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I have come to hate technology. The ability to read is wonderful, its everyelse I hate. I see people in that screen all day.

It is their life.

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Yeah. Look at Twitter. Some people are heartbroken over changes at Twitter. What a famished existence.

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I have never had Twitter, Instagram, ticktok, or any of those platforms.

My wife talked me into a facebook account 20 years ago. I don't use it much, but when I do, I get sent to Facebook jail.

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I think it's inevitable we return to a time when the internet complemented real-life. Nobody else agrees, which deepens my convictions.

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Well if our masters in Europe and North America have their way, we won't have electricity or food, so there is that. May English men and Americans find their liberty once again.

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It's a crisis era of history. It'll pass.

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I'm not so sure. Europe is waking up to the danger, but Americans are still fast asleep at the wheel.

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"If anything, this pointless sanitization of everyday humanity is the technological vanity of a species without cultural achievement since the turn of the century."

Quite. And that would be -- to be perfectly clear -- 1901. Except that lets Schoenberg's nose under the tent, inexcusable but arguably we can claim that the exception proves the rule. Or some such codswallop.

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Beethoven. Beethoven. Beethoven. Everything else is mortal.

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I HATE technology in my voting booth, bars and eating establishments. Don't like it in my reading much, either. So far it's working okay in my ears.

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The Hay (literary) Festival isn't far from my hometown. Organisers banned Kindles. My kind of extremism.

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In regard to cycling, blood doping, and high-altitude chambers, one needn't resort to such things; rather, just identify as what/whom you're not, and "Bob's yer Uncle!" https://bit.ly/3EuH1rM

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Yes, oh, yes.

And perhaps uniquely to the US given its span of time zones, NO reporting of voting results until all of the polls closed. "Hi, California? This is New York. We have a problem..."

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You could even ban polling one month or two weeks out from a race. Many sensible countries do that. What a circus...

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Banning mail-in voting, the darling of the Left, would be the best correction to US voting malarky.

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Oh, absolutely. But... that's not happening whilst the left is in power. Play the game. Win. Get rid of this circus.

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