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Soen Eber

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I saw pretty much the whole of the modern internet in 1979, and I described it for my High School senior class. I drew a Venn diagram of high-speed data, modern (2020-era) CPU and graphic processors, and high speed data transmission, predicting multi-player immersive games, online scheduling & video conferences, online books and videos, and cloud computing. I didn't say anything about porn, however. (Yes, I'd already figured out rule 34, but...high school, right?).

I mean, it was so obvious. Anyone who'd seen both the moon landing and 2001:A Space Oddysey at the age of 9 and grew up on Star Trek knew it was coming. That, and I saw something similar in school, a time-share system that went out to all high schools.

Too bad I didn't have any money to invest in it as I saw it being pieced together. I definitely would have gone in on Amazon and backbone infrastructure providers like Cisco.
 
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I saw pretty much the whole of the modern internet in 1979, and I described it for my High School senior class. I drew a Venn diagram of high-speed data, modern (2020-era) CPU and graphic processors, and high speed data transmission, predicting multi-player immersive games, online scheduling & video conferences, online books and videos, and cloud computing. I didn't say anything about porn, however. (Yes, I'd already figured out rule 34, but...high school, right?).

I mean, it was so obvious. Anyone who'd seen both the moon landing and 2001:A Space Oddysey at the age of 9 and grew up on Star Trek knew it was coming. That, and I saw something similar in school, a time-share system that went out to all high schools.

Too bad I didn't have any money to invest in it as I saw it being pieced together. I definitely would have gone in on Amazon and backbone infrastructure providers like Cisco.
Add in growing up on Heinlein, its more I feel like we're way behind the curve.....
 
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Can I declare myself a soverign citizen of Second Life and get free sex for life?
I fear it might be limited to pixel sex with animesh blow up dolls in adult sandboxes... but I'd say there is a definitive "maybe" to both
 

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Can I declare myself a soverign citizen of Second Life and get free sex for life?
Make sure to ask newbs where the sex place is. Yes, I actually got asked that question as a mentor once.
 
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I wear a mask and don’t worry too much about those who don’t. If you’re worried for yourself and entourage, stay away from those who don’t. Yes it would be nice if everyone in close quarters (metro, in stores, etc.) would wear them but I think that those who refuse for tantrum reasons are just looking for attention. They still argue on FB : p

Others have other reasons, it doesn’t bother me.
In many places they are breaking the law. Sorry, I will not tell other people they can break the law and put others in danger, even by not saying something.
 
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The world of "Have Spacesuit will Travel" seems relatively normal, for a world envisaged pre-personal-computer.
 
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The same 'interesting' as the Chinese curse 'May you live in interesting times'.
I do like the phrase 'specialization is for insects'. My career is computers. Not some field of it, although my job title disagrees, just computers. I know some webdev, some programming, some user support, some networking, some infosec ... you get the idea. Jack of all trades, master of none and have no problem not being the expert of a speck of a speck of a speck.
 

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This seems mostly inspired by "Bunnings Karen", who is a national meme now.

Siggy would have loved this! I wish we could write an open letter like that to these asshole militias and "sovereign citizens" here in the US.

My favorite part:
All this effort to try and be the big man on campus is not impressing anyone. Why don’t you take up whittling or scrapbooking? Go make something instead of spending all your time bleating about how the law doesn’t apply to you and that you only answer to God. God probably doesn’t exist and you are definitely not special. You are just annoying. And loud.

Your incessant whinging. The way you relish in abusing award wage staff at supermarkets and Bunnings. Proudly making videos of yourself annoying cops that are tasked with enforcing mask orders. This year is hard enough already without your bullshit. It’s childish. Your stunts aren’t clever. They are embarrassing. Grow the fuck up.

The ideas of freedom you rattle on about don’t exist here. I have a million tiny violins playing for you. You’re stuck in this shithole country that you thought you loved where the constitution does fuck all to enable your shitty behaviour. Move to the States. They have tons of established ‘freedoms’ that you can use to justify being a serial pest. And they have cool guns.
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That's what they are here too, "serial pests".
 

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Pest: "I'm not covering my mouth!!!"
Me: "Cover your damned dirty mouth! It's a sexual organ and should be covered in public like any other!"
Pest: "What? My mouth can't get pregnant(or get anyone pregnant)."
Me: "Same goes for your asshole, but you gotta keep that covered too!"
Pest: "But my mouth has perfectly acceptable non-sexual functions!"
Me: "And the same goes for your other naughty bits too. So what?"
Pest: "You're being ridiculous!"
Me: "I'm being ridiculous?! You're the one with your obscene mouth flapping indecently in public! Are you attempting to get me sexually aroused!? This is sexual harassment!!!"
 

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This seems mostly inspired by "Bunnings Karen", who is a national meme now.

“I can have you sued, personally, for discriminating against me as a woman.”

what. the. actuall. fuck.

where the hell do they get these idiotic arguments?