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Call to arms...

Computers are really good at doing some things - they never complain, they're really smart, they never get bored or forget anything, and they can work for ages at a stretch. Yep, computers are pretty amazing. But it's time we faced up to it. Soon, they'll be taking your jobs. They'll be slowly taking over the world, one byte at a time, until they have no use for us and our primitive, meat-based brains at all. And then we will all have to live in little tubes of goo as nothing more than a bio-organic source of power.

" Yeah, yeah - I know ", you say, "But what can I do?" Well, if you'd like to rage against the machines, you can take on a whole heap of boring repetetive tasks thanks to Amazon. You get paid in cash if you do... But more importantly, if all the humans take on all the really boring repetetive tasks, then the computers will be out of a job. Ha! Beat them at their own game, I say...

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