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AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

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Re: AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

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Post by solarkraft »

drewmol wrote: post #42
thaumasiotes wrote: post #20

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> I believe they shifted to putting it in your car in driveway Huh? How is that supposed to help? People aren't less likely to steal a package out of your car than out of your driveway.

Yes they are. Lack of package visibility, unclear accessiblity (vehicle locks), potential of car alarms, requirement for unlawful entry, increased likelihood of occupents associated with vehicle presence, expanded threat for forensic discovery, fear of spontaneous Tesla combustion and vehicle interiors that smell of soiled diapers and spoiled milk are the biggest deterrents.

> fear of spontaneous Tesla combustion

heh.

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Post by organsnyder »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #49
jetrink wrote: post #40

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People don't comment on it out of politeness, but they do notice. Then, consciously and unconsciously, they draw negative inferences about you. They might suspect that you are not well organized or that you are lazy. You are free to be unbothered by that fact, but their reaction to your appearance is outside your control. It is a slight headwind in your life that makes your interactions with people more difficult tha…

Surround yourself with better, less shallow people.

Everyone makes snap judgments based on first impressions—the best people are just more self-aware to be able to recognize this in themselves and counteract it.

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Post by dagw »

mcbutterbunz wrote: post #8
sonnyblarney wrote: post #2

Joking aside, a truly admirable goal. My god it would help everyone alive.

Even the manual feed robot from Foldimate would be a huge time save. Still insanely difficult, but would be absolutely amazing.

Personally a machine that could iron and hang my shirts would save me a lot more time than a machine that could fold my t-shirts

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Post by bunderbunder »

fifnir wrote: post #76
tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote: post #70

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Buy the same socks in batches. If they are all the same color/shade you won’t need to spend time matching socks. Dump them into a drawer, and every time you need two socks, you grab two, done. You could also extend the not-washing period if you buy more clothes. The more you have, the longer until you run out of clothes to wear.

I thought i was doing this by only getting black socks. Now I have a drawer full of very subtly different black socks

Just lean into this one and buy brightly colored and patterned socks instead.

That way, you're obviously always wearing mismatched socks, and it becomes an obviously deliberate (if eccentric) fashion choice instead of a repeated sartorial goof-up.

Also, you get to wear socks that are more fun.

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Post by return1 »

notacoward wrote: post #100
belorn wrote: post #97

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If someone want their clothes folded they fold them when picking them up from the clean pile. Not going to comment what parents with children should do, at what ages and so on. That is just begging to get into a discussion where everyone just disagree with each other.

> If someone want their clothes folded they fold them when picking them up from the clean pile It's still work, isn't it? When it gets done is irrelevant. My larger point is that your "it's not that hard" is only true in a very narrow set of circumstances that I'm skeptical exist even for you. Many problems seem simple if you constrain the variables tightly enough. But in the real world, not everyone dresses exclusiv…

> I'm skeptical exist even for you.

> work in jobs where looking like a hobo is acceptable.

> or trying to deceive others.

looks like someone needs to work on their argumentation

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Post by belorn »

notacoward wrote: post #100
belorn wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone want their clothes folded they fold them when picking them up from the clean pile. Not going to comment what parents with children should do, at what ages and so on. That is just begging to get into a discussion where everyone just disagree with each other.

> If someone want their clothes folded they fold them when picking them up from the clean pile It's still work, isn't it? When it gets done is irrelevant. My larger point is that your "it's not that hard" is only true in a very narrow set of circumstances that I'm skeptical exist even for you. Many problems seem simple if you constrain the variables tightly enough. But in the real world, not everyone dresses exclusiv…

Similar to people in other comments, I do not normally fold my clothes. It is my choice and thus optional, which was my point. How much work a person spend washing depending on optional choices.

> work in jobs where looking like a hobo is acceptable

That is a bit offensive. Not everyone is a model and earn money depending on their appearance. There exist a quite large middle ground between hobo and model.

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Post by Frondo »

belorn wrote: post #90
DanBC wrote: post #86

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No, for many people "washing" is a euphemism for gathering clothing from various rooms, sorting it into different loads (hot wash, cool wash, whites and colours), loading the machine with clothing, loading detergent (and buying the detergent), pressing the button (while selecting a program that doesn't destroy the clothing), taking the clothing out of the machine and putting it in the dryer or hanging it on the cloth…

Almost every single step of those are optional depending on the people in the household. For us everyone is responsible to bring their clothes to the wash baskets and sort based on temperature. Very few modern clothing require cool wash, and in my household we don't own any. Very few white clothes and discoloration from washing whites with colors is so minimal with modern clothing/washing machines so we don't bother.…

This is really getting into the weeds here, but my partner and I (hetero couple in our 30s) do laundry maybe once a week, but it is a pretty time-intensive process because half of all of our clothes are cold-wash, half of those are line-dry, and following the directions like that significantly extends how long they last and stay brightly colored.

It takes a couple of hours a week, and usually falls to me since I work from home.

Saying some steps are "optional" requires compromises that probably a lot of people are unwilling to make; so not necessarily a meaningful way to call things optional.

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