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COVID changed so much more than we realize

The era, not the “virus” Our world is so incr...
Drab Beta Coldplay Fan
  07/15/25
pretty sure everyone notices
Odious fortuitous meteor rehab
  07/15/25
that and AI is about to buttfuck humanity within the next de...
self-absorbed abode mood
  07/15/25
Do they? XO is a Noticing Board, but I’m not sure peop...
Drab Beta Coldplay Fan
  07/15/25
oh idk i dont spend much time with people outside XO
Odious fortuitous meteor rehab
  07/15/25
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self-absorbed abode mood
  07/15/25
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Excitant Ruddy Lodge Skinny Woman
  07/15/25
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clear site crotch
  07/15/25
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greedy trip deer antler
  07/15/25
In Barbados theres still signs all over saying wear a mask, ...
appetizing startled parlour
  07/15/25
wfh and/or leaving the office whenever you want. This is t...
white bat shit crazy stock car
  07/15/25
the scan menus are gay as fuck and refuse to use them. I ju...
nofapping tantric meetinghouse indirect expression
  07/15/25
Yeah I really think it was a "black swan" that his...
greedy trip deer antler
  07/15/25
nigga in no universe is covid more impactful long-term than ...
self-absorbed abode mood
  07/15/25
'The general development of internet digital technology' was...
greedy trip deer antler
  07/15/25
connect the wfh dude above with people being glued to screen...
Drab Beta Coldplay Fan
  07/15/25
i'm not going back
Motley hall french chef
  07/15/25
kids were going to the screens regardless, covid just accele...
self-absorbed abode mood
  07/15/25
yeah I don't get how people are blaming covid for this, othe...
useless candlestick maker sex offender
  07/15/25
the issue was that kids were effectively kicked out of schoo...
nofapping tantric meetinghouse indirect expression
  07/15/25
It also completely destroyed normie trust in the government,...
greedy trip deer antler
  07/15/25
yeah this line of argument is a lot stronger I think, althou...
self-absorbed abode mood
  07/15/25
Yeah that's why I put conservative in quotes. I don't know w...
greedy trip deer antler
  07/15/25
"total chaos communism" is an ideologically neutra...
self-absorbed abode mood
  07/15/25
I was having sex before and during part of Covid. Now I don'...
wine tanning salon gaming laptop
  07/15/25
So Covid was actually good? You Won
greedy trip deer antler
  07/15/25
cr
Bistre Goal In Life
  07/15/25
Pandemics are the #1 leading factor associated with state co...
Cracking glassy box office giraffe
  07/15/25
I'm never going back.
soul-stirring embarrassed to the bone death wish
  07/15/25
The lockdowns were 180. Really miss it.
Big-titted diverse university pozpig
  07/15/25
I'm still living it.
soul-stirring embarrassed to the bone death wish
  07/15/25
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Motley hall french chef
  07/15/25
the judge I was clerking for threatened to fire me if I didn...
Twinkling toilet seat
  07/15/25
but hey at least you never got COVID
Motley hall french chef
  07/15/25
yes and no, the good thing about humanity is the generations...
Curious alcoholic step-uncle's house place of business
  07/15/25
that is a wild concept. The actors get entirely replaced eve...
Drab Beta Coldplay Fan
  07/16/25


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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:25 PM
Author: Drab Beta Coldplay Fan

The era, not the “virus”

Our world is so incredibly different than it was before.

A real trajectory changer for everyone and no one seems to notice much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103480)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:25 PM
Author: Odious fortuitous meteor rehab

pretty sure everyone notices

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103481)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: self-absorbed abode mood

that and AI is about to buttfuck humanity within the next decade or two to an exponentially more significant extent than covid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103484)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:27 PM
Author: Drab Beta Coldplay Fan

Do they? XO is a Noticing Board, but I’m not sure people realize the train was ripped off the tracks and put on completely different rails. (And leads to hell.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103493)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:28 PM
Author: Odious fortuitous meteor rehab

oh idk i dont spend much time with people outside XO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103494)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:28 PM
Author: self-absorbed abode mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103496)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 5:06 PM
Author: Excitant Ruddy Lodge Skinny Woman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103879)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:02 PM
Author: clear site crotch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104168)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:04 PM
Author: greedy trip deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104178)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: appetizing startled parlour

In Barbados theres still signs all over saying wear a mask, wash ur hands, some say no entry without mask. Niggas apparently don't know how to remove signs or maybe they really miss covid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103499)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:33 PM
Author: white bat shit crazy stock car

wfh and/or leaving the office whenever you want. This is the biggest change for me. I just straight up leave when I am ready to leave. years ago I would have been chased down the streets by cops

menus on scan

things costing more.

I think that is it really

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103512)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: nofapping tantric meetinghouse indirect expression

the scan menus are gay as fuck and refuse to use them. I just tell the waitress I don't have a phone and need a physical menu.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103654)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: greedy trip deer antler

Yeah I really think it was a "black swan" that history is going to look back at as the most significant event of the early 21st century

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103518)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:39 PM
Author: self-absorbed abode mood

nigga in no universe is covid more impactful long-term than everyone being glued to instagram or netflix on Screens all day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103529)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:43 PM
Author: greedy trip deer antler

'The general development of internet digital technology' wasn't an "event" in the same way that covid or, for example, the Russia Ukraine war, or "The Great Recession" of 2007 was

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103538)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:23 PM
Author: Drab Beta Coldplay Fan

connect the wfh dude above with people being glued to screens

its the same shit. And while screening was a significant part of life before covid, covid didnt just kick the door down, it bulldozed the entire structure.

Before covid, internet screens were more like TV. Some people watched 8 hours a day, some avoided religiously. There was some moral shame, some medical instructions against, "bad for kids", etc.

Covid not only erased all of that, it turned 180* and sped 100 miles the other direction. People were ORDERED to live on screens. Kids were planted in front of screens under threat of parental arrest for truancy if the kid was off the screen.

Young people's relationship with "work", or how we spent the vast majority of are lives between 25 and 70, became inextricably tied to "how much of this can I do all alone with my screen".

Bars, events, thing-doing, mating, dating, etc etc, all went through the COVID filter to come out completely different.

I can see an argument that all of this was in the works, but its like "that old house will burn down some day" vs. "we are dousing it in accelerant and everyone must drop a match"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103620)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:26 PM
Author: Motley hall french chef

i'm not going back

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103628)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:33 PM
Author: self-absorbed abode mood

kids were going to the screens regardless, covid just accelerated the shift. you want it to be one way ("COVID changed everything!") but it's the other way ("this was inevitable")

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103649)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: useless candlestick maker sex offender

yeah I don't get how people are blaming covid for this, other then the obvious case that people just need a scapegoat and something to blame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103659)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:42 PM
Author: nofapping tantric meetinghouse indirect expression

the issue was that kids were effectively kicked out of schools for two years, but parents still had to work. This problem was especially exacerbated by the fact that a significant portion of the population has moved away from their hometowns, consequently their inherent support networks (e.g. parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles). So now these parents had to do something with the kids while their boss is yelling at them to get on the zoom call or to come into the office, so they chose the screen for the kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103673)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: greedy trip deer antler

It also completely destroyed normie trust in the government, institutions, Science, experts, law, etc

Imo this was the bigger development than the social consequences you mentioned. "Covid" pretty much totally nuked society's trust in the broad "elite" for absolutely everyone other than a certain segment of urbanite shitlib white boomers

In a sick way, it was actually A Good Thing because of this. The kids under ~24 who went through covid are overwhelmingly "conservative" now compared to the zoomers who are 24-30 solely because of what happened during covid. In the long run I think that the fiasco may have saved the world

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103669)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: self-absorbed abode mood

yeah this line of argument is a lot stronger I think, although I'd argue that normie trust in government was already reduced to trivial levels depending on "is my guy in power" and you're overestimating the degree to which zoomers are conservative when in reality they're more just total chaos communists

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103717)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 4:18 PM
Author: greedy trip deer antler

Yeah that's why I put conservative in quotes. I don't know what to call them. Basically just radicalized against The Lib Establishment. They hold it/them in complete contempt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103774)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 5:45 PM
Author: self-absorbed abode mood

"total chaos communism" is an ideologically neutral term coined by BOOM. it is, I think, the perfect descriptor of zoomers' outlook

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103989)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:42 PM
Author: wine tanning salon gaming laptop

I was having sex before and during part of Covid. Now I don't have sex. Discuss

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103674)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 3:44 PM
Author: greedy trip deer antler

So Covid was actually good?

You Won

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49103684)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:05 PM
Author: Bistre Goal In Life

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104180)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 6:57 PM
Author: Cracking glassy box office giraffe

Pandemics are the #1 leading factor associated with state collapse we've identified so far, historically

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104157)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:01 PM
Author: soul-stirring embarrassed to the bone death wish

I'm never going back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104167)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:09 PM
Author: Big-titted diverse university pozpig

The lockdowns were 180. Really miss it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104188)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 9:20 PM
Author: soul-stirring embarrassed to the bone death wish

I'm still living it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104531)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:09 PM
Author: Motley hall french chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104190)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Twinkling toilet seat

the judge I was clerking for threatened to fire me if I didn't get the turbocancer clotshot

I'm dead inside lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104231)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Motley hall french chef

but hey at least you never got COVID

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104239)



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Date: July 15th, 2025 9:24 PM
Author: Curious alcoholic step-uncle's house place of business

yes and no, the good thing about humanity is the generations reset, everyone dies and then other people can just do wild new shit if they want to, the general tendency of any system is towards collapse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49104536)



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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:21 AM
Author: Drab Beta Coldplay Fan

that is a wild concept. The actors get entirely replaced every 70 years or so. Sort of wild humans maintained "civilization" by parent-child instruction alone. That system seemed to work, like all others, via carrot and stick. Boomers decided not to give away any carrots though, which means subsequent gens really have no interest in maintaining civ, apart from avoiding the stick. "I'll play along to made-up rules so as not to become homeless, but I believe in none of them and will break them at first chance."

we are in for some changes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5750689&forum_id=2)#49105462)