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Jul 28, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Wow 🤯 mind blowing (and scary)

The CGI in that video is pretty cool

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How delightful.

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I get the distinct impression the people working on this are more impressed by their own creation than by the wonder that is a human being. No doubt they think this artificial creation is superior and can do so much more than we can. That doesn’t bode well.

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Jul 28, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

More utopian unicorn dreams.

The Line, aka a linear prison.

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Jul 28, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Panem … was Suzanne Collins prophesying?

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Kate: Mom?

Mom: Yes, sweetie.

Kate: What happened to daddy?

Mom: Katie! I told you to never use that word!

Kate: I know, sorry. But Johnny-Eloise-May says his dadd... um... I mean their, um... "donor" got killed in a big fight, like, when they was real little. They says their donor knew my donor, and that the two of them was tryin' to dig a hole to get outside the line. He says got killed together over in Graychurch by the S-O-P. Like, shot and stuff. He... I mean, they... they says it's because somebody told on them.

Kate: Mom?

Kate: Mom? Are you okay?

Kate: Mommy why are you crying?

Mom: It's okay, sweetie. I just forgot to take my pills.

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Love it!!

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Jul 28, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Re: the Line, mirror exterior is going to be annoyingly reflective creating hot spots and heat islands - think child with a magnifying glass and ants. And why is the outside world portrayed like a desert, without humans shouldn't nature come to life, isn't that the selling point?

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Jul 28, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Line up

Toe the line

Stand in line

Out of line

Party line

Picket line

Stay in the lines

Get back in line

Draw a line in the sand

End of the line

Fall in line

Hold the line

Hook line and sinker

Behind enemy lines

Line of attack

Line of least resistance

Line their pockets

Shoot someone a line

Sign on the dotted line

Take a hard line

The finish line

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The firing squad line

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The Freedom Fence is for our protection!!!

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Jul 28, 2022·edited Jul 28, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

This is nothing new. Read or listen to dramatisation of The Machine Stops by E M Foster, his only scifi piece. Note this was written in 1910, over a century ago !!! (you can find various versions on YT)

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Good one Winston and pretty much what the Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is all about, but I think that is your unsaid premise here.

PDF Download here:

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld/publication

Will be linking today as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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