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Peanut President posted:That's dumb too, don't get me wrong I'm just seeing some "THE KIDS ARE BEING RUINED" like we weren't. It isn’t about the kids per se; it’s that marketing truly is more ubiquitous and insidious than before. It isn’t just that people are emulating influencers: they are simulating marketing in a hyperreal sense. The end game here is eliminating the distinction between personal expression and advertising entirely. Once again the cyberpunk dystopia is revealing itself to be less Neuromancer and more Snow Crash
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Dec 21, 2018 12:44
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Outrail posted:Are they giving out free samples or what? it is illegal literally everywhere except the u.s. and, for some reason, new zealand
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Feb 17, 2019 02:10
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:yeah it's typically a rule set by the employer to make it a request like anyone else I had a doctor pull out her phone to look up what vaccinations I needed for my vacation right in front of me during a visit, and while at the time I thought it was shady, on further consideration it really is for the best that doctors not pretend to be inscrutable demi-gods.
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Mar 1, 2019 23:40
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Phone posted:i mixed up tense and verb when reading because im bad at it (reading) habitual be is an aspect not a tense marker 
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Apr 23, 2019 20:42
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:the car needs warshed One washes one's breeches in a creek, and you warsh your britches in a crick.
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Apr 23, 2019 21:05
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:possible and will absolutely be the case in China, where there is no bill of rights. All nationalities in the People's Republic of China are equal. The state protects the lawful rights and interests of the minority nationalities and upholds and develops a relationship of equality, unity and mutual assistance among all of China's nationalities. Discrimination against and oppression of any nationality are prohibited; any act which undermines the unity of the nationalities or instigates division is prohibited. yeah doesnt really make a difference
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Jun 12, 2019 21:33
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succ posted:Toys R Us employees left their names at the store where they worked Toys R Us was still profitable when it went under, by the way. They just couldn’t afford to service the massive debt that private equity raiders had arbitrarily saddled it with. Yet every single news article talked about a shifting retail landscape, Amazon, etc.
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Jun 24, 2019 20:15
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Ugato posted:and this has been a thing since esports existed supposedly there have been a number of high-skill gamers who streamed who didnt have any interest in coaching but were talked into private gaming lessons for exorbitant costs by extremely rich online nerds, viz. young saudi princes which is an interesting sort of meeting of cyberpunk and theocratic dystopias
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Jul 5, 2019 03:23
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I often think about Snow Crash just because it was trying to be a parody but ended up being far more prophetic than serious cyberpunk
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Aug 1, 2019 11:05
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okay but this is the cool cyberpunk dystopia
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Sep 15, 2019 13:40
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Trabisnikof posted:A tiny tiny amount compared to bitcoin. also coins are way more efficient than paper notes because the tiny lifetime of a highly-circulated note makes it way worse than coin despite being just [linen?-] paper but people in the u.s. still hate dollar coins and will never accept them
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Sep 18, 2019 01:29
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Peanut President posted:you can turn them on and off without having to unscrew them like a caveman really though even if you want ~smart lights~ it makes more sense to just get a wifi switch because with wifi light bulbs, if you use your light switch to turn them off, you can't use any app to turn them back on, because there's no power!
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Oct 10, 2019 05:29
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this is bull!!
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Oct 17, 2019 11:10
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CharlestheHammer posted:that’s not my point my point is dealing with the underlying issue rather than essentially punting the problem down the road a couple decades. por que no los dos? i hardly think accelerationism is going to work for IP, of all things
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Oct 25, 2019 21:22
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Kinda like Jews who rules lawyer around the Sabbath, except evil. Is God really okay with purposely trying to kickstart the apocalypse? this is one of the reasons that many ultra-orthodox jews explicitly oppose Zionism (however since the state of israel is illegitimate anyway, that means theres nothing wrong with using their social services) also lets not forget the most cyberpunk middle eastern apocalypse proposal: the Third Temple as a hologram https://www.wired.com/2004/04/holyland/ quote:Whether it's a hologram or a cyberstructure, Hayutman believes that a techno temple does away with the need for a physical building. Under his scheme, Jews and Christians would get a biblically accurate temple without razing the Dome of the Rock. A description of his plans is on the floppy disk in his pocket, which he says he will give to me when we leave the Mount.
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Jan 7, 2020 04:46
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LastInLine posted:Seriously just spend $30 on a cheap French press, the coffee comes out tasting far better. It's dead simple (1 scoop per cup plus one for the pot, pour in 200°F water, wait four minutes, press slowly) and the coffee is so flavorful and rich you won't need a lot of it. no you should strive to make your coffee in the shittiest possible steampunk dystopia 
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Mar 9, 2020 09:06
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Faux anthropomorphism isn't as bad as, say, a microwave that continues to beep occasionally after it has finished cooking until you open the door. Thou dost not beckon me, machine!
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Mar 15, 2020 21:48
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Let's not forget the litany of self-proclaimed medical experts in D&D who said that there is no possible way that foreign tissue can trigger an autoimmune response, and that while working conditions were deplorable, the lawsuit against QPP was without merit.
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Apr 24, 2020 23:43
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sincx posted:Why don't we have any of the cool poo poo that other dystopias have? its not like the people of Tokyo-3 got to see that kind of stuff any more than we get to see, uh, i dunno whatever's in here 
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Apr 29, 2020 09:26
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duz posted:that swatting in kansas that resulted in a death wasn't even called into the police, it was called into city hall and the moron that answered it freaked out and had the police send everything they had the swatter knew that the police or 911 could track his call and realize it was a fraud so he came up with a different approach in other words, he used more circumspection than the actual shooter
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Apr 30, 2020 16:09
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Platystemon posted:There’s a relative of black pepper called “long pepper”. It’s used in many dishes from India and surrounding countries. it's also used for one of the incredibly pretentious vacpot cocktails i'm interested in replicating but a different even more pretentious vacpot cocktail with dry ice so that it comes out cold...does look a bit cyberpunk, almost like a Culture drug bowl 
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May 4, 2020 11:12
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Hatsune Miku is a fictional popstar that appears as a hologram A fictional popstar that appears as a hologram would be something from a fictional narrative. Hatsune Miku appears as a hologram and is a popstar in real life.
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May 12, 2020 12:36
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May 20, 2020 09:00
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Platystemon posted:gotta love folk legal wisdom like “you can download anything if you delete within twenty‐four hours” or “they have to enforce copyright or they forfeit the right to do so in the future” or “if I disclaim ownership of the copyright in the description, I can post anything on YouTube”. To be fair, just making up what you want the law to say and hoping it sticks is a more accurate reflection of reality than Freeman on the Land-style magic words. It's just that you have to pay lawyers a lot of money to very thoroughly argue for your folk wisdom.
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May 25, 2020 05:56
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It is a copyright violation to load bits from a Compact Disc-Read Only Memory to your computer's Random Access Memory if you do so without agreeing to the terms of the End User License Agreement that grant you a license to copy those bits.
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May 25, 2020 05:59
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It's crazy to think that unlike all the countries that signed onto the Berne Convention in the 80's, the U.S. didn't even do so until the 80's 
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May 25, 2020 06:31
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Truga posted:i still find it insanely funny that pirate got chosen as the word for copyright infringement. who doesn't want to be a pirate? still waiting for a politician to say we need to fight cyber criminals with ambiguous government sponsorship by issuing letters--sorry, digital letters--sorry, ... Emails of Marque
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May 25, 2020 10:24
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"Is this given audio recording old enough that it might conceivably be in the public domain, in fact in the public domain in the United States in America?" is a complex legal question for which there is, to my knowledge, no living human being or organized group with the expertise to reliably produce an answer in a short period of time if there are no restrictions on which era/state/original rights holder you ask about.
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May 25, 2020 23:48
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Xand_Man posted:The Gadsden flag is from the revolutionary war; Tea Party chucklefucks only coopted it in the past decade Aggressive idiotic racists complaining about taxes despite receiving more in services from the government than what they contribute, and also railing against "oppression" despite ultimately being bootlickers--I don't think they're coopting anything. I think they've got our founding ideals straight.
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Jun 2, 2020 08:51
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Dawncloack posted:Pos the funniest examples 
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Jun 7, 2020 22:00
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He was ahead of the curve that it's better to look like JK Simmons than like Kevin Spacey
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Aug 5, 2020 00:32
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Rutibex posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvIky3B661s&t=119s
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Aug 7, 2020 10:11
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HiroProtagonist posted:yes, "colonizers" and "colonized"/"victims of colonialism" are the correct terms and the global south/global north (/west) are just synonyms made up by people (aka thinktanks and OAS, school of americas, etc.) who don't want to invoke the legacy for colonialism as their reason for grouping things accordingly. You do realize that you could say that "XXX"/"YYY" are the correct terms and that "colonizers" and "colonized"/"victims of colonialism" are just synonyms made up by people (aka thinktanks and OAS, school of americas, etc.) who want to deprive countries of any identity independent of exploitation, etc? Global South is a flawed term and every term like Developing World/LDC/G77/G134/NAM/Third World is flawed too because they are all too simplistic, but sometimes people need to communicate simplified ideas without reciting the entirety of Settlers mid-sentence.
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Aug 10, 2020 04:05
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Coolness Averted posted:weren't the zombie pigs a thing last year or in 2018? Like I specifically remember pod drat america joking about pig zombies taking jake's doordash job within the next years when I was driving up to visit family for thanksgiving. Or have they just been able to restore even more brain functions? they actually voluntarily paused research because it was going so incredibly well that they were afraid of the tiniest sliver of a remote chance that they could restore enough brain function to create undead suffering, and felt there needed to be an ethical framework to deal with the issue before the science reached that point doubtless their research will soon be picked up by scientists with no such compunctions (or any compunctions about anything at all ever)
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Aug 13, 2020 19:29
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The Bloop posted:Finally a reliable source of chicken teeth Safe chicken...it's all in the numbers. Number one, that's teratoma. Number two, that's teratoma.
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Aug 15, 2020 02:43
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T-man posted:Being branded by the brand: the story of a demon cracker nation, pub 2420. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9VWuh8XFF0
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Aug 18, 2020 00:07
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Hodgepodge posted:ah, so its fine if nothing changes, because they aren't (necessarily) promoting pedophilia (exclusively) for its own sake? It's not fine but it's also not part of the Soros Machine Bill and Hillary Global Pizza Conspiracy which is how it's actually blowing up
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Aug 22, 2020 06:38
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Shrecknet posted:One of the more prescient (and horrifying) bits in Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age is a throwaway line about a court stenographer wearing AR-type goggles to do stuff. He mentions that this is the first-gen AR tool; second-gen was eyeball implants, which lasted as long as it took for hackers to take them over and blast porn pop-ups directly into your brain, at which point they went back to the goggles that you could, y'know, stop using the most direct sci-fi inspiration for Musk in this case is probably the neural laces used by the Culture, first introduced by M. Banks in Excession, which also features one as an exhibit in a museum of torture devices
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Aug 30, 2020 00:02
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The Nastier Nate posted:What is Groupon trying to tell me? The year is 2020 and it's still more likely than you think.
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Sep 5, 2020 07:12
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christmas boots posted:I wonder how long it is before Amazon offers health plans that only cover Amazon doctors the cyberpunk future doesnt involve private entities asserting territorial sovereignty in place of the government, but instead the erosion of territorial sovereignty itself, where you might have amazon police, your neighbor has google police, the gated community has apple police etc
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Sep 6, 2020 21:47
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