Where does the cyberpunk come into play with the garbage bins?
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoGarbage collection services dislike when people throw their garbage in neighbor’s cans even when the neighbor is paying for the larger can (e.g. the disposal volume being used). This has led to some garbage distribution piracy alongside recycling collection crews.
In case you wanted some cyberpunk dystopia in your cyberpunk dystopia.
otp@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Neon lights and vaporwave when you open the lid. It’s the bees knees.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Two ways.
The outer layer is the ad-hoc (often underground or criminal) system that serves to rectify a problem caused by the unjust rules of the legitimate system, in this case, refuse pirates who match overflow to underused capacity.
The inner layer comes from service to the community becoming punk when the mainstream becomes destructive. When recycling bandits start redistributing garbage they go from being commensal with their neighborhood (causing some noise pollution and some additional mess) to mutualist (providing a service to the neighborhood they scavenge).
otp@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I appreciate the explanation, but I don’t think I follow what that has to do with cyberpunk.
Wikipedia describes cyberpunk as “futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay”.
I understand the relation to dystopia, and even your comparison to the punk movement, but I don’t get the cyberpunk comparison, lol
dumbass@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
If you move them wrong they start flying around the street at an ever increasing speed.
otp@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s Cyberpunk: 2077, not cyberpunk, lol
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Wow, that’s really odd. My garbage company doesn’t care what I do with my or anyone else’s can. I can even set mine on my side of the street, and as soon as it empties, refill it and move it across the street (there’s like a 15 min gap between them), and they literally don’t care. I also overfill it fairly often, and again, they don’t care. As long as the truck can pick it up and dump it, they’re happy.