Taken from Reddit comment thread in July:

Were you upset when people Googled instead of getting in their horse and buggy to journey to the library to consult the scrolls on topics instead, too?

Things should be arbitrarily difficult. We shouldn’t use technology.

As a matter of fact, look at how little effort you’re using to communicate. You should be writing hand-written letters to my house with your responses, and summoning a runner to deliver them to me. How fucking lazy, what absolute slop.

It is enraging to see people with such a lack of self-awareness, a lack of education, a lack of understanding the context of history and how this relates to past events. It really just comes down to people not liking change, it scares their small little brains, scares their worldview. So they make snarky, passive-agressive comments where they can, or if they’re more outwardly brave, they make the daring sacrifice to put NIMBY signs about datacenters in their backyard.

Change is coming. Technology is coming. It’s ironic, because you didn’t mind it up to a certain point – just not any further, because you draw an arbitrary line. That’s not being intellectually consistent or honest, that’s being emotional and deceptive.

I guess calculators are slop machines too. I guess math is only valuable if we do long division by hand, huh?

• Written from my own brain, with my own fingers, on a keyboard slop machine; sorry for not using a quill and parchment, hopefully it’s not too “slop” for you, and took enough “effort” to arbitrarily be valuable.