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   Message 69 of 1,115   
   worm food to kyonshi   
   Re: Retaking USENET   
   03 Jan 24 18:00:40   
   
   From: wormfood@compostpunk.com   
      
   On 1/2/2024 8:27 AM, kyonshi wrote:   
   > On 12/25/2023 7:41 PM, worm food wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Cyberpunk is dead, friend. It's an aesthetic now, like "mall goth".   
   >> You want some useful tech? Learn to grow lentils.   
   >> Welcome to the future, "cr0c0d1le has died of dysentery".   
   >> Merry xmas.   
   >   
   > Cyberpunk is not dead. We are living it. The problem is that cyberpunk   
   > went mainstream in the most mainstream way possible: everywhere all at   
   > once.   
      
   If you are talking about the sociocultural malaise (decomposition?)   
   predicted in much "cyberpunk" media, I'll buy that.   
   However, that point seems lost on >90% of extant humans.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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