Yeah, I know, my first run was a mage. Currently with a samurai DEX/ARC build though. Ironically even harder to kill her than it was with the mage.
The very first, Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired if I recall.
EDIT: Hardwired is early but postdates Neuromancer
I mean...its just a combination of AI and the already bot ridden race to the bottom of digital marketing. Everyone is just trying to stop their clients from realising their ads have no effect unless they're a major brand that can afford the big bucks.
Every major ad serving platform is provably lying on their stats and the ad agencies are double lying.
House at least was portrayed fairly well, in that he was clearly internally "What is this dumb fucking plan I need to emergency page my platinum chip guy right now?!" but, since he's smart but not half as smart as he thinks he is, is still dumb enough to be at this meeting in person.
There's also the Catholic Charismatic movement, but we already mentioned Protestants.
Ugh, so sorry, I was thinking about the Vietnamese Trots which did iirc take territory off the French.
The Chinese one I found in a translated trove of documents about the KPAM where they mentioned Trots holding several villages in the North West, aided by Soviet Left Opposition emigres. Generally cordial relationship.
It would have even been easy to show this, since that specific treatment of the Helots is mostly after 464 (Plutarch) and reached its peak during the Peloponnesian Wars (Thucydides). Would have been easy to have Kassandra come back to Sparta to see that the already oppressed serfs are now entirely reduced to slavery.
My stick insects have published a newspaper calling you deeply unserious. Then they ate it because it looked like leaves. But still.
It's still for Maximum Profit, it's just Disney have a time horizon of 50 years instead of 5.
Police Malevolent Association
Lotta ships about to be "Bound for South Australia"
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Yeah, so that's how much it costs for psychs here that will do adult ADHD diagnoses. The government will reimburse in theory but specialist doctors can charge what they want and there's a shortage so it's maybe 10% at this point. Don't even want to think about the cost of a clinical neuropsych.