For better and worse, we get 99% of our reality from each other and trust is assumed. That’s just how society works and it ain’t gonna change.

Yes, it’s far from sane. Yes, social media has turned it up to 11.

Don’t like it? Want “truth”? I dunno.

Reality doesn’t care, go back to your dreamworld.

Find a way to make money where you sell your services directly to the customer. No boss or job. Flexible schedule. Good money.

Yes, drug dealer is one such, but there are others.

You can’t make better people and better cattle at the same time.

Imagine you were a billionaire. Which do you want?

Disney World.

You want to say “breedist” then? Doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue.

In other words.

You can stuff their heads with memes and talking-points all day, get them shouting the party slogans in chorus.

But you can’t give them the initiative to actually do something.

(Or to think for themselves for that matter. It rather contradicts the whole stuffed-head thing)

That’s rather racist. Understand?

Yeah but the burkas in the movie are totally different.

I just assumed it was spelled Lor. Seems obviously cooler. The rest is homonymious.

I’d argue that it’s all true but I just brushed my teeth and am feeling very calm for some reason and can’t be bothered

Data is coded in straight Java. Lore is a stable diffusion thing instructed by popular media.

As Charles Fort said, systems of thought are invariably mutually antagonistic.

Everybody thinks that their system of thinking is the one and only true system, and all other systems are wrong and bad. (Which simplifies thinking I suppose.) Except luminaries like Charles, of course.

The writers clearly think that Data represents the good system and Lore one of those other systems.

Data. Lor.

Lore.

Data and Lore are 2 different kinds of information.

That just occurred to me.

I actually did the science and I can say with complete certainty that flouride is good for you and has no bad side effects.

Jk, I believe what I’m told.

Can this guy Josh Grey be trusted?

He’s wearing a mask for a photo.

I figure the main arc of the plot is “a mystery is revealed and its depths explored”. That’s basically Egan and Hughes right there.

Except we’d do it without the science/technology tropes.

I think the place that you go when you die and the place you go when you sleep are the same place or maybe overlapping.

Veiled threats are so last millennium

Don’t be so sure, I can carry a lot of meat.