Altered Carbon

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• xor@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  about a day

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well that’s generous

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah. The 24 hour window is so all the rich, connected people can apply for some grandfathered exemption clause that’s not available to the rest of us.

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well they only operate in the “business day.” Which means after 5pm they’re more vulnerable and that’s when we must strike

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d give it 11 minutes.

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    • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I understood that reference.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People say you come back. Reincarnation. Do you think so? Well, it doesn’t seem mathematically possible to me, man. Uh, 'course at one time what we had on the earth was six people, you know. I avoid “two” because it’s controversial but six… most people agree, “fuck, yeah, we had six at one time.” Six people, six souls… cool. They died, souls went back to the place; six new people souls- still six souls. Now we have four billion people… claiming to have souls. Someone is printing up souls… and it lowers their value, you know.

  – George Carlin

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bring me sugar water

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    • clb92@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Explains a lot about some people

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  • DODOKING38@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But about the souls of all the bacteria 🦠

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe they get reincarnated into other bacteria?

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No central nervous system, they probably don’t have souls.

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  • mellowheat@suppo.fi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The universe opposite to this is a worse place than this and contains googolplex souls wanting to get here.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s no particular reason to think souls and reincarnation would follow the normal flow of time. If you can be reincarnated in a different place from where you lived, why not a different time? Maybe you could be reincarnated as anyone who had ever lived, or anyone ever will live. Taken to the extreme, there could be just one soul and we’re all reincarnations of each other. It’s all woo, so why not?

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the short story “The Egg” by Andy Weir (same guy who wrote The Martian and Project Hail Mary (which is an amazing book, btw)).

      I recommend the egg. It’s a quick read.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol @ me being reincarnated as a cat. I can’t pay bills sorry

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’d track you until you’re reincarnated into a paying body again.

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    • Fester@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And by “track” you mean they’d kill you over and over till you roll human.

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    • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Making sure to add LCI, or lifetime compound interest.

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• CrazyEddie041@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Strange to see Zullie outside of the FromSoft space, but also, 100% accurate point.

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  • Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah. They make great videos and they turned out to have rad politics too. Neato.

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  • Oszilloraptor@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Where is this going. Debts? Companies? Did I miss some huge lore dump? Wait … are they talking about the lands outside?”

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• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Be me. Reincarnate into a cow. Moo. Moo moo moo. Moo moo moo moo moo. Moo 🐮

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Companies: 🥩🥩🍔🍔💲💲

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    • tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d just be happy that people like me. On a bun nonetheless. But a like is a like.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your debt-ridden Reincarnation as a Cash Cow

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    bloons

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  • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you going to be a dairy cow? In order to produce milk, dairy cows are kept almost continually pregnant. Unwanted male calves are slaughtered in their first week of life so that their mothers’ milk can be harvested for human consumption.

    I hate milk, but I love my other milk products like cheese, and yogurt.

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Way easier to lie about it. Just pick babies out to be indentured servants for life to repay some imagined debts. Maybe make them feel it was their fault for not paying off the debt previously. We could even target kids from poor families for this, so they have less hope of fighting back.

  We did this already, a bunch of times.

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  • Esqplorer@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t this just the caste system?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Any class system. Some are more rigid than others, but the goal is the same.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah so it turns out you’re responsible for the things everyone in your group did in the past. And a lot of them died without paying their bills so that’s on you kid.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hell yeah!

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rich people would probably set something up so that their future incarnation inherits their wealth, since it’s statistically likely that they’d be reincarnated as someone poorer. I could also imagine a much stronger push to bring the birthrate up even at the cost of using unethical means to force it, because if the population decreases, there wouldn’t be enough children born for an increasingly large percentage to reincarnate into

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Considering the Rich tend to control governments, this would result in shit like a ban on contraception and abortion, mayhaps legally requiring everyone have a minimum amount of children.

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …do republicans know something we don’t?

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• 6buck6satan6@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why reincarnation would come to be. It would then be spun in a way that would be beneficial for people. You can buy that house with a 250 year, 3 lives mortgage!

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  • MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is I the trillionaire eu keeps accruing wealth past his 250 lives.

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  • Kyatto@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    2nd life into mortgage year one foreclosed because you couldn’t pay :'(

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• theatomictruth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sue a termite for damages just in case they show up as a human later or charge rent to the birds nesting in your back yard

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• mellowheat@suppo.fi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And the government made sure you paid taxes for everything dollar moving between incarnations.

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  • MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, you have paid taxes in your first life! The IRS department of past life tax recovery is awaiting your presence

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• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And class action lawsuits for damages caused in previous lives. Started a war? Polluted the land? Several million people want compensation. Can’t pay now? No problem, several lifetimes to pay off that debt.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah thank god we’re not doing that kind of magical thinking.

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you mean how long would it take? They would be the ones doing the research for that exact purpose.

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• November_the_Ninth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I give it an hour before someone decides indebted meat is vegan.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would be done at the same time the technology is announced.

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• reddit_sux@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would say they would be the one to prove you can track reincarnation.

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but it could also fix some things regarding racism, sexism, ableism, trans issues, immigration, geographic disadvantages etc. Maybe climate change?

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  • drislands@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Optimistic of you to think people wouldn’t use it as an excuse to be even MORE discriminatory. There would be Ultra-Whites who could claim they were never non-white in the past X years, with seniority by how far back they can trace their reincarnated whiteness. And of course there would be new religions claiming that if you follow them you’ll be reincarnated into the race/environment of your choice.

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    • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe. I just thought it was an interesting opportunity to put the “veil of ignorance” to the test.

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    • duffman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Odds are you aren’t going to be reincarnated as a white person though. Seems like they would cut the shit out the first time they are reincarnated as something different.

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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Suicide would be an epidemic.

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    • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everyone will reroll for better stats

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    • Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty sure that would result in negative karma, and thus the new reincarnated form would be even less desirable.

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• profdc9@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Debt bondage is slavery, but it’s still a thing unfortunately.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage

  It’s the opposite of Jubilee, in that debts are literally forever, rather than released every seven years.

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• Rinna@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My first thought was Cruelty Squad tbh.

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• DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• Andonyx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this the same person who does Elden Ring lore analysis? They do good shit.

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• stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  about 10 seconds maybe?

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• bobgray123987@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The real question is, does the interest go on hold till you reincarnate. Or does it keep accruing.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interest never stops accruing

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  • VubDapple@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have to ask? It keeps accruing!

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• jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great show!

  Politicians would be the ones passing the bills, lobbyist spend a good amount of money on buying politicians and our gov’ts to screw the working class.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would have loved a show that was just about Poe and with various guests who stayed in the hotel

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, I know this one…

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The first season was awesome, the second season not so much. I feel they wanted to put too much story into too few episodes in season two, which just left kind of a mess. I loved the concept though, sorry to have seen it canceled.

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    • Smeagol666@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The first season stuck mostly to the first book. The second season was based on about 1/3 of the third book and 2/3 of stuff they pulled out of their ass, which is probably why it seems so disjointed. They hardly touched the second book, which focused on how corporate captured governments start wars to maintain the military industrial complex.

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• Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Random zullie the witch haha, they make good yt vids :)

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• RealFknNito@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I miss Altered Carbon. So much.

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  • VoterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Too bad it was only one season long.

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    • Smeagol666@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There were two seasons, but there were three books.

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• designatedhacker@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re an ssshole don’t you come back as an insect or animal? That would mean rich folks would have to do actual good to avoid that. Whatever their policies, after the first few trust fund dung beetles and assorted other multi-lifetime embarrassments, they’d probably snap out of it.

  Hey check out the cockroach yacht club guys! Lol, how did that forced birth + soul tracking debt thing work out for you!?

  Then like half their debtors would achieve nervana and fuck off to heaven or whatever.

  I think the kharma religions, this would take care of itself.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you spend your life as an asshole you come back as a sea cucumber.

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• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Zulie the Witch has me watching videos that deep dive into lore and filenames for games I’ve never even played, good channel.

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• ClockNimble@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They would fall fast. What would the threat of death mean to a revolutionary? You will fall, and I will see it with my own eyes.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Scientology started decades ago.

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• SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know, the Sikhs and chiller Buddhists seem to have it figured out. Jains seem pretty on point too until you get to the sexism.

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