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  • This sure smells like corruption.

    This may be literally life of death for some affected persons. A lot of folks in Alaska could die if deprived of a public option for transportation of goods they rely on for survival.

    If a private railway is a good capitalist idea, let’s let the magic hand of capitalism provide a new separate private line.

    Maintaining a public option is common sense economics. The market can add more options, if there’s actually real value being missed, but the rest of us can still vote against it with our time and energy when it tries to enshitify.


  • (that Blade Runner largely omitted).

    I know we’re dunking on a beloved classic, but it would be fair to state this even more harshly.

    I felt like there’s really barely even a scrap of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in BladeRunner.

    I think BladeRunner is cool, and I’m thankful BladeRunner 2049 actually at least has some ideas from the book.

    But I can’t help but regret that BladeRunner has kept us from ever getting a proper Electric Sheep movie.

    Honestly, I really just want more people to get all the amazing Turtle-on-its-back jokes done with Bender in Futurama.

    Edit: And how does a movie skip over the

    Huge Spoiler for the Book - Don't click if you haven't read it yet.

    The electric spider?!

    That would have made a fantastic movie ending to roll credits on.