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Al! posted:are crash teams of armed paramedics a william gibson invention? theyre in a bunch of cyberpunk stuff and im beginning to believe the super rich already have them There is references to services like this in Mona Lisa Overdrive as I recall. But yeah Shadowrun springs to mind.
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Aug 30, 2018 03:43
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"By way of deception, thou shalt do war"
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Oct 10, 2018 08:27
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eSports Chaebol posted:it is illegal literally everywhere except the u.s. and, for some reason, new zealand Direct advertising is legal here as a sop to the pharma industry as all our medicines are bought by a govt agency Pharmac, who uses bulk buying and generics to lower drug prices. Literally the only people buying the things shown on the ads are the very rich with private insurance. There are not very many ads here compared to US, mostly the non-critical stuff like dick pills. Every so often the industry floats a story in the media about people being moved to generics as drug go out of patent and Karen is convinced it isn't the same. Big Pharma hates Pharmac.
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Feb 18, 2019 02:56
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im on the net me boys posted:The neonazi Twitter clone "gab" made a browser extension where their users can have their own comment box for any page on the net Good. Scream into the echo chamber for all I care
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Mar 2, 2019 08:57
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And they did this because when they changed the engine to increase range and fuel efficiency, it caused the plane to nose up. Rather than fix these aerodynamics, which would basically mean a new chassis, the opposite of their intent, they fixed it with software. Now the real crime is that the big red warning light for this issue which was known about was sold as an optional extra.
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Mar 19, 2019 20:54
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univbee posted:Canada's been doing something similar but I think the nuances are less bad. No this is "we give you a loan and we take x% of your wages for y years. Planet money did an episode on it here: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510289/npr.streaming.adswizz.com/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2019/03/20190329_pmoney_pmpod903.mp3 If you are unemployed but looking for work your time counts down and I think you receive no garnishment. If you get a super highly paid job you can get out of it quicker. Rates and time differ by major. Generally it is symptomatic but I can see it being better than student loans in your shithole country under some circumstances.
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Apr 8, 2019 15:34
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Coming from a country where a state-owned insurance company handles all cases where ability to work is affected by accidents, I can say this with authority: people lie about long term injury all the time. Usually these are middle class and white collar (white) folk with a "relationship with a doctor". ACC (the aforementioned insurance Co) occasionally leaks photos to the press of someone on long term compensation digging a drainage ditch in the rental property they own. Doing due diligence on long term claims is fine imo, and this seems to only be picking the low-hanging fruit. Although all these problems and more would be solved by a UBI.
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Apr 14, 2019 19:04
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Ok he is probably taking them back to be charged, to be fair.
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Jul 5, 2019 11:31
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sincx posted:Oh gently caress I misremembered Cryptonomicon/ Baroque cycle will always have my heart.
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Aug 1, 2019 08:07
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Yeah but that is just to provide relief  from the pages on Van Eeck Phreaking and early modern financial theory
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Aug 1, 2019 08:29
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Remulak posted:Hi Calibre answer. If this is a pun on a popular ebook manager, then well done
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Sep 4, 2019 06:34
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foobardog posted:If I heard that ad correctly, they're also claiming this is more environmentally sustainable? Than easily recyclable glass? Well you eat the packaging, so yeah Edit: tho it is almost certainly double wrapped in plastic so...
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Oct 5, 2019 13:40
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A scanner darkly
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Oct 14, 2019 06:52
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dreamin of semen posted:I'm not too sure about how bad it is the US, but in Aus the Domino's tracker is kinda concerning. Australia is a testbed for all of the Domino's dystopian pizza tech, for some stupid reason. I will tell you why. It is because Domino's AU is the same company as Domino's NZ and New Zealand is THE country to test all your poo poo. Small, westernized, English speaking country.
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Dec 28, 2019 06:34
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The thing is he is right. I use taxis a fair bit and I fell in love with the Uber UX the moment I saw it. Where I am the taxi fleet was quite deregulized already and competition that was not quite as evil and retarded as Uber popped up and I use them almost exclusively now (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 23, 2020 18:07
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If people don't understand how he got elected in the first place then we will learn nothing
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May 15, 2020 22:39
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Hodgepodge posted:well, as mothers, they'd be sacred Someone didn't read Chapterhouse: Dune
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Jul 3, 2020 22:13
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And converted to imperial smdh
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Jul 6, 2020 01:26
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Chamale posted:Has anyone written a novel yet where the Global South desperately tries this plan to stave off climate-change-induced crop failures, and America bombs the gently caress out of them to make them stop? God I hate this term. It is invariably used by people who think the world just gets hotter the more south you go
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Aug 10, 2020 01:11
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Coolness Averted posted:It was also meant to sell toys to children, so I imagine it has the same authenticity as the Robocop cartoon I watched it a long time ago. It would look pretty bad but not unwatchable. Now authenticity is an interesting word, it is closer to Heinlein then the movies were
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Aug 23, 2020 22:06
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ngl, datajacks have always been my favorite cyberpunk trope ever since my first game of shadowrun
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Aug 29, 2020 02:05
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:The Expanse isn't cyberpunk but it has a form of UBI called Basic. Most of Earth is on Basic, which covers a miserable lifestyle of bare subsistence that most people never escape from. Also there are public lotteries to get education, real jobs (for the proles the elite ofc get a free pass) which are heavily promoted and the recipients constantly pointed too "see they did it just work harder"
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Sep 4, 2020 08:14
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It sounds like a test case. If NASA can buy rocks, they can sell them.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:01
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MRC48B posted:But in-person ballots are somehow immune from fraud, because? Because it doesn't scale. One vote means absolutely nothing, only by systemic fraud can you affect an election.
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Oct 25, 2020 17:34
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This is why any attempt to combat in person voter fraud with poo poo like id requirements is always actually about voter suppression. In person voting fraud doesn't scale. A conspiracy can only vote so many times in a day. The only contests where that few votes matter are going to be recounted and examined closely, at least where I am, recounts are basically automatic where the margin is small enough.
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Oct 30, 2020 08:49
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MonsieurChoc posted:Gold is actually useful as material. It doesn't rust, so good for jewelry and stuff, but also useful in electronics manufacturing. Gold is valuable because it is relatively inert, dense and rare enough to be ideal as a storage material for wealth. Cultures old and new have had different solutions for physical representations of wealth, gold did a pretty good job of it, so it stuck around and spread.
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Nov 10, 2020 19:03
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eSports Chaebol posted:a Jesuit pope is one thing but an Orange Catholic pope is crazy Beat me to it.
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Nov 14, 2020 18:53
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It seems so obvious as to be a truism. Whats the old line "A lie has gone halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on".Controversial and toxic posts are naturally more engaging, to both sides of an argument.
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Nov 24, 2020 23:29
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Vox Nihili posted:Do they get holiday pay? I could see people looking for 1.5x pay hours. No you misunderstand. The store who wins is budgeted additional staff hours, so those employees are not quite so badly overworked.
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Dec 3, 2020 09:27
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T-man posted:"a world where you are judged by what you say and think not by what you look like a world where curiosity and imagination equals power" unironically sounds rad and should be approporiated by leftists. I honestly believe that SA was and is peak posting. Any further and we get 4chan. Any less and it would fade into nothingness around the time everything got zucced
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Dec 9, 2020 11:43
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Brain Curry posted:there is a car in front of you. it is getting closer. YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE IS RISING
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Dec 10, 2020 18:54
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chairface posted:it's kinda funny Shadowrun missed out on having a Shitposter archetype considering their expansion books in the 90s were printed as if they had messageboard commentary on em, replete with flamewars, fuckers doxxing each other and hilarious shitposting. Don't need rules for that. I mean deckers are the archetype, and the fluff for them does talk about this, but in general you shouldn't print rules you don't need in pen and paper RPGs. Mage the Ascension had a rote for Big Red Titles (I think they called it Branding) in either the Virtual Adept tradbook or the Virtual Web sourcebooks
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Dec 17, 2020 21:17
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StashAugustine posted:Jeff Bezos getting laid is a price I'm willing to pay for The Expanse
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Dec 24, 2020 03:31
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lollontee posted:I like The Expanse, good acting and it grows really big over time, even if it takes a bit of meandering to get into the payoff moment inside my Venus It is quality escapism and raises interesting social questions and is scientifically sound, the only thing that we don't have (except for the One Big Lie) today is really efficient engines so we can travel directly to a place instead of using curves to conserve delta v. This kinda poo poo is all that gets me through this poo poo life so I don't care who's vanity project it is.
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Dec 24, 2020 12:36
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Like, the one argument for the existence of the hyperrich that I can even engage with is that they can patronize the arts. TV and movies are the dominant popular art of our time, just because it is popular doesn't mean it is bad. Shakespeare was "pop" in his time, in fact most of his work is based on pirated copies
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Dec 24, 2020 12:43
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Volmarias posted:Those of you who lust for more hard sci-fi concepts may find this site to be an extremely pro click. Ignore the fact that it looks like it was made for Geocities in 2000, and use the index all the way at the very bottom for navigation. Rocketpunk best punk
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Dec 25, 2020 08:49
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So I am a bit of a contrarian, musically so I searched electro swing and it nearly ruined my day. However, Tubgoat posted:: Luckily, it slaps.
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Jan 15, 2021 02:15
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Tubgoat posted:Oof. I'm glad to be quoted but I do not care for electro swing, lol. No I was talking about the industrial band you were talking about
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Jan 15, 2021 03:28
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ekuNNN posted:Can you really patent something that has been so overdone already in sci-fi stories? I'm guessing the actual patent is something technological? I believe that a patent for a waterbed was denied due to 'prior art', being a reasonably detailed description by Robert Heinlein
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Jan 23, 2021 00:26
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Seriously nobody wears shoes in New Zealand. Jandals are our formal footwear
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Jan 25, 2021 08:00
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