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Xauri'EL Zwaan Jun 17, 2024

Techbro: Behold my brilliant new invention, the Child-Mangling Machine!

Us: This is worse than useless, it is actively dangerous

Thought Leaders & the Media: The Child-Mangling Machine will revolutionize every aspect of how we live our lives!

Us: Nobody wants this, please stop

Corporations: We're rolling out plans to put a Child-Mangling Machine in every supermarket

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Tito Swineflu

@XauriEL I once went to a pitch meeting with my startup in which someone was actually proposing harvesting baby teeth for dubious stem-cell reasons. They got their money. That was in 2009, so tech baby mangling machines have been enthusiastically embraced for quite some time.