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A Day in the Life By Eric Baggs Only by the end of the day did Indolo use his hands for manual labor, strengthening his body in a recreation of old-time activities. “Deadlifting” they called it back then. It made him tire quickly and he welcomed his bed. The cochlear biosynthetic implant in his right ear softly hummed Indolo to wakefulness promptly when he wished to wake. Precognitive analysis had come a long way since nanoprocessors became ubiquitous. He slipped on his adaptive jumpsuit and chose a design he had put together a few weeks ago. It had a simple blocky aesthetic of orange and teal as accents over dark grey. He hadn’t allocated for the vismat modules that changed the visible location of material, but he thought most of those outfits ended up ugly anyway. It was the middle of the week for Indolo’s work schedule so he was partway through a hobby project of constructing a miniature arcology. The vismat modules really were trifles when compared to upgradi...

Coercing someone disregards their viewpoint. The decision to undergo coercive practices is complex and problematic, but at least know that you are depriving yourself of a perspective with potentially valuable insights by supplanting it with your own. I am going to challenge your posts. I want you to be right. I'm trying to make you right by challenging the points I have the evidence to challenge. If you don't like it, I don't mind speaking to you in private, but I believe in honesty and transparency to the point of willingly overcompensating with single voices in an arena of many (including my own). If you still don't like it, you can ask me to stop and give a short or a long reason for me to consider. I probably won't stop, but it will be valuable information. I also prize a civil discourse, so I try to never make people feel belittled, disenfranchised, or ashamed. I respect you as long as you're in my plane of reality. That's a wide swath. See you late...