Post 9oXVGmWQ8bGfS3ShDU by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9oWLzsNiBtsaXjONua by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
       2019-11-01T14:22:21Z
       
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       In Blade Runner we were promised giant unethical tech companies ruining everything, instead we got giant unethical tech companies ruining everything.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oWLzu4Hv5Wxm4Jtui by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
       2019-11-01T14:26:17Z
       
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       @thomasfuchs At least the weather is better in Bladerunner.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oWLzvZALlpAQ7m4gK by seven@social.panthermodern.net
       2019-11-01T14:34:44Z
       
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       @maxeddy @thomasfuchs Most of the #cyberpunk genre seems more or less accurate about corporations, merely, most authors assumed it would be much worse much sooner...
       
 (DIR) Post #9oWOtdekKGfYzy4rHE by RussSharek@mastodon.art
       2019-11-01T14:52:11Z
       
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       @thomasfuchsAnd next year we enter the cyberpunk era. I remember playing the cyberpunk 2020 RPG and thinking it was impossibly far away.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oWapZIzl7zFnQjGYi by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
       2019-11-01T17:20:59Z
       
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       @thomasfuchs They lied, though. The companies are in SF/bay, not LA mostly.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oXV6vhHAbuD0mqEoC by seeyouindisneyland@infosec.exchange
       2019-11-01T21:02:31Z
       
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       @thomasfuchsBut the RL  A E S T H E T I C S  suck when compared to Bladerunner. And "Disney" is a shit name compared to "Tyrell Corp".
       
 (DIR) Post #9oXVGmELDoo2Xz0G2K by nemeciii@mastodon.technology
       2019-11-01T15:41:21Z
       
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       @RussSharek @thomasfuchs yeah, at one point I was sure I could get a lung prothesis by now so I didn't worry about smoking...Luckily I managed to quit.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oXVGmWQ8bGfS3ShDU by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
       2019-11-01T16:19:49Z
       
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       @nemeciii @RussSharek glad to hear it, I quit after 10 years of smoking a pack a day and haven’t had a cigarette in a decade now
       
 (DIR) Post #9oXVGmi7R6cq2Kw2S0 by nemeciii@mastodon.technology
       2019-11-01T16:24:41Z
       
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       @thomasfuchs @RussSharek same here. One of the causes was cost of smoking. I smoked 150€/month.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oXVGmy4TnNypoOmJc by clacke@libranet.de
       2019-11-02T03:53:16Z
       
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       @nemeciii @RussSharek @thomasfuchs That can't be right, because a guy on the internet told me tobacco taxes don't work.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oxEJ8745huz0MHgcC by Antanicus@mastodon.bida.im
       2019-11-14T10:21:03Z
       
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       @thomasfuchs we were promised cool names too, and we got lousy Google and Apple FFS