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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • I mean i guess you must be pretty competent with an abacus then in case you ever get stuck somewhere where they wont let you ise a calculator? Your argument that people should spend time becoming proficient with inferior tools just because they are tools doesn’t really hold up. If something gets the job done better and more efficiently it makes the other tools obsolete. Thats the nature of technology.




  • How does someone’s entire conception of video games still involve quarters in (after) 2023. Thats honestly insane to me. Like how do you let that person create any type of art, let alone a tv show based off of a video game, if they have that little awareness of the world around them. Like ehst did this guy do before this. “We want you to make a commercial for our new operating system. ‘Oh computers, thats easy. Most computers are pretty simple. You feed in a punch card and you can make the computer do things. MacOS XV changed all that, it doesnt even need punch cards.’”’


  • I mean at that point its a pathological need to be ‘better’/different from everybody else. Poor people can travel the world, poor people can take a booze cruise even if they don’t own the yacht, poor people can even go to space if they train and study enough. If poor people are pedos its a whole lot harder for them to get away with it and they definitely can’t have parties or tell anyone about it. So the exclusivity, plus the fact that its become ritualized and used for blackmail purposes mean that once you’ve been pushed to cross that line once, you keep crossing it, and pushing others to cross it with you.