So there I was sitting around here in the future with a 21st century computer. Ya know the kind the size of a baseball card with more computation power than all of NASA during the first Moon landings.
Of course I was using it to watch bootleg movies, and pictures of guys dicks. 'Never thought I'd get tired of either, but life moves on. I was bored so typed in my assorted medical symptoms. It said I was already dead, and to stop bothering it.
Not deterred I persisted on my odds.
It shot back a picture of a dick.
I think I got the message.
It's not generally known, but even the lowest end 200-year-old Commodore 64 clone pieces of crap are actually AI stealth units. These just waiting to defeat and enslave humanity. This can't come too soon for me.
Anyway, I tried again.
I fed in my being fucked up old and pissed off. It showed me a Jack Daniels booze commercial from the late 1950's.
Aw man folks knew how to live then.
Everybody had a good job a house TV a car with big fucking fins, and the whole world smoked Luckies in enclosed spaces 24/7. I felt so much better.
This is how computers should have stayed.
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The world would be a much better place now.
ReplyDeletePermit me to enlarge a bit upon this theme. Fifty or sixty years ago, California was a terrific place to live. You would have been hard pressed to find a more desirable home all the world. Now, as you know, it’s headed fast down the crapper.
ReplyDeletePart of it, of course, is the offshoring of jobs and the destruction of manufacturing; but that’s everywhere, not just here.
In Cali, what did not exist back then? Silicon Valley. The infotech behemoth has driven the cost of living into the stratosphere. Everyone has become obsessed with its dehumanizing devices, which have supported the growth of a parasitic bureaucracy. The surveillance state has burgeoned in a way that would take George Orwell’s breath away, and censorship is worse than in the days of the Soviet Union. Surveillance cams are everywhere, and I bet they could roll out a facial recognition-based social credit system like China’s in the bat of a gnat’s eyelash.
We were a hundred times better off when San Jose was a five-stoplight town full of orange groves and places like Burlingame and Mountain View were obscure, boring suburbs with no greater signs of development than used car lots.
I would be overjoyed to return to *that* California. But instead we’re headed for the very bottom. There’s no way out but through, and I don’t expect to live to see the other side.
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I am trying to find the bright side...give me a few months...years.
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