That hinges on governments actually moving their arse and regulating such technologies. To ensure they would assist disabled folks who need them without becoming just another trojan horse for mass surveillance && ultracapitalist advertisement.

In other words, I can pretty much guarantee that yes, anyone with eye implants will be unwelcome in my circle.

Because governments won’t regulate things done by big tech (let alone something done by a marriage of big tech and big pharma, two of the most powerful corporate overlords).

And so the eye implants will be just as perverted as the AI Pervert Glasses if not even more so.

We getting 40k Cogitators before GTA 6

American Sign Language? No no, I sign in LIBRAS, I’m Brazilian

A: Old enough that I feel like an old person when around the real youths, young enough that the real olds still call me ‘young’.

S: No thanks.

L: It’s not Hell, but you can sure see Hell from up here.

Ps.: My first webhandle, which was coined after the age of IRC but before the death of Webforums and the takeover of corporate platforms, was ‘Uncreative’ because I couldn’t figure out what name to use. My friends from those times still call me ‘Uncrie’

Airplanes.

I shall not elaborate.

Translation: I’m just a little hater

It’s a song from an old Japanese Tokusatsu called Jaspion (Brazilian Gen Xers LOVED their Tokusatsu, before the americanised Power Rangers arrived in our shores) that got misheard lyrics type “subtitles” in the early aughts.

Started a whole trend, even. See also

The oldest meme I still quote is aggressively Brazilian (the link is a reupload, this is from like 2001)

The oldest international meme that still gets some space in my memory is probably either Over 9000 or This is Sparta.

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Anyone who thinks there is such thing as a “wrong opinion” has no idea what an opinion even is.

And is probably 14 years old, that too.

SH2 Remake completely misunderstood what made SH2 a masterpiece and was garbage. At least it didn’t look like GenAI. Plus I don’t have any personal attachment to SH2 unlike my friend. People just glaze it because they are young and never played the original so they don’t get it.

This one, on top of all that shit, looks like Generative AI. Ugly as all fuck. If you want to pay a fortune to play algorithmically-generated slop that can and will be taken away from you with no warning because you don’t even own it, be my guest.

[insert the totality of the I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 'Hate' monologue]

I finally understand what one of my mates felt when everyone was glazing SH2 Remake.

Trash garbage. Looks AI Generated. Looks like DLSS5. Looks like those old “THIS WILL BE MARIO IN 2016” shitposts from the olden days.

The shitty runoff of something I loved.

OTOH, as long as Nintendo keeps sucking, I’m glad, means I won’t be tempted to give them any more money, which with how evil they’ve been, is good for me.

Sadly no. I had translated the flowchart for my blog, but that blog was a student project and it went offline when I finished college, and I kept no backup. Sorry, stranger.

Conspiracy theories are controlled opposition.

Tell people to be mad at a made up shadow cabinet of rich lizard people who run the world in secret so they won’t be mad at the actual, real, existing cabinet of rich human people who run the world out in the open.

The neat thing is that like

You COULD study and learn how to read the stuff Linux vomits on the terminal

Windows programmes just die and tell you nothing. Good fucking luck.

Food

It might be an eating disorder

I avoid talking to my therapist about it because I don’t want to confront the truth.

As soon as I knew what a government was. Age 12ish

Took another 18 years for me to actually have articulated reasons why other than "feels*

Startpage (which is a proxy for bing, but… Yeah)

Early aughts Fiat Punto.

Profit splits from the corp I work at dropped.

Basically an extra monthly wage that I don’t have to put into rent.

Oh, one more addendum to this, another myth related to Corsets:

“The silhouette of the 19th century was achieved by squishing a woman’s organs to the point of death”

This was rare. Ladies were instead padding everything else. You’ll look like you have an impossibly thin waist if you’ve basically strapped a pillow to your arse and another to your tits.

That we have gotten dumber.

Or smarter.

Or more moral.

Or less moral.

Anyone who says that is trying to sell you some ideology.

If you know your history, you know humanity has fundamentally always been humanity since we started writing shit down. Possibly earlier, but then we can’t be sure because no-writing-itis.

Some of the oldest texts we have are old men cranking about the kids these days.

There’s stories of people being awful and exploiting each other. There’s stories of people taking care of each other and of their surroundings during dark times. There’s stories of people being weird little guys. We have just sorta always been ourselves.