Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Idiocracy is not a Comedy, it's a Documentary" video.

  1. I remember back in 2000, in high school, that to get on the internet at school, you had to know how to open your own socket and tunnel into the ISPs server, then look in an actual 'internet yellowpages' book to find the URL you were looking for. I still remember the day a friend told me about this wild new thing called "google" that could find websites FOR YOU.
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  2. it's why I took my current job in water treatment, and got the highest certs and education available in the US. I've gained the kind of skills that will get me on the ARK at the end of the world. Do you need that attorney, do you need that actor, no, you need people who can create water and food, and doctors to keep people alive. ACTUAL skills suddenly become infinitely valuable. I have absolute confidence in my ability to make any available water safe to drink, because I already do it every day for thousands of people, Mississippi River water is about the worse source to pull from, and we make it happen. You can live just fine without lawyers and politicians and business execs and even teachers, but you won't even make it three days without SAFE water. You'll get thirsty and drink some random liquid and go Oregon Trail, you have died of dysentery. Here's a free lesson: Turbidity, the measure of dirt and sediment present in water affecting it's clarity. The more turbidity, the more places pathogens have to reside and sicken you regardless of disinfection. EPA standard max turbidity for drinking water is 0.3 NTU (nephelometric turbidity units). The human eye, the BEST human eye, is only capable of seeing turbidity at 4.0 NTU and above. Anything under 4NTU looks clear and clean and drinkable. It's not. I could put a lineup of samples in front of you, one actually drinkable, all others not, and you could not tell the difference, nor could I. NO surface water safe, ANY of it, without treatment. And none of this even touches on the other half of water, WASTEWATER, what do you do with and how do your treat your shit? I'm licensed in that too. You can't really do one without the other. This is centuries of knowledge we could lose in an instant in a solar flare.
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  3. Following GPS has gotten me lost FAR more than following my own sense of direction or even intuition. No joke, it never failed a decade ago, I'm taking an unscheduled stop here, ok lets go, wait, why is the GPS telling me to take an entirely different route, recalculating, take this turn instead and travel the next 3 hours...this was a 2 hour drive on the interstate, why are we on f-ing GRAVEL now, oh well it knows better than me, right? Google maps now will default to taking you on the GREENEST route, not the most efficient or fastest route.
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  4. In municipal government america where I work, we grill cheeseburgers and bratwurst every wednesday for our whole office (3 people).
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