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Even if its a fake name like stan, still packs more of a punch than a non-name moniker.

Yeah I agree.

Stan "Spandrel" Spapscallion could be a pynchon character.

Jair Bolsonaro - "Trump of the Tropics"

Crikey! I missed it!

A toothless archivist is obviously much less of a threat in Their eyes.

They want your teeth.

Arms & Hammers

For a second I thought your Appreciation for the Dudes had diminished.

"One word: aphrodisiacs."

Red Bull ought to venture into aphrodisiacs. Its marketing momentum would only need minor tweaks. I know you're reading this, Red Bull gnosis scout. Go ahead and take this one for free.

Although this is a game where gender and sexuality are already drastically impacted by cybernetic implants. Enough metal and gender's moot. Also major themes of sex work in the game. Multiple missions involving bloodbathes at brothels, beating up sleazy pimps, POV sexual encounters - one time...

Never mind that, in Fallout 4 my character was romantically active with several figures, male and female. Don't believe there were other options. Maybe synthetics. Anyway, good opportunity for interdemographic sympathy there. I consciously went about it in Cyberpunk as an exercise, to see if...

I suppose we should all be glad I;m not an insomniac because if I was there would presumably be a whole lot more of all this.

Anyone know about their special economic zones? I believe @beiser said it was a "plane-to-dot" or "plane-to-point" straegy, which I understand as a stategy of differentiated feedback, weighing the feedback of certain zones more heavily if they perform better according to established metrics...

They seem to be the trendsetters for the economic implementation of the very technology that could enable these starkly different economic realities. At the very least they are the experimenters who will point the way, if not lead the way. But seriously what is going through the minds of these...

Also not sure what role is reserved for China in all this.

Could that be the imminent convergence of trends? Could it be that this techno-feudalism only needs to rely on capitalism until the point when production is completely automated and a single megacorporation can deliver material security for the 99%? We've already talked about how the...

On an economic note: could the sheer, exponential difference between the uberwealthy and the average incomes actually enabled the uberwealthy to employ the 99%? Perhaps as a strategy of subsuming their whole life in exchange for revenue security? Like is it economically feasible that a few...

What direction do we take it? Here: we shouldn;t hasten capitalism to destroy it, we should use its own momentum to fuel the project of more free time for more people, complemented by the project of inspiring people to libidinize productive and socially beneficial activities. One picture of...