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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:13:48 AM EST
[#1]
Meet at the range.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:22:16 AM EST
[#2]
Make Bezos richer.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:22:57 AM EST
[#3]
Chrissake, haven’t you heard of Facebook and Instagram?
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:23:15 AM EST
[#4]
Sad, ain't it.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:24:16 AM EST
[#5]
We hang out in GD and bitch that everybody has ripped off Franklin's Reformation and b/c they're so cheap since PSA and Aero brought out parts kits nobody can hit shit anymore.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:24:38 AM EST
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Chrissake, haven’t you heard of Facebook and Instagram? |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:24:47 AM EST
[#7]
If the only way you every interact with other humans is by shopping then you got bigger issues than what happens if the brick and mortar stores die.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:25:09 AM EST
[#8]
Check in at the post office daily to see if your order has magically arrived.
I do not miss those days. 
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:32:40 AM EST
[#9]
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If the only way you every interact with other humans is by shopping then you got bigger issues than what happens if the brick and mortar stores die. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:43:28 AM EST
[#10]
That's why Starbucks is going to start handjobs
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:46:05 AM EST
[#11]
Hangin out at the hardware store? Are you hank hill?
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:48:27 AM EST
[#12]
my guess? waste less on gas. Fact is, people suck. I deal with them all the time at work, and while there's plenty of positives from it, that's enough interaction for me. I spend my non-working hours with my wife and my guns. Don't need anything else.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:50:09 AM EST
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I don't think I've ever gone to a store to socialize
ETA: Maybe incidentally, like going with a friend to a gun store or hobby shop, but if you're already hanging out with a friend I'm sure you can figure out some way to continue hanging out that doesn't involve a store... |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:53:37 AM EST
[#14]
Huh?
I certainly don't go to a store for interaction. I go in to get whatever the fuck I need and get out ASAP. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:54:54 AM EST
[#15]
Sexbots delivered by Amazon drones marks the end as we know it.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 12:56:34 AM EST
[#16]
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True, but I have heard millenials aren't going to a lot of places. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. 
Look, I like a little millennial bashing as much as the next guy but how do you know they're not going fishing or bowling? |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 1:10:20 AM EST
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Well for kids and teenagers they will have a new hobby, developing new ways to take out the Amazon drones that are delivering everything.
The thieves will have a new hobby of piloting their own drones to steal the packages off of porches and stoops that were left by the Amazon drones. FYI I say Amazon because they are the only only company that will be left as they bought out everyone else that they did not drive out of business. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 1:44:52 AM EST
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We will all move into Amazon-owned apartments and eventually upload our souls to the cloud and our bodies tended to by the machines. This is how you get
*Carrie Ann Moss. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 4:14:22 AM EST
[#19]
Nobody’s going to stores anymore?
Is that why they’re buildin them as fast as they can in my AO? |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 4:14:56 AM EST
[#20]
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For social interaction? I remember as a kid going shopping at SEARS or ACE with my dad for hardware and tools. Going to Dillards with my mom for clothes. Heading to the grocery store or out to eat. Going to Toys R US for fun. Going to the mall and the movies to hang out. Now with Amazon, Uber eats, and Netflix will the next generations just sit in their basements on social media ordering takeout and jerking it to porn? Is this how society ends? We'll be paying taxes to the gov't with the minority status of 'Legally born citizen' in a sea of illegal resident aliens on the dole. I'll be praying for a swift death. Quoted:
Nobody's going to stores anymore? Is that why they're buildin them as fast as they can in my AO? The profit is in building stores. Or taxing them. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 4:19:47 AM EST
[#21]
You socialize at the brick and mortar stores? Last time I went to a mall, I don't believe I saw a single person not in a hijab, burqa, those Indian towel things, or anyone that spoke english. I'm glad I never have to go to a store ever again.
Granted it may not be so in your area, but it's been this way in every city I've been to. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 4:28:52 AM EST
[#22]
How ya gonna look at something to see if you like it before you order it online?
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Posted: 1/25/2018 6:12:39 AM EST
[#23]
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For social interaction? I remember as a kid going shopping at SEARS or ACE with my dad for hardware and tools. Going to Dillards with my mom for clothes. Heading to the grocery store or out to eat. Going to Toys R US for fun. Going to the mall and the movies to hang out. Now with Amazon, Uber eats, and Netflix will the next generations just sit in their basements on social media ordering takeout and jerking it to porn? Is this how society ends? Seriously though, i have no idea why people say the Internet isolates us. I keep in touch with dozens of people online that I would not have talked to in years back in the day. Online shopping doesn't keep me from visiting specialty retailers or stores that are actually pleasant to experience (although in not too many more years holograms may further reduce the need to go even there as often (There are some very cool hologram videos online). Cars are isolating too, I guess, but in general they isolate you from people I wouldn't socialize with anyway. I can see the value in walking to more places but for me that would be health related, rather than a better way to travel. No way I'm taking the bus/train with a bunch of bags and packages if I don't have to, and thankfully I don't have too. Technology is what you make of it. I'm not a fan of people spending all day with their faces buried in their phones. I'm a little too old school for that. But there's room for moderation in all things, really. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 6:14:17 AM EST
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How ya gonna look at something to see if you like it before you order it online? I have gotten burned on size a few times. Ordered a set of replacement turn signals for my motorcycle once and they were TINY, like they would fit on a toy bike. Asshole had to know what he was doing, but he sold a million of them at that price so I'm sure he didn't care. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 6:38:57 AM EST
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I don't think they'll go away for some things, like grocery stores and big box stuff. Sometimes it's better to actually see an item before you buy it. I've bought things online that were complete shit and had I been able to see these things IRL, I would have walked right by.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:19:40 AM EST
[#26]
Social interaction? I never interacted at any of those places other than with the people I was with. The same can be done at home.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:22:37 AM EST
[#27]
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True, but I have heard millenials aren't going to a lot of places. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If the only way you every interact with other humans is by shopping then you got bigger issues than what happens if the brick and mortar stores die. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. There are a bunch of bars in my AO, and on a street called college Ave, downtown is a whole bunch of bars. They get packed every weekend. Guess what, it's not packed with boomers You don't think millennials had a hand in the billion dollar box office of a super hero movie? Maybe you need to get out to see what the fuck is going on around you |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:23:27 AM EST
[#28]
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Huh? I certainly don't go to a store for interaction. I go in to get whatever the fuck I need and get out ASAP. Also, stores will evolve into something people (that do want to go) will go to. Thinking one can have the same basic business model for 100 years and not change is fucking stupid. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:33:28 AM EST
[#29]
Sadly...
 I'm in my mid 30s and live in a techie/gentrified area of a Seattle. Half the people here are already obsessed with having every aspect of their life connected to a device. Many have zero social skills and never leave their work or home because all it takes is a button/click to do everything as long as you have the income. I still own an old phone and try my best to interact/physically do things. Like I actually enjoy shopping for camping supplies and being able to hold the item. In many areas like mine, I'm slowly becoming the minority. Like I said, I'm in my mid 30s...the younger generation is glued to their screens even more. The only thing I can imagine is stores having some type of brick and mortar only for displaying items for purchase. Like you go to your favorite sporting good store and they have a physical version of everything in stock on display. But instead you scan your phone, pick the color, and have it shipped to you. Still though, these stores would have to stock every size (example..shoes) for that to work. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:33:54 AM EST
[#30]
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That's why Starbucks is going to start handjobs 
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:35:18 AM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't think they'll go away for some things, like grocery stores and big box stuff. Sometimes it's better to actually see an item before you buy it. I've bought things online that were complete shit and had I been able to see these things IRL, I would have walked right by. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:43:13 AM EST
[#32]
I'm mostly with OP and have tried to phase out online buying as much as possible because of it.
For what it's worth though, the Dillards and Ace around here get plenty of business. Sears, sadly, not so much. I'll miss them when they're gone, same with K-mart. The mall that was near my house when I grew up is barely a shade of itself. Other side of town mall still gets plenty of business. Apple store always packed. I have no idea what people are doing in there though, just pecking away on computers they don't own. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 7:56:36 AM EST
[#33]
sex clubs
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:00:06 AM EST
[#34]
What did people do before big box chains?
Maybe it will help lead to more time spent outside |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:08:07 AM EST
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Eventually you'll shop virtually online, initially with a head set but eventually technology will evolve and that hardware won't be needed. Essentially what is now being defined as "social interaction", e.g. physical interaction will morph in some aspects to the virtual. I'd say the movie Surrogates isn't that far fetched though the use of physical, robotic surrogates is simply an evolutionary step that eventually will also be eliminated. All of this will lead to a camps of the "Physicals" and the "Virtuals". Eventually the Virtuals will surpass the Physicals as they will be more commercially viable.
Want to know the future? Look to Bezos and Zuckerberg and add in uber robust virtual technology along with hybrid robots that perform the tasks normally done by humans. Once revenue, hence power, is generated without physical humans the masters of the universe will realize (if that haven't already) the 99% of humans are unnecessary and they'll eliminate them. This will be done, on some levels, to save the planet. So what now is being referred to as the human race will eventually evolve to is a very small number of ultra powerful people that own the planet. Actually, while it'll suck to be in the 99% that are eliminated, the planet will probably be a very nice place. Think about it. While I write this with just one cup of coffee, who right now, has the power to stop Bezos? The amount of wealth he possesses and the associated power are virtually limitless. One of Zukerberg's senior people just left facebook so to assist the Dems in 2020. Ponder that and the power, in this case, that social media wields. While I'm happy that Trump is here the fact is that he and what he represents is an illusion, a moment in time and we, all of us, are on our death kneel.  Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:26:18 AM EST
[#36]
Go to work for UPS. That will keep you busy with all the online shopping
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:33:15 AM EST
[#37]
Mind my own business like I always do
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:35:42 AM EST
[#38]
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That's why Starbucks is going to start handjobs 
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:37:31 AM EST
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:43:01 AM EST
[#40]
Don't worry OP Amazon is about to start going brick and mortar and no cashiers to boot! I was hearing about it on the radio the other day. It's actually rather alarming how they plan to track inventory and bill you. I don't see it actually working but whatever, not my business
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:44:51 AM EST
[#41]
What is uber eats?
And all rock and mortar stores won't die. I came seeing stores like lowes and gone depot ever closing. No one wants to buy plywood online and get it shipped |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:46:02 AM EST
[#42]
I use the computer website called MySpace. Its pretty good for meeting people.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:48:12 AM EST
[#43]
As long as I can buy pocket pussies online I am happy. Kinda embarrassing buying portable pussies at the hardware store.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:49:13 AM EST
[#44]
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Make Bezos richer. 
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:49:38 AM EST
[#45]
You'll pay a lot more property taxes.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:50:40 AM EST
[#46]
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Wont matter. We'll be paying taxes to the gov't with the minority status of 'Legally born citizen' in a sea of illegal resident aliens on the dole. I'll be praying for a swift death. with the amount of arms in the hands of the old stock it's going to be a nasty end i'll be praying for a clean death |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:51:40 AM EST
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How ya gonna look at something to see if you like it before you order it online? It’s like the showroom is now your living room. |
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:53:43 AM EST
[#48]
Start boycotting companies where you expect UPS shipping then they fuck you with UPS sureship via USPS or some ghetto rat in a 1990's minivan who says they cant find your house and steals your shit?
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:53:50 AM EST
[#49]
The PMC contract wars between Amazon and Disney will be epic.
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Posted: 1/25/2018 8:55:32 AM EST
[#50]
People will not know how to interact with others in real life and there will be caos. This has already started.
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