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What a fantastic SI cover for Lee Jenkins’ Durant piece this week. Almost makes me wish I hadn’t cancelled my subscription in ‘99.
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Irreversibly destroying your life used to be a skill. Now anyone can do it.
6 Emotions Invented by the Internet
For 99 percent of human history, there was no such thing as talking to a person who wasn’t in front of you. No phones, no instant communication from farther than shouting distance. If that doesn’t absolutely blow your mind, you haven’t thought it through — the first man to ever wake up and realize that he had drunk dialed an ex-girlfriend the night before must have felt like he had been cursed with a destructive new form of black magic.
Likewise, we’re about 20 years into widespread Internet use now, and it’s easy to forget how many of the day-to-day anxieties we deal with are brand new to the species. For instance …
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Wall-E’s hands are stained with the gear-juice of all those robots he’s murdered.
5 Fan Theories About Cartoons That Will Ruin Your Childhood
#5. WALL-E Killed the Other Robots and Doomed the Earth
WALL-E is clearly a sentient being, capable of pain and emotion. He recognizes fellow robots as living beings (and of course falls in love with one). And yet, he doesn’t appear to give the slightest fuck about desecrating the scattered corpses of his robotic kin. He’s playing music from Hello, Dolly! as he tears their parts off. Apply the same thinking to human beings and picture a man who collects human body parts to wear and dance around in. Congratulations, you just imagined Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs.
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Look at this Heat fan who agrees the season is too long.
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i’ve never been happier in my entire life
i’m literally crying tears of joy
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