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Not to mention that childbirth can be deadly for either party involved on a good day. It’s naive to think that every fetus is going to come into the world alive. I have personally known people who aborted a fetus that they desperately wanted because it was essentially non-viable, and not worth the risk to the mother. They later had several other healthy children, who would not have existed had that aborted birth been traumatic enough.

I remember the original Cyberpunk announcement. It was so epic that I watched it on repeat (I was a teenager at the time). Then as the years went by I totally forgot about it except for the soundtrack, to the point where release date announcement came as a total surprise. And yet somehow I think the game came closer to that trailer than most do, although I played it a year or so after release. The thought was there for sure, and the trailer was a neat piece of media in its own right.

VOIP has more or less reduced phones to the status of email and other internet services. It’s amazing that there weren’t more trust provisions put in place for verifying phone numbers prior to the shift away from the old phone lines. The militarization of police is bad too, but it’s amazing that there was a technology change that removed a point of trust from something as important as the phone system and 911 calls. It’s a truly bizarre situation we find ourselves in, and frankly I’d rather we went back to the pre-VOIP days at this point.