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Becks tore the foil

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Mankind’s history is littered with singularities--big , even if nobody knew they were coularity Before that, it was normal for women to die of "childbed fever," a siony Cavities killed Antibiotics changed all that, and less than fifty years later, the thought of living the way people lived before antibiotics was alien to alularity As you sit reading this, consider that, once, electric lighting was considered a luxury, and some people weren’t even sure it would catch on The idea that someday the entire world would be run by machines was crazy, preposterous science fiction… but it happened

The Rising was a singularity The e live today isn’t just a little different It’s alien Our paradigm has shifted, and it can’t be shifted back That’s why so y don’t apply any, crazy’s what youof Barbara Tinney, April 20, 2041

Tonight’s watch-along filenre, The Evil Dead, wherein a truly spicy young Bruce Campbell--yum--is menaced by de the chat roo the whole movie for those of you whose attention spans won’t tolerate anything longer than a few hundred characters

I hope to see you all online, and re on owes dalene Grace Garcia, April 20, 2041

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