wqnm
4d ago
Fun little marketing anecdote about this. There's a new-ish bar/club in my city, walked by a few times after it opened and there was originally never more than one or two people waiting to get in on Saturday nights, if any.
A few weeks ago, they put up a big sign on the outside window about how you could use some app to pay extra to skip the long lines, along with some stanchions. Next thing you know, the place is packed and there's always a huge line to get in. Nice piece of social engineering.
I've noticed it too. Reminds me how my Grandma loved her Keurig. Me and my siblings were coming of coffee loving age in the era of specialty coffee and scoffed at the K-cups, while the lady who'd been toiling at making her own coffee for over 60 years, from before electric brewers or grinders where really a thing, through eras of war rationing, thought being able to just buy a Costco 60 pack and push a brew button was the greatest thing ever.
I think you get to a point where you have nothing left to prove and just value convivence over most other things. Enthusiasm for automation is directly proportional to how burnt out you are on doing it yourself.
I'm friends with an EMT, this is correct. It's most commonly things like tired new parents co-sleeping with newborns and accidentally smothering them, etc. Newborn babies are super fragile, and it's not always prosecution-level negligence that kills them. As burkeboi mentions below, it's especially common amongst certain demographics you would expect.
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