Especially when the user experience is constantly guiding users who don’t know better to do exactly that

Or it’s a glimpse at Rom’s Dengist arc

The kicker is that Rom eventually becomes Grand Nagus and starts transforming Ferengi society.

The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene,

I love that scene. It’s so authentic: hearing a white American describe his successful living arrangement as literal communism but saying it’s not communism, and a black American correcting him. 100 years of Red Scare and minority struggle captured in a few lines of dialogue.

Conscious and Conscience are different things (but understandably easy to conflate)

I remember that!

Is it still playable anywhere?

Iiving in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, it sounds quite spacious to me. Perspective is wild.

I always used athletics tracks as a frame of reference. On a 400m track, the saucer section sitting in the center would be longer than the straights, but wouldn’t reach the ouside edges of the curves.

Let’s try number of billionaires per capita instead of a flat number of billionaires.

Interestingly enough I went to a lecture by a Chinese lawmaker yesterday who said the exact same thing. When it’s codified in law, you know what they can and can’t do, and what they can and can’t use in court against you. When governments just do it covertly and subvert due process, your right to privacy suffers a lot more. She didn’t have to point out what Snowden uncovered about the NSA for everyone to know what she was referring to.

Yeah same. I was there, and seeing what was happening and what was being reported was a huge WTF experience

I wonder if there’s going to be some sort of culture crisis across The West when reality hits, or if Western media is strong enough to distract everyone with something new like they did with Afghanistan.

the ultimate destination of neoliberal thought, where every employer is an unregulated sovereign into themselves.

Refined it for ya, comrade