• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    “Everyone gets a computer in their pocket!”

    “Yay!”

    “Also, the computer is hooked up to the big machine that injects brain poison into your eye holes.”

    “Oh… I guess I’ll just turn the computer off from time to time.”

    “If you turn the computer off, your boss fires you.”

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      4 days ago

      And spies on you relentlessly through your pocket with multiple sensors and a constant network connection; don’t forget that.

      “I guess I’ll change the system to remove the spyware?”

      “Yeah it’s actually going to work totally differently from a PC, and be a lot harder to modify - impossible without refounding the silicon on some models.”

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      A world destroying basilisk is better than the leftists who destroyed the gaming industry!

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      You should! And learn python to participate in the effort!

      Remembering those 2010 bullshits makes me want to create my own institute to publish my own bullshits about subjects I don’t know anything about. Like it was possible in those long past years.

      Maybe singularly bros were less scary than christofascists bros… (Oh no they’re the same)

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    I can feel the High Pressure Sodium lights and Prayer Of The Refugee by Rise Against with this post. Thank you for creating 2007 content!

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    I don’t want to thank you for making me feel existential dread content, but thank you for making me feel existential dread content

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    TVs opened the floodgates for unprecedented propaganda way back then too.

    the only consistent thing here is our ruling class.

    • cathfish@lemmy.worldOP
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      They made us build the propaganda tools and we pay subscription every month for it! that’s happiness!

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    I’ll go further, it was the fucking fashion-ipod bullshit and forced itunes. Where did my mp3s go? “The computer shoved them wherever the fuck it wanted to”

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      All resistance is futile. Humans always favor the least tiring solution, and that’s always pressing a big button and letting someone or something decide for us. What kind of music we listen to, for example.

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      Oh. i thought it was “fun” like “fun” used by a kid in a 80’s horror movie. like “there’s fun things crawling under my bed” sens.

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      I’m by using it with some kind of socialisation system the whole world will be free and equal and happy, no problem.