2w ago

Uh, yeah. That rings a bell.

Futurama @lemmy.world

klu9 @lemmy.ca

2w ago

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- How?????
  
  Futurama s6e7 (or just 95) "The Late Philip J Fry".
  Now get off my lawn.
I wish I could skip 1000 years ahead. Either we fixed thing or humanity has died out. I win either way.
- Or, it's the same, we're living and shit sucks.
  
  True, but 1,000 years ago it sucked a lot more. Now we have some advantages. Even access to the internet is a good quality of life improvement compared to 1025 CE.
  So maybe instead 1,000 years the inequality still exists, but technology has made things a little nice for the working class. It's all about perspective.
  Or the climate crisis and subsequent environmental collapse lead to a Mad Max hellscape
- I'm hoping it's like "The Year 2525"
  
  What about the year one million and a half? Giraffes might treat us better.
  
  Can I get everything I need from the bottom of a long glass tube?
  
  If man is still alive
- Reminds me of the pilot episode. When Fry wakes up in 3000 and says 'everyone I know is dead... YES!!!'
- Can you elaborate your win when humanity died out and you are the only one left?
  
  Don't have to get permission to live, fishing regulations no longer apply so it shouldn't be too hard getting food. Also the sea and rivers won't be polluted like they are now.
- Well, the 2020s so far seem to resemble the 1930s surprisingly closely. So if we haven't destroy us by then, chances are things won't be that different.
- What if it’s full medieval and the king just ordered an expedition to the great library to bring back electricity?
  Good news is, you’ll have memes back if you skip some years.
How do you recognize a slave? There is no need for chains to make people work against their will.
Whoever dreads monday morning doesn't have to be worried about slavery anymore.
But we live in the 21st century?
- That is correct
- Futurama came out in 1999
You only enslave yourself by learning to do absolutely nothing against what you see as oppressive.
- You enslave others by consuming most common products on the shelves. Modern slavery (and child slavery) is more expansive than most know and third-world exploitation is rampant - western supply chains are not immune.
  While you support the enslavement of others with your consumption, corporations continue to become more and more powerful.
  
  You speak so right, that's why I only buy Apple. I prefer to buy the slaves and free them with my money instead of cheaping on it and forcing the heavy hand of corporate whip.
  We have to be responsible.
I'm so enslaved! Waaahhh!
- See you're not supposed to wait for the chains to be around your ankles to start worrying about that. And the chains are currently around some people's, it's coming
  
  Dude 🎯🎯🎯
  
  Have you tried moving? The chains are already there.
- You really don't see what's happening around you?
  Let me just make sure we're on the same page with a little maths problem: you have nine people and a Nazi eating dinner at the table together. How many Nazis are at the table?
  
  That needs to be followed up with "Are you at that table?".
  
  With what you said 1. Someone doesn't have to be a good person, or be right, to coexist. Sitting at the same table as Pol Pot or Hitler isn't enabling them.
  
  Are you saying you're a nazi?
  
  Not everyone who believes in capitalism is a nazi. You aren't helping your cause by acting like this. Nobody should have to tell you this.
- More like proprietary_bellend
  
  Nice
- This is how I, as a European, feel.
  But I am certain that it must feel very different if you life in Afrika, China, one of the Koreas or, since recently, the US.

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