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What if the entire internet gets reduced to a footnote? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by ashinadash@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Inspired by the post about the hieroglyphs the one dude hoped would last forever.

People always talk about future historians being confused at memes and old forums, but surely a lot of catastrophic events could just wipe out the internet wholesale, right? If something REALLY COOL posadist-nuke like a giant meteor wiped out everybody, what if aliens came along and were deeply confused that our culture seems to end randomly in the mid 2010s, subsumed by an internet whose only remaining shreds are references in big scientific studies?

The history textbooks on our dumb asses would surely read "and the humans all talked into screens and used "hyper links" to share information and opinions. Very little is known about this obscure human ritual as no evidence can be found of its existence beyond scattered references in ancient texts contemporary to its existence."

Thinkin bout the impermanence of the internet rn

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s a phrase that’s been living inside my head lately, a brain parasite, some burrowing larva covered in thorns and barbs of words.

Nice to see RFK Jr on Substack!!!

Nihilism is so eyerolling and juvenile Idk. Like

Meet The Edgy Influencers Making Holocaust Denial Hip Again. Are we in trouble? Maybe, but even trouble is ending.

Oh yeah must be nice being a cishet neurotypical white guy in suburban america, fucking idiot. Nobody else has the safety to do nihilism, really. Of course you have the privilege not to give a fuck about fascism.

It even seems to be killing off sex, replacing it with more cheap, synthetic ersatz. Our most basic biological drives simply wither in its cold blue light.

wut Oh no, not this guy again! Shinzo Abe motherfucker!!!

All those pouty nineteen-year-old lowercase nymphets, so fluent in their borrowed boredom, flatly reciting don’t just choke me i want someone to cut off my entire head.

Idk man sounds kinda based? Don't kinkshame bro.

And it’s true that the internet has changed some things: mostly, it’s helped break apart the cohesive working-class communities that produce a strong left, and turned them into vague swarms of monads.

Yeah, guy?

This article sucks soz, dude is pure cringe. He's not even entirely wrong about the death of stuff on the internet, the thrust of the article isn't bad just a techbro ass...

It’s Uber for dogs! It’s Uber for dogshit! It’s picking up a fresh, creamy pile of dogshit with your bare hands—on your phone!

However this kinda fucks lmao.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

turned them into vague swarms of monads.

I bet you $100 this dude has never read Leibniz