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TopicI'm surprised I haven't seen any physically literal dickheads in fiction
averagejoel
05/14/19 3:50:23 PM
#12
there was an episode of the John Dore show that talked about STDs where he says something along the lines of "I don't wanna look like a dick" and then it cuts to the next scene, where he's wearing a penis costume and educating people about STDs
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TopicJoe Biden is living in a fantasy land
averagejoel
05/14/19 1:41:10 PM
#23
s0nicfan posted...
And you responded to me talking about compromise being required to make progress in congress. Did you just not read what I said before posting?

I did, and what you said was not relevant to the topic at hand, which suggests that you actually did what you're implying I did.

Joe Biden was talking about getting elected, for which appealing to republican voters demonstrably does not work, and you went off on a tangent about passing laws (which, by the way, they have to get elected to do in the first place)
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TopicJoe Biden is living in a fantasy land
averagejoel
05/14/19 1:23:06 PM
#19
s0nicfan posted...
averagejoel posted...
s0nicfan posted...
Godnorgosh posted...
"I'm a realist, you all just need to be realistic and pragmatic about politics"

"We can compromise with Republicans and continue to make progress and win elections"


He's not wrong. Unless you hold a supermajority, you literally have to compromise with the other party to make any progress in congress. Those votes don't come from nowhere.

and how did that work out for them last time?


How do you propose passing laws without compromising with the other party? Or are you proposing abandoning the concept of drafting laws entirely because it would require working with the other side?

I'm talking about winning elections, which is what Joe Biden was talking about. stay on topic.
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TopicJoe Biden is living in a fantasy land
averagejoel
05/14/19 1:12:49 PM
#15
s0nicfan posted...
Godnorgosh posted...
"I'm a realist, you all just need to be realistic and pragmatic about politics"

"We can compromise with Republicans and continue to make progress and win elections"


He's not wrong. Unless you hold a supermajority, you literally have to compromise with the other party to make any progress in congress. Those votes don't come from nowhere.

and how did that work out for them last time?
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TopicGirl gives her experience using OKCupid
averagejoel
05/14/19 11:04:33 AM
#42
ok TC where are you finding these. please link them
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TopicGirl gives her experience using OKCupid
averagejoel
05/14/19 9:23:06 AM
#12
so are you going to link the article or not
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TopicDo you believe what Rep. Rashida Tlaib said about the Holocaust was antisemitic?
averagejoel
05/13/19 5:05:13 PM
#40
Damn_Underscore posted...
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are treated unfairly in the name of Israeli security, but Israel isn't the only reason why Israeli-Palestinian peace has failed for so long. Palestine is also at fault.

ah yes,,,,, the people who throw rocks at the bulldozers destroying their home are partly to blame. this is a good opinion

Israel just feels that if they were to give in to Palestine's demands as they stand now, it would be the first step toward their elimination. And are they wrong?

would the elimination of an apartheid ethnostate be a bad thing?
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TopicI love the Eva version of Fly me to the moon so much
averagejoel
05/13/19 3:02:26 PM
#9
SauI_Goodman posted...
averagejoel posted...
SauI_Goodman posted...
The original Elvis version was the best.

the first recording of it was by Kaye Ballard, not Elvis

There's always one.

He never even sang it!

idk it was written around the time Elvis started getting popular, so it seemed feasible to me
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TopicI love the Eva version of Fly me to the moon so much
averagejoel
05/13/19 2:58:36 PM
#7
SauI_Goodman posted...
The original Elvis version was the best.

the first recording of it was by Kaye Ballard, not Elvis
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TopicI love the Eva version of Fly me to the moon so much
averagejoel
05/13/19 2:54:44 PM
#4
I don't really like the singer's tone. the few embellishments that she made to the melody were okay though.

stylistically, I also don't really like when people attempt to sound like jazz with a string orchestra
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TopicTrying to catch a Bewear.
averagejoel
05/13/19 9:57:17 AM
#2
Fluffy is a really cool ability
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TopicWhat would you do if you were a titan shifter in this world?
averagejoel
05/13/19 8:32:23 AM
#6
uh

hope that I don't get found out
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TopicPost stories you've had where you've been caught deeding >_>
averagejoel
05/12/19 11:24:15 PM
#16
I've never been caught

but one time I was doing it in a public bathroom stall so discreetly that someone came in and turned the lights off
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TopicPeople on this board that don't hydrate properly
averagejoel
05/12/19 11:19:27 PM
#9
NOM posted...
I tried drinking a gallon of water a day for a month and all it did was make my pee clear and send me to the bathroom 37 times a day. Other than that, no changes.

often I find that if I drink water while my stomach is relatively empty, it doesn't even really quench my thirst
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Topica Reminder that the Rebels in Star Wars symbolizes Vietcongs and Hippies
averagejoel
05/12/19 8:15:21 PM
#44
The Bad Guy posted...
If the empire is america, why do they all have british accents?

many of them have american accents
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TopicIs this statistics map racist?
averagejoel
05/12/19 12:57:09 PM
#29
uwnim posted...
The map makes it seem like being in the tropics makes you have a lower IQ.

more accurately, it suggests that
COVxy posted...
there is geographical bias in IQ

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TopicIs this statistics map racist?
averagejoel
05/12/19 12:48:22 PM
#27
Vita_Aeterna posted...
averagejoel posted...
Vita_Aeterna posted...
averagejoel posted...
Vita_Aeterna posted...
# of Nobel prizes won by Singapore: 0
# of Nobel prizes won by the United States of America: 377

So much for that intelligence

awfully bold of you to suggest that the number of nobel laureates is a valid way to measure the intelligence of a country as a whole

(FYI I don't think IQ is a valid metric for that either)

My point is that intelligence means little if you can't actually output it into something notable. Granted, not everyone has to be a Chemist god, but if a country with such a high intelligence can't be creative and innovative enough to win a single Nobel prize then just says something about their "intelligence."

There's obviously more than one type of intelligence though. The ones Singaporeans are alleged to have don't seem to result in anything remotely worthy of notice to the world.

this reads like something I would come up with if someone asked me to write a caricature of eurocentrism

Yeah except Japan.

ah yes, Japan, the famously non-imperialist nation that never exploited any countries for its own benefit
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TopicIs this statistics map racist?
averagejoel
05/12/19 12:31:28 PM
#22
Vita_Aeterna posted...
averagejoel posted...
Vita_Aeterna posted...
# of Nobel prizes won by Singapore: 0
# of Nobel prizes won by the United States of America: 377

So much for that intelligence

awfully bold of you to suggest that the number of nobel laureates is a valid way to measure the intelligence of a country as a whole

(FYI I don't think IQ is a valid metric for that either)

My point is that intelligence means little if you can't actually output it into something notable. Granted, not everyone has to be a Chemist god, but if a country with such a high intelligence can't be creative and innovative enough to win a single Nobel prize then just says something about their "intelligence."

There's obviously more than one type of intelligence though. The ones Singaporeans are alleged to have don't seem to result in anything remotely worthy of notice to the world.

this reads like something I would come up with if someone asked me to write a caricature of eurocentrism
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TopicIs this statistics map racist?
averagejoel
05/12/19 12:09:25 PM
#16
Vita_Aeterna posted...
# of Nobel prizes won by Singapore: 0
# of Nobel prizes won by the United States of America: 377

So much for that intelligence

awfully bold of you to suggest that the number of nobel laureates is a valid way to measure the intelligence of a country as a whole

(FYI I don't think IQ is a valid metric for that either)
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Topic$2,300,000 but you have to watch every single pauly shore movie
averagejoel
05/12/19 12:03:10 PM
#24
K181 posted...
dib153 posted...
K181 posted...
I'm the Vice President of the Upper Midwestern/Canadian Prairie Chapter of the Paulie Shore Fan Club, so I've already seen his entire filmography.

Money, please.


all I want for Christmas 2k19 is for this to be real. that's Fucking great


Well, our chapter has three vice presidents with differing responsibilities, so it's not as impressive of a position as it might immediately sound if you assumed that there was only one VP per chapter.

lmao
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Topica Reminder that the Rebels in Star Wars symbolizes Vietcongs and Hippies
averagejoel
05/12/19 12:02:15 PM
#36
a lot of people ITT underestimate the extent to which american foreign policy was influenced by the nazis
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TopicSo if Cubone wears the skull of its dead mother on its head...
averagejoel
05/12/19 9:38:32 AM
#2
cubone is the joey in kangaskhan's pouch
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Topica Reminder that the Rebels in Star Wars symbolizes Vietcongs and Hippies
averagejoel
05/12/19 9:30:58 AM
#23
Southernfatman posted...
Palpatine was always said to be a mix of Hitler and Nixon.

and Henry Kissinger is just Darth Vader without the redemption at the end
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Topic$2,300,000 but you have to watch every single pauly shore movie
averagejoel
05/12/19 9:02:11 AM
#12
that's less than a month of 9-5 monday-friday watching
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TopicThey Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud.
averagejoel
05/12/19 8:43:00 AM
#3
I for one am shocked that the "teach coal miners to code" people were not being genuine
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TopicThey Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud.
averagejoel
05/12/19 8:41:57 AM
#1
Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks. Students found an erratic operation.

BECKLEY, W.Va. On a spring day in 2017, Stephanie Frame sat down in her hilltop home deep in the mountain hollows to record a video.

She began with the litany of local decline: the vanishing jobs in the coal mines, the shuttering stores, the school that closed down. During one stretch of unemployment for her coal miner husband, the two had resorted to selling ramps, ginseng and yellowroot that they had dug up in the forest.

But this video, aimed at her neighbors, was an announcement: Redemption was here. A nonprofit called Mined Minds, promising to teach West Virginians how to write computer code and then get them good-paying jobs, was looking for recruits.

I wholeheartedly believe, and will always believe, Ms. Frame said to the camera, that God has sent Mined Minds to us to save us from what could have been a very bleak future.

She had every reason to believe. Joe Manchin III, her Democratic senator, had invited the group to come into the state. The National Guard hired it to teach at its military-style academy. County commissioners arranged space rent free. National news outlets gave glowing coverage.

Many West Virginians like Ms. Frame signed up for Mined Minds, quitting their jobs or dropping out of school for the prized prospect of a stable and lucrative career. But the revival never came.

Almost none of those who signed up for Mined Minds are working in programming now. They described Mined Minds as an erratic operation, where guarantees suddenly evaporated and firings seemed inevitable, leaving people to start over again at the bottom rungs of the wage jobs they had left behind.

Over two dozen former students in West Virginia are pursuing a lawsuit, arguing that Mined Minds was a fraud. Out of the 10 or so people who made it to the final weeks of Ms. Frames class in Beckley, only one formally graduated. He is now delivering takeout.

It was a too-good-to-be-true kind of deal, said Billyjack Buzzard, 33, who attended another class and was the only former West Virginia coal miner to finish classes and get a job with the program. He was fired after 14 months and went back underground. Just false hope.

Mined Minds came into Appalachia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks, and carried with missionary zeal into places in dire need of economic salvation. The group was premised on the notion, as one grant proposal read, that anyone can have a successful career in the technology industry, and that if enough people did, the whole area would be transformed.

Amanda Laucher, one of the founders of Mined Minds, spoke at a tech conference in 2017 of the groups ambitions, which were swiftly expanding. Yeah, we helped a town, we actually made some small impact, she said of Mined Minds early efforts. But can we scale it and actually diversify the economy of an entire region?

This would be an audacious goal even in the best of circumstances. But Mined Mines was operating with a limited amount of personal cash and public funding, and was mostly staffed by people who had spent little time in tech.

Ms. Laucher now acknowledges that while she is still committed to the groups mission, the work has not been easy. Progress is difficult, she said in an email, with the current atmosphere in Appalachia which is deeply interested in maintaining a culture.

She blamed the opioid epidemic and the poverty culture of the region, mentioning Hillbilly Elegy, the best-selling memoir by J.D. Vance, who, like Ms. Laucher, went from working-class Rust Belt roots to success in the tech sector.


full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html
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TopicDoes wanting a T-Rex gf make you a furry?
averagejoel
05/12/19 1:06:02 AM
#6
gunplagirl posted...
averagejoel posted...
gunplagirl posted...
Scaley is the proper term for lizards, (most) dinosaurs, fish and other things like that

but didn't the T-Rex have feathers?


Birds aren't mammals and lack fur, which I believe is what they still are called scaleys. I don't know of any specific term anthro bird fans.

...crap now I just remembered I still have that chocobobobobobo "draw me like one of your French girls" picture.

featheries?
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TopicCould/Would Mew & Mewtwo defeat Entei & Groudon?
averagejoel
05/12/19 1:02:26 AM
#3
Duncanwii posted...
Mega Mewtwo and Primal Groudon would fight for supremacy after easily beating Mew and Entei. At that point it depends on if Mega Mewtwo has a Water move or things get ugly.

Primal Groudon makes water moves evaporate
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TopicDoes wanting a T-Rex gf make you a furry?
averagejoel
05/12/19 12:59:48 AM
#3
gunplagirl posted...
Scaley is the proper term for lizards, (most) dinosaurs, fish and other things like that

but didn't the T-Rex have feathers?
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TopicWould you rather work in retail or teaching?
averagejoel
05/11/19 6:59:17 PM
#17
I teach private music lessons and I like it a lot
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Topicis it hypocritical to be pro-vax and pro-choice at the same time
averagejoel
05/11/19 10:25:04 AM
#2
abortions are an important aspect of women's health

vaccines are an important aspect of everyone's collective health
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TopicAnybody here got mental issues?
averagejoel
05/11/19 7:19:16 AM
#29
the0rebirth posted...
Complete_Idi0t posted...
Mental issues don't exist. I have a great book you can read called dianetics


And let me guess: climate change isn't real and vaccinations are a hoax?

it's a satirical account. I actually have it tagged as such so I don't accidentally respond without reading the username
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TopicThis is a racist hand symbol now haha!!
averagejoel
05/10/19 3:33:28 PM
#146
Damn_Underscore posted...
So if someone tells a team to make all games free admission because their stadium was financed with taxpayer money and the people deserve to go to all games for free, what would stop them from listening to that request?

The answer is something called discretion. If you really believe what you are saying, I hope you never disagree with a corporate decision ever again; they can do whatever they want under the law just because they can.

If you refuse to use discretion and see that the team is wrong here, then YOU are also wrong.

so I will restate my question: what sort of restriction do you suggest we impose on private institutions to ensure that this doesn't happen?
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TopicThis is a racist hand symbol now haha!!
averagejoel
05/10/19 1:22:19 PM
#94
Damn_Underscore posted...
averagejoel posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
averagejoel posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
This is lunacy.

You can't take a gesture that is commonly used in everyday society (and is formed by literally touching your thumb and index finger together) and suddenly try to ban every use of it.

who has faced consequences for doing it beyond being kicked out of a private institution?


Being kicked out of a private institution unjustly is still an injustice.

so what sort of restrictions do you suggest we put on private institutions to prevent this?


Don't listen to fringe idiots on twitter.

they are free to listen to whoever they want, and to kick out anyone they want
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TopicThis is a racist hand symbol now haha!!
averagejoel
05/10/19 1:17:22 PM
#88
Damn_Underscore posted...
averagejoel posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
This is lunacy.

You can't take a gesture that is commonly used in everyday society (and is formed by literally touching your thumb and index finger together) and suddenly try to ban every use of it.

who has faced consequences for doing it beyond being kicked out of a private institution?


Being kicked out of a private institution unjustly is still an injustice.

so what sort of restrictions do you suggest we put on private institutions to prevent this?
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TopicThis is a racist hand symbol now haha!!
averagejoel
05/10/19 1:12:59 PM
#85
Damn_Underscore posted...
This is lunacy.

You can't take a gesture that is commonly used in everyday society (and is formed by literally touching your thumb and index finger together) and suddenly try to ban every use of it.

who has faced consequences for doing it beyond being kicked out of a private institution?
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TopicWhat groups, if any, would you define as alt-left?
averagejoel
05/10/19 11:59:34 AM
#14
Hulkasaurusrex posted...
averagejoel posted...
Hulkasaurusrex posted...
MedeaLysistrata posted...
left accelerationists are the closest thing to real alt left today, but they're pretty obscure compared to the highly publicized alt-right (aka the alt-wrong)


Thats because cnn is alt left and most of the media they over report alt right but barely mention the far left.

cnn is right wing and there hasn't been a major far left presence in the US since before the red scare


I really hope you don't beleive cnn is right wing. Why don't you turn it on my guess would be a hit piece on donald trump more mueller crap or some race based bullshit.

there are many people and many institutions on the right that do not like donald trump. CNN is one such institution
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TopicWhat groups, if any, would you define as alt-left?
averagejoel
05/10/19 11:45:50 AM
#12
Hulkasaurusrex posted...
MedeaLysistrata posted...
left accelerationists are the closest thing to real alt left today, but they're pretty obscure compared to the highly publicized alt-right (aka the alt-wrong)


Thats because cnn is alt left and most of the media they over report alt right but barely mention the far left.

cnn is right wing and there hasn't been a major far left presence in the US since before the red scare
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TopicWhy exactly do so many people want monogamous relationships?
averagejoel
05/10/19 11:28:17 AM
#33
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 posted...
averagejoel posted...
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 posted...
Flockaveli posted...
There's literally people who find children attractive, it wouldn't be too far out for me to assume that maybe there are people who find faithfulness and commitment attractive.

Everyone is attracted to something.

the vast majority (I hope) are not attracted to children but apparently the majority find monogamy more attractive, so this argument doesn't seem that valid, unfortunately.

it's also possible to be faithful and committed to more than one person

yeah but most people wouldn't do that. that's what the topic is about

true. I guess I was more responding to the post you were quoting than your post

a lot of people itt don't really seem to know much about poly relationships in general. like it's very different from sleeping around (not that there's anything inherently wrong with that either)
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TopicThis is a racist hand symbol now haha!!
averagejoel
05/10/19 10:46:54 AM
#32
averagejoel posted...
ok who's your main

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TopicWhy exactly do so many people want monogamous relationships?
averagejoel
05/10/19 10:45:06 AM
#30
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 posted...
Flockaveli posted...
There's literally people who find children attractive, it wouldn't be too far out for me to assume that maybe there are people who find faithfulness and commitment attractive.

Everyone is attracted to something.

the vast majority (I hope) are not attracted to children but apparently the majority find monogamy more attractive, so this argument doesn't seem that valid, unfortunately.

it's also possible to be faithful and committed to more than one person
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TopicWould you read a tell-all book from someone you consider a liar?
averagejoel
05/10/19 9:21:43 AM
#5
I mean, I've read Miles Davis' autobiography more than once and it's pretty widely acknowledged to be full of lies. it's still interesting though
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TopicWhy exactly do so many people want monogamous relationships?
averagejoel
05/10/19 9:19:28 AM
#11
Sariana21 posted...
The concept has been ingrained in society mostly to protect assets (financial and human). Stable relationships are conducive to a productive society.

poly relationships can be stable lol

though you are right about the first part -- it's ingrained into society at this point, and anything else is stigmatized
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TopicBeauty and the Beast(animated) best song?
averagejoel
05/10/19 9:10:08 AM
#13
is Maison des Lunes in the animated version? I don't remember, but that's my favourite song from it
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TopicI keep wanting to like Cyberpunk but I cant
averagejoel
05/10/19 9:08:32 AM
#20
YookaLaylee posted...
Have you seen the movie Hackers? Lol theres nothing bleak about it

I just read a synopsis so I might be missing something, but it doesn't really seem like a cyberpunk story to me.

the synopsis doesn't make it seem like a hyper-capitalist dystopia, there's no mention of cybernetic implants, and the characters aren't really rebelling against the system
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TopicI keep wanting to like Cyberpunk but I cant
averagejoel
05/09/19 11:42:41 PM
#15
SSJKirby posted...
cyberpunk has the stereotypical atmosphere of a noir novel, but the new Cyberpunk 2077 game seems to not be that

I don't know if this is the case here because I haven't played that particular game, but it seems to me that a lot of what's currently being made is all Cyber and no Punk. there's a fascination with the gritty aesthetic and cool cyborg humans, but less in the way of social commentary
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