so I'm glad I'm here not there?
You must be REALLY young. Just without screens??
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Imagine a world where you really could be untrackable and unreachable.
You must be REALLY naive then. People stopped paying attention to the road as soon as they had anyone else around, or lipstick or razors or a crossword or a billboard... arguably the biggest lesson cars can teach us is that people are really distractible when doing incredibly dangerous activities that have become mundane.
In some ways it was bad.
Yeah, like the whole being out of touch in emergency situations thing...
I do think astroturfing is a real and pervasive problem, but it's awfully convenient to assume without evidence that any given post *is* astroturfing. You can assume all you want, but your "teaching example" is a just-so-story at its core.
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