“How bad can this virus make things?”
“In a nation completely dependent on computers? It could mean disaster,” he said.
/points at nuclear power plants going critical and dams releasing all the water from their reservoirs. Power grids shutting down in cascade failure. Gasoline supply stopping. Food delivery stopping. Telecommunications stopping. Civilization as we know it will end.
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It’s not *that* bad.
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Ooooh. Oooh. Eeeeh! Eeeeeh! Uuuuh.
APE: Those humans. They don’t even know how to speak.
The world wouldn’t come to the end because of a few computer slowdowns. America had run just fine without computers for several hundred years; surely, it wouldn’t crash and burn before they could clear Eugene of murdering his boss.
“Tell me about it. Now, if they’d only send Ralph out to be fixed,” Lois replied.
Maybe if she told Lex that the horndog made a pass at her in the supply closet.
“Yeah, you know him. He hears sirens and takes off running. Kind of like you, only without the doggy drool.

Michael