necessity the mother of invention

or boredom?

Necessity eliminates boredom.

@whimsical you're so wise. It's amazing.

Laziness. Weren't people lazy they would not be motivated to ease their lives with automations and inventions.

@retoor yeah we totally buy it, that you and @whimsical are different people

@SidTheITGuy I thought so 😁

Arguably reliable high-speed internet infrastructure was largely created in response to demand for porn. Without that, cloud computing wouldn't have been a thing. GPUs were created in response to people playing games.

So the mother of most of the major inventions in tech, at least indirectly, was a fat hermit playing quake in between furtive bouts of onanism.

I'm never bored, there's so many things to do in this world

For example tomorrow I'm gonna undress myself in front of my country's prime minister

And yes I will be covered in mayonaise

According to my Sociology classes, the mother of invention is a culmination of factors, among which political choices.

Boredom is like thirst, it's the manifestation of a necessity. Being entertained is a necessity, not in the level of hydration, but still.

Why !both? I have found some great / interesting issues w/ the help of each of those factors.