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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:
“I-is that a guillotine? I thought this was going to be a bloodless revolution!”
“It used to be a guillotine; we’ve removed the blade and added a rack and pinion drive instead of gravity”
“Ooo-kay, so what does it do now?”
“It implants a prosthetic empathy chip in the brainstem”
“You couldn’t just use a hypodermic implanter?”
“Oh, for sure—but understanding that there /could/ have been a blade there is part of the treatment. They all /say/ they’d rather we amputated their head than their billions, but that’s the sickness talking.”