Heliospect’s services were marketed at up to $50,000 for 100 embryos, undercover footage shows

anakin-padme-1 We have to ensure that people are meeting their potential.

anakin-padme-2 And exceeding it?

anakin-padme-3 No one exceeds his potential.

anakin-padme-4 lf he did?

anakin-padme-3 lt simply means that we didn’t accurately gauge his potential in the first place

    • UlyssesT [he/him]English
      12•8 months ago

      I’ve ran into way too many techbro dipshits in the past that wanted to build the Torment Nexus from Gattaca. I’m not kidding. They thought the society was great as it was.

      • buckykat [none/use name]English
        3•8 months ago

        The society in gattaca was very bad but from my hazy decade plus old memory of it the MC’s specific circumstance was like the worst possible example of why. Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?

        • D61 [any]English
          3•8 months ago

          I too am hazy about a move I haven’t watched in 10+years.

          Did he have a heart problem or did his genes make it more statistically likely to have/develop a heart problem?

          (The internet seems to think that its the gene stastics things and not actually having been diagnosed with a heart defect.)

        • UlyssesT [he/him]English
          3•8 months ago

          Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?

          He sure was. He didn’t fight the system; he just wanted to get his life achievement (while potentially endangering that mission after blast-off).

      • hypercracker [he/him]English
        5•8 months ago

        I’ll admit to thinking the society depicted was actually very cool when I first watched it and got in an argument with a friend about it. Media literacy is hard when you’re young okay

        • UlyssesT [he/him]English
          8•8 months ago

          I understand.

          The people I argued with about it were in their thirties and were well educated so they don’t get a pass.