@emmiehine Uber for mercs, what could possibly go wrong.
@emmiehine Wow that is not what I would have expected a book protector to be.
@solitarywalker @emmiehine I think they literally wrote it to mean "book a protector" which... Is frankly the least of wtf is going on here
@emmiehine someone wished on a monkey paw to live in cyberpunk. its the only logical explanation.
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Missed opportunity to call it Delamain.
@emmiehine@dair-community.social We can only hope this serves as a basis for the modern day shogunate to emerge
@emmiehine Funny, can these services be pitted against each other? Like playing with action figures, but maybe someone will die. 
@emmiehine lol it's just like a white South African home on wheels...
@emmiehine Missed opportunity to call the company Delamain
@emmiehine there’s a Judge Dredd story I remember that touches this.
@emmiehine Yeah guard-o-ped in ”Are you afraid of getting mugged?” ”Bring me the fridge Hermie - I see another one walking down there.”
It is no longer impossible to imagine a world where judge dread is boring and ordinary.
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@emmiehine Now in beta: AirSupremacyBnB...call in air strikes on your competitors and employees from the comfort of your holiday accommodation or golf course.
@emmiehine Only in America. This is close to The Onion that recently parodied gig economy with GigSlave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlBwyJVEfw&pp=ygUIZ2lnc2xhdmU%3D
Through $DAY_JOB I hear about C suite levels for companies around the world, and straight away the Luigi thing had them spooked. Within hours we were getting questions about how to avoid being the next victim.
I could certainly imagine some small insurance company CEO coming to LA for a meeting feeling they need security, just in case.
My suggestion of just not being a capitalist pig, feeding on pain and suffering of workers didn’t go down too well :/
@emmiehine All it takes to destroy this app is someone to sign up and “Luigi” his customer when he gets called to pick up a healthcare or oil & gas exec.
@emmiehine sweet Jesus
@emmiehine call it lone star security services you cowards
@emmiehine Oh neat! An app that connects people with guns and CEOs!
@emmiehine I'm betting they only take payment in cryptocurrency....
If their staffing and product quality are like those other two in the screenshot we could have multiple Indira Gandhi scenarios every year.
@emmiehine if a car pulls up and a bunch of guys with guns jump out, that’s not a date. That’s a kidnapping
@emmiehine "If you have a hot date this weekend, pick her up in a Protector."
That's... a certain worldview.
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I have become Fedi-spoiled. I fully expected bookprotectors to be some heroic group of librarians or archivists or something.
@emmiehine they've been reading The Ministry For The Future and got to the later chapters
@emmiehine this sister app for gamified crowdsourcing of private community militia complete with AI-guided drones and robodogs seems also not very great
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/patrol-neighborhood-security/id6739446647
@emmiehine so you sign up to the app and then get notified when there’s rich unprotected people who will get into your car despite the fact you’re a visibly armed stranger
this is like a gag in grand theft auto or something
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Their logo has to include the face of Molly Millions:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Molly%20Millions&ia=images&iax=images
Also, as soon as there are a few of these outfits the drug cartels will hire them and they’ll start killing each other off. Last robodog standing wins.
@emmiehine they appear to have an even worse app forthcoming
