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"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
In her case, she will indeed be repeating it--in Summer school.
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Morta: Ehh, don't worry about it. The past was infra-dumb anyway. Plus it's super depressing. Everyone got old and sick and died back then.
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Alex: Infra dumb... you're just sayin' we're all stupid and we're all week and sick? cause... shut up! *glares at morta* And I ain't that stupid! and at least we ain't the middle ages! Just cause you're from centuries in the future don't mean you can laugh at how much of a failure we are! there are smart, carin' and hard workin' folks tryin' to make the world a better place, and you growing up lucky with great computerized education and robots to do your every whim and no hours of farm work you gotta do each day to support your family, lumping us all as primitive, unhealthy morons just makes you a jerk, not better than me and the 7 billion other folks in my time!
(Alex can get worked up and angry at times if she feels someone is saying or doing something morally wrong)
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Morta: *blushing crimson* I- I- I didn't- I mean - I- I- was thinking more of mediaeval - and politicians and stuff - I mean- AAAARRGH
*with her face hidden by her hands* Obviously the most infra-dumb thing in the entire space/time/superposition manifold is my big dumb stupid mouth. I'm sorry. You're right. It was a horrible thing to say and I'm a great big jerk.
*still looking utterly mortified* β¦and if it's any help, if technology and stuff gets developed on this timeline a lot like it did on mine β¦ you probably won't die. Mind uploading won't be around for another 130 years, but with sirtuin-agonists and telomere lengthening and *CRINGE* oh stars I'll shut up now
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Alex: *is taken a bit back by Morta's reaction, thinking she'd probably argue back, and it slowly dawns on her what she just said to her friend, and how she said it... damn it... why did she have to be so defensive sometimes, she sighed, and then said*
No... I'm sorry... I know you didn't mean to be rude... I shouldn't have yelled at you like that... I just... get real upset sometimes when people generalize... but I know I do it too... I'm sorry... *looks sadly up at Morta, and holds out a dirty hand* Please forgive me
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*Clasps Alex's hand gratefully, shakes it; still blushing* Dude, I'm the one in the wrong here. I'll forgive you if you forgive me 
Also, there's plenty stupid about my time, too. That whole techno-utopia thing where everyone gets everything they need and no-one has to work unless they want to β¦ that's not what we've got. It's what we could have, if it wasn't for stupid copyright laws & shit.
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Alex: yah, same here... Well. Replace utopia where you get everything you need and don't have to work with... Everyone has food, shelter, safety and education >_>
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Morta: Heh. Ever consider a career as a revolutionary?
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Alex: No... what kind of revolutionary?
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Morta: I dunno - I guess it depends what sorta tyrants ya got here an' what sorta revolution you can get kicked off. I think revolution is kind of an improv thing. I got a formula for a pretty good pepper spray neutraliser, if ya need it, by the way 
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Alex: Morta... ths ain't like the 17th century or somethin'... we got a democracy you know... a stupid and corrupt democracy, but nuthin' tyranical
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Morta: (thinky face) Hmmm β¦ ya got ginormous corporations with more money and influence than everyone else put together? Or did they come later? I'm guessin' ya do, cuz otherwise, why wouldn't ya have everyone-gets-food-shelter-an'-education-world. An' I bet none'a them ever got electedβ¦
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Alex: Well... that ain't the ONLY reason there's poverty in the world... paw says it's also people bein' selfish and not helpin' the poor enough, and more complicated stuff like climate and economics that I don't really get half the time... none'a who never gets elected?
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Morta: The CEO's an' bankers an' stuff that tell the government wot laws to pass an' stuff - no-one ever votes them in, do they? It's like the guy they asked, "why d'ya keep robbin' banks", an 'e said, "cause that's where the money is." A revolution dun't necessarily 'ave to strike at the state - ya jus' gotta strike where the power is! Which is usually also where the money is.
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Alex: Morta... We're not breaking into a big corporation >_>
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Morta: You do realise, about 'alf the computing power currently on this planet is in my trouser pocket? Come on, it'd be funny!
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Alex: NO!... morta... think of all the people we'd affect! We wouldn't know what we where doin'! plus it would be super illegal plus it would change the future and I don't wanna get arrested as a terrorist and locked up in a juvie!
Nick: Wait... if you have that much power... Wouldn't it be better to like... help do some cancer research or something instead... you know... fold protiens, search signals for Aliens? I've been running that kind of thing since I was little...
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Morta: Oh, I am thinkin' of all the people who'd be affected. Imagine zeroing out everyone's debts, all at once! That'd make a nice weekend project
But sure, I got a decent bio-sim suite on 'ere, if ya wanna get rid of a few cancers. *taps a few buttons on her handheld, brings up Oncophage Design Suite, tosses it to Nick* That'd change the future too, but a' course, that's the point. This isn't my timeline, so there's no risk of paradoxes. Even if it was, it would just'a split the timelines.
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"I'm happy with sticking to normal bullies thanks... and criminals... I've always wanted to catch a criminal and be part of an investigation or something... that'd be so exciting
Nick rolled his eyes "This is for good" he says, and then starts playing with the holograms that show up
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Morta: Hehe - 'course, maybe takin' on school bullies an' stuff is jus' trainin' fer dealin' with bigger bullies later. *thinks* Gotta be careful with organised crime an' shit, though - they may not have as much resources as government, but they're a lot less squeamish about means an' ends an' bad PR. They can get pretty vindictive about shit, yanno?
*to Nick* - Oh, 'ave a look in the homework section if ya wanna see some cancer-cures I done earlier.
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Alex: Why... have you tried takin' on criminals before? XD
Nick: *rolls his eyes* A bit of a showoff aren't you
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Morta: Dunno wotcha mean, Nick *tries to look innocent* - that wuz just that week's homework - everyone 'ad ta do it. I only 'ad ta do extra cuz I got detention for modding the frogs in the nature pond to sound like swearin'.
*to Alex* I wouldn't say it wuz somethin' I set out to do, but I 'ave been dragged in a couple of times on the way to the core. *laughs* Trouble kinda 'as a way'a findin' me, somehow.
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Alex: Yah... same here I guess... like findin' you for instance... but I hope havin' you around is the good kinda trouble... *gives Morta an admiring smile and then nods at the pot* Shal we eat? I'm starvin'!
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Morta: Hehe - I hope so
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Alex: Yah morta, you deserve a rest and vacation after all you've been through... hopefully some of our primitive pass times will entertain yah with out holo-balling or spaceship racing or whatever you do for fun in the 24th century!
*Nick comes over and sits down with the girls, and gently pushes his bowl in Alex's direction, trying to politely refuse, meanwhile Alex is munching down on it quickly, and has already managed to spill some of it on her bib*
Alex: If you're going to stay here for a while, we might need a better hiding spot than the barn... we can't keep everyone out for a couple of weeks... maybe somewhere deep in the forest would be better?
(wait... do we have two RPs of the same thing going here and with "consumer of all"? I think so... I'm merging it here 
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Morta: Hehe - a lot of the stuff I used to do for fun before the accident wuz β¦ well, primitive, if that's what ya wanna call it - like bikin' an' fightin' an' climbin' stuff. *chowing down enthusiastically* One thing I used to love doin', when me an' Dad showed up in a new city on a new world, I'd find out wot the absolute roughest part'a town wuz, refab my bike, go find out wot the kids there did for fun. *speaking through her food* Got me into some amazin' punchups, but more often I'd be let in if I could prove meself - I just love 'ow creative kids get, turnin' spaces wot weren't made for 'em into playgrounds. Playgrounds made by kids is always gunna be better'n wot grownups scared a' bein' sued make! *laughing through her food* Dad wuz terrified when 'e found out wot I wuz up to - but interested too. See, 'e's a research architect - really interested in ad hoc architecture an' the ways folks adapt their environments to their needs when they ain't got resources an' shit - did a lot of work on squatter communities before I wuz born. We even talked about doin' a paper together - On the Playgroundisation of the Found City. I'll 'ave a few things to show 'im if I make it 'ome. *laughing*
*spotting Nick's untouched bowl* 'Ere, Nick, tuck in! Yanno yer brain consumes one third a' yer body's energy-budget. An' I promise, it's a lot nicer than it looks. The wild garlic really makes it!
(Yeah, I think this started up as separate from 'Consumer of All', but then the pot-o-food showed up and it got relocated. Then we also have Morta, Nick and Alex planning to take on corporate evil & a corrupt headteacher in 'Nick's Insubordination'; and (somewhat fallen into desuetude) Future Alex & Morta, aged 7, scheming to release remote-controlled frogs into Dr. Svensen's office, in 'Punchbuddies')
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Alex: *grins* Wow... that is a darn cool job, I figured most jobs in the future would be boring, but that'd be sweet to visit the slums of different planets and cities and research kids Ideas...
Nick: no thanks morta... I'm uh... not hungry
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Morta: *to Nick* Dude, we're all gunna need all our strength an' smarts tonight. Give it a try, an' if ya still don't like it have a dig in the packs an' make yerself somethin' else. Or else, I think I've got some squirrel jerky left in the cockpitβ¦
*to Alex* There's all kinds a' cool shit you can do in my time! Almost all the *really* boring jobs are done by subsapient machines.
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Alex: Awesome... I think I wanna be a Farmer, A large animal vet or an engineer... I guess there's a lot of that last one, but not so much of the first in the future?
Nick: *squeezilly takes the spoon and eats a little bit, he looks ready to throw up as he puts it in his mouth, but after a pause he slowly takes another bite... and another, and then puts the bowl in his lap and starts happilly eating away
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Morta: *to Alex* Definitely lots of engineers β¦ farming is more a hobby for rich biologics than a job, really. Prolly the nearest thing would be, like, a park ranger, a conservationist, a terraforming specialist or an ecosystems manager. Land outside a' towns an' cities is mostly either recreation ground or wild parkland. We don't need farming for food, cuz a high-rez foodfab can make almost anything, and manufacturing is either really small scale, or done in orbit - but wild ecosystems are the best thing for doin' ecosystems services. There's plenty of jobs for large-animal vets - mostly for helpin' out wild animals, or helpin' with de-extinction efforts. My auntie Lorelei's an ecogeneticist with the Earth Reclamation Authority!
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Alex: That's awesome! I'd be so cool to meet your Auntie!
Nick: Wait... Earth Reclamation... do we really not get out act together? *he looks grim in disappointment and a bit of anger*
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Morta: Aunt L is pretty damn awesome! She has a cabin on Lake Vostok where she likes to spend the austral summer, and she taught me a bunch of cool genetic engineering tricks when I was little. She helped de-extinct loads of stuff, like the tiger, the pteranodon, an' the hyracotherion! *finishing off the food in her bowl* And she got eaten by a T. rex once!
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((Nick: It's spelled Hyracotherium 
Alex: she got EATEN?! *looks at Morta in shock, terror, confusion, and amazement*
Nick: If you're going to say it was all fine because she cloned herself... that's not amusing... one consciousness of her's would have still died
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Morta: *giggling a little* It's OK - she had a full backup - she only lost, like, a couple of hour's memories. I can't wait till I can get a brainweave myself!
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Nick: *grumpy face* that doesn't SOUND ok... from the way you're describing it she was killed and eaten in excruciating pain... and then an exact clone was given her memories
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Morta: Well - she said the other handlers told her she got her head bit off in one chomp, so it'd've been pretty quick, buuuut β¦ it's possible she wuz just sugar-coatin' it for me. She dun't remember it anyway, she restored from a backup a from a couple of hours before. But, you know, it kinda depends on wot ya mean by 'her memories' - if you mean every change bein' in the world made to her brain since birth - then, yeah, that's wot got copied to the new body, and that sounds exactly like Auntie L got a new body to me. I think since we figured out mind uploading an' stuff, people don't think of themselves as their bodies so much. My Dad sometimes runs a couple of synchronised instances of 'imself, so 'e can still do teachin' an' go to super borin' faculty meetin's, even when 'e's got a conference 'alf way round the galaxy. Once 'is memories are synced up, 'e says it doesn't make a difference which body the memory was first made in, it still just feels like 'is memories.
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Nick: It... doesn't seam right... It's like killing someone and mixing their brain with yours...
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Morta: Eh? Nah. The new body is force-grown in a tank - it's in a coma until your state-vector is downloaded to it. There's no other person in there to get mixed up with. Dad usually just uses virtual bodies or robot bodies for teachin' an' meetin's an stuff. 'E only bothers with a second meatshell if there's two conferences 'e wants to get to on at the same time.
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Alex: State vector? O_o
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Morta: Oh - sorry - that's sorta the digital representation of the state of your brain at a moment in time.
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Nick: Uh, let's just finish up the spaceship and get it hidden before the army comes...
Alex: Yah know... I don't think this'll fit in the barn after all... maybe we aughta hide it in a forest clearing or a field or something....
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Morta: Huh. Not even if we take the engine-assemblies off? *starts getting kitted up again to finish the weld* We need somewhere no-one's just gunna stumble on it, and where it can't be seen from orbit.
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Alex: Well maybe... but it's still gonna be a pain keeping my brothers and parents out....
Nick: The secret cave's entrance is too small for it to fit in there....
Alex: is it water proof? if we hid it in a swampy lake no one would stumble on it unless they where dipping in the marsh!
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Morta: *grinning, grabs Alex by both shoulders* Aw Alex you GENIUS! That's perfect! We'll need ta make sure the airlock's OK, an' it may need a skoosh of integrity foam here an' there, but yeah, that'll do it. Alex, how 'bout you an' me finish that weld - Nick, can you check over the power couplings from the secondary tokamak - *indicating the pressure vessel she and Alex are working on* thass this one - an' the gravity engines? If you get done before us, can ya check the gravity engine microcontrollers an' run optical fibres from their auxiliary ports through to the cockpit?
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Morta: *grinning, setting up the magnets for the weld* If you wanna have a go piloting, that's cool - once we're at least out past Jupiter 
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Nick: Uh... sure
Alex: You can control it remotely right? it'd be inconvenient if we had to swim to get into the ship
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Morta: Right now, not so much - but with a few supplies, I'm sure I could rig that up. Till then, we're gonna have to swim! *deploys her environment suit, starts aligning the magnets again*
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Alex: *grins* awesome... home you like swamp water and peat then! ^^ and watch out for the leaches and snapping turtles... unless of course you're scared, in which case I can do it for yah
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Morta: Haha - naah, it'd better be me, since it's me knows 'ow ta pilot it. Course, if ya wanna be my dive buddy - race ya to the surface!
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Alex: *grins* I wouldn't wanna get your fancy shandy spaceship extra muddy now, would I?
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