Meta is courting national security and former Pentagon officials to help sell its virtual reality and AI services to the federal government, Forbes has learned. Multiple former government officials said they were aware of the recruiting efforts.

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    It’s the one where we died somewhere between 2016 and 2021 and this is actually purgatory, where we are being punished slowly, but without the fires of hell.

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        Perhaps it was the Y2K bug that killed us all. The planet blew up and everything after that has just been purgatory. Maybe the matrix had it right when they said that the 90s was peak humanity.

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      This is quite poetic. And some people still have a chance for redemption in these hard time by simply being nice, but they can’t, right in front of everyone else’s eyes.

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        Yep, everyone’s a fucking cunt. Humanity is crap.