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WCDT strips 4296-4300 (29th June to 3rd July 2020)
chris73:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 02 Jul 2020, 19:29 ---I get the feeling I'm missing a joke here.
Oh well.
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Abolishing the carceral state (if it ever happened) would be a helluva joke, not a very funny joke mind you
Gus_Smedstad:
Incarceration is like democracy. It’s a pretty bad solution to the problem, but better than all the other solutions we’ve tried.
In some SF backgrounds, committing a crime gets you therapied until you stop wanting to do that again in the future. The specifics of how they go about modifying your behavior depends on how dystopian the story is. More utopian stories have mostly-painless solutions, nastier ones have serious mind control solutions like brain implants.
It’s pretty clear in the QC universe, they haven’t figured out an answer, so they’re still taking the deterrent approach. That is, crime gets you punished, which discourages crime, and since they aren’t barbarians the punishment isn’t flogging or losing body parts.
Baleanopter:
--- Quote from: fearless_fool on 02 Jul 2020, 06:43 ---Munroe Robotics: My guess is this is a reference to Randall Munroe's XKCD (another favorite comic strip). Even if not, I approve!
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Glad I'm not the only one who immediately saw this.
N.N. Marf:
Perhaps Munroe Robotics is a startup. That would be one explanation for why we haven't heard of them yet.
In terms of the XKCD coincidence, Femto is Beret Guy.
--- Quote from: Farideh on 01 Jul 2020, 20:29 ---Yeah, bureaucracy sucks. I just applied for citizenship (in New Zealand), and they'll get back to me in 3 months or so. Honestly, what are they doing in the meantime? Shredding my application and then putting it back together as a team building exercise or something?
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I take exception to that attitude. Bureaucracy is serious business. How would you feel if you got wrongfully denied? In order to ensure all applications are properly processed, every task must be requested---signed in triplicate---sent in, sent back, queried (lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, finally buried in soft peat and recycled as firelighters.) Without our forefathers practicing such proper processing, where would our society stand today?
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 03 Jul 2020, 05:51 ---The specifics of how they go about modifying your behavior depends on how dystopian the story is. More utopian stories have mostly-painless solutions, nastier ones have serious mind control solutions like brain implants.
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In my experience as an avid reader of sciencey fantasies, overt utopias are the most dystopic, compounded by the fact that their characters, readers, don't recognize to what they're complicit.
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 03 Jul 2020, 05:51 ---Incarceration is like democracy. It’s a pretty bad solution to the problem, but better than all the other solutions we’ve tried.
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Aren't you glad we haven't looked at what others do?
Pilchard123:
Landon looks sorta like Randall Munroe, and "Landon" is a biiiiit like "Randall" to hear. Or maybe I'm grasping at straws.
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