Places without public libraries weren’t part of the early internet generally. Literally all of Americas biggest companies reached the size they are because of electricity.
I’m not writing the internet off, it’s just a very one sided comparison. When you look at the effects of electricity on human development, the internet is so much closer to radio and tv that classifying it as mass media isn’t outlandish.
What are we all doing here right now? An activity dwarfed by the volume of advertising and content consumption occurring at any given moment on the internet!
Like I said, measure it by data volume, time spent reading or watching versus replying or posting or however you like and it always comes up one sided.
If you wanna see how close to an Internet forum a bunch of radio weirdos can get, tune to channel 6 (or 19 some places!) anywhere in the south. It’s still a fantastic whirling storm of chaos after 5pm. Even without fucking around on cb there’s plenty of examples of niche communities using radio to communicate before the internet made it easier once everyone had a computer. it was only once everyone had a computer that the transition to them happened and by that point the chatter about dos quilting software or whatever was a drop in the ocean of data sloshing through the pots lines.
Theres 1.5 billion chickens in the United States. It’s hard to imagine.
E: now that I can type a little more, Just going by the free range guidelines from the usda (generally focused on production instead of quality of life), they would need 345 thousand acres of forage land and half that much in coop space.
Cyrillic text that reads like a dnb drop.
And yet when I call for mass euthanasia of the domesticated livestock herd somehow I’m the monster.
Dialigma balls
How do I become a leader in your org? I want to be paid an undisclosed sum!
A cars a good place to film a video on a phone
Israel is pro ship, the houthis are anti ship.
C/tankiejerk when?
Damn I gotta up my reps it would be shameful to get photographed with little baby back bitch bird arms.
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