"ICE reached out to both Mr. Bale and Mr. Bean in an attempt to address the current gun-fu deficit of the agency, but regrettably neither had any interest in the job."
I think that's illegal now too. Can't have anything interfering with the glorious vision of a relentlessly productive citizenry that ideally slave away for the benefits of their owners until they die in the office chair at age 74 - right before qualifying for pension.
Well, except for the health "care" system. That's an exception, but only because the only thing better than ruthless exploitation is diversified ruthless exploitation. Gotta keep the peons on their toes, lest they get uppity.
You know what really grinds my gears? This shitty dystopia completely eschews any potentially cool aspect of invasive exploitative authoritarianism. The (not so) secret police is patching together their own "uniforms" by browsing the bargain bins at the local tacti-cool mall-ninja outfitters. Where's the black leather trench coats, stylish sunglasses worn after dark and slicked back hair? If they're going to ask me for 'ze papers' all the time, the least they can do is look cool doing it, godamnit. At least get Hugo Boss to design your attire; that's just about the only thing that worked out well for the last bunch of pricks.
I mean, where's the towering brutalist architecture? Where's my mandatory daily dose of SOMA? Or my idiotically wirelessly hackable cyberware? Hell, they can't even do bread and circuses right anymore. The bread is CO2-pumped flour glue and the circuses is an endless stream of more Marvel projects and Disney violations of Star Wars.
And don't get me started on the quality of our dictators these days. They sure don't make them like they used to.
Look, does it really matter whether they do or not? If a company is morally bankrupt enough to conduct business like this in the first place, it's a certainty they'll just find some other novel way to be flaming assholes.
If you don't want to get cheated, stop doing business with thieves and liars.
See, this is why I prefer truly evil people - at least they're honest. They'll kill you if you're between them and something they want, which is nice and predictable. Righteous motherfuckers will hurt you for your own good.
Either will harm you, but only the self-righteous will add insult to injury by gaslighting you while they're at it.
The President of the United States interfering in the internal affairs of private corporations, while the part of the electorate who gave him the job clutches their pearls about encroaching 'socialism'. Not even the most perverse satirical mind could make this shit up. The global supply of hallucinogens is grossly insufficient.
Well, that makes perfect sense given Luffy's typical response to unworthy authorities. Fist-to-the-face-diplomacy is a highly underrated tool in modern politics.
I'm ancient enough to vaguely recall a time when Google contributed things to the online community that actually constituted an improvement. It was a long time ago.
This is an excellent general resource, which I can highly recommend. It served me very well when I was implementing my own soft-synth and sequencer.