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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 05:09:29 JST goatsarah
   When UR reading Sci Fi written by a yank and they’re like, “I need to remind people this is in the future” so they’re all “meters” and “centigrade” and then they suddenly forget and go to “he was about 5 feet and likes his room at 99 degrees”.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 10:36:29 JST goatsarah

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     The other thing that really marks this out as coming from a US perspective is the nature of the class system on display in this dystopia. There are basically 3 classes: CEO oligarch gods, middle management corporate drones in indentured servitude desperately trying to afford medical care from the company store, and the proles, who basically sell their bodies for medical research.
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     Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 13:14:29 JST Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧

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     @goatsarah Like when Star Trek is doing distances in meters that could be done in kilometres or AU...

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