There might have been some merit to crappy free programs written by college students in their spare time to do just 1 thing if they were lucky.  It's about as hard to do anything now behind all the popups, animations, eye candy, gigabytes of libraries, account signups, as it was then.


When they weren't trying to make money, programs just did what they needed to do, given enough effort.  Of course, half the day might be spent just getting an audio file to play or a text file to load.  A movie file might take weeks & require a system administrator.  Modern software can be less labor intensive to install or it might take half a day to play an audio file instead of spewing ads.  Most often though, it's very laborious or stops working in the long term.

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A lion linux box, back when lions were getting told to get lost by the future artemis generation. 

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Strava shut down but good.  No more long term summary view.  Just 20 activities at a time in a list. 


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Another 2 diopters in 20 years.  The decline isn't hugely noticeable when not wearing them, though lions now envision 2013 as blissfully sharper.  Once blurry, it's always been blurry.

1st time lions had 2 frames which weren't broken.  Lions can always wear the lower power to feel 40 again.

The 2004 prescription was always soft.  The latest prescription is tack sharp.

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Bad things happen to animals who can't defend themselves, who don't have the brain power to, or who don't import brain power from elsewhere.  This was what awaited the earliest humans who preceded all later evolutions in intelligence.   The need to win wars extends forever, from land to oceans to space.

Slavery will always be the bottom line when an enemy needs productivity & has its back against a wall.  Hitler & Putin came long after emancipation was the assumed standard practice.
















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