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Posted: 7/5/2022 2:59:55 PM EDT
[#1]
Unequivocally no.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:01:41 PM EDT
[#2]
It was a better place before Social Media.......
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:13:22 PM EDT
[#3]
Haha. People have NO idea what the green revolution was, and how without it most of the earth's population would starve to death. They think technology is their cell phone. It is, but that's only a portion. In the 50s and 60s agriculture was revolutionized. Fertilizer, better growing crops. Go back to the 1940s technology wise without the Green revolution and most of the earth's population would starve.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:14:32 PM EDT
[#4]
I don’t blame technology as much as I blame the leftists (whether they are democrats or rinos)
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:18:04 PM EDT
[#5]
We should really just go back to the stone age.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:23:54 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Technology is not our problem. The 60's was a nice time almost everywhere in the United States. Abuse of technology is at issue. Electronic tracking and other nefarious things. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:24:06 PM EDT
[#7]
subjectively many old folks may nostalgically say we were better off before all that crap.
objectively almost every possible metric of humans standard of living has improved due mostly to technology. There is something to be said for the decline in healthy social activity and likely the average intelligence and mental well being of the common american and tech may be a confounding factor in that but it's really not that hard to put down the phone and do oldschool shit. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:25:47 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Go back to the 1940s technology wise without the Green revolution and most of the earth's population would starve. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:25:48 PM EDT
[#9]
Internet porn is game changer.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:26:00 PM EDT
[#10]
Yes.
Before 24 hour news, cell phones and internet, it was perfect. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:27:47 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: One thing is for sure, it was a lot simpler time. I was a freshman in high school in 1972. 50 years ago! It seems like an eternity but I remember how much simpler life was even then. really life was simpler when you were a kid? |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:36:47 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Society was A Lot better. The world, however, is a matter of perspective. There are life changing medical procedures now, that just weren't available. Yep .....now people can live 20-30-40 years longer than we could for 10's, if not 100's of thousands of years We are also essentially immune to the system of checks and balances that used to keep our population at a level that could reasonably be sustained by the planets resources...... Wanna know why we will end up eating bug protein living in pods? |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:42:38 PM EDT
[#13]
50 years ago I was 24yrs old and have to say yes, yes it was.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:47:30 PM EDT
[#14]
Shit was rough back in the day. Not civil at all
 
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:48:49 PM EDT
[#15]
Technology is not the problem, abuses of it are the issue.
Social media is but one of the symptoms. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:56:16 PM EDT
[#16]
Technology and the Information Age didn’t create idiots, it just let their voices get heard more broadly. They were always there.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 3:57:19 PM EDT
[#17]
Yes.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 4:00:12 PM EDT
[#18]
The perfect Goldilocks level of technology existed between (year you graduated HS) and (year you turned 25).
The music was also better, and the women were hotter. Probably a coincidence. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 4:00:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: objectively almost every possible metric of humans standard of living has improved due mostly to technology. This. And add Capitalism too.     And there's many more improvements. The percentage of child labor and dangerous labor is drooping. Deaths from war has had a major decline. And tech like cell phones has benefitted the 3rd world immensely, because it's allowed them to skip the costly infrastructure burden of stringing wire everywhere. As to nutjobs and weirdos... much of that has always been with us, it's just exposed by technology and the Internet. Now everyone can be heard. Pedos often used to just be quietly run out of town, because the stigma of talking about it, or even acknowledging it was so strong, that there wasn't any prosecution. Leaving them free to start all over again. Mental institutions used to keep dangerous people from harming society, but on the flipside, many harmless people with cerebral palsy, Downs, and Autism were warehoused there as well, because they weren't accepted. And even people who had nothing wrong with them were institutionalized by vindictive families, or courts that wanted to "do something" about unconventional or unpopular people, but no laws were broken. The polarization of America hasn't been this high since the Civil War, but on the upside, the monopoly of the MSM newspapers and TV networks has been broken. And they can no longer steer all Americans with a Leftist agenda hidden behind a facade of impartiality. For every drag-queen story-time at the library freak-show type of story we see, there's a dozen more enormous ways the world has improved that just get taken for granted. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 4:01:15 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, but that's from my personal perspective But, technology is good and it makes life more comfortable |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 4:02:40 PM EDT
[#21]
Some of those 'advances' have kept me from dying or physically suffering greatly.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 4:03:54 PM EDT
[#22]
Yes and no.
Social Media has been one of the biggest negatives the world has ever seen. It truly lets people show their inner asshole without any consequences. Medical advancements are a positive. Although I'm only a year in, I don't want to imagine my life with MS without modern medical treatments. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 5:26:10 PM EDT
[#23]
Darpa
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Posted: 7/5/2022 5:31:33 PM EDT
[#24]
Ted kaczynski ain't looking so crazy now.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 5:39:31 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The perfect Goldilocks level of technology existed between (year you graduated HS) and (year you turned 25). The music was also better, and the women were hotter. Probably a coincidence. Boom, headshot |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 5:39:51 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We enjoy simple old fashoned living.  There are no cordless/wireless devices in our house, there are no smart appliances, no smart phones, no microwave, no air conditioner, no cable TV service, and our only source of home heating is a wood stove. https://i.postimg.cc/SK6TGC7d/IMG-0549.jpg We cook our meals from scratch and rarely eat at restaurants. This is the quiet life we freely chose and it has nothing to do with how anyone else chooses to live. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: When phones had cords, rather that screens, were there as many progressive mentally ill people? When the totality of the world's knowledge was not at everyone's fingertips but was trustworthy, weren't more people happy? When your car didn't transmit its status, location and interior conversation, did common people care as much about political news? My view is that the worlds prosperity has only resulted in corruption, lies and mental anguish. I don't see that most people are all that happy, just distracted. We are told only what those, who will kill to stay in power, what to know and like and do. I'd like to abandon technology but modern life can't be managed without it. AI will enslave us. I figure that I'm in the last 20 or so of my total years and in a way, I hope I don't last that long. You can keep your "Boomer" accusations. We enjoy simple old fashoned living. There are no cordless/wireless devices in our house, there are no smart appliances, no smart phones, no microwave, no air conditioner, no cable TV service, and our only source of home heating is a wood stove. https://i.postimg.cc/SK6TGC7d/IMG-0549.jpg We cook our meals from scratch and rarely eat at restaurants. This is the quiet life we freely chose and it has nothing to do with how anyone else chooses to live. Smart, you are prepared in case of a cylon attack. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 5:43:05 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We enjoy simple old fashoned living. There are no cordless/wireless devices in our house, there are no smart appliances, no smart phones, no microwave, no air conditioner, no cable TV service, and our only source of home heating is a wood stove. https://i.postimg.cc/SK6TGC7d/IMG-0549.jpg We cook our meals from scratch and rarely eat at restaurants. This is the quiet life we freely chose and it has nothing to do with how anyone else chooses to live. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: When phones had cords, rather that screens, were there as many progressive mentally ill people? When the totality of the world's knowledge was not at everyone's fingertips but was trustworthy, weren't more people happy? When your car didn't transmit its status, location and interior conversation, did common people care as much about political news? My view is that the worlds prosperity has only resulted in corruption, lies and mental anguish. I don't see that most people are all that happy, just distracted. We are told only what those, who will kill to stay in power, what to know and like and do. I'd like to abandon technology but modern life can't be managed without it. AI will enslave us. I figure that I'm in the last 20 or so of my total years and in a way, I hope I don't last that long. You can keep your "Boomer" accusations. We enjoy simple old fashoned living. There are no cordless/wireless devices in our house, there are no smart appliances, no smart phones, no microwave, no air conditioner, no cable TV service, and our only source of home heating is a wood stove. https://i.postimg.cc/SK6TGC7d/IMG-0549.jpg We cook our meals from scratch and rarely eat at restaurants. This is the quiet life we freely chose and it has nothing to do with how anyone else chooses to live.  Attached FileHow did you post? |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 5:47:57 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Those are personal creature comforts you are forgoing. Social media, internet, global communication at your fingertips is what is being considered. Which you obviously have, and use to access the internet and this very social media website. You're right. I love technology. Right now, I'm posting from a desktop computer through a wired router. I'll never get a smartphone because I don't need one either in my business or in my life.  And as far as smart appliances go, smart is the new stupid. I'm an electrician and frequently get repair calls for smart appliances. No one likes them. I'm the one who gets to pick and choose for myself whatever I like, and I choose to live simply. Comfort is what you enjoy doing without. So we enjoy the comfort of a simple peaceful electronically quiet home. We designed and built it to be just the way we like it. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 5:53:12 PM EDT
[#29]
Life was much harder but the world was was a better place.
I wish I was born in 1840 |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 6:03:32 PM EDT
[#30]
I don't think it was better or worse necessarily. I think it was just a smaller world and quieter. By smaller I mean we didn't have a 24/7/365 news cycle or influx of information we felt we needed to process. By quieter I mean we didn't see people screaming in video after video about whatever the outrage dujour is.
It was a much more insular world and I kind of miss it. But knowing what I would be sacrificing to go back to that...that's a tough call. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 6:04:57 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Life was much harder but the world was was a better place. I wish I was born in 1840 Dying from disease that is extremely simple to cure now aside, the world wasn't really a better place, people were still assholes, abusers, alcoholics and sociopaths, you were just far less likely to hear about it if it wasn't happening right to you. Things weren't exactly peaceful either as far as tension between nations goes. The one thing that might have been better was how much bigger the world was, you could still kind of strike out and go be alone somewhere if you wanted.....but most people don't want that, even the ones that say they do. 1841 - A free Black New Yorker, Solomon Northup, was lured to Washington, D.C., drugged, kidnapped, and enslaved. He would tell his story in the powerful memoir "Twelve Years a Slave." 1842 - The British retreated from Kabul, Afghanistan and were massacred by Afghan troops. 1845 - The Irish potato famine, which would become known as the Great Famine, started with widespread failures of the potato crop. 1846 - Mexican troops ambushed and killed a patrol of U.S. soldiers. Reports of the incident inflamed tensions between the two nations. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 6:08:19 PM EDT
[#32]
Yep
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Posted: 7/5/2022 6:26:11 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Life was much harder but the world was was a better place. I wish I was born in 1840 No antibiotics? Electricity? Modern dentistry? The only food that was available was what could be grown locally and in season? Extremely limited access to education? Common injuries resulting in death or being permanently crippled? Leading cause of death for women being childbirth? Polio? Smallpox? Slavery? Outhouses? Having to go outside to shit in a hole in the ground (that occasionally has to be relocated) may sound romantic to you, but trust me, it sucks. Throughout history, most people lived their lives, and died within walking distance of the place where they were born. In 1836, the man widely considered the richest man in the world at the time, Nathan Rothschild, died from an abscessed tooth. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 6:27:17 PM EDT
[#34]
Yes
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Posted: 7/5/2022 7:00:59 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No antibiotics? Electricity? Modern dentistry? The only food that was available was what could be grown locally and in season? Extremely limited access to education? Common injuries resulting in death or being permanently crippled? Leading cause of death for women being childbirth? Polio? Smallpox? Slavery? Outhouses? Having to go outside to shit in a hole in the ground (that occasionally has to be relocated) may sound romantic to you, but trust me, it sucks. Throughout history, most people lived their lives, and died within walking distance of the place where they were born. In 1836, the man widely considered the richest man in the world at the time, Nathan Rothschild, died from an abscessed tooth. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Life was much harder but the world was was a better place. I wish I was born in 1840 No antibiotics? Electricity? Modern dentistry? The only food that was available was what could be grown locally and in season? Extremely limited access to education? Common injuries resulting in death or being permanently crippled? Leading cause of death for women being childbirth? Polio? Smallpox? Slavery? Outhouses? Having to go outside to shit in a hole in the ground (that occasionally has to be relocated) may sound romantic to you, but trust me, it sucks. Throughout history, most people lived their lives, and died within walking distance of the place where they were born. In 1836, the man widely considered the richest man in the world at the time, Nathan Rothschild, died from an abscessed tooth.  A Million Ways to Die in the West : How you can die HD CLIP |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 7:46:59 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes and no. Social Media has been one of the biggest negatives the world has ever seen. It truly lets people show their inner asshole without any consequences. Medical advancements are a positive. Although I'm only a year in, I don't want to imagine my life with MS without modern medical treatments. 7 years of MS for me, and I agree. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 7:51:35 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You're right. I love technology. Right now, I'm posting from a desktop computer through a wired router. I'll never get a smartphone because I don't need one either in my business or in my life. https://i.postimg.cc/kg4yysb7/vaccinte.gif And as far as smart appliances go, smart is the new stupid. I'm an electrician and frequently get repair calls for smart appliances. No one likes them. I'm the one who gets to pick and choose for myself whatever I like, and I choose to live simply. Comfort is what you enjoy doing without. So we enjoy the comfort of a simple peaceful electronically quiet home. We designed and built it to be just the way we like it. I don't have smart appliances only because I don't know how they work. Smart phone, yes |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 7:56:09 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Snip Example: internet scheduling for DMV appointment saves so much of sanity and life. No, technology made it so I don't have to step foot in the DMV. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 7:57:06 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Technology is not our problem. The 60's was a nice time almost everywhere in the United States. Which were your favorite? The race riots? Anti-war protests? Domestic terrorism of Weather Underground and Black Panthers, etc..? Maybe the Draft? That sounded fun… The ‘good old days,’ weren’t, necessarily. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 8:05:19 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We should really just go back to the stone age.  The only people who think life is better in 1972 than 2022 either didn't live in the 70s or had their best years playing football in high school. It wasn't just microcomputers, the internet, and smartphones that improved our lives. Just look at your average 1972 car (which would die by 1977) and tell me life isn't better today. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 8:05:28 PM EDT
[#41]
I would go back in time to get a brand new 1996 GMC Sierra super cab. 28000.00 with maxed out options for the time.
I don’t need a seat or steering wheel heater. I don’t need Bluetooth or GPS. I don’t need a 60-70k truck. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 8:08:53 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. And add Capitalism too. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/93097/yfwDs6QXOvqu0Kwojr5-LPQG0P-UXs0Tvza7hPoe-2430989.png https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/93097/E0-mn4lDyIkkuf9xqpatEzKG4iQQekGEuVVV15jL-2430985.png https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/93097/hunger-by-region-2430984.pnghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/93097/EMI96RUWwAA4I7X-2430981.jpg And there's many more improvements. The percentage of child labor and dangerous labor is drooping. Deaths from war has had a major decline. And tech like cell phones has benefitted the 3rd world immensely, because it's allowed them to skip the costly infrastructure burden of stringing wire everywhere. As to nutjobs and weirdos... much of that has always been with us, it's just exposed by technology and the Internet. Now everyone can be heard. Pedos often used to just be quietly run out of town, because the stigma of talking about it, or even acknowledging it was so strong, that there wasn't any prosecution. Leaving them free to start all over again. Mental institutions used to keep dangerous people from harming society, but on the flipside, many harmless people with cerebral palsy, Downs, and Autism were warehoused there as well, because they weren't accepted. And even people who had nothing wrong with them were institutionalized by vindictive families, or courts that wanted to "do something" about unconventional or unpopular people, but no laws were broken. The polarization of America hasn't been this high since the Civil War, but on the upside, the monopoly of the MSM newspapers and TV networks has been broken. And they can no longer steer all Americans with a Leftist agenda hidden behind a facade of impartiality. For every drag-queen story-time at the library freak-show type of story we see, there's a dozen more enormous ways the world has improved that just get taken for granted. 
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Posted: 7/5/2022 8:33:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/5/2022 9:12:08 PM EDT
[#44]
technocracy. technocrats. world economic forum. the more tech and video cameras they get everywhere the more we can be properly enslaved. especially as we become hooked on it like crack such as online etc. read zbigniew brezinskys book technotronic era.
also another prominent globalist who wrote books i have around here somewhere is brave new world by aldous huxley. huxley was part of a group of zionist families but unlike brezinsky he rejected it outright and spilled alot of stuff in his book about what they plan to do to us. ida auchen is a very vocal mouth piece for the wef and klaus shwab who is himself a mouth piece for the rothschilds and other zionist marxists. ida auchen is a cute gal picked and promoted by the new world order to teach us all how we will own nothing and be happy by year 2030. basically everything in un agenda charter 2030 is what she pushes but no one can detail it like she does. google ida auchen i own nothing on youtube she will tell you everything you need to know about how to live in a closet sized room have no family or children or pets and die happy never having owned a single thing in a green sustainable society. thats where were headed. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 9:14:41 PM EDT
[#45]
The technology isn't the cause. It's how it's used. The internet is freaking wonderful. Social media that is driven by likes and follows is a use of the internet that is a horrible, horrible thing. Because it causes a culture of increasingly attention-seeking behavior, to the detriment of society.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 9:18:29 PM EDT
[#46]
Found the perfect house for some of y'all.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 9:20:19 PM EDT
[#47]
I think times used to be better, but I think the reason is demographics, culture and IQ changes.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 10:12:06 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Haha. People have NO idea what the green revolution was, and how without it most of the earth's population would starve to death. They think technology is their cell phone. It is, but that's only a portion. In the 50s and 60s agriculture was revolutionized. Fertilizer, better growing crops. Go back to the 1940s technology wise without the Green revolution and most of the earth's population would starve. The Green revolution allowed unfettered population growth. I am not saying we should allow people to starve, just saying that it allowed areas of the World to expand beyond their carrying capacity. |
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Posted: 7/5/2022 10:19:45 PM EDT
[#49]
The connectivity of the internet has exposed just how many fuckwits and nitwits exist in the world. Otherwise, I'm down with the Techno.
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Posted: 7/5/2022 10:25:26 PM EDT
[#50]
Man I gotta say, now that I'm down at the ranch for the night, I would love some AC right now. Oh well. Soon.
I have a cell signal on this end at least.  |
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