Tbf phones grew bigger at one point.
Actually the display always grew bigger and the rest of it always grew smaller and at some point, the sum grew bigger
TVs might be an even better example
I don’t think so. They never shrank which makes them an even worse example for the meme or what do you mean?
Right now I’m sitting next to 2 TVs. One 34’’ CRT and an OLED with 4 times the screen area. The CRT weights 7 times more
Donno why I didn’t think about the volume and weight but only about the front area
When the screens started getting good enough to watch porn on, the size trend reversed.
Poorly thought out government policy caused cars to get bigger, not over consumption. Over consumption is a problem with tech too.
What I find the most funny and ironic personally is the fact that the old BMW looks like it has a lot more space for passengers than the new oversized one.
Probably has less structure to the frame, smaller crumple zones, and probably no airbags in the pillars.
The post is only misguided because we can see the same effect in the latest smartphones. I fucking miss the time when it fit into my pocket.
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Safety standards caused passenger cars to get larger more than anything else (trucks got bigger because of weird fuel economy regulations).
Roll back safety standards and we can have small cars again. It’s probably worth the amount of excess deaths it will create, but someone should do a study.
Dpn’t forget the fact that most car safety only applies to people in the car. For others it may or may not make it in fact less safe.
Safety standards is the stated reason, but the actual reason is that weight is unregulated and can always be increased in pursuit of any more profitable dimension. If weight was the taxable dimension, we’d live in a much better world.
Were already at an all-time high of vehicle related deaths. We’d actually probably see a decrease in fatalities if we made cars smaller.
Smaller cars still exist though?
TL:DR; meme bad because they all suck equally.
This meme is bad because what you’re doing is false equivalence. Your claim about thr first two is very wrong. Those “fat” laptops were superior to the metal turd we buy today. I’d honestly consider buying an old Thinkpad X220 because of how irritated I am at this point. Those bulky dumb-phones are sturdier than the silicon paperweight, and they all come in 6 inches, which is too big for my tiny fingers - but no worries, I can buy a cheap Chinese Android phone, root it with a custom ROM and be done with it. And moderns cars, well, just fuck them for being bad and ruining the landscape with concrete jungles.
I mean, you do need to fit into one of those
