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:Business leaders discovered surprising opportunity..
:Business leaders discovered surprising opportunity..
:It's now possible to
:It's now possible to build a furniture facility and staff it entirely with people who experience transcendence when monitoring chair parts for defects!
:Build a furniture facility and
:Staff it entirely with
:People who experience
:Transcendence when
:Monitoring chair parts
:For defects!


:Soon, regular people were less able to find work
:Soon, regular people were less able to find work
:It says here you have 25 years of
:It says here you have 25 years of experience at all levels of engine repair, but your psych profile doesn't say anything about an erotic attraction to unpaid overtime.
:Experience at all levels of engine repair,
:But your psych profile doesn't say anything
:About an erotic attraction to unpaid overtime.


:But-
:But-
:I'm sorry.
:I'm sorry.


:The strange people were clustered by type,
:The strange people were clustered by type,
:Sometimes I lie awake at
:Sometimes I lie awake at night fantasizing about a more efficient cardboard box design.
:Night fantasizing about
:A more efficient
:Cardboard box
:Design.


:Marry
:Marry me.
:Me.


:And more average people didn't possess the resources to have children,
:And more average people didn't possess the resources to have children,
:I wish I'd married a real man, with pathological desire to
:I wish I'd married a real man, with pathological desire to find multiple uses for leftover industrial cellulose!
:Find multiple uses
:For leftover
:Industrial
:Cellulose!


:I won't
:I won't have this argument again, I won't!
:Have this argument again, I won't!


:As the baseline human being became stranger, the outliers became
:As the baseline human being became stranger, the outliers became ever more use useful.
:Ever more use useful.


:It says here you have 50 years of experience in plumbing, but none
:It says here you have 50 years of experience in plumbing, but none of your extremities are shaped like Allen wrenches.
:Of your extremities are shaped
:Like Allen wrenches.


:But-
:But-


:I'm
:I'm sorry.
:Sorry.


:Humanity speciated into endless forms most functional-
:Humanity speciated into endless forms most functional-
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:When the time came to merge with our tools, there was no humanity left in us to oppose the change.
:When the time came to merge with our tools, there was no humanity left in us to oppose the change.
:We want to put some electrodes
:We want to put some electrodes on your cerebellum so you're no longer able to stop thinking about industrial solvents.
:On your cerebellum so you're no
:Longer able to stop thinking
:About industrial solvents.


:My whole life
:My whole life has been leading up to this moment.
:Has been leading
:Up to this moment.


:There are no machines. There is no nature.
:There are no machines. There is no nature. Only the drive to ever greater heights of productivity,
:Only the drive to ever greater heights
:Of productivity,


:It's better this way.
:It's better this way.
:Can you imagine what it was like being distracted by love, hope, and beauty
:Can you imagine what it was like being distracted by love, hope, and beauty when you really needed to focus on making smoother Beryllium spheres?
:When you really needed to focus on making smoother
:Beryllium
:Spheres?


:What a
:What a nightmare
:Nightmare


==Votey Transcript==
==Votey Transcript==

Latest revision as of 14:11, 10 May 2024

specialization
People who say we'll become one with the machines should really specify the machines they're talking about.
Title text: People who say we'll become one with the machines should really specify the machines they're talking about.

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Written by: Zach weinersmith
Art by: Abby howard
According to sociology, about 5% of human beings are super weird.
Average
Weird
These guys
As the human population grew, the absolute quantity of super weird people expanded.
I've just calculated a 73% Sturdier bricklaying pattern that would also require fewer bricks
Business leaders discovered surprising opportunity..
It's now possible to build a furniture facility and staff it entirely with people who experience transcendence when monitoring chair parts for defects!
Soon, regular people were less able to find work
It says here you have 25 years of experience at all levels of engine repair, but your psych profile doesn't say anything about an erotic attraction to unpaid overtime.
But-
I'm sorry.
The strange people were clustered by type,
Sometimes I lie awake at night fantasizing about a more efficient cardboard box design.
Marry me.
And more average people didn't possess the resources to have children,
I wish I'd married a real man, with pathological desire to find multiple uses for leftover industrial cellulose!
I won't have this argument again, I won't!
As the baseline human being became stranger, the outliers became ever more use useful.
It says here you have 50 years of experience in plumbing, but none of your extremities are shaped like Allen wrenches.
But-
I'm sorry.
Humanity speciated into endless forms most functional-
Automotive reparians
Chemical enginese
Computer Programmerfolk
Tap-a
Tap-a
Tap-a
Tap-a
When the time came to merge with our tools, there was no humanity left in us to oppose the change.
We want to put some electrodes on your cerebellum so you're no longer able to stop thinking about industrial solvents.
My whole life has been leading up to this moment.
There are no machines. There is no nature. Only the drive to ever greater heights of productivity,
It's better this way.
Can you imagine what it was like being distracted by love, hope, and beauty when you really needed to focus on making smoother Beryllium spheres?
What a nightmare

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Soooo happy.

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