The Sickos discuss shittification, a process by which the world is not only made worse, but the prospect of improving to the previous level is made impossible. This has been happening for our entire lives but is really supercharged lately with the 1-2 punch of dumbass AI content generators and massive fucking layoffs. Shit sucks folks
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