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chapstick1520 t1_j6kyi2h wrote

Not fairly easy to avoid. 2/3 of the global population has HSV1 and 1/6 HSV2.

If you’re scared of both, you’re cutting your dating pool much smaller than someone with it. 80-90 percent of people that have it are asymptomatic. I’m one of them and doing just fine.

FYI chickenpox is also a lifelong illness. So is mono. We don’t think anything about those.

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Jonxor t1_j6kx7fm wrote

Somebody please get this person some interesting things to do on the internet.

Like did you know there used to be a server called “towel.blinkenlights” with some other domain where if you connect using the “telnet” protocol, it plays a little movie someone made with ascii art? There are a ton of awesome places on the internet like that, but they are hard to find. Who else has some classic stuff?

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khamelean t1_j6kwy4k wrote

But the reason “libraries are basically pointless these days” is because most of what is available at the library is also available on the internet.

For your point to hold, you would have to say that libraries were basically pointless 60 years ago.

Not to mention that the “repository of knowledge” thing is only one other part of the internet.

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