Great post , man . <| sep |> Yeah true . I like how they look . I mean really it ' s just preference . Some people like sports cars , some like lifted trucks . <| sep |> My takeaway from this was something we ' ve seen just this week in the UK regarding banning online content . Authority figures do not have proper appreciation or care for technology , and they see it as just some arbitrary play thing . The officer flung the cookie into a near eternity of torment because he thought it would be funny . He chuckled about it , clearly having no consideration for the digital copy that was inside of it . As we ' ve seen earlier , the digital copy isn ' t actually a copy , it ' s just the half of your consciousness that lost the coin toss . It ' s still you , and it can still formulate thoughts and fears . The man who worked with the cookies and with the police had a very clear understanding of all this . He was aware that he could break somebody with just six months of solitary nothingness , leaving their minds begging for any sort of stimulus , even if it means a lifetime of slavery . He knows this very well , but still treats the denizen in the cookie like a human being regardless . He ' s a scumbag for doing it , but he ' s a scumbag because he knows what psychological damage he is doing to it . The cop at the end though has no damn clue what he ' s doing . And it goes to show how there is a strong divide between those who wield technology and those who wield authority . To some , our devices and our digital presence is sacred . But to them , it ' s just toys silly little gadgets and trinkets meant to be recklessly abused with no rights to protection or respect .