We need to destroy technology

[Densey a]

We need to destroy technology: Strongly Disagree.
We need to reduce technology: Agree.

[Great Nepal]

We need to destroy technology: Strongly Disagree.
We need to reduce technology: Agree.

Why?

[Grenartia]

Of course, anyone would like a romantic dream world where we live on our own farm near the castle and life isn't complicated.

I don't... Does that make me nobody?

no unless some whackjob amish person rules the world

Marvel really need to create an Amish superhero and supervillain....

Its a bird! Its a plane! ITS BROTHER HEZEKIAH!!! He'll pray to the Lord to make that boy's deadly common cold go away!

Yes, we should start by smashing up the hammers...with other hammers.

and since every rock is a hammer, man have we got some smashing to do.

SMASH EVERY MOUNTAIN INTO SAND!!!

Okay, I saw threads like these in other boards. Who's with me on setting out to destroy this technology (particularly the very recent and fancy things) and saving capitalism for generations to come. Another reason is, for example I feel bad for the generation that wouldn't know what a 'video store' is.

As something of a transhumanist and a total supporter of techno-progressivism I say no thank you very much.

Besides that - why exactly is it bad they wont know what a video store is?

Kids these need to know how hard we fucking had it back then! If we wanted some damn porn, we had to leave our house, drive to the freaking video store, go to the back to get one, and stare the cashier in the face to buy it, dammit!

[/future old guy]

And, again, we shouldn't be surprised if he did.

Well, I'm kinda new here, so I guess I'll just take your word for it...or something?

He's infamous around here for saying that sex is degrading to women, physically, emotionally, etc. Even after MULTIPLE women on this site told him that they enjoyed sex and weren't degraded by it at all. I know there's multiple threads he's posted about it, but I can't be bothered to look them up.

Actually, it would be more like preaching the immorality of sex while you're fucking.

And, again, we shouldn't be surprised if he did.

I would, actually, given his rather childish views on it.

[Cannot think of a name]

I'm coming in late and lazy, have we determined why we're resetting technology only to the mid 80s?

[An Imaginary Nation on the Internet]

Hey guys I just invented a giant machine that destroys all technology

[Ifreann]

We need to destroy technology: Strongly Disagree.
We need to reduce technology: Agree.

Explain.

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I'm coming in late and lazy, have we determined why we're resetting technology only to the mid 80s?

Apparently it's too complicated for the OP to explain.

[New Heathera]

We don't need nor should we have machines that have emotion and can feel things like pain. Beyond that, I don't think we should limit our technological advancement. Reduce how much influence technology like cell phones has in our everyday lives, maybe, but not limit advancement.

[Ifreann]

We don't need nor should we have machines that have emotion and can feel things like pain. Beyond that, I don't think we should limit our technological advancement. Reduce how much influence technology like cell phones has in our everyday lives, maybe, but not limit advancement.

What's wrong with cell phones?

[The Emerald Legion]

We don't need nor should we have machines that have emotion and can feel things like pain. Beyond that, I don't think we should limit our technological advancement. Reduce how much influence technology like cell phones has in our everyday lives, maybe, but not limit advancement.

Pain is merely an inefficient damage detection system.

[Xenoglade Plugins]

I'm coming in late and lazy, have we determined why we're resetting technology only to the mid 80s?

Because people have the natural tendency to look at their own childhood through rose-tinted glasses and assume that it was far better than it actually was. The probability that the OP was a child in the mid 80's is very high.

[Dolmhold]

We don't need nor should we have machines that have emotion and can feel things like pain. Beyond that, I don't think we should limit our technological advancement. Reduce how much influence technology like cell phones has in our everyday lives, maybe, but not limit advancement.

Pain is merely an efficient potential damage detection and reaction system.

Fixed.

[Mavorpen]

We don't need nor should we have machines that have emotion and can feel things like pain. Beyond that, I don't think we should limit our technological advancement. Reduce how much influence technology like cell phones has in our everyday lives, maybe, but not limit advancement.

Pain is merely an inefficient damage detection system.

You don't understand biology, do you?

[The Emerald Legion]

Pain is merely an efficient potential damage detection and reaction system.

Fixed.

Maybe for small stuff, but when you are immobilized because the pain is too great and you end up torn to pieces it isn't that great.

Pain is merely an inefficient damage detection system.

You don't understand biology, do you?

No. I don't intend to either.

[Avenio]

No. I don't intend to either.

Which, of course, explains a great deal.

[L Ron Cupboard]

Marvel really need to create an Amish superhero and supervillain....

Its a bird! Its a plane! ITS BROTHER HEZEKIAH!!! He'll pray to the Lord to make that boy's deadly common cold go away!

Quick, to the super buggy!

[Pope Joan]

This appeals to some of my Lollard tendencies.

I would ban jet planes, except for the air force. No more private het travel. We can get where we are going by other means, with a much smaller carbon footprint. And more quietly too.

Then I would establish a secular sabbath. Not tied to religion, but tied to cooling everybody off instead of keeping the nose to the grindstone 24/7. Let's make it Wednesday. Nobody works on Wednesday except for essential personnel, period. and turn off the lights when the business is closed, just keep one area light for security. No more all night glare from closed gas stations.

Then let's close up shop at a decent hour. As Penfold told Dangermouse when they were looking for the temple of Cheops in Egypt, "It's too late for that, DM, the cheops all close at five," Don't you wish. When I was in Oslo, major capitol city, they rolled up the sidewalk at 7PM, and it felt good, except to my friends who wanted to go clubbing.

Just let's keep the internet; we can use friction energy to charge up our units. Gates has sent thousands of crank-up computers to Africa.

[Furious Grandmothers]

You don't understand biology, do you?

No. I don't intend to either.

Then what are you doing talking about biology??

[Vousielle]

Fixed.

Maybe for small stuff, but when you are immobilized because the pain is too great and you end up torn to pieces it isn't that great.

That doesn't actually happen, you go into shock to avoid exactly that.

Also does anybody else think the OP is on drugs? I'm serious, his posts seem kinda foggy, like he might be on opiates or something.

[Cannot think of a name]

I'm coming in late and lazy, have we determined why we're resetting technology only to the mid 80s?

Because people have the natural tendency to look at their own childhood through rose-tinted glasses and assume that it was far better than it actually was. The probability that the OP was a child in the mid 80's is very high.

I'm going to put it a little later, if he was a child of the 80s (as I am) he'd also know a world before video stores and wouldn't then think that it's one of those age old institutions lost to this world but instead a blip.

[Grenartia]

We don't need nor should we have machines that have emotion and can feel things like pain.

Why not? As long as we treat them like we would want to be treated, where's the problem?

[Great Nepal]

We don't need nor should we have machines that have emotion and can feel things like pain.

Why not? As long as we treat them like we would want to be treated, where's the problem?

In efficiency?

[The Emerald Legion]

No. I don't intend to either.

Then what are you doing talking about biology??

I'm not. I'm talking about systems.

A system meant to prevent further damage that can overload your system and cause you to take more damage because your in too much pain to do anything is obviously a shit system.

[Vazdania]

Okay, I saw threads like these in other boards. Who's with me on setting out to destroy this technology (particularly the very recent and fancy things) and saving capitalism for generations to come. Another reason is, for example I feel bad for the generation that wouldn't know what a 'video store' is.

How communist/socialist of an idea

[Avenio]

I'm not. I'm talking about systems.

A system meant to prevent further damage that can overload your system and cause you to take more damage because your in too much pain to do anything is obviously a shit system.

If you actually knew anything about biology, you'd know how ignorant you're sounding. The body's peripheral nervous system (PNS) is an autonomous 'circuit' routed through your spinal cord that instantaneously reacts to pain and damaging stimuli and removes the body from it before you're even aware of it. If you touch a hot kettle on the stove, for instance, the sensory neurons in your hand have sent a signal up your arm, to the spinal cord, back down the arm to a muscle effector neuron and have pulled away your hand before your body even deigns to send the information of 'pain' all the way up to the brain.

More complex endocrine reactions to larger pain, like shock, are meant specifically to help with the 'flight-or-fight' response; it's certainly not immobility or 'overload', by any means. That's almost solely the fault of the fat CEO upstairs, ie consciousness.

[Vousielle]

Then what are you doing talking about biology??

I'm not. I'm talking about systems.

A system meant to prevent further damage that can overload your system and cause you to take more damage because your in too much pain to do anything is obviously a shit system.

I literally just addressed this point, you don't go into pain overload, you go into shock which means you don't notice the pain and can escape the dangerous situation! Pain is obnoxious, but it is actually a pretty decent alarm system.

Okay, I saw threads like these in other boards. Who's with me on setting out to destroy this technology (particularly the very recent and fancy things) and saving capitalism for generations to come. Another reason is, for example I feel bad for the generation that wouldn't know what a 'video store' is.

How communist/socialist of an idea

Don't be silly. Or be sillier. Either way, your current level of sillyness is unacceptable