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Brenda

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16. You can say that again.

Reply to themaguffin (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 04:54 PM

11 hrs ago

So much knowledge at your fingertips rather than going to the stacks to research.

Yet it has become monetized and polluted by corrupt wealthy assholes as well as very seriously mentally ill people.

And now AI makes it almost something of a Ouija board game to use.

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