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Hard Fork

Our 2024 Predictions + Jenny Slate Answers Your Hard Questions!

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.55.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Plus, a very special Hard Fork holiday surprise.

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0:00.0

Oh my god this sweater is like made out of the worst so I got like

0:04.5

Wish.coms so hard on this. What is that? Okay first of all you're using Wish

0:08.8

com is a verb what's not even mean? Okay, so you know on like wish.com

0:11.8

when like you order something that looks like a nice like sequined dress or something and like it arrives and it's like a...

0:17.0

I've never actually ordered a sequined dress off at wish.com.

0:19.0

Kevin, how did yours actually look when it arrived?

0:21.0

I'm just saying this is like a thing that people report.

0:23.5

They like order from Wish.com, something looks very nice

0:26.1

and then it shows up and it's like a piece of garbage.

0:28.1

So this, when I ordered this on Amazon, it looks like a sweater.

0:32.4

It looked woven. It looked very

0:34.0

luxurious. I thought it's gonna be very comfortable even though it's hideous. It

0:37.5

shows up it's like it's like one of those sweatsuits that like wrestlers wear to

0:41.2

make weight like the day before the meet like it's just polyester. like Is that right? I think it was like 13, but you're close.

0:53.0

For 13, I think you probably were wrong to expect it would be hand-woven by artisans.

0:58.0

I would say that's a $13 sweatshirt if I've ever seen one.

1:02.8

I'm Kevin Rousa, Tech Collins, The New York Times.

1:09.8

I'm Casey Noon from Platformer, and this is a special holiday edition of Hard Fork.

1:13.7

This week on the show, we look back at our predictions for this year and tell you our predictions

1:18.4

for next. And then comedian, actor, and writer Jenny Sla joins us to answer your hardest questions about technology. So, the the Casey, happy holidays, happy holidays to you Kevin. I can't believe we're here at the end of

1:51.0

another year of Hartford. What a year.

1:53.0

So much to celebrate, so much to recover from.

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