Author Keith Laumer wrote of a form of this in his early 70’s short sci-fi story, Of Death What Dreams. In the story, it was called “Booking the Vistat Run” and it was a gambling option for the ultra wealthy who bet on the lives and deaths of the poor.
Lotsa shit’s coming down that was written about decades ago in various sci-fi stories.
FFS, look at the Star Trek communicators from the 60’s show… and a flip phone.
Damn, this is … hmm. I don’t know… but I do like it!
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Yeah, I hadn’t seen it in a long time. It was much better then I remember. Am thinking of digging out my old 250GB drive from the mid 2000’s and fire it up and see if it still works - I have all the seasons of TOS in SD tucked away. Might be time to rewatch all of them. There’s a few that I want to watch again - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Plato’s Stepchildren, and The Children Shall Lead.
TOS: The Conscience of the King…
Oh, that’s a definite thing.
Cool, thanks!
Oh bloody hell, do you have… where is a high res of that picture? I wanna tat up Henry!
LOL! I love it!
LOL! Typical!
You have my condolences.
Ohhh boy. What a superb pair to choose from! I do adore Mr. Sooty though.
Love that scareowl!
Truly superb.
I find it’s rather like ad-writer’s content.
Non-offensive, simplistic, and based on a set of words that elicit a kind of generic “warm fuzzy” feeling.
It’s saccharine and bland.
Yeah, when people believed Trump when he said he “was going to take America back to when it was great…” how many thought it would include cars that got 11 MPG?
Bwahahahah!
Bwahahahah! Yeah, I live an hour north… most of it is fairly true, but there is some crazy good food in Boston.
Ohhhh… f’kin One Brain Cells strike again and he shits himself to boot!
What is it with yellow cats?
…and kick the shit outta fascists…
Big Time.
I got banned a couple of months ago over a metaphorically framed post. Was recenly talking to a co worker who’s gotten back into No Man’s Sky since the last update that added ship building and he hit the NMS sub on Reddit looking for help and was shocked to see how many posts and users had been deleted - from a decidedly non-political sub with some of the lowest drama out of all the gaming ones.
Reddit seems to be purging the oldest members with over a decade of being on the site the most aggressively.
Also, I tried to delete my account and it would not do it. So it seems it’s banning users but not removing the accounts as some way to pad the site’s user base numbers.
I had a hell of a time getting my unarchived posts deleted. The site kept kicking me out and refusing to let me at my posts and comments. Took me logging in with different computers to get everything I could delete, removed.
They are definitely gaming numbers and hoarding user’s data.
Bad form, that.
Shirley, you jest…
(and yeah, am calling you Shirley…)
Oh, dear God… I have to send this to my husband! It’s totally his style!
Thanks!