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COVID changed so much more than we realize

The era, not the “virus” Our world is so incr...
gold hall
  07/15/25
pretty sure everyone notices
mischievous deer antler digit ratio
  07/15/25
that and AI is about to buttfuck humanity within the next de...
Deep elite place of business public bath
  07/15/25
Do they? XO is a Noticing Board, but I’m not sure peop...
gold hall
  07/15/25
oh idk i dont spend much time with people outside XO
mischievous deer antler digit ratio
  07/15/25
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Deep elite place of business public bath
  07/15/25
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Sticky theater stage
  07/15/25
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soul-stirring indirect expression
  07/15/25
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180 Den
  07/15/25
In Barbados theres still signs all over saying wear a mask, ...
scarlet point boistinker
  07/15/25
wfh and/or leaving the office whenever you want. This is t...
vivacious center
  07/15/25
the scan menus are gay as fuck and refuse to use them. I ju...
Hairraiser maize range becky
  07/15/25
Yeah I really think it was a "black swan" that his...
180 Den
  07/15/25
nigga in no universe is covid more impactful long-term than ...
Deep elite place of business public bath
  07/15/25
'The general development of internet digital technology' was...
180 Den
  07/15/25
connect the wfh dude above with people being glued to screen...
gold hall
  07/15/25
i'm not going back
Pea-brained Faggot Firefighter
  07/15/25
kids were going to the screens regardless, covid just accele...
Deep elite place of business public bath
  07/15/25
yeah I don't get how people are blaming covid for this, othe...
Yapping flirting kitty cat national security agency
  07/15/25
the issue was that kids were effectively kicked out of schoo...
Hairraiser maize range becky
  07/15/25
It also completely destroyed normie trust in the government,...
180 Den
  07/15/25
yeah this line of argument is a lot stronger I think, althou...
Deep elite place of business public bath
  07/15/25
Yeah that's why I put conservative in quotes. I don't know w...
180 Den
  07/15/25
"total chaos communism" is an ideologically neutra...
Deep elite place of business public bath
  07/15/25
I was having sex before and during part of Covid. Now I don'...
lemon aphrodisiac clown kitchen
  07/15/25
So Covid was actually good? You Won
180 Den
  07/15/25
cr
unhinged silver garrison
  07/15/25
Pandemics are the #1 leading factor associated with state co...
racy haunting hominid
  07/15/25
I'm never going back.
Adventurous Tripping Newt
  07/15/25
The lockdowns were 180. Really miss it.
soggy angry masturbator
  07/15/25
I'm still living it.
Adventurous Tripping Newt
  07/15/25
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Pea-brained Faggot Firefighter
  07/15/25
the judge I was clerking for threatened to fire me if I didn...
dashing lay
  07/15/25
but hey at least you never got COVID
Pea-brained Faggot Firefighter
  07/15/25
yes and no, the good thing about humanity is the generations...
marvelous violent yarmulke water buffalo
  07/15/25
that is a wild concept. The actors get entirely replaced eve...
gold hall
  07/16/25


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Date: July 15th, 2025 2:25 PM
Author: gold hall

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: mischievous deer antler digit ratio

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: Deep elite place of business public bath

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: gold hall

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: mischievous deer antler digit ratio

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: Deep elite place of business public bath



(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: Sticky theater stage



(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: soul-stirring indirect expression



(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: 180 Den



(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: scarlet point boistinker

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: vivacious center

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: Hairraiser maize range becky

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: 180 Den

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: Deep elite place of business public bath

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: 180 Den

'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: gold hall

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: Pea-brained Faggot Firefighter

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: Deep elite place of business public bath

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: Yapping flirting kitty cat national security agency

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: Hairraiser maize range becky

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: 180 Den

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: Deep elite place of business public bath

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: 180 Den

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: Deep elite place of business public bath

"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: lemon aphrodisiac clown kitchen

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: 180 Den

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: unhinged silver garrison

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: racy haunting hominid

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: Adventurous Tripping Newt

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: soggy angry masturbator

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: Adventurous Tripping Newt

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: Pea-brained Faggot Firefighter



(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: dashing lay

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: Pea-brained Faggot Firefighter

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: marvelous violent yarmulke water buffalo

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: gold hall

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)