Poof! You're a mango! You sit in your tree and sunbathe. No one comes to pick you off your tree to eat you and you're happy. Until one day you hear a "snap", and you plummet ten feet to the ground. No major damage- you're good.
Then you rot. Bummer.
I wish technology didn't hate me.
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"Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named . . . but a DYING culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
-- Robert Heinlein in Friday
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