• joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months 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.

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      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.