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Necessity is the mother of invention (not laziness). The internet was invented for surviving nuclear war with Russia.

We say laziness motivates us to become more efficient, but I can’t agree. It’s people who want or need to get things done faster that find innovative and creative ways of doing so.




The threat of nuclear war with Russia was unnecessary. But avoiding it was much, much harder to achieve. So we took the lazy way out, and thus invented the internet along the way in order to maintain the laziest path.




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