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You said it, not me! But yes, it certainly seems like you are all of these things. Apologies for the "old timer" thing.
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No offense taken. After all I tend to lovingly think of you as a "Lieutenant Clueless" and I would call you "Captain Clueless" but that's my youngest grandson's title. I let you in on a secret, he designs apps and dreams about electric cars and wearable smart tech. Unfortunately his driver license is UBER and he still lives with his parents and borrows money from me because my son cut him off.
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Digitizing porn in the 80's and early 90's lead to the explosion of porn and porn business we have today, created lots of new wealth and even social networks like GFY, that you and I are talking on today. And of course the underlying technology of the Internet has made the world much better. We connect with each other, we do business, we see the world in ways that were impossible just 25 years ago.
How some people have used this technology on the other hand, is evil. That I will of course give you. Don't blame the tech, blame the people who use it for nastiness.
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I've been in the adult industry since the late 60s and porn since the early 70s.
If you've ever had the pleasure of spending more than $500k to produce a smut film and attended the "actual real life premier" of that movie in a real cinema.... Trust me you wouldn't say the Industry has been made better by the Internet.
Just the same,
Some of us old timers we're stealing, bribing, threatening, hustling and false promising everyone connected with ARPANET to help them transmit pirated smut from one state to another and to avoid getting arrested on sexual tourism charges. I'm not sure if anyone succeeded but I do remember being hit up for some hook-ups.
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Umm... you do have a smartphone, right? Google, your phone company and their advertisers already know where you are, where you hang out, etc.
Exchanging privacy for convenience is topic best suited for another debate, but yeah, this happened a long time ago. No smart-car necessary for that.
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I'm not fucking stupid enough to register that shit in my real name and my family calls me on my land line.
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Didn't people say the same thing about computers back in the 50's? And 60's? etc? Computers have replaced alot of people but new jobs have also been created in the process.
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Nope I can honestly say we discuss the bomb instead of computers.
Also no new jobs were created by automation... It was market diversification and demand for cheap throw away crap that created new jobs. The problem is that today's automation is saturating the market's needs and no one is producing anything different.
Plus governments and corporations (aka. The Establishment) have gone absolutely hog fucking stupid with surveillance. The Establishment has always seen us as necessary evil to create wealth and power. It's also paranoid that one day we might not need them so they use technology to keep us drunk on fear and hope with the occasional brainwashing dream displayed on a screen.
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Haha um, no. Horses are too slow, and consume way too much energy to get from here to there, and produce too much waste and require way too much maintenance. Buggy's are uncomfortable and ugly and won't go that far before requiring maintenance too (like a new wheel). I get your point, but come on.
Peace.
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Shit is natural and mucking out a stall not only keeps you physically fit but it's also very social as it allows you to bond with a living creature.
On the other hand despite you and I having this conversation I'm still all alone in my home when I type out my responses and this computer is a toxic environmental nightmare produced by slave labor