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  • I have a 20 year old coworker I constantly ask probing questions about what it’s like never having not had the internet. It’s so weird.

    I mean crushing boredom isn’t a thing anymore because of it, which is cool and I can acknowledge that. But there’s also something very dystopian about it and clearly it’s having pretty serious negative effects on society, politics in particular. So yeah…not really sure how to feel about it.

    I just went camping and put the goddamn thing in a bag for 4 days and forgot about it. Friends and I only brought the internet up once during the trip to joke that we hoped when we got back into reception we’d find out he had died. It’s funny cuz I don’t even need to say who.


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    I mean the proof is in the pudding.

    We can all see how the conservative “pull yourself up by your boostraps trickle down” ideology is (isn’t) working for the majority of our society, including the vast majority of conservatives.

    I’m not some tree hugging ultra-lib. But the bottom line is capitalism simply isn’t sustainable. It causes rampant pollution and an ever-widening wealth gap between the haves and have nots. We haven’t even been utilizing capitalism that long in the big picture and it’s already absolutely catastrophic for our environment. It’s just not sustainable. It needs to be HEAVILY regulated if it keeps existing at all. And one thing I know for absolute certain is you get the opposite of regulation when you hire conservatives/regressives.