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maxrandb

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3. Fascinating story

Reply to Celerity (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:56 PM

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Technology and information had a chance to bring a new age of enlightenment. Then we put it in the hands of Fuckerberg, Bozos, Eloon and Elliscum.

Today's social media makes you imagine/realize what the world would be like if the Nazis had been the first to develop the atomic bomb.

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