careful, you can get lost in these stories they are kind of a train wreck. the worst one I’ve read about so far was (cw: torture) the attackers who tortured a guy for an hour with a heavy drill and made his four-year-old daughter watch

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    I’m a tech bro that says meatspace, partly cause like comrade Ligma_Male said it emphasizes that what happens on the internet is still real, partly cause meatspace sounds cyberpunk as fuck, but mostly because it makes it easier to revitalize the term “cyberspace” as its corollary and that will always make me think of 90s TV writers trying to write about technology they dont understand and youth lingo they don’t understand

    can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?

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      Online/offline is probably fine enough if “real” is too dated, which it probably is. To me, reducing life itself to “meat” is both reductionist and sort of :im-vegan: hostile at the same time, kind of grotesque and diminishing with the implication that an internet connection magically makes things enlightened and transcendent by comparison.

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        The “meat” refers to the things that humans are made of and has nothing to do with :im-vegan: people unless they’ve developed cell walls and chloroplasts recently. Online/offline are adjectives to describe state, not the places themselves.