@Shadejackrabbit I, for one, think this exploration is cool. Are there places or circumstances under which you think you may be more comfortable presenting as femme?
noir is a conservative genre that thinks that corruption can not be changed, only the heroes values can be conserved. But cyberpunk is a noir that believes that the corruption can be outwitted and undercut: by saving the self and the people you love, you are forcing the algorithms of your oppression to recognise your humanity. This is very unrealistic, but it is a hopeful genre of outsiders supplying change
i just got a card jacked by a skimmer at a local gas station, and when i dialed the fraud prevention number i got put on hold for 5 minutes and then it was a _robot voice complete with fake throat clearing noises_ and i didn't twig that it was failing the turing test until it berated me to read the full name on my card instead of responding to what i'd said and then condescendingly told me "that's better".
Remember the article I posted a few months back about a woman in Whitehorse who went skating and had her gloves stolen (and it turned out to be a fox and she ended up getting her gloves back)?
CBC HAS GONE IN DEPTH ON THE CLOTHES-STEALING FOXES OF WHITEHORSE
@ink_slinger Good point. A lot of their previous work was more "MAD Magazine" level, whereas their recent work is absolute top-shelf satire. Its disappointing anyone would have held them back from this sort of work.
@allan That's a great point. Big temperature variability is the *actual* normal for most of the planet. I'd love to see a chart breaking down population by range of temperature experienced.
@allan The context I've always used for this is "assuming we've moved to low carbon sources, but we still need to mitigate the last few centuries of CO2 that have already been released." "Last ditch effort" sort of thing.
The Onion has been absolutely fearless in their satire of the present administration, but they've now reached high art. This is incredible. 2018 in a nutshell.
"Immigrant Child Still Hoping To Achieve American Dream Of Better Cage"