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1. LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 21:50:04 JST LS
   > McLuhan muses that “no society has ever known enough about its actions to have developed immunity to its new…technologies.” But these stories serve as a literary vaccination, a chance to explore new technologies in the (relatively) safe sandbox of the imagination.[*7]
   > *7 Unless you don’t believe in vaccines, in which case this metaphor won’t mean much to you. Imagine these stories as a sort of “horse dewormer that you can take before getting sick” instead. Magical!
   
   this guy is so cringe
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 22:03:44 JST LS

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     • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶
     @adiz it's just so out of place in an introduction to a bunch of short stories
   • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 22:03:46 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     @lain@lain.com They can't help but huffing their own farts in the smugest ways possible regardless of correctness.

   • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 22:06:34 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     @lain@lain.com That's what I mean. Can't help but get a random huff in.

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