigslist for around 10 grand and i figure buying the boat and fixing it up is way cheaper than living in a motel…
No not at all. Gail and I have been sailing together since 1980. Bought our first boat in 1982. Been aboard pretty much full time since 2011.
eric@svblessings.com
Send me a note if you like. We can talk as well. I’ll email you my info.
Eric
I get really sick of having to remember all the user names and passwords to these unnecessary accounts.
It’s all about information mining. It all goes to giant data storage centers that will soon be running on nuclear power.
I miss the old days too!
I crack up every time I read your article’s! You are an amazing writer!
I am pushing back and saying I don’t have an email address to everyone. And I am just saying it’s because of spam but it’s really just because I am annoyed and sick of telling people http://stuff.At the pet store the other day I literally said can I just flat out pay you for this dog treat, and she paused and was Shocked but said ok. And so did the girl at Claire’s. I am done. I don’t want to share any other details at all ever again with shops. It’s so dumb.
Loved it Lily 👍 I remember as a kid going to the store with my father and we saw calculators for sale for the first time, $100. That was a lot of money back then. My dad looked at it and said “I wish I could have one. It would make my life so much easier with balancing my checkbook.” Person who worked there came up and said, “Would you like one? They’re really marvelous. Pretty soon everyone will own one.” I thought to myself no way, that’s never going to happen! No look at our society 🙄 all glued to tech of all kinds. Even the hat, reads your thoughts… https://www.wired.com/story/this-beanie-is-designed-to-read-your-thoughts/ “California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.” Who needs a QVC code when you can just put a hat on, right? 😫