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altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• owen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because most of the population is partly ‘guy on internet’

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  • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My dad has a friend who is like 65. I lives quite isolated. He's not dumb or anything at all, but he only talks to maybe 6 people and 4 of them are alcoholics and almost as sheltered as he is. The other day i went by because my dad asked me to help him.bwe talked for a bit and he said his knee is fucked but don't want t o do anything about it. I just shrugged and said that everything involving knee or hip surgery is scary. Hell, every surgery is pretty scary. Somehow the conversation (obviously) pivot towards covid. And he said he'll never get another vaccine in his life, because it was a plot from the higher ups, covid is made to kill people but it didn't kill enough. What struck me the most was he kinda saw that i didn't cared abd disagreed, so he quickly said: it's not just me, many people are saying it. Yeah sure, but i also know the people you hang out with who are "saying it" and who have "theories".
    That is the guy on the internet, who doesn't even has the internet.

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    • owen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lmaooo that is so insane. Great story

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• MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It makes it impossible to actually discuss research online

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