• joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    I don't know why, but looking at the picture of the pod makes me very uncomfortable. There's a certain uncanniness to it, like you're looking at a picture of an SCP, or something that you shouldn't be looking at, something that violates some unspoken law of nature.

    It's a device with the sole purpose of facilitating the death of the person inside. It's not a gun, whose sole purpose is to destroy, but can also be used to defend oneself. This is an image of death in its purest expression, and yet it looks like a ship from F-Zero. It's a Maserati for dying. The ultimate product, in every sense. This is the end goal of capitalism, to turn even death into an expression of luxury.

    • CaliforniaSpectre [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I was completely mortified by the actual design of the thing. PAD is good but there should be no bazinga "glory" aestheticized out of such a decision. It's revolting.

      • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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        1 month ago

        Having a Carl Sagan quote on the side is oddly demonic too, I know redditors used to get annoying about him like 10 years ago but I feel he wouldn't have signed off on this shit.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          Give it a few years and it may have some smug reductionist shit about humans being "meat computers" on the side instead.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      I don't know why, but looking at the picture of the pod makes me very uncomfortable. There's a certain uncanniness to it, like you're looking at a picture of an SCP, or something that you shouldn't be looking at, something that violates some unspoken law of nature.

      It's a device with the sole purpose of facilitating the death of the person inside. It's not a gun, whose sole purpose is to destroy, but can also be used to defend oneself. This is an image of death in its purest expression, and yet it looks like a ship from F-Zero. It's a Maserati for dying. The ultimate product, in every sense. This is the end goal of capitalism, to turn even death into an expression of luxury.

      I feel the same way. It's a plastic and boardroom-designed means to make the end of a life techbro culture compliant. It's disgusting.