Sounds expensive, and I'll be dead in 10/20/50/100 years so it's really not my problem. Also why don't people just move further north. Bootstraps!

Oh, but you don’t even have to go so far to get batteries. Just feed grandpa into the transporter itself and use his own energy to reconfigure to the backup. And hey, maybe instead of last week’s backup you use the one from 10 years ago.

Soooo what you’re saying is taking drugs with side effects up to and including death are better than looking at alt medicines that have thousands of years of history, like acupuncture? Yeah, I'll call BS on magnetic bracelets like anyone else, but don't pretend that western medicine is the only game in town.

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but seriously, even though it’s easy to agree with the Huxley points, half of our population lives in a bubble of fear against, well the brown and poor. The govt is trying, and largely succeeding, to get viewports into our lives. And while many of us do try to escape our lives through entertainment…