"Welcome to the future: a boring dystopia where the most nightmarish technology is just another cutesy promotional tool."

People that rip on Shatner's acting never saw nothin'!

Its funny that a lot of people will promote large-government policies but simultaneously hate their government :]

The essence of hope-- The rebelliousness of youth.

This is not the first embarrassment Detroit PD has seen with the tech. Pretty sure theres another from before that, too! The reality is that it only 'works' in China because they say it does... Black paintballs are inexpensive.

Big ups on the format :]

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You really didn't. You made some vauge statment about being a 'taxpaying member of society.' When Im in Canada I pay (sales) tax and follow thier (societal) laws. And vice versa. You can be a Canadian working in the US, integrating into our society, and paying (dual) income tax without citizenship... Granted there are tax credits to retroactively return some of the double-taxing... Also, a 16 year old in the States can work a taxable job, should they vote? Theres nuance to be had.

I think it's fair to say that you like having a system where entry to vote is as low as possible. However, way back to the beginning, it says nothing about being knowledgeable or virtuous. If anything it insinuates that you don't actually respect the two. Or you just belittle your own knowledge and virtue.

"A new Johns Hopkins Medicine analysis of national trauma data shows that trauma patients were four times more likely to die from gunshot wounds and nearly nine times more likely to die from stab wounds before getting to a trauma center in 2014, compared with rates in 2007."

No, it just randomly selected to mutate into a super-spreader with unique features in a wet lab a few miles away from a Level 4 lab that was creating Coronaviruses. Is this Occam's Razor? Anywho, hope you come back :] We can avoid the topic, if you'd like.

Edit: You had the most interesting take of the commenters :3 Easily the most candor.

I've never been extorted by an inanimate object before :p Not knowingly at least. I guess printer DRM is close, but you know what I mean. Hell, even corporations are considered entities by our (foolish) legal standards.

Covid is a great example of why this doesn't work. It was clearly made in a bio-lab. It leaked. Covid would not have happened without government funded research. We can say more could have been done, yet its too late. They made a mistake and it shocked the Earth. Our intellectuals later went on to sell vaccines with questionable efficacy rates and forced a voluntary product to maximize profits. This is not a success story.

Forgive me for not really beliving China's own internally collected data. However, even if true, a long life is not necessarily a good life. You can have the social credit system and live to 101. Ill keep my liberty and die at 70, lol, thanks.

I think we are diametrically opposed in this death-freedom thing. Funny enough your position sounds awfully theological... This is fine if you believe in lawful evil entities like Satan or Hades, but I suspect you do not. The dead are beyond the control of mortals. However I suppose you are correct in they are (seemingly) barred from their speech on the mortal plane. And I do feel the struggle gainst time and physics quite often. I dont see them as antagonistic forces. Like they are not preventing me from living my life. Not in the way taxes and ordinance does, at any rate. Im not a fan of transhumanism, for instance.

I agree with a lot of your sentiment :] I also agree that we must strive to hold our precious (negative) liberties. That they erode quickly. However, the government does not ensure our rights-- they're the entities our rights protect us against! Like literally, lol.

You can say they've made us safe from disease and harm, but theres been an awful lot of disease and harm lately. There is no amount of tax revenue that will make that happen. 'Full luxury gay space communism' is as bad a larp as AnCaps. Probably even worse, tbh.

If the dead are not free then who is their oppressor? Sounds spookier than the Founder's take.