sun_the_second
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Reading that essay, it appears that Duncan's primary error is that he over-values the 10-year-old-self. Liking transformer robots and looking like Jimmy Neutron is no more optimal than liking the process of sex just because liking the process of sex comes later.
Hey, if we're talking megacorps, then presumably the people can pick which megacorp's social credit score they want to maxx. We could have a plausible explanation for the origins of different factions within one city, that way!
Note that I did not and do not claim that not making enough money to ignore the costs of groceries makes one a stupid loser.
I do, however, find this whole waffling distasteful - not merely noting the brokenness of systems but expressing the "chumpitude" of following the rules. Pick one, damn it - either start stealing from self-checkout stores or find some dignity in being a productive and honest member of society.
Russian doesn't have this sound either. That doesn't stop us from using Greek roots.
Many cyberpunk-adjacent works nowadays put focus not just on the oppression, but also on the ignoble state of the people.
Well - social contributions will be worth something, that's the point. We (at the risk of manufacturing consensus) want a UBI society to look like the glass utopia from that one meme where everyone is fit, pleasant and driven, not cyberpunk.
Decent is in the eye of the beholder, and seeing as Elon hasn't stopped making money he clearly doesn't have enough.
Some people like the system more than the setting.
If you're spending your thoughtspace seething about a fat lady getting groceries for free, you're not making decent money.
Only humiliating after you a) realize they were laughing at you, not with you, b) decide that you care.
I disagree. Humiliation requires that the humiliated person is painfully aware that he's being walked all over. To the extent "humiliation" applies, it only applies to the right-wingers who hate the Somalis, not the left-wingers who love them.
Is a human humiliated by his tapeworm?
You may call him stupid for not taking deworming medicine. But humiliated?
Gotta say, Ironman might be the only way to play that kind of game for me because otherwise, I'm in reload hell.
Isaac definitely feels like one of those games that are fun to play but not watch. Northernlion's success of playing Isaac on camera for 10 million episodes is mostly due to his yapping skill.
AFAIK Bill Cosby was canceled for sex stuff and he's black. Is he "coded as a white elite" too? Or are "elite-coded" and "white elite-coded" synonymous?
Not quite the right word, perhaps. Still, is elites being more scrutinized by the public eye such an oddity?
Celebrities get more attention than regular people? Shocker.
Black seed has to be powerful indeed for it to radiate black culture to places which never had a sizeable black population.
As a proud techie-identifying person, I've never bothered remembering constants. You can look those up.
I find it consistent. It's not a costume precisely because it's forced on you for years since childhood and you are socialized into it. I.e. not a choice.
If only the fancy paid models are so great then it appears the AI corps are bad at advertising when they don't hand out free tokens of the good models instead of the shitty models.
In my experience middle-aged Eastern European men have a severely degraded man-dar partially as a consequence of lack of LGBT friendliness in the area. They call me "miss" from time to time when I'm presenting as nothing but male, on account of long hair.
It would make sense when compared with all the old-timey stories of men crossdressing as women and women crossdressing as men and that being enough to fool most people, in the world where gender presentation is hard-coded otherwise.
I don't recall being on a timer when I want to eat an apple.
I don't peel or cut apples, so oranges are far less convenient.
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Historically, it would also come with significant changes in one's legal status to pretend to be chicks and be taken seriously as such.
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