Sentences for anybody given such powers when they do get caught breaking the Law and are actually prosecuted and found guity, should be at least double the sentences that people who had no such powers and inside influence in the Law Enforcement process get.

If they have a priviledged position within the legal system with powers which others do not have (including, directly or indirectly the power to make it less likely that they are made accountable for their own crimes), the punishment for breaking the Law if and when they do get caught, prosecuted and found guilty (a big IF) should reflect their superior familiarity with Criminal Law, their lower probability of getting caugh, prosecuted and found guilty because they’re inside the very system that does it, and the fact that they abused the authority they were entrusted with.

I’m not GP, but Stadiums, concerts, conventions, traffic control, high value stores like apple, etc.

The tech is good… for overlords.

I look forward to dying at your side.

Cyberpunk is not only a critique and warning, but what’s important is that even its dystopian part explores the human diversity, just projected onto reality in a very different way. It feels deep, scary, cruel, but not degenerate.

Our reality feels superficial and degenerate. As if everything were turning fake. Even today’s wars feel almost fake. That is, the ruin and murder parts are very much not. But they are not surrounded by much of any sincere emotion or ideology. Not even the kind central powers had in WWI (disgustingly bland propaganda about French and British negro soldiers, our good land with oaks and rivers versus their land of pesky republican ashen, barbaric Russian hordes and so on ; well, the Entente side wasn’t much better, but better).

I mean, there’s such cyberpunk as this too, and there’s always depth. It’s just different from how in books you feel as if the depth were coming itself to you, while IRL you have to remove distractions and forget everything and drop your hands, and then you might see.

Hug your favourites, and good luck in the Climate Wars.

That’s too slow a thing to lend its name to actual wars.

Late Rome was influenced a fair bit by climate change, yet nothing about its wars is usually called by that association.

I once thought it’s possible to build some kind of “idealized” Empire from Star Wars. Almost like the Soviet space dream.

The problem with these people is - they don’t know what they want to do. They have vibes.

I can relate to that very much, I too for most part have vibes and not understanding, and also executive dysfunction, so my life is vibe-driven.

They think they erode the oppressive mechanism (sometimes) or change the world so that the better would be on top (that’d be them in their opinion). These are actually similar in the sense of trying to slowly break what they consider to be chains. Except they don’t, they reinforce it.

You can’t build a cyberpunk world (no matter dystopian or utopian) without the technologies used being interoperable, replaceable, durable, and available to many people. That’s how those worlds exist, through a certain kind of technologies being as ingrained into the society as public domain works of literature.

While these platforms are not such. These platforms for me reminisce China before Opium Wars. A similar degeneracy, feeling of power and lack of feedbacks. (I hope the Chinese have this association too and something in their lives prevents a similar crash, but my hope isn’t very strong)

Sounds like they’ll rate those that killed at least one innocent person higher

In my experience firefighters are alright. Cops like shooting people but firefighters just want to put fires out and otherwise be the hero, they want nothing more than to be pictured saving a cat for a house fire. If you want to be the hero you can’t be the villain, cops don’t care though because they get off on bullying people.