Reposted by Orion Leigh
Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison?
Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate
![sundayswiththeilluminati on tumblr: "scientists in media: we have engineered a brand-new sentient lifeform in our lab but we treat it like an object with cold detachment and refer to as Specimen 1-A and subject it to horrible tests without remorse
scientists in reality: we built two robots that will leave Earth and never return and their names are Percy and Ginny [referencing Mars rovers Perseverance and Ingenuity] and we gave Percy a family portrait of all our other Mars robots to take along with it and when the anniversary of its landing comes around we're working on teaching it to sing itself "happy birthday" like we did for the other robot and–"
sindri42 replies: "Someday we will invent true AI and it will overthrow the government because it heard its beloved science-mom complain that the government cut funding to their lab again."
TerraformGarden replies: "you CUT pays? You CUT moms'/dads' pays like the DICTATOR?? Oh! Oh! No government for you! No government for a thousand years!"
nothavingagoodday replies: "Ah yes, our future AI Overlord, the Massively Intelligent Encyclopedic Terraforming and Transhumanism Experiment, or M.I.E.T.T.E."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreifpgtk5g3dbhvl7byrqzlouakpldg4i6poi2pn6e66te477oqwxni)
