Finally, someone will read John/John, my series of erotic John Oliver / Elton John fanfictions.

“Cyberpunks” weren’t warning us about the internet - they were warning us about the corporations who will control it, and through it, us. We are trying explicitly not to communicate on that medium by using Lemmy (that medium encompasses Reddit, X, the various properties of Meta and Alphabet)

Science fiction mentioning a technology, even centering around it, doesn’t mean it’s saying the technology is universally bad. The author highlights the dangers, but the tech itself is almost always portrayed as neutral. It’s the people who use it to nefarious ends that science fiction is warning us about.

Like the people who would seek to profit off of the Torment Nexus.

Ya roshambo is always played best two out of three

That’s how my parent served it, and they were wrong.

Gotta start somewhere! For all we know the Borg began as a simple neural implant developed by Space Coca Cola, marketed as a way to touclessly interface with vending machines, but with the actual designed purpose to make you thirsty af and constantly crave sugary beverages.

And then the Coca Cola logistical AI gained sentience.

I came to the comments for an explanation because I completely missed the age labels, so thank you.

Fear often leads to violence. I assume you’ve heard of the fight or flight response? Some people avoid, others confront. Both are based on fear.

I get at least two spam calls a day so, outside of calls from my contact list, I ignore everything. If it’s an important and time sensitive thing, they need to leave me a message because cold calls from random strings of numbers don’t get returned.