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> we are more heading into a Cyberpunk future where corporations hold the real power I believe we're more heading into an Idiocracy future where corporations a
by craftyguy 8y ago
> we are more heading into a Cyberpunk future where corporations hold the real power
I believe we're more heading into an Idiocracy future where corporations also hold the real power (e.g. "Carl's Jr machine: Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother.")
- setquk 8y agoI agree. They already sell Smartwater. Because it has got electrolytes.
- code_duck 8y agoI think that comparison is a little fuzzy.
- jessaustin 8y agoThat's what plants crave!
- berbec 8y agoNo, plants crave Mountain Dew
- kipchak 8y agoUnrelated aside: 1L Smartwater bottles are rather light and durable for reuse in backpacking.
- ahtu123 8y agoI like them on flights too since they actually fit in the little pocket on the seat
- craftyguy 8y agoYea totally, Sawyer filters fit them nicely too. They're VERY durable, as in I've got one bottle I've carried probably hundreds of miles by now over several trips and it's been dropped and squeezed thousands of times. Looks like a bear chewed it up, but it still does not leak. Pro tip: you can replace the O-ring that comes with the filter for a durable rubber one used for garden hoses for a real nice fit on the smartwater bottles, and have some extras because the worst is if you lose that seal (or it is damaged) and you are out in the wilderness.
- code_duck 8y agoWe have seen this coming for a long time. The thing is that 30 years ago, we thought it was going to be a technologically sophisticated, slick ultra-IBM type corporation that managed everyone's lives. Now, it seems like it's going to be more like a television station's advertising department manages your life.
- oldcynic 8y agoRoughly what Neil Postman thought around 30 years ago then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
- code_duck 8y agoRight, more like Brave New World than 1984, I reckon. But that's not to say either style has to be dystopic.
- slowmovintarget 8y agoBruce Sterling: Distraction ...also Heavy Weather
- acct1771 8y agoI...have you read those books?
- galieos_ghost 8y agoMost likely, low IQ people reproduce at around 2x the rate of the high IQ individuals who subsidize their existence through taxes.
- skygazer 8y agoShort parents can have tall kids and vice-versa. Smart parents can have dumb kids and vice-versa. Genetic inheritance is complicated. Effective IQ can be downwardly influenced by factors such as nutrition. Reality is far too complex to be captured by your pithy sentence, or my pithy paragraph.
- staticautomatic 8y agoI think it's fair to say in some instances that a person would have had a higher IQ but for some thing, but the term "effective IQ" is semantic jibberish. The score simply is whatever the test says it is.
- skygazer 8y agoFair enough, it was a term I just made up to concisely convey the notion you described: “were it not for these factors, the results of the test may have had substantive differences.” Perhaps I failed, but I think my failure was an unfortunate distraction from the main point which you seemed to apprehend anyway. So there’s that.
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- beenBoutIT 8y agoPresident Trump's experience with the World Wrestling Federation qualifies him as the literal embodiment of Idiocracy's Wrestler President. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkghtyxZ6rc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkghtyxZ6rc