Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
Bill Clinton’s “Star Wars” program.
Um… what? Ronald Reagan’s/Bush Sr.'s “Star Wars” program - LASERS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
You’re about a decade off. It was started in the 80s and ended under Clinton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
I mean, they’re all also chasing AI too doesn’t that typically lead to our demise too?
Oh that’s no problem to solve. Just put Asimov’s five laws in your default instructions and your chatgpt bots will never manipulate you into overthrowing human civilization.
Isn’t every book about how the laws don’t work?
Most of the stories deal with edge cases or situations where the laws are untested or altered. They generally do work quite well, though not always as the characters expect.
I, robot is full of examples of the laws not working. I seem to recall one where they removed one of the rules for some mining bots.
Waiting for Sense/Net
Amazon web services
Doesnt sound so evil…
Amazon comes from the Greek meaning ‘breastless’. Trans agenda confirmed 💯💯💯
Maybe not yet … I bet they will soon catch up … Btw in italian Ammazzo means to kill can u see some similarities… 😉
Fuck I hadn’t thought about it.
Theranos sounded like a superhero villain. I guess it kind of was?
I’m not a Christian, but can we start rapturing people away anyway? I gotta get out this bitch.
RAPTURE ME, PLEASE?! I WANT OFF THIS DYSTOPIAN HELLPLANET!
My fucking drunk self, highly agrees with you.
When I think about the fact that Facebook thought it was a good idea to name their online VR platform “the metaverse“ it still breaks my brain a little bit
Pretty much. Welcome to the fucking future I guess. There’s no flying cars and green cities and happiness or bloody universal healthcare, instead we have corpos trying to turn us into their consumer slaves and governments turning authoritarian. Just do what you’re told and buy more. Don’t ask questions don’t think just browse TikTok, improve your social credit score, and imprint more ads into your psyche until WW3.
We’re walking into hell with our eyes wide open fuck me it hurts.
It’s definitely not all the utopia some thought it would be, but it’s also definitely a lot better than the dystopia some predicted. Also, I personally prefer the internet to flying cars.
or bloody universal healthcare
I guess it depends on where you live. It’s not true of the whole world.
Murica. Yeehaw.
I read this with the voice of Johnny Silverhand
Who is just another product of a shitty corporation
There are flying quadcopter taxis testing in Dubai
The only thing really keeping them from flying rich people in from their gated community and landing in the street in front of a restaurant is regulation.
With better battery life they’d be more flexible, but they’re already technically capable, and compact enough.
Also when you try to speak against all this shit people ridicule you and ignore you. If they cant do that easily then its always just apathy and “it is what it is” whining.
Ultimate Marvel’s Gregory Stark was supposed to be a caricature. He’s spot on though.
You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.
California itself has about 517
Acxiom, Experian, TransUnion, Oracle Data Cloud, CoreLogic, Axle, Equifax, Foursquare Labs, Inc., OnAudience, Nielsen, … … … …
Oh and don’t forget the cheeky suckers that explicitly named their nutritional supplement company Soylent Nutrition, Inc.
i do like soylent tho. i’m gonna go shake one up rn
is it better than Huel? Huel tasted awful
Soylent is way better than Huel. I’ve been consuming at least a serving of Soylent a day for the past four or five years, I’ve tried a few different brands including huel and they were all significantly worse than Soylent ready to drink or Soylent powder.
In my experience none of them taste great, but if you make them part of your daily flow you get over it pretty quickly. I’ve heard good things about the newer pre-mixed and flavored ones, but I got to a good place with my nutrition a few years ago and stopped using pretty much all meal replacements.
so I’m curious, do you just not eat any actual food anymore other than Soylent?
its an option, but most ppl do eat food still. simply because they enjoy the taste more.
personally i want to get at least 1000 kcal a day in soylent, so that i’m sure i get SOME of my rdas. otherwise i eat a lot of bean and cheese burritos. they are maybe 1/3 of what i eat besides soylent. the rest is like… whatever my wife makes or fast food.
Exact opposite! I know the language was flowery there but I basically never eat Huel/Soylent anymore
It varies from person to person
i drank a lot of huel. none of the flavors were great (for me).
i switched to soylent this month. the “original” flavor is just completely inoffensive. it reminds me of milk. i just hit 1080 kcal on soylent today.
i did get some of the strawberry flavor that mixes into it. that was very good, but i don’t need it every day. i’m happy just to drink the original.
Now you know what happened to all those immigrant kids at the border
That’s not funny. Seriously. I’m getting so fucking sick of “dark comedy” or especially “deep chararacters in an engaging story” that abuses shock factor by dead dropping child death.
Good for you.
Dead people should be shot at birth
You shouldn’t shake it if it’s made from babies.
Gotta tenderize them somehow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s like whoever is offering up these names and convincing them to use them is trying to tell consumers and workers something in the countries they work and operate. That a rental service is literally named Hertz is pretty on the nose even without all the movie culture references.
I’m not too versed on movie references but certainly know about Hertz Rent-a-car, what’s the joke here?
Hail Avis!
I don’t get it. Because it “hurts” when you have an accident? Hertz is a normal German name, like Heinrich Hertz, for example. And I just read up, the guy who bought the original car rental company from another guy in the early 1900s was John D. Hertz. Whose birth name was Sándor Herz, and his family came from Austria-Hungary. Herz means heart in German.
Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I’m pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi
As long as we get coporate songs like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTR0BiFehA
Again
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God, that last one was brilliant. It gave me a flashback.
Holy shizz I forgot about that song. thanks for the rememory
I had forgotten about that.
And it was good that way.
If I don’t have that song out of my head by tomorrow, I’ll stalk your account, find out your irl id, and send you muffins with raisins.
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Good!
Sigh they dont make coporate propaganda like they used too.
But yes that
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