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They’ve been pumping this bio-hacking startup on the Orange Site ™ for the past few months. Now they’ve got Siskind shilling for them.
“Where we’re going… we don’t need clinical trials!”
As always with rats you get call-backs to more or less bad SF. In Varley’s Steel Beach, the universal AI keeping everyone “happy” on the Moon invents a nanobot that cleans your teeth and gives your breath a minty fresh flavor. The leader of la Resistance naturally hacks it to disable it, no Man is gonna prevent me from having filthy teeth!
Also in on of Paul McAuley’s short stories, the main character reflects on the total destruction of the Earth’s ecosphere, which was caused by a genetically modified perfect coffee plant which took over all of life.
Idle thought: the idea of having a mint taste in my mouth (and on my breath) every day sounds like one form of hell
Chewing gum fans may want a word.
One of these is by choice Another of these is by proposed irreversible microbiome fuckery
We are not the same
In the same way you don’t taste your mouth all the time you would stop tasting and smelling it.
Neurons downregulate under constant exposure, which is why people at cons aren’t constantly disgusted at how unshowered they are.
Someone tell Aella her neurons are downregulating, maybe she’ll start showering again