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[–] ryan@the.coolest.zone 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's amazing how something so innocuous can provoke such a viscerally disgusted reaction in me.

Technology was a mistake. It's time to return to the wilderness.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It was a mistake to come down from the trees if you ask me. These days there's even people saying we should of stayed in the water were life was simpler.

Of course there's the total extremists who think life was better as a single celled microbe. Those people are always hard to talk to.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

We should HAVE stayed in the water. The real fringe radicals are those who defend the idea that crystals are alive. I think they're lesser lifeforms who don't deserve social security