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+Why do you hate people on TikTok so
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+much?
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+Is it just portrait orientation?
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+Inhale when you're- Ha!
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+I get it!
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+He's mentally ripped off!
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+Whoa, whoa!
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+I could pick out plenty of low quality
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+garbage on TikTok, say, this is what's on
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+TikTok and that's why TikTok is bad, just
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+as easily as I could cherry pick high
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+quality stuff and say, this is what's on
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+TikTok and that's why TikTok is great.
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+I know saying anything negative about TikTok gets
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+me branded as old, so let me pull
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+out a reference that's even older than me.
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+Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap.
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+That's not the problem.
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+I don't hate people or content on TikTok.
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+Well, I do, but not any more than
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+the same for any other platform.
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+I hate TikTok.
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+We should all make that sort of distinction.
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+We should treat technology platforms as tools people
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+use rather than gatherings of people.
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+When you let a platform become a place,
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+and then your place, it feels like your
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+home, and now it has a hook in
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+you.
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+I don't know if people still have a
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+feeling of a home forum.
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+I won't bore you with mine, but I'll
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+say that even now, NWS feels right and
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+NSFW feels weird.
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+So what?
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+You may say.
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+Cultures emerge, something, something, diversity, etc.
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+Microcosms of culture are all well and good,
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+but that's not what's happening on modern social
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+media.
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+Every interaction with other people is mediated through
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+an algorithm, often labeled AI for marketing reasons,
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+that sorts you into a group of like
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+-minded people, and shields you from dissent.
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+An account on a website is not membership
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+in a community, it's placement within a market
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+segment.
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+I'd argue that the acronym NWS counts as
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+slang.
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+We might know some TikTok slang.
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+How about the euphemism on Alive?
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+It's a subcategory of slang called algo-speak.
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+Saying the word murder worries platform owners that
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+you'll offend the delicate sensibilities of shareholders, so
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+TikTok censors the concepts they don't want you
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+to discuss.
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+At the risk of starting an internet argument,
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+censorship is bad, and stopping you from saying
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+something is censorship.
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+We are witnessing censorship and pitiful attempts to
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+circumvent it right now.
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+If you have something to say about some
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+unfavorable topic, perhaps the Tiananmen Square Massacre, yet
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+you feel attached to TikTok like it was
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+your home, you dance around the topic to
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+fly under the radar of the censors.
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+In doing so, you're self-censoring.
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+Imagine if TikTok had some way to ask
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+you if you're interested in the current trending
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+thing, like Twitter's trending topics.
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+Now imagine that there's an approaching protest for
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+an extradition bill, but ByteDance doesn't want you
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+mentioning it.
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+The meme would be to instead say something
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+boring like tax return extension.
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+Spreading awareness is not going to happen, but
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+people perform the meme because what they care
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+about is their fame on TikTok.
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+A place is made for you, and all
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+it asks is that you let them have
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+your speech.
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+In the technology sector, the way to make
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+money is to blatantly do something evil and
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+call it innovation.
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+Have you heard the most irritating phrasal template,
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+as-a-service?
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+Minimal version for any grass-touching griddle critters?
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+When you make some software thing for people,
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+there's inevitably a technology stack, like this one.
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+You would buy these things, and then have
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+them.
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+What a concept.
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+What if you gave money to the vendor,
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+repeatedly, forever, and then they didn't give you
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+the networking, storage, servers, or virtualization?
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+Let them handle all that for you.
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+That is infrastructure-as-a-service.
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+What if you're on a higher tier of
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+this infinite payment model, and also the vendor
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+didn't let you touch the operating system, any
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+middleware, or the runtime?
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+Let them handle all that for you.
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+That's platform-as-a-service.
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+What if your subscription was a bit more
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+expensive, and they owned your data and applications
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+too?
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+Let them handle all that for you.
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+That's software-as-a-service.
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+Generally, the allure is that it's a lower
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+startup cost and outsource complexity.
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+Sure, you can't take your stuff elsewhere, but
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+as long as they never alter the deal,
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+the math works out.
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+The problem is, as ever, conflicting incentives.
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+You want to build a thing that makes
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+money elsewhere, but the platform wants to make
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+money from you.
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+So if you want to connect technologies, build
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+off each other, of course the platform wants
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+to jump in the way and charge you
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+for it.
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+That's what it does.
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+Notice, once a platform owner has its hooks
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+in you, you own less and less.
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+In the past, there have been game mods
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+that spawned genres of video games.
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+You'd better believe that if you try that
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+again, the game's publisher will be taking ownership
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+of that idea from you, thank you very
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+much.
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+Twitter users, or twits, or ex-people, have
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+been complaining about how it's dead, for real
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+this time, for the majority of its existence.
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+A constant cycle of the platform finding new
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+ways to suck, people threatening to leave, and
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+then not leaving.
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+Now, realistically, Twitter is no stranger to jokes
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+and hyperbole about leaving the hell site forever.
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+If you're a Twitter executive, the message is
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+clear.
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+People will accept whatever you do to them,
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+as long as you're slow enough.
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+YouTube has the same pattern.
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+Its history is a litany of shifting creators'
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+Adsense money over to copyright squatters, while encouraging
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+worse and worse content.
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+Twitch, the company built on South Korean StarCraft
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+streamers, which pulled out of Korea because it's
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+too expensive, might as well send everyone a
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+handwritten note to say, leave our platform.
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+No one will.
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+It's a classic problem.
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+On YouTube, people view Rumble as a place
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+filled with undesirable exiles.
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+To be fair, there's plenty.
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+Twitchists and ex-people make up reasons for
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+themselves to view the users of their platform's
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+rivals as their own enemies.
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+When you think of yourself not as a
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+creator of static video content, but rather as
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+a YouTuber, YouTube rests on that loyalty.
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+That's way easier than doing anything to implement
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+moderation features like what Twitch has.
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+All they have to do is let you
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+tell yourself there's barbarians at the gates.
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+If you have the inexplicable addiction to Twitter
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+that the world seems to have, you won't
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+dream of being able to post 1024 characters
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+at a time, like we've been doing on
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+Mastodon this whole time.
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+Or you might say something dumb like this.
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+Good luck finding a site that isn't owned
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+by an ethically compromised billionaire.
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+Without realizing that a communication network doesn't have
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+to be centralized under one man's portfolio.
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+So you don't have to weigh the choice
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+of ditching your entire social circle against contributing
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+to the property of someone leaning hard into
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+fascism.
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+What if, rather than platform barons trying to
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+take everything they can from you, they spent
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+that effort trying to take from each other?
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+We could federate them together.
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+But I'll spare you a second episode of
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+Fediverse Evangelism.
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+You know what was federated well before the
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+Fediverse was built?
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+Email.
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+Servers talk to each other, and your email
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+address is you at server.
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+Amazing.
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+There's a reason that happened.
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+Socially well-adjusted normal people were forced to
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+use email.
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+To help them understand, they were told it's
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+like writing a letter.
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+So manager types the world over decided that
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+Thank you for sending me an electronic mail.
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+224
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+It has come to my attention that you
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+00:09:00,166 --> 00:09:02,116
+aren't using official company letterhead.
+
+226
+00:09:02,383 --> 00:09:05,366
+This is unprofessional and reflects poorly on our
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+corporate image.
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+Please rectify this immediately.
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+229
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+That's based on a true story.
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+230
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+A common one, surely.
+
+231
+00:09:15,016 --> 00:09:17,533
+Unfortunately, people think of that as a story
+
+232
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+typical of email, and treat email accordingly.
+
+233
+00:09:21,450 --> 00:09:22,700
+But the technology is irrelevant.
+
+234
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+That's a story typical of communication with soulless
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+235
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+business husks.
+
+236
+00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,850
+Nevertheless, rest in peace, email.
+
+237
+00:09:30,433 --> 00:09:31,466
+Greatness squandered.
+
+238
+00:09:33,566 --> 00:09:35,833
+You and I could send one-word emails.
+
+239
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+We could email memes.
+
+240
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+But its association with a workplace chains it
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+to miserable connotations.