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Currently homeless due to crime, longtime Star Trek fan here.

Yep. Mhm.

Waiting to be beamed out any time.

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You the crimer or the crimee?

Actually nevermind. I wish you all the best! 🙂

Prosper etc. 🖖🏼

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Uh… another victim of capitalism.

My former landlord, my former employer, various corrupt businesses and my own family managed to all commit a series of crimes against me in rapid succession, which made me poor and thus unable to afford a lawyer, and homeless, which made me lose all my evidence I would need to stand a chance of winning any court case, in addition to everything else I have ever owned.

I have nearly died about ten times now in the past year and a half.

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I noticed this with cyberpunk stuff, too. The genre has been incredibly prophetic. It just sucks that it’s all the stupidly bad shit and not a single one of the super cool sci-fi things.

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I read this comment on the toilet using a pocket-sized computer that everyone I know owns, and we’re all addicted to.

Nobody’s buzzing around in flying cars, but if they were, they’d be so ubiquitous we’d just say “meh, we should have jetpacks by now.”

I do agree with you that we’re getting all the Bad Stuff though.

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This is very true. I use iSH on my phone to run python scripts and ssh into servers, I use Working Copy to make git commits from the toilet or my bed. Like for all intents and purposes, my phone is a cyberpunk “deck,” but I suppose cyberpunk is literally named “The Dark Future” for a reason, considering all else that is going on.

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Oh yeah. You know after World War III it’s not going to be warp engines that get invented.

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But we might have neutrino (?) bombs; those theoretical bombs that can just vaporize people and leave buildings and infrastructure intact.

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Neutron, not neutrino.

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We should be reading/watching/sharing more solarpunk then!

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The problems lie in the “punk” part. Just like cyberpunk’s prophetic bad stuff isn’t the cyber. Pretty sure solarpunk is still about the societal issues existing in what could be a utopia if they didn’t. Wealth inequality, bigotry, etc. You’re just not polluting the planet because everything is green.

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Um, no. It’s the very opposite of that. Solarpunk addresses inequality and bigotry directly.

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Is it prophetic, or do we just have a techno-capitalist elite that looked as those books as a roadmap rather than a cautionary tale?

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“Meanwhile, Black Mirror presumably got back to the work of its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning and not a corporate benchmark for [next fiscal quarter].” – AVClub

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Avery Brooks was so good, a shame it seems like he retired.

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I want to be retired when I am 75 years old too.

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Just wait till HG Wells Time Machine comes true and a bunch of almost blind underground mole dwellers predate upon the idiotic surface dwellers who never think past the needs of today. Oh.

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wake me up when we start eating the elons eloi

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Oh look, another article in 2024 about that one episode that takes place in 2024. What an original think piece.

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