• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    Men make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.

    Women make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.

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      I’d hate to break this to you, but the cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape is in its infancy. It’s barely learning to crawl yet.

      Enjoy the next thousand years or so… if you can…

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        I hate to break it to you but cyberpunk is a critique of today’s world. Tomorrow can always get much worse.

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          Today’s world is a toe dipped in the lake of cyberpunk critique.

          Transhumanism is, for the most part, still a crackpot fringe theory. Most of us aren’t brainchipped, and there are still recognizable human interactions on the web.

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            To be fair, I don’t see anyone not even more evil than Epstein over there, ruling the world. And unless you rule the world, the worst of us eventually will. So being VERY transhuman, might actually be the only way to win.

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              If you’re referring to multilateralism, international law, and rules-based-order, I’d agree. We already had that and it (mostly) worker since the second half of the 20th Century. Although there was still a lot of room for improvement, but now we’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.

              But if you mean some well-intentioned do-gooder should conquer everybody and enforce their own standard of decency, then I’d say that’s a slippery slope and self-contradictory. Well-intentioned people don’t conquer the world.

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        For those wondering what typically defines the cyberpunk literary genre, its key elements include:

        High-tech, low-life scenarios: Advanced technology, such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, is prevalent, but it exists alongside widespread societal breakdown and poverty.

        Dystopian future:
        The settings are typically bleak and oppressive, often dominated by powerful corporations or decentralized, corrupt power structures.

        Impact of technology on humanity:
        Cyberpunk explores how technology shapes society, culture, and individual identity .

        Antiheroes and rebellion:
        Characters are often morally ambiguous rebels fighting against oppressive systems.

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            By golly you’re right. You’ve been alive ever since you were born, with no death interruptions. You’ve cracked the code for immortality.

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            I forgot what this conversation is about and I don’t feel like backtracking. All I know now is that end-stage ligma is a mouth-less person who’s craving ice cream.

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              I was making a reference to to Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream in which characters are kept alive and tortured perpetually. In the end one character takes one for the team, killing the others to end their suffering, and as punishment is reduced to a blob with no limbs or mouth so they can’t harm themselves.

              but also I really wanted ice cream

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              It’s about Cyberpunk dystopia. We are going to live under the worst people imaginable, and I imagine, they want the ultimate trill of inflicting eternal, maximum suffering on helpless, innocent individuals.

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          I can’t speak for everybody, but I remember when the first continents were formed from geothermal vaults at the bottom of the ocean.

          Or maybe that was just a mushroom trip. Either way, the dystopia has only just begun. Stop being pedantic.

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        The reappropriation of the Buc-ees beaver is similar to the reappropriation of Mickey Mouse by punks in the 70’s.

        Nothing says 'Muricah more than Buc-ees (and maybe us flag bathing shorts). It is a mecca for meat, oversized sodas and snacks, petrol consumption, and nice toilets to shit all the garbage you’ve consumed.

        An .ml account in the Fediverse sporting the ultimate symbol of American consumerism is exactly what I’m going for.

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          It is a mecca for meat, oversized sodas and snacks, petrol consumption, and nice toilets to shit all the garbage you’ve consumed.

          I want to go to there.

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    As a gay man I can whole heartedly tell you only women think men make money just to get women. Plus if a woman is attracted to a guy just because of wealth then that’s a doomed relationship, now go sip your tea

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      Yeah, it’s mostly so we can afford cool things. Or even just live comfortably without worrying about money.

      I think women overestimate how much men think about them, to be honest.

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    I’m sure it’s true for some women. But I wouldn’t be surprised if most working women were either married or in a committed relationship. Plus, a lot of households have two incomes out of necessity. Both partners need to work full time just to make ends meet.

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    sad

    People will always need each other. Money doesn’t change that. People need affection and intimacy. This culture war shit keeps us filtering the world though the “safety” of their apps instead of actually connecting with each other, which is why we’re all so fucking miserable imo.

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      No, no — now repeat after me:

      Men are bad.

      Unless you’re a man at which point:

      Women are bad.

      I hope I helped.

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        Humans are bad. There are too many of us, so now we are trying to cannibalize each other. You can see in real-time that we don’t value the average person at all, or even the exceptional person (unless they are famous, and part of a product we like).

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    Women hate men. They don’t date men, go out with them, hang out, marry them, fuck them or become their girlfriends. This is known since time immemorial.

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      One of my friends is going through a divorce and one of the reasons his wife gave us is that he would sit in his car in the driveway and look at his phone for a bit when he got home. There are other reasons but that one stuck out to me.

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        Yeah. That’s my personal indicator that there’s something wrong with my work setup; avoiding doing the thing that leads to the unpleasant parts. I guarantee he started hiding in his car after the relationship issues began.

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          Think there’s some nuance needed. Occasionally ppl need some some time to decompress. Im positive a lot of ppl sit in their car after work to avoid their spouse but others just want sometime to themselves. Ive don’t that being single and having roommates i actually like. Plus sometimes I was too lazy to get out of the car

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            Yeah, I get it. When I get home I don’t want to talk to ANYONE I don’t care if I like them or not. Just need a fucking minute to myself to decompress and switch gears. I can’t speak much to his situation but knowing her and seeing how she greeted him at the door with shit when I was over there on more than one occasion I could see why he’d want to take a second before walking into that.

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        I answer work messages before I go in so that I can give my wife my attention when I walk in the door. I used to do it in the driveway but now I do it in the parking lot of the shop around the corner.

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      That was all the salesmen at one place I worked. Mormons with tons of kids. They’d go anywhere in the world to get away from them.

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        To be fair, parenting is a pretty shitty gig. Expectations are high and support is low. People judge everything you do, especially those who have never done it themselves. Even with good kids its a thankless slog most of the time. God help you if you get a hard one.

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          This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.

          Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.

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        In the early nineties I knew a Mormon man with a happy housewife & 10 kids and he would run a marathon by himself every day just to be out of the house.

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      you know, i’ve always been wondering about whether that is secretly a covert plan of the wife so the husband works longer hours, makes more money and makes the family richer. i’d seriously not put that past some people i’ve met in my life …

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        Nope. It’s a trans-generational ploy since time immemorial. The worst ones are the bosses who ask you to stay so they don’t have to go home, but it can happen to anyone.

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          Yeah but who are the bosses currently mainly from? Exactly, boomers. Also, younger generations rather tend to break up instead of enduring a bad relationship/marriage.

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            Get a job and you’ll see most bosses aren’t boomers

            You could also just look stuff up but making stuff up is fun too

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    This reads like the “manspreading” video that Russia put out to get us to hate each other.