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sweet bughumping zeus goddamn no to that second one. I neither want to know nor want other people to know if I or they are buying fleshlights, bloody thankyou. Or any number of other things. My boss doesn't need to know and I don't want my boss to know if I regularly peruse smutty romance novels or <insert next step on chain of command in organization> helpbooks, because I goddamn guarantee you stuff like that would constantly cost people jobs for incredibly stupid shit that has absolutely zero to do with their on-the-job capability.

That's also more or less a nightmare for any oppressed minority that would have consumption tells. Transsexual? Crossdresser in general? Something like public facing consumption records is basically a great big nagot gick fucked to them.

That said, if just the raw currency unit transfer, aggregated at the end of the month, was available to the public... maybe. It would still cause all sorts of social bullshit that could be easily avoided by just not freaking doing that (conspicuous consumption would suddenly become a lot more conspicuous, ferex, and gods know nobody sane actually wants that), but it would allow for identifying anomalous fiscal activity to be crowdsourced instead of left in the hands of some non-publically viewable organization. Still sounds like a recipe for complete disaster, and viciously mangling your nose for the purpose of washing your chin (not even managing the whole face!) or some shit, but at least the most immediately egregious problems would be mitigated, somewhat.

Geh. Nightmare scenario, waugh. Google and the gov't having that information is bad enough.

Live action winnie the pooh sounds goddamn terrifying.

Vaccutek, maybe? Sounds better, t'me. Not 'punk, but it aligns with something like a magitek setting...

Though I think magic punk stuff already has arcanopunk or something like that.

I'd suggest tubepunk, but frankly that sounds like something you'd see in porn instead of normal fiction.

Maybe they read the seven lady godivas instead?

Probably some kind of practicality thing. I rather imagine you'd start having preference detecting spells in wide use just as soon as love of Gouda started powering strategic-level thaumaturgic WMDs.

Or in a very developed setting that's actually reigned in the death world aspect sufficiently that people can stop dying long enough to develop and thoroughly disseminate frivolous spells.

Spells like what you're talking about probably actually exist in these worlds -- insane epic level casters are something that can exist, after all -- they're just not really in use because folks have other things on the mind (like the orc invasion, or demon incursion, or rampaging death cultists, or etc., etc., etc.).

It sounds like it's pretty discriminate killing being talked about, though. Just mass murder of a specific subgroup (the subgroup in question being "everything not good-aligned"). And D&D/pathfinder/etc. is a setting where genocide and xenocide is often considered an and encouraged as an act of good, so... mass murder is generally not a thing that is considered inherently immoral in these joints.

... y'know, I've got a job opening dingus RSS'd. Think it's actually the main fed one or something. Occasionally things pop up in there that...

... well.

I wasn't expecting the army to have an opening looking for "Lactation Consultant."

Which is apparently a job position! I didn't know that. I do now. There's a position open at Fort Bragg :V