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Straight out of GATTACA.

I cringed pretty hard when the image at the top loaded; was not expecting this kind of story, was expecting a missive on the song from the 90s.

Also, this story reminds me of a passage, among many, from the Deus Ex timeline wiki (https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline):

"Antoine Thisdale, an un-augmented oil rig worker sues for the right to have both of his fully functional natural arms amputated and replaced with cybernetic arms in an effort to compete with mechanically augmented workers in his profession. The Supreme Court rules in his favor, clearing the way for elective augmentation."




If there was a surgery that made people look white, I wonder how many people would get it.


I have read that there are many things people do in Japan to lighten their skin as this is perceived as more beautiful.


The reason is that tanned people got tanned because they had to work.


Can confirm. Used to work on an early version of their "instagram" filters and one of the functions was to whiten skin.


"Asian blepharoplasty" creates an eyelid crease resulting in a larger and more symmetric, almond-shaped eye is apparently pretty common.


Ask the star-bellied sneeches.




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