• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    “You now have access to the collective knowledge of the entire world.”

    “Nah, let me see the boobies!”

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      A surprising amount of technological development is for pornography. Video-casettes won out because pornography used them over laserdisc or betamax.

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        it might be the pessimist in me, or it might be the reality we’re living in

        but if sheer access to Wikipedia cured you out of being a cultist- i don’t think there’d be that many trump supporters

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          There’s a difference between a cultist living thru the growth of the Internet and social media. It’s another when you have people completely cut off from the vast majority of the world and information for the last few decades.