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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 36 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When current news gives you flashbacks to the Cyberpunk 2077 lore. The names and dates are different but the trends and events match enough to give the uncanny feeling. Agencies in the streets being deployed, USA in trade war losing irrelevance, going for the Central American war and then losing. By the way, that's why cybernetic limbs got so good, they needed them to patch up the soldiers from that war.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

How does one lose irrelevance?

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 11 points 15 hours ago

By gaining relevance!

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

If people stop trading with you, you start becoming irrelevant. If you stop producing science, you stop becoming revelant.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

But that would be losing relevance

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

I'm sorry, we were looking for "sex tape"