It’s the welfare-queen strategy: if you can show that 995/1000 people use a safety net as intended, 50% of voters can be convinced that it’s a fraud-soaked boondoggle

There’s nothing stopping you from operating a vpn on 443.

Oh the humanity. They might get deeply inaccurate ideas about the perks of pizza delivery.

Yeah, the genre of cyberpunk in general can be loosely summarized as “it’s the libertarian wet dream future and it sucks”

The graphical user interface.

They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)

They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.

There’s a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think.

Yeah I mean that’s why we declared war on airplanes after 9/11

Well, that’s one way to deal with an aging population

Getting, not buying. A pair of bolt cutters can often be found at your local tool lending library.

And popping off ignorant opinions is how we get to mob justice

If you aren’t the alleged victim, or personally know the alleged victim, kindly shut the fuck up as you have no idea beyond your personal biases.

Moderate erasure

They should be the same, really. Democracy’s core principle is that people are equal. If you’re eligible to vote, you should be eligible to hold office.

Change latitude, change altitude, save up for an off-grid power system, maybe learn a few things about living off the grid in general. I don’t think we could make earth less habitable than mars if we tried, but we are pushing it toward not being to support as much life as it does right now.

Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad, according to some guys who knew some guys who knew a guy that died several hundred years before they wrote that into their “things the invisible man in the sky said” collection of fan fiction.