A Boring Dystopia

I was watching buffy and the eighth episode of the first season a demon is scanned into the computers. This is a funny time as its when people where online with dialup. All the same it had a quote I feel is apropos to the current period. Truns out that show had a bit of the simpsons precog ability:

Giles: Nonsense! I simply don't adhere to a, a knee-jerk assumption that because something is new, it's better.

Ms. Calendar: This isn't a fad, Rupert! We are creating a new society here.

Giles: A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete? In which people can be completely manipulated by technology, well, well... Thank you, I'll pass.

The children yearn for the fields

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27481481

Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.

so when having professional phone calls at work, its gotten to the point that asking 'how are you?' seems tone deaf. is it just me?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27202701

Je regarde la dernière saison de Fringe. En ce moment j'ai peur presque en permanence de ce que qu'il peut m'arriver. La dernière saison de Fringe, me rend vénère. Mais il faut Résister.