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< intro to pub and responding to "The Small Internet"

I can't say I agree with them. Plenty of people have met their SO online. So much of life is a lottery, and it starts with the birth lottery and doesn't end with the sexual lottery. Now that the world is no longer stable, nay getting worse, people are more inclined to gamble. Ask a little kid what they want to be: the answer is invariably influencer. People similarly despair at the loss of interdependence with family, but there have always been those of us saddled with terrible family for which the laissez-faire world is like a breath of fresh air however cold.

The small internet can be stifling. I'm glad IRC which is still ubiquitous among rarified circles is not promoted here. I'm here because m15o was gracious enough to set up a space where all you need is an account that is not linked to your email.

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~citrons wrote:

how apt of you.

~johano wrote:

I guess a lot of this is inherent in the tensions between wanting independence and needing community to whatever (possibly small) extent... and then of course the inherent tensions within community/family/group dynamics! Welcome to the human condition, I guess...