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   D to Anton Shepelev   
   Re: Usenet as social media [was:Re: If y   
   15 Aug 24 13:15:54   
   
   From: remailer@domain.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:48:20 +0300, Anton Shepelev  wrote:   
   >Kerr-Mudd, John:   
   >> PS &OT, today I went for a drink in a Social Club; it was   
   >>    astoundingly non-social, the other people were   
   >>    focussed on their mobile phones. So I did likewise.   
   >   
   >So that club is no longer a sutiable "medium for public   
   >discussions."  Smartphones are joykillers, and social   
   >networks, ironically, great disuniters of people.   
      
   the word "people" never made sense to me . . .  plural for person?   
   no such animal; each person is an individual, no "e pluribus unum"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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