Deus Ex is a horror universe. Example:

You work as produce loader. One day, your coworker comes in with a fancy new set of robot arms. He can lift three times as much as you can and work twice as fast. Your hours start getting cut back, boss doesn’t need you anymore. You lose your job. You apply for a new one, but it’s the same story everywhere: companies want cyborgs. So you spend the last of your savings on a set of bionic arms. They work great, and you land a new job. It’s enough to pay for the anti rejection meds and your living expenses. Two years later, a new model comes out. Efficiency improves even more. Your services aren’t needed anymore, and you can’t afford an upgrade.

You’re homeless now, and you can’t afford the rejection meds. So you sit on the side of the street with a cardboard sign and an empty hat, waiting for your arms to rot off your body as your immune tears the connection apart.

Drag wouldn’t buy prosthetics from a company that associates themselves with that image.

it’s just not a proper apocalypse if you’ve still got an automotive lobby.

Mad Max

That’s because your username is wrong. Your username is GreenKnight23@lemmy.world, but it should be GreenKnight23@lemmy.nz. That would fix your problem.

Do you get around by walking the old school way, or do you use these newfangled automobiles that are killing the planet?

Thank you for your support of Palestine

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Sure thing, Pierce

Your opinion that things can be apolitical is a microaggression against anyone who’s ever been told their identity is political and therefore bad/inappropriate. Please stop, you’re legitimising transphobic arguments.

If the moon is made of cheese, then NASA is lying to us. Saying the moon is made of cheese is a conspiracy that undermines science and the government. That’s political.

All opinions are political

The poo pants man is dead!
The poo pants man is dead!
His pants are clean
The country’s keen
Cause orange man has bled!

First and foremost, “AI” doesn’t exist.

You watch too many movies.

Hardspace Shipbreaker.

Drag hopes that Google and the other tech giants go bankrupt, and Ask Jeeves makes a comeback

Drag’s banned from Reddit

Drag doesn’t believe in money. What’s capital gonna do about that?

Yeah, laypeople using big words from the DSM to try and sound smart is cringe

Just tell them that Eminem is more popular with old white people because his melanin levels are less threatening to their old people sensibilities

That sounds more borderline than narcissistic.

The rate at which new bitcoins enter the economy is controlled. When the processing power of the mining network increases, the difficulty of the mining problem is artificially increased to keep the rate of minting the same. They throw out perfectly good solutions to the problem of creating the next link in the blockchain, to control inflation of bitcoin value.

You’ll also notice the difficulty level for this block. The Bitcoin network aims to produce one block every 10 minutes or so. The system is designed to evaluate and adjust the mining difficulty every 2,016 blocks or roughly every two weeks (based on the number of participants). This doesn’t always result in a block time of 10 minutes, but it’s close.

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-does-bitcoin-mining-work/#toc-why-mine-bitcoin

The mining difficulty number represents 2,016 divided by the average time it took to mine one block in the last period, multiplied by the old difficulty level, or:
= Old difficulty x ( 2,016 ÷ average time to mine in the last period )
The lowest difficulty level is 1.0. The higher the number, the more difficult the solution is to find. The difficulty level on Dec. 5, 2024 (measured on December 1) was 102.89 trillion. You might see this published as 102.89T.

They are spending 100 trillion times as many processor cycles on bitcoin mining as is actually required to maintain the network. Every bitcoin transaction could be done at 100 trillionth the current energy cost. The only problem is, it would devalue bitcoins and crash the market like a Venezuelan dollar. So Bitcoin is designed to intentionally flush the energy output of a small country down the toilet to keep itself valuable.