Dystopian images and videos

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[funkervogt]

This means Skynet's future solution to humans having mental breakdowns at their factory jobs will be to order them to spend 30 minutes in The Box.

"Put him in The Box."

[Yuli Ban]

I love the Tri-State World of 1984 far more than the Great Britain Becomes North Korea version. It's just so much bleaker and more misanthropic. It gives mankind no way out and holds us in such dismal contempt.

However, the idea that Eurasia and Eastasia are actually (relatively) normal geopolitically is also fascinating. Like, imagine Operation Unthinkable occurred in 1945, the obvious inevitable happened and the USSR steamrolled the Allies and extended their reach to Portugal, and the Soviet Union and USA came to nuclear blows in the 1950s but it didn't end civilization and society actually developed about on par with what happened IRL and the world outside Airstrip One in Nineteen Eighty-Four is filled with just as much jazzercise, new wave punk, and funky dance-pop as the real 1984, except Britain couldn't enjoy any of it because they were arrested by a Khmer Rouge-esque national-socialist brutalitarian regime. Hell, the Cold War probably even ends in 1991 for whatever reason and we reach a relatively similar 2021 AD and yet "Airstrip One" remains.

[weatheriscool]

[weatheriscool]

This is Dystopian to me. The utter break down of society!

[Yuli Ban]

Looking at this image, I see the future chapter header for "Decline and Fall of the USA" in some future history ebook.

[Yuli Ban]

Why are his nipples so erect

[Yuli Ban]

It's actually not as dystopian as it sounds, but it does definitely SOUND like every 1980s/late 2000s "condemned play game of death" dystopian movie concept

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[Time_Traveller]

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[Yuli Ban]

Tencent to Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night

Shenzhen, China-based gaming giant Tencent has announced it will use a face recognition system to prevent minors in its home country from playing video games late into the night.

Tencent is attempting to keep ahead of recent regulations designed to stamp out what the Chinese government defines as excessive and unhealthy gaming habits. In 2019, China passed a law ostensibly intended to prevent minors “from indulging in online games.” According to NPR, that includes a ban on minors playing video games from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., as well as limiting their playtime to 90 minutes a day. The law also prohibited minors from spending more than $28 to $57 a month on micro-transactions. New rules requiring all individuals, regardless of age, to register for games using their real identities and prohibiting citizens from playing games that include “sexual explicitness, goriness, violence, and gambling” were also implemented.

At the time, NPR reported the State Administration of Press and Publication and the Ministry of Public Security said they were collaborating to build a “unified identification system” for games. Tencent is one of the many Chinese tech companies involved in enforcing their government’s draconian censorship laws which prohibit a wide range of speech considered sensitive by authorities. But it’s also been on the other end of the stick, as when it lost out on massive amounts of revenue due to a regulatory moratorium on licensing new games in 2018.

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[funkervogt]

Does that fool really need to use the subway at that moment? It can't wait until tomorrow?

[wjfox]

Article from 2018.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/open- ... or-humans/

[Yuli Ban]

Fascist HQ in Italy



"Are we the baddies?"

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