themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pace makers keep you from dying so they're sort of on a different level of need. Also, if corps did planned obsolescence on one, you're probably not around to buy another.

If they were invented today, they would definitely have a predatory subscription model for "monitoring" your heart, or require occasional maintenance at cost to the end user.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The prequels were redeemed? That's news to me.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago

I'm with you on 1 and 2, but "reduced lingual skills" I think is a bit of a stretch. Becoming fluent in another language takes a lot of effort and people only do it if they have a good long term reason.

I think it's more likely this would cover the vacation / short term business case that is already covered by human interpreters (or apps already) instead.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought it was great, premise and execution.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 4 weeks ago

Use the 'scaled' sort for your frontpage. Helps keep the smaller communities you sub to from getting totally drowned out by some of the larger ones.