Shop thefts have more than doubled in the past three years, costing retailers £953m a year, according to the British Retail Consortium
  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    sci fi is about the present. Atwood said that everything that happened in The Handmaids Tale happened in real life — just not to white people.

    So too, cyberpunk dystopias were happening while being made. Yes Akira has people with magic powers — but delinquent kids, government experiments on children, a brutalist police force that murders without question: all modern day.