Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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[Reynard]

Yes. Basically, they promised what amounts to a revolution in energy tech, and we got it in information tech instead.

Funny story: the rise of information technology and the relatively static nature of energy technology are going to combine to end civilization!

 

[Maxperson]

Because he was having trouble finding a parking spot. The poor thing.

Wow.

On the day of 9-11 I was working sales at a department store. I saw the buildings on fire, but not the collapse before I went to work. While I was at work the store was pretty much empty. That is until a woman walked in and said, "Don't you just love when things like this happen? I have the store all to myself." Ugh!

 

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Everyone wants the good ending but no one wants to deal with the crap before it.

 

[Scribe]

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All it takes is being a straight up sociopath. Simple enough.

 

[Umbran]

Funny story: the rise of information technology and the relatively static nature of energy technology are going to combine to end civilization!

Yeah, well, it goes without saying - we'd be living in a utopia except that so many of us are dumb@sses.

 

[Umbran]

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All it takes is being a straight up sociopath. Simple enough.

Don't know what you are talking about. Don't wanna know.
But the word "sociopath" is going the way of "triggered" and "OCD" - being misused so much that it becomes difficult to speak about the actual problem it was created to describe.

 

[Scribe]

Don't know what you are talking about. Don't wanna know.
But the word "sociopath" is going the way of "triggered" and "OCD" - being misused so much that it becomes difficult to speak about the actual problem it was created to describe.

Yeah, I thought as much, so looked up the definition first, and it stands.

 

[Maxperson]

I wish, out of anything I saw on screen growing up, that I could own an actual, 'real' working, lightsaber.

Maybe one doesnt like Star Wars (?!) maybe one doesnt like violence at all (??!) but a real lightsaber that works?

Man what a cool thing that would be to have.

Instead, we got cellphones...

 

[Thomas Shey]

Weren't the folks around @Ryujin age promised jetpacks and flying cars?

I never really believed even if the technology had become practical that flying cars would be a significant thing. I mean, can you imagine given how people are on ground-bound cars, can you imagine that occurring over people's houses?

Naw. Was never going to happen for non-technological reasons.