wanderingmagus @ wanderingmagus @lemm.ee

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Slava Ukraini and kill the bear. Ready to set condition 1SQ for strategic nuclear launch. Hooyah America. Come and get some.

Same. I could have the point highlighted, bold, all caps and underlined, and still get a reply all asking about it.

The concept of the "Torment Nexus" is a placeholder for any technology specifically described as dystopian or otherwise contributing to suffering in fiction, such as mass surveillance, mind control technology, and so on. The meme refers to modern-day corporations missing the point of the fiction, and creating said "Torment Nexus" as something they view as "cool" and "futuristic". In some cases, the companies are self-aware enough to not pretend that their creation is anything other than dystopian, but in many cases they try to sell the new technology to the public as a good thing despite that very tech being described as dystopian already.

So tell me, what part of their creation was "solving real-world problems" beyond playing to the desires of autocrats and control freaks? What part of their creation was a net positive to society? Or are you happy to live in a world of autonomous drone strikes on weddings and kindergartens, mass surveillance, a thermonuclear sword of damocles hanging over all of humanity, and so on?

How about the following examples:

• Autonomous weaponized drones with automatic targeting (Terminator)
• Mass surveillance and voice recording (1984)
• Nuclear weapons (HG Wells, The World Set Free)
• Corporate controlled hypercommercialized microtransaction-filled metaverse (Snow Crash)
• Netflix to create real-life Squid Game (Squid Game (speedrun!))
• "MoviePass to track people's eyes through their phone's cameras to make sure they don't look away from ads" (Black Mirror)
• Soulless AI facsimile of dead relatives (Black Mirror)

So Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein aren't qualified to give understandings of the technologies they wrote about?

Of course your Imperial Majesty, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Chersonese Taurian, Tsar of Georgia; Lord of Pskov and Grand Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, Finland; Prince of Estland, Livland, Courland, Semigalia, Samogitia, Belostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugra, Perm, Vyatka, Bolgar and others; Lord and Grand Prince of Nizhny Novgorod, Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Beloozero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and all of the northern countries Master; and Lord of Iberia, Kartli, and Kabardia lands and Armenian provinces; hereditary Sovereign and ruler of the Circassian and Mountainous Princes and of others; Lord of Turkestan; Heir of Norway; Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, and Oldenburg, and others, and others, and others.

Submersible Ship, Ballistic Missile, Nuclear Powered. Aka, a strategic nuclear submarine capable of carrying up to 24 submarine launched ballistic missiles, each capable of carrying in excess of eight thermonuclear reentry vehicles, each capable of delivering in excess of ten Hiroshimas. Condition 1SQ is the condition set for launching these SLBMs, set only upon receiving a validated and authenticated Emergency Action Message.

Sure thing, tankie. If calling out the USSR makes me a Nazi then dress me in jackpots and Hugo Boss clothes I guess, despite being first generation Chinese in the US.

How about I do it to the world instead? People like you are why I joined the SSBN force, so I can get a front row seat when I get the order to flip the switch and set 1SQ.

Here's my alternative effort: I joined the SSBN force to get a front row seat to the end of the world. Gimme a valid and authentic EAM and I'll flip that switch like there's no tomorrow, 'cause there won't be.

True lol. Probably distracted with all the grindy sidequests.

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!outside@lemmy.world exists :) Not too active, but we can change that.

Highly, highly recommend Connect for Lemmy! It's very streamlined and polished.

Like I said, to stop giving space Karen's site your views and engagement. A site that actively and explicitly caters to self-proclaimed Nazis and distributors of CSAM. Directly or indirectly, you are supporting and condoning their behavior by actively engaging with it.

Artstation, Pixiv, DeviantArt? Or to swap one devil for another, Instagram?