Tom sits in his Tesla Model S, still in his driveway. He starts think about this...Really think about it. She's a 24 year old barista at a Philz Coffee in a now dystopian SoMA. She's in nontrivial amounts of debt from her BA in anthropology from some no-name school nr Sacramento.
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She was cute, that much is true, but she was cute. Not pretty, not hot, cute. And she's so judgmental. It doesn't matter what he shares with her, it's like she's already composed some anti-tech response in her head and she's just using him a stage to express it.
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She's an automaton with bad tattoos, whose opinions are preordained by whatever's being discussed on a coterie of Brooklyn podcasters. She hates everything he is, everything he stands for, everything he's worked for. Why should he drive all the way to Ocean Beach to see her?
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His phone lights up: "Tom?"pic.twitter.com/e3eEXCXiuQ
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Another text: "I really want to see you." Text-to-speech: "On my way." He starts driving. It feels like the first time he's really seeing San Francisco, and everything has a different texture. The tents, the filthy streets, the shuttered storefronts.pic.twitter.com/l3f2DEpfu0
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She stands at the entrance of the beach. It's chilly, chillier than usual, and she's cold. But more than cold, she's nervous. Her stomach feels tight, her thoughts are going a mile a minute, she feels like she's going to collapse into herself. Then a red Tesla Model S pulls up.
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She's more than just cute, she's beautiful, even in her oversized ACAB hoodie.
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And he--against all odds--is handsome in his a size-too-small jeans and Hackathon tee he's been hanging onto since high school. This is more than fireworks. This a thousand MOABs going off inside her.
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It's been 4 weeks and 6 days of texting nonstop, 4 weeks and 6 days of staying up until 4am, 4 weeks and 6 days of thinking, "You know, maybe these people really are something special..." They smile at one another. And then his watch chimes.
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Bitcoin just broke $50k.
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