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i should learn how to levitate a copper sphere

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie first and foremost about the destruction of minority neighborhoods and public transit by the American car industry. After that, it's a technological milestone. And then it's about cartoons

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While it’s important to recognise where early cyberpunk literature is coming from with respect to its skepticism of body modification, it feels like a lot of folks are basically using that to excuse the ableism of modern cyberpunk.

Yes, it’s true that much of the chrome angst in first-wave cyberpunk literature is explicitly tied to the corporate state’s efforts to abolish personal bodily autonomy, and to the extent that having a robot arm is construed as dehumanising, it’s dehumanising because a corporation owns your arm, not because prosthetics are evil.

However, it’s equally true that the “prosthetics eat your soul” horseshit of later cyberpunk lit is something that popular cyberpunk authors were very much complicit in. They wanted to retain the chrome angst as an aesthetic trapping while dialing back its political dimension in order to better appeal to mainstream audiences; to this end, the idea that having cyborg parts is intrinsically dehumanising was enthusiastically embraced. This isn’t a pop-cultural misunderstanding at work – it’s a shift in attitude that’s present in the literature itself.

Furthermore, that transition happened relatively early in the genre’s history, and was probably the norm rather than the exception no later than the mid 1990s. For those keeping count, that was 25 years ago, which is considerably longer than first-wave cyberpunk managed to remain culturally relevant. Basically, cyberpunk sold out, and it sold out early!

The fact that literary cyberpunk had some interesting things to say about bodily autonomy in 1984 – and that the chrome angst is a core component of that commentary – doesn’t give the genre a free pass for all the subsequent “prosthetics eat your soul“ stuff, and it certainly doesn’t mean that the two thirds of the genre’s entire history can be excused as “not real cyberpunk” on that basis. If you want to constructively address that shit, first you’ve got to own it!

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to smee or not to mo

To lie, to smeep—

to smeep—

perchance to smeem

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the skill of going "jesus i just dont fucking care" and scrolling on

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i feel like people dont think im serious when i say "death to America" but like my ultimate dream is for the USA to no longer exist like of course i dont respect politicians or cops or the law i dont want a "better America" i quite literally do not want the entity known as the United States of America to outlive me

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Jaroslav Panuška (1872–1958) - Vodník, c. 1890-1900

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The fact there’s people who actually think it’s a red flag to not share your passwords with them or let them look through your phone blows my mind like “what do you have to hide” is crazy do you think you’re just not allowed to have privacy if you’re in a relationship. Do you think it’s normal to have a voyeur potentially monitoring your conversations like they’re a conservative Christian homeschool parent indefinitely

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Tucker isn't a fan of thunderstorms.

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yeah i drive the truck that isekais all those lonely 20yo NEETs and bored salarymen. it’s a really hard job. they keep sending me to workplace counselling after each hit. “it’s normal to feel guilt at ending someone’s life,” they say. how do i tell them that’s not what makes me feel guilty? “but it’s okay. he’ll live a better life in another world.” yeah, with 100 girls who could have lived normal lives but got drafted into being in these boring dudes’ harems. how many women’s lives have i ruined. and they don’t even know. they don’t even know

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Hello, Mr Sutton. I have a question for you. Masky (or Tim) If she was a woman at that time, how do you think she would have dressed? Can you explain with visuals or just explain?? :D(I know, it was a ridiculous question. But all of a sudden, you were bored, and I thought of this, and I wanted to ask you. :p)

what makes u think she would dress any different

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He’s a happy guy