I just got into a little spat with my friends fiance because she intellectually offloads with AI.

I stand by it.

The next stage of this is having cops patrol flock cameras.

The whole ‘mass surveillance’ thing sort of does away with a need for traditional patrols.

Publishers aren’t going out to old bookstores to buy up their old books to destroy.

Every argument you’ve made is halfbaked at best, tell me - what’s the longest time something can be stored in a computers memory?

Now what’s the longest time a book can stay intact?

Yeah, you know the answer - shut the fuck up now.

It has everything to do with not reading you muppet, any literate person understands that you don’t need to destroy a book in order to gain the information from it. A child could understand that there’s no reason to destroy the books other than laziness or malice.

My god, tech people need to be beaten regularly.

Yeah, they sit on shelves because the average person - at least in the U.S. - is steps away from brain death.

If more people were better educated and or literate this would not be happening.

improvement seems unlikely given the perpetual decline I’ve witnessed my entire life

To be fair, I’m sure there were plenty of people who lived in the late Roman, late Byzantine, and late Ottoman empires who felt the same way.

#85 baby, eat my dick whoever this guy is