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1 year agoNot for much longer apparently
Not for much longer apparently
Historically cyberpunk has been explicitly about resisting the dehumanization of hyper capitalism and learning to rebuild human connection during mass social traumas. Steampunk has a lot of roots in the conflict between unchecked industrialization and people fighting for unionization. Neither is just an aesthetic, both are critiques of abusive power through different lenses.
it even survives autoclaving
Holy shit that’s wild. Well the good news is if it does jump the barrier I can trust in my fellow Americans to band together, trust advice from researchers, and get it handled quickly and with little to no needless death. Yep we’ll be fine.
But when it decays you could replace it with more wood, and then if more housing is ever needed you pull more carbon out of the air to make the wood for that. Not that it’s the end all solution but actually replanting forests and increasing the amount of wood in structures, and replacing plastic furniture with wood, it all could help. Every lever matters