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Get rid of your fucking Ring cameras holy shit. That was one of the most chilling ads I’ve ever seen

A Timeline of Humanity:

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

It's fascinating how the Internet Roadtrip has so closely replicated all the pitfalls of democracy. As the population grows, factions break out—are you a detourist? a pathist? a purist? Pick a side, cast your vote, tear down the enemy. Plans and policies go haywire when the hivemind, the silent majority, votes against them. The endless options of the North American roadway are shrunk into simple binaries: continue towards Canada, or keep exploring Acadia? We get locked in a stalemate, each side winning in alternating U-turns, the car pacing back and forth along the same stretch of highway for hours, going nowhere. And then election fraud—bots pour in, hundreds of them, thousands even, overwhelming the vote, banishing the car to an island. Perhaps the only way to overcome the opposition is to use the tools of our enemy—counterbots flood the polls. It gets worse before it gets better, and finally, the system that allowed manipulation—not out of malicious intent, but simply as a consequence of unforeseen abuse—at last, that system changes, safeguards fall back into place, and once the external threat is gone, we turn on one another again.