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Would a peaceful revolution succeeed? I don’t like the thought of going to war,, I really hope there is a peaceful way to fix things. Problem is everyone will lie about who will fix it. If anyone will.

If by peaceful and succeeding you mean we piddle along praying the environment doesn't reach an omnifucked threshold while waiting for the boomers et al to keel over and hope the younger generations can manage to unfuck things enough most of us don't die, sure.

You're not going to have to worry about an actual civil war breaking out any time soon, though. Uptick in domestic terrorism, maybe, but more than that, nah.

You could totally have a robot arm, yeah. It wouldn't be better than a normal arm at this point, and the hoops you'd have to jump through to get into that level of prosthetic development is hella' huge, but they're out there. Legs, too. Iirc there's even (pretty shitty) cybereyes, stuff with hearing, etc. Brain enhancement we've just gone the external peripherals route.

Basically the cyberware future is now, we're just in like... backstory land prior to the fancier stuff, and also rolling with tech that's not mainline sci-fi/cyberpunk of yesteryear (external enhancement existed as a plot point going pretty far back, but it wasn't exactly super common).

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Huh, that's not as bad as I was remembering. Seemed to recall like 2-5k production costs on cars selling for 10-20k+. If that average is representative of what's being inflicted on the median/lower end drivers, it's... not good, exactly, but as you say not nearly pharma bad.

I’m confused why people want bigger vehicles, they use a lot more fuel, and are more expensive. If my visual impairment didn’t keep me from driving, I would get a small car. At least I have a bike, so hopefully I can live near wherever I work

I mean, let's be honest, most of it's jonesing. Keeping up with/one upping the proverbial neighbors. The wastage and price are a feature in that sense, not a bug. Same with the inconvenience-for-self/nuisance-you-inflict-on-others caused by trying to get around in a larger vehicle.

That said, I've had the discussion with folks occasionally 'cause I loathe driving large vehicles and much of my family (which I occasionally drive around these days) loves them. Iirc I've most had stability (less likely to tip over) cited at me, followed by transport space (which is relevant if you need your vehicle to move stuff or many people regularly, but not so much for most folks), towing capability, and field of view (being higher up, though that doesn't apply with wide-but-short cars) as a distant fourth.

Note that none of the people involve drive hard enough flipping is a legitimate issue, could get by with smaller vehicles and still generally have plenty of transit space, and don't tow stuff around much or at all these days (plus there's a reason I drive them around and being higher up doesn't help their eyes being shit), so... yeah. Press X for doubt. The reasons are more excuses than reasons, heh. Post-facto justification rather than motivational observations.

What does the fox say, death metal remix. I could dig it.

... though part of me hopes such a thing doesn't actually exist. The concept leaves me conflicted and I've never even heard the base sound thingy.

Also it totally occurs to me jacked up and probably distorted fox howls could make for pretty killer vocal-equivalents. Someone should do that.

Heat Signature is a game. Probably the most well known lavender town in the world (i.e. the one rol's likely talking about) resides in the Kanto region

Like, her history as one is largely what makes me pretty unwilling to support her at the mo', but there's relatively few things out there as able to jam a stick in trump's eye (maybe metaphorically, maybe literally) as a DA/AG. A lawyer or whatever with no reason to back down is basically the shitgibbon's greatest weakness (after normal human weaknesses like sticks jammed into the eyeball, anyway).

What's the name of the book out of curiosity? It seems quite interesting.

Like said, don't remember. I might be able to find out tomorrow but i wouldn't bank on it. "Inventoried" in this case means noted in a spreadsheet and then stuck back in the storage closet, there's not much or any commentary on individual book content.

Still... pretty sure the author's last name started with an S? Used first/middle/last, so three names total. Might have been jewish, too, and they definitely wrote other books/were decently well known. You might manage to find something if you look for popular jewish fiction authors from like the 50s, 60s.

Consensual probably would have been okay-ish, actually? There's a better word I'm forgetting but the point would have cleared fairly well. Non-consensual is something rather different, though, and in relation to romance/fictional relationship stuff generally means some variety of rape.