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Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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[–] veloxization@yiffit.net 74 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We'd have the whole nine yards.

[–] dill@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun."

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] orrk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.

Cyberpunk

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Too bad. There's no chance this doesn't happen after the agricultural collapse. Well, the first bit, anyway.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Wake up Samurai...

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.

[–] Mpeach45@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”