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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> On 2024-11-20 08:01, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> … female voice: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> OK Mister, you wanted to come here. You did. Now get outta me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> That sorta thing, extra points for funny dual-interpretable sexual <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> innuendo. Sure you will offend the delicate college student crowd, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> but the little old ladies will love it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Joking aside, one more job I can think of that robotaxis wiil create <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> is somebody to clean the vomit and urine out of the robocab after <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> drunks puke or pee in the cab on the way home from barhopping. …<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>> Stuart LaForge<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I thought of that. A robocab could be build with disposable pads not attached to the seats, like those things a prole would take to the football stadium. The computer screen and seat pads come out, the rest of it can be cleaned with a high pressure hose. We have those devices that go into an internet refrigerator which can tell when you are out of something: those could be in there informing the company if some drunken prole has barfed or spilled his seed onboard, it comes in, opens its doors, robocar wash takes over.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>There’s already a song for it. Substitute a few words from the Rose Royce song and you get: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Eeeeelon Musk will surely get rich<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>With the rest of us digging a ditch.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ain’t nobody there to meet<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>No movie star to Indian Chief<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>No work at the robocar wash,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>No work at the robocar wash yea,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Come on, sing it with me, robocar wash…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="https://genius.com/Rose-royce-car-wash-lyrics">https://genius.com/Rose-royce-car-wash-lyrics</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>WOWsers, this song is nearly 50 years old, oh I am such a geezer:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rose+royce+song+car+wash&t=chromentp&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeB0aROCl530">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rose+royce+song+car+wash&t=chromentp&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeB0aROCl530</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>There is no point denying the obvious: we need to think of new low-skill jobs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Fun aside, I have seen this video a dozen times but I just noticed that last scene. The photo of John F. Kennedy, next to it Martin Luther King. He is hanging a photo of… Richard Pryor. {8^D<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>