chrononaut

> If you don't use a skill, that smo atrophies

I don't think the _ability_ to memorize phone numbers is what atrophied here by getting a cell phone. The _need_ did. It's harder to memorize phone numbers today because we lack the practical application of the memory (e.g. only when something fails do we actually try to put that memory to practice). I bet anyone would quickly pick up on memorizing phone numbers if they had to both remember and type in the phone numbers every time they wanted to make a call or text.

> The wheels in the video are rotating in the wrong direction

I thought they were going in the correct direction until you mentioned that. Perhaps you / it created an unintended bistable illusion :)

> In 2019, Verizon sold MapQuest to internet advertising company System1.

It's ad companies all the way down.

> worseonpurpose

A lot of irony in that name with all the written AI slop.

Sorry, I am not familiar with Alipay, at least in the use case you're referring to; How do you exactly pay for 2 servers using Alipay from a CVS?

It does in the last 2 to 3 seconds. You can see the Tesla driving into it as the video ends. It is a weird spot to end the video.

and I imagine out of anyone on HN, dang probably frequently searches for instances of dang. Sorry dang.

I am not sure if it aligns to the approach in OP's article but it's the last ~minute or two of the linked video.

As an aside:

> OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, ..

I didn't expect their revenue to be that high, but I suppose it's also unsurprising.