What I happened to notice with different girls as a guy is that for many, of not most, telling/showing the right way is a turn-off and having something the right way without showing first is a source of tremendous excitement.

With that said, we, men, are still not mind readers, and women really do have it very differently, so some common sex education, while useful, can only cover the basics, and even they are not universally applicable.

Yes! This does wonders!

It is very obvious they meant it draws no power from the grid. And it doesn’t, indeed, acting fully autonomously.

Cyberpunk is more about finding something normal among a clear dystopia rather than finding dystopia among normality :D

But it is immersive and emotional indeed.

The instance has 200 users active in the last month. Not quite a trove :D

Nice!

My admin flat out refuses to add any donation options, citing he has enough money to maintain the instance as a hobby project. Nice!

Interesting, never heard of it! Thanks

Having read them all at some time in the past, I feel like, while they capture a lot of modern problems and are scaringly accurate in many of the predictions they make, they still don’t create this “everyday” feeling.

Brave New World is probably closest to capturing what I’m looking for, even though it too opens immediately with a dystopian picture.

The thing is, it would be interesting to explore, in any form of art really, this progression from feeling completely normal about what happens to figuring out what everything actually means, which could lead to people questioning and investigating things in real life.

Thanks, will look into it!

As an actual owner of a similar thing: no

The problem isn’t even how much water comes from there (you can figure it out and not set the water jet to full power), but rather that you are expected to insert this thing back and forth, which, trust me, you won’t do since your anus is unprepared, unexpanded and, well, dirty.

So, while interesting on paper, this thing doesn’t really work the way it’s intended to. There you have it!

Riots always start with vocal minority and get more and more people engaged.

America is not lost, and has plenty of people ready to take it on the streets. They just need a push. And having others around fighting for their future is the kind of push that can wake such people up. It’s way easier to join rather than start.

That’s what happens to many authoritarian shitholes: progressives move and evacuate, loyalists remain. That’s how the country gets screwed more and more.

And US is a pretty high-stakes country, so losing that would be very bad.

Fair enough! But won’t they flip again to start the program?

The most beautiful thing about this program is that it would work.

Various bit flips will once lead to all numbers being in the correct order. No guarantee the numbers will be the same, though…

If it’s not gonna happen, more fascist measures will be introduced - without people’s hesitation outside Internet comments.

A solid organized riot does change the course even for most authoritarian governments, even if they happen to suppress it eventually. Politicians should feel that their position is not as solid as they would like.

But the further people prefer to not intervene, the more entrenched authoritarians become and more draconian measures are implemented. As such, the government is strongly interested in making people think rioting doesn’t help. This is part of many authoritarians’ playbooks.

Except minority rights (including, but not limited to LGBTQ+, especially T), healthy immigration policy, right to abortion, fair economic policy, environmental policies, and a million other things.

deleted by creator

If you are from the US and you criticized people living under authoritarian regimes for not rioting hard enough, this is your time.

You still have it easy. You won’t be taken into prison for standing with a piece of blank paper. You won’t be beaten with batons and taken into custody for reciting Constitution. Yet. Go ahead before it gets there, and may you never see a true authoritarian horror.

Otherwise, all your words are not worth a dime.

For some people, joking can be relieving.

For others, totally not.

I don’t know what to make of it, but if you’re the latter, it’s okay, and you shouldn’t be downvoted so much. But, if you can, don’t take it so seriously. This is not meant to be a slippery slope.