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Bats aren't blind
Bayonets are black
Go out and find
A Nazi to hack

It is...

https://soundcloud.com/holist/divine-little-star

Wow, questions! Just when I thought I wouldn't get any!

"What's new?" (Vanadium Gryllz)

How do you mean? In general? Nothing. In your life? In mine?

"WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOOOOOOOOOOOR?" (Faust)

The Visible Underground https://discord.gg/M2dB3f and the Red Road.

"What do you do to relax?" (Ziegejunge)

Smoke pot, play music, listen to music, read, these last few days watch the Detectorists, masturbate, go to a thermal bath, play with my kids, cook. Not necessarily in that order, and some of them definitely not at the same time.

"Does this look infected?" (LMNO)

I am by no means certain, but I would say it is. You should see a doctor. They will fix you right up!

"why do I am alook alike a poss of porterpease?" (Bobby Campbell)

I am not sure you do, Bobby! I am sure, however, that you are quoting from Finnegan's Wake. Why?

As for the CIA and Google thing, I assume you're referencing some kind of future world where people give a fuck about privacy. While that may very well happen in the next 10 years, it won't do so on this planet. See, privacy is a myth. It always has been a myth, and anyone who believes in it might as well go to church on Sundays too, because it's that kind of fake. But not only is there no such thing as privacy, privacy has no right to exist anyway. If you're scared of men in black suits finding out what you fap to when nobody's looking, you're just not living. Plus, all this worrying about privacy is seriously impeding the cybernetic hivemind society I want to live in. We need to erase all concept of the self, forcefully, and over the corpses of whoever bitches about it. There's no other way to survive as a species. Plus, it would probably involve a lot of cool looking implants and wires and blinky lights and stuff, which is all far more important than not being spied on. Which isn't important at all. And no, I'm not being sarcastic or facetious. I fully support the transhumanist ideal of erasing the individual human mind from existence in favor of a collective consciousness aided by heavy and probably reckless use of technology. And, of course, gulags for anyone who doesn't like it.

I would prefer not to. ( :

AR visual overlays reach smartphone-ubiquity, as do realtime AI lie detector apps, forcing a fundamental shift in basic human psychology.

The nation-state model collapses completely, taking with it central government and fiat currency as the primary means of economic exchange. Reputation economy takes over.

IBM brings a fully functional 128 qbit quantum processor to market. Once of the first things scientists use it for is to totally disprove quantum theory but it gets stuck half way through the calculation.

That's pretty close to my "I think there's a chance this may happen and I hope it does" scenario. I would like to add affordable, replicable nanoassembly of foodstuff capable of supplying basic metabolic needs", and general purpose 3d printing going rife and uncontrolled. I am aware that this may all end rather horribly, but I still think it's our best chance.

Let me start one of these as well, because I have been away for a while and changed somewhat in the meantime. So, ask me anything, I will attempt to answer genuine questions to the best of my ability, as my time permits. I will be heartbroken if I don't get any questions, but don't let that stop you! It's my problem and I will deal with it. ( :

I usually start out by declaring that while I don't know about others, I personally very certainly do not own a soul. The ensuing conversation is sometimes highly entertaining. A bit like pretending not to know who Zizek is. https://www.thehairpin.com/2016/07/the-best-time-i-pretended-i-hadnt-heard-of-slavoj-zizek/

Ten years from now:

Trump is dead
Windows™ is bankrupt
Google and the CIA are now publicly known to be in on a massive worldwide scandal (and under severe investigation)
Conspiracy Theorists have taken over the white house and are taking the president of the time hostage
Anonymous opens a new bank branch

That would certainly be a few steps forward. ( :

Arpeio is about 45 miles from me.  I still advocate the use of nuclear weapons against him.

I sympathise. He seems extremely... unsavoury. When you get one, if they do package deals, could you get one for our beloved leadership Orbán, too?

Get your own.  I'm using all of them on Maricopa County.

Fair enough. ( :

Arpeio is about 45 miles from me.  I still advocate the use of nuclear weapons against him.

I sympathise. He seems extremely... unsavoury. When you get one, if they do package deals, could you get one for our beloved leadership Orbán, too?

Also, thank you for pointing me towards Warren Ellis, seems to be my kind of guy.

10 years from now:

Ted Nugent is president, still shitting himself.
Joe Arpieo's festering corpse is nailed to a seat in the senate, and is a shrine to Nazis.
Public education tops out at 3rd grade, if you can pay the fees.
Youtube is nothing but Oasis tribute bands, but it doesn't matter because your service doesn't include youtube.
Warren Ellis still hasn't finished Doktor Sleepless.
The Republic of Texas fragments into 4 smaller states.
Anger is an official gender.

I see your much revered optimism has ony matured with age. Will there be an official pronoun to go with the angry gender? What will it take to upgrade to youtube? Also, so you do not predict a Major Human Population Reduction Event on that timescale, that's encouraging... I looked up the other guys you mentioned, Ted for Prez would also be an improvement, so really you are forecasting a happyfest. This Arpeio guy's local to your part of the world, right? and Ellis, he isn't even American! Public Education: do you really think it'll top out? Isn't it needed to produce reasonable-grade machine-fodder? 

I create a few dozen fake Illegal Refugee I.D. numbers, collect $3,874/mo from the Federal Assistance program for each one of them and become the next George Soros.

"Illegal Refugee ID-number" - is that what they call a double oxy?

You'd have to be collecting your hundred thou a month for some time to get near his bundle... and anyway, why be the next him, he's old and disappointed.