sunbytes

Apparently that alt parks account is super weird and q-like.

They had "140k" members counting protesters (they claim). Seems made up.

For now I'm sticking with the low-but-verifiable numbers. Otherwise we leave ourselves open to being ignored the next time (on numbers/data).

He absolutely did not submit the urine of one of his army of children.

For sure not.

Well, these days who the hell isn't?

My local library has been getting refurbished for a couple of months.

It's really thrown off my ability to do paperwork, as they were the only people around with a working printer.

I actually had to fix the printer at work. Horrible stuff.

If they only get to use their toys in specific cases, they'll pretend it's always that case.

Right now the key words are "insurrectionist" and "terrorist" and "illegals". They say the keyword, they suddenly get the loopholes.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say they suspected "illicit" materials just so they could gear up for their hero LARP.

Probably he didn't care if it was true or not.

It was what he needed to say to get what he wanted.

Checking his memory was an exertion he didn't need to do.

Didn't some police chief say that 10x 1000-person marches would be unmanageable (from a suppression/monitoring perspective)?

I hope that protest leaders took that as advice, rather than the whingeing it was.

For short-term wins I'd go with Neal Asher's "Polity" civilization as at some point in the 20th Century, the AI just decides to take over and become benevolent rulers.

No societal collapse required.

But also a higher risk of enslavement by giant sentient crabs. Your call.

Agreed, but honestly either is ok. I'd prefer the Minds ruling me to humans too.

The main thing that would scare me is the Megadeath scenarios from the Idiran war.

But that seems like a pretty rare thing. Also, they seem to be a lot better at the sex and drugs thing than ST, as well as how they handle crime.

Coming after these guys is Neal Asher's Polity. It's like Culture "lite", And the robots are a bit less "extra".

And also that honking/screaming at the car is (even more of) a dick move now.

Yeah we always had a moment about that too.

"Uh.. mask on? Or mask off?"

The hurt locker.

But only the guy who gets blown up at the start is a human.