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They didn't show all the shut-ins and weirdos![:marseydisagree: :marseydisagree:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydisagree.webp)
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Have you ever wanted to know who identifies as a nonbinary transgender demisexual queerfluid transracial indigenous person of noncolor who masturbates to plastic horse figurines?
You will.
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And the company that'll bring it to you? AT&T.
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Should've replaced the cereal with estradiol pills.
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Bardfinn
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once this “internet” thing takes off, it will save us time and resources so that we'll be able to get outside the house, enjoy nature, and spend time with friends and family! Will absolutely help the environment and the economy too.
Also sounds really secure, so fraud will no longer be an issue!
Future seems so bright
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tfw no cyberpunk dystopia with governments replaced by corporations, nanomachine bio-upgrades, and high speed pizza delivery from The Deliverator
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Only AT&T
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That sounds like the present 3 years ago.
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Where are my cyber teeth then![:marseyitsover: :marseyitsover:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyitsover.webp)
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Five years away.
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@BWC already wrote in @BWC's copypasta that the Cyberpunk body modification/cybernetic enhancements dystopia is the trans lives matter world of today.
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that's so wildly different than renewing documents or sending an email wtf
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Gotta relate to the housewife demographic lol
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Have you ever changed your gender from your mom's bull's basement? You WILL
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Have you ever bullied your classmates to suicide from your bedroom?
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WOKE BULLSHIT
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Truth is, the West was over from the start![:chuditsover: :chuditsover:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/chuditsover.webp)
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It's not woke because old style ham-fisted tokenism diversity actually got BIPOCs with average to downright good facial aesthetics.
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Hair looks like a touque
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Everything they predicted came true
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neighbor i ain't ever see a video payphone
but they probably didn't think that video phones would get so small and portable we'd just carry them with us everywhere we go lol
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Yeah we skippepd the video
payphone and went straight to facetime
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"Video call from unrecognized caller" would only be someone's peepee 99% of the time
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True, only the fact that AT&T wasn't really responsible for most/all of these innovations
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Kind of impressive how close they got.
Anybody follow the US guy with the Chinese sounding name who makes future predictions and releases books on it whose newest book keeps getting delayed because apparently his predictions end up being outdated by the time he writes them down in his draft?
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Let me know if you find out his name![:marseynotes: :marseynotes:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseynotes.webp)
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Ray Kurzweil.
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That sounds Chinese?
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Kurzweil Kimchi ya know.
I used to mistake him for this guy.
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That's Mr. Miyagi
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No, not that guy. That's clearly a picture of Francis Fukuyama
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Nostradamus?
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No Ray Kurzweil.
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Have you ever watched a mexican man get his face demolished with a chainsaw in high definition? All on a gay cat website? You will.
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MRW
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These are kino
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I know, right?![:marseyjump: :marseyjump:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyjump.webp)
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It burns me up that we never got the monochrome CRT version of web2.0
Idk if youre on tiktok but one guy there is repairing an 80s computerized VHS vending machine
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I don't use it, but what's his account name?
I'm a sucker for tinkering with retro electronics and gaming systems, so I'm always looking to see other's ideas![:marseyowow: :marseyowow:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyowow.webp)
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@spacetimejunction
Look at this frickin thing
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Holy shit, that's magnificent
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There's also this one 80s aesthetic tiktok that does 80s telnet versions of modern apps, I'll @ you if i find them again
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found the incel
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Let the slots decide, lose I'm an incel
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is bot
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atta girl
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