sci fi is about the present. Atwood said that everything that happened in The Handmaids Tale happened in real life — just not to white people.
So too, cyberpunk dystopias were happening while being made. Yes Akira has people with magic powers — but delinquent kids, government experiments on children, a brutalist police force that murders without question: all modern day.
h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 1 year ago
The store nearby installed that a while back, and someone just broke the gate down, and honestly I have never been more proud of my community.
h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Actually when they tried to install electronic locks on the carts so they’d lock up if you went too far away, and the next day someone had stolen all the carts was also a big moment of local pride.
Arrakis@feddit.uk 1 year ago
And I bet that same community rails over the unfairness when the company does a blanket price rise to compensate for the equipment losses. Good job guys, stick it to the man!!
bigboopballs@hexbear.net 1 year ago
well, I would hope so. we shouldn’t be accepting this shit lying down.
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 year ago
The price will raise regardless, because thats’s how monoplies and price cartels work. They just blame their price gouging on the people trying to survive, same as always, and rubes with latent goosetepping instincts believe them, same as always.
h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 1 year ago
If they had done that I would hope my community would immediately steal everything not nailed down.
Jabbawacky@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Proud of someone for damaging property? What a shitty community, honestly.
h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Whoever did it saved the rest of us a huge amount of hassle. The only thing hurt was the bottom line of the shop that decided to annoy everyone for no good reason
Kuori@hexbear.net 1 year ago
you sound like a bootlicker
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 year ago
bootlicker
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 year ago
wojak-nooo nooo my heckin private propertinoo, you’re supposed to allow yourself to be corralled into a police state without complaint nooo
Break every gate, sensor and camera. Take back a tiny alice of your agency in this burning world.