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What I am reminded of is all of the now seemingly prophetic writing and story telling in a lot of cyber-punk-dystopian anime about the future of the corporate s
by samstave 5y ago
What I am reminded of is all of the now seemingly prophetic writing and story telling in a lot of cyber-punk-dystopian anime about the future of the corporate state, and how mega corps rule EVERY THING.
What I always thought was interesting was that the Police Security Services in Singapore were called "CISCO" -- and you used to see these swat-APV-type vans driving around and armed men with CISCO emblazened on their gear/equip/vehicles...
I always was reminded of Cyberpunk Anime around that.
- m4rtink 5y agoInteresting! But actually this is not the singly thing with an "interesting" name in Singapore - well at least as long as you speak Czech. ;-) You see, the mass transit company in Singapore is handled by the Singapore Municipal Rapid Transit company, abbreviated SMRT. There is also a SMRT corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMRT_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMRT_Corporation), SMRT buses, the SMRT abbreviation is heavily used on train, stations, basically everywhere. Well, in Czech "smrt" means literarily death. So let's say for Czech speakers riding the public transport in Singapore can be a bit unnerving - you stand at a station platform and then a train with "DEATH" written on it in big letters pulls into the station. ;-)
- samstave 5y agoWow. Thanks for that. Imagine if you were a Czech child who was old enough to read but not old enough to disassociate the locality of the spellings... that would be odd.