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You want human things? Put down the technology and go and connect with some humans.

But yes, the original poster with their allusions to lost limbs and "pointless swinging in a vast, unquantifiable emptiness.." is overreacting, depressed or both.

The slop will continue until it is no longer profit-making for someone.

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Appeals to individualism and capitalism, why am I not surprised.

It's worked so well in the past, surely it will work this time.

The fact that profit motives exist and motivate people isn't an "appeal to capitalism", it's just a statement of reality. The best way to stop slop is to put it out of business. People don't make slop for social prestige.

> is overreacting, depressed or both.

even if it is, that is their feelings. your outright dismissal of them is far more sad in my opinion than their feelings. lack of empathy is a truly sad state.

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