I know I've mentioned this before but I'll never forget when I was a kid and I heard about "the unemployment rate" or something for the first time and I tried to get my mom to explain it to me
If these people want to help, why don't we let them? They're poor, so is there not enough stuff for them? We could let them work and they can make stuff for themselves! Or if there already is enough stuff, we could just let everyone else work a little less and then these people can work too. Or just give them the stuff, if it's there already, and they wouldn't have to work because we don't need them to. Why don't we just do that, mommy?
And I honestly don't remember a shred of her answer because I'm 90% sure it was a dodge or otherwise just unsatisfying
Turns out, I was right! Unemployment *doesn't* make sense!
you don't log in
there's no server
there's no app
it doesn't use GPS or augmented reality
you just see someone else with their phone out and you play a honk sound and see if they honk back
so uh. friend's brainstorming a setting & like, incidentally came up with an organisation named after the chimera with the specific description that they "break all aesthetic rules and use as many different conflicting aesthetics of technology as possible"
i'd challenge you to name any part of this that isn't just describing me, but we already know you'd lose
plurality, grammar
look ik ranting abt english not working is an overworked trope but like
the word for [this individual plural system] and the word for [this group of people] is the same word. there aren't even any distinguishing modifiers that apply to it
this is like, we've got a thing that needs to be fixed but we don't even have a hammer
@hierarchon "Certain viruses (no not bacterial ones), forgetting to maintain against corrosion and degradation, captcha checks, oh and occasionally a door will just *really fuck me up*, y'know?"
re: plural
kinda want to figure out how to put into words this difference. best estimation so far is mel has a lot more "fuck you" energy going on?? but that doesn't really narrow it down much
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own