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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately the system has laid the framework for it to destroy itself when automation becomes ubiquitous. Imagine if y2k was inevitable but the engineers who's jobs it was to fix it hands were tied by the software company's forcing them to install more and more bugged software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I wish you were wrong, but unfortunately I think I agree with you.