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In the 1980s perfect strangers drove you places. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least one guy jumped out of his chair and drove to the track field to pick up the kid they forgot that they were supposed to collect at 9pm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah no doubt. And there were people whose houses burned down because the government didn’t ask about the stoves.

There are always gonna be dangers we can diminish by drawing attention to them.

There are always going to be long-term affects of those repeated attention shifts too, and of the manner in which they happen.