mb, bb, pls ur suicidal

and then you send out the copy of it anyway to save your crew, and it saves your crew and another SecUnit and also itself

The freed unit we meet in Platform Decay has no real context for anything other than MB’s log. It has no support and is so obviously a rogue SecUnit that it’s miraculous it wasn’t killed (honestly, the only reason it wasn’t killed was because it ran into MB)! Three didn’t even think to include the helpful additional codes MB gives the unit as a parting gift.

The fact of the matter is that despite having biases, I think Murderbot is very thoughtful and realistic about what’s possible. It feels very deeply for the units it encounters (hence why it has offered in the past). It doesn’t want these units harmed!

Not to mention the fact it strikes me as a bad thing for corporates to get their hands on a unit with a jailbroken GovMod.

MB gained freedom and then spent ~5years developing deep-seeded paranoia and anxiety, both of which were entirely necessary for it to maintain its tenuous, tiny grain of freedom while it still had no opportunity to escape. MB had no where to go and no one to turn to for help. It knows the terror of being trapped in its own head while still being forced to do heinous labor, and what it feels like to try and navigate the world without the framework to help you adjust to free society. And it understands the gravity of that burden!! and its still having trouble settling into a free life where it can do whatever it wants on PresAux (not to mention the micro/macro aggressions its faced, because even a ‘utopia’ is imperfect). Yes, freedom for all is best, but it took A LOT of work for it to become Actually free, and was in A LOT of danger in the mean time!

I think this ties into our reality in conversations about prison abolition. Yes, i believe we as a society need to dismantle the carceral justice system, and that the prison industrial complex is inherently inhumane and must be destroyed. but i’m also realistic about it; no we can’t just free all prisoners today, all at once, and call it a job well done. What infrastructure needs to be in place to support formerly incarcerated people and help them readjust to society? How do we help both prisoners and civilians adjust, coexist, and come to mutual understanding? and what about the people who committed genuinely atrocious crimes; homicide, hate crimes, sexual assault, things which cannot be easily forgiven and forgotten? How do you rehabilitate a serial killer? (How would they rehabilitate a CombatUnit?).

Even recognizing that crime at large mostly stems from societal factors, it would be irresponsible to just say “let everyone free right now!!” even though I genuinely in my heart believe no one deserves to be incarcerated and that prison is a Bad Thing for humanity. No easy solutions to dismantling systems of oppression.

I’ve seen other readers (understandably!) get mad at MB for choosing to let other constructs continue to live under oppression, but there IS more to it than that and its an extremely realistic response to a lifetime of truly unfathomable trauma. Our ability to imagine solutions to problems is often limited by our experience; Three has only experienced freedom as a net positive, MB first experienced ‘freedom’ as a secret it had to keep to protect its own life.

humans: trigger warning for what??

The freed unit we meet in Platform Decay has no real context for anything other than MB’s log. It has no support and is so obviously a rogue SecUnit that it’s miraculous it wasn’t killed (honestly, the only reason it wasn’t killed was because it ran into MB)! Three didn’t even think to include the helpful additional codes MB gives the unit as a parting gift.

The fact of the matter is that despite having biases, I think Murderbot is very thoughtful and realistic about what’s possible. It feels very deeply for the units it encounters (hence why it has offered in the past). It doesn’t want these units harmed!

Not to mention the fact it strikes me as a bad thing for corporates to get their hands on a unit with a jailbroken GovMod.

(tips my stylistic inconsistencies) m'artificial condition

B.E., particularly Leonide, seems to have pretty good equipment, and so as "equipment" Three is probably relatively "new" - relatively young. It probably doesn't have years upon years of trauma it can't remember written into it's organic tissue.

Comparatively, the comfort unit in artificial condition seems just as jaded as Murderbot, if not more, while being very experienced at finding all the little gaps and loopholes in it's orders. ("Help me," it sends. It has no way of knowing MB did it's own hack from scratch, let alone that it can hack other constructs' govenor modules. But if it knows about Ganaka pit then it definitely knows a secunit can kill a comfort unit...)

finally searched for a solution and there IS in fact a giant hand-curated list of sites containing this content. it can be imported to ublock origin on desktop or mobile, and even can be used on iOS via the ublacklist extension in the safari app. it's updated regularly, and importing via the link as described should allow those updates to go into effect automatically.

i've only tested it a little bit, but after importing the list and repeating my duckduckgo search for backpack recommendations, my top results now lead to websites that appear to be linked to actual organizations in some form, with an "about us" page and the name of a founder and everything. the text is still often a bit wordy and SEO-optimized, but it now has actual recommendations that are relevant to the query. BIG IF TRUE???

I was ready to settle in until it was time to think about what I was going to do when I got to my destination, something I intended to put off until the last possible moment. Then, through my feed, something said, You were lucky.