June 14, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Alright, here we go. | |
| So, let us talk about this. | |
| So, a job that gets replaced by a new technology. | |
| Hmm. | |
| It's a little fucking rich, honestly, when people type on their 21st century lit-up keyboards, navigating with their Logitech laser mice. | |
| You know, I remember back in the day, man, you had to, Unscrew the bottom of the mouse and clean it out from time to time. | |
| Otherwise, it just kind of stopped working. | |
| It used to drive me nuts with my Atari 520ST that half the time you have to thump the mouse and get it to work. | |
| Now these things work on air, clouds, thoughts. | |
| It's incredible. | |
| So people who are posting on a new platform, rumble.com, a new platform, did not exist even a couple of years ago, using their super fancy keyboard and mice. | |
| Maybe even voice dictation. | |
| Maybe they talked into their phone, and their phone translated it into English. | |
| Oh, I bet you they're also staring at a flicker-free flat-screen TV. | |
| I remember when I was a kid, we had a TV that cost $10. | |
| And if you turned it too bright, it got all distorted, so you kind of had to look at it like it was an old aquarium. | |
| And I remember trying to watch Wimbledon, because we were big tennis people back in the day. | |
| And you couldn't see anything. | |
| Like in the old TVs, oh, the golfer has hit the ball into a cloudy sky. | |
| Let's just wave the camera around and then, oh, there it is. | |
| And you couldn't see smack. | |
| So I bet you he's got a nice flat screen, a nice flat screen monitor. | |
| And my first computer ran at one megahertz. | |
| The first computer I bought was an Atari 800. | |
| I think it ran at 1 MHz. | |
| And this was player missile graphics, and it had a cozy 8K of RAM, which I then later, in a very sketchy parking lot interaction, bought 32K of RAM to bring it up to 40. And with 8K of RAM, you couldn't even go into graphics 8 with programming, which is the highest level of graphics, where you had to simulate colors by using alternate lines, because the red and the blue. | |
| went alternate lines on these crappy old TVs. | |
| I bet you he's not... | |
| No, he's embracing all the new things in the world. | |
| God almighty. | |
| People, people, people, this is not directed at you, or even Silver Spider in particular. | |
| Get your head out of your asses and look at what you're doing before you start criticizing the world. | |
| Just look at what you're doing and you will solve 90% of your philosophical, moral, or economic issues. | |
| Are you working on a very old computer? | |
| You are not. | |
| Are you working on a cathode ray tube monitor? | |
| You are not. | |
| You are working on a nice digital LED or OLED flat screen. | |
| Are you using a typewriter or a keyboard? | |
| Is your keyboard PS1 or is it USB? | |
| Do you have a 300-board dial-up modem? | |
| Back in my day, says Granny, the computers used to talk to each other by screaming over the phone lines. | |
| Okay, let's get you to bed. | |
| When you try to access the internet, does everyone yell that you interrupted their phone call and it sounds like robots being tortured to death in an orgasm orgy? | |
| Nope. | |
| Bet you got a nice, fast fiber optic or at least cell data plan, right? | |
| Some satellite thing. | |
| super fast, right? | |
| I remember when it felt like My first modem was 300 board. | |
| It was built into... | |
| Well, I blew my bank on that one, but I needed it for university. | |
| So back in the day, it felt like you could type a web page faster than it could download over 300 board mode. | |
| And I remember when a friend of mine showed me his, it went 300 board, And I remember very clearly having a phone line internet. | |
| Ooh, quick question. | |
| Do you have a Victrola? | |
| Do you know the phrase, put a sock in it, which means be quiet? |
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