I had a friend in high school who's brother was like this as a toddler, would speak to his family lucidly and with detail about another life he remembered. No one was sure where he would have even gotten some of the stories he told. When he was a little older he stopped and then didn't remember anything about it.
A guy a worked with once did some time as an IT contractor at one of the large hospitals here in town (they are almost all now owned by the same organization) and he was telling me how this works in practice. Since they have to spend all of them the money on "improvements" it ends up on things like the wall-sized $40k television his team of 5 put in a room in a conference room in a basement that no one ever uses.
It's clearly either incompetence or corruption. There is no way a hospital couldn't find a legitimate use for spending an arbitrarily large amount of money. You treat more indigent patients or buy another MRI machine etc.
All of these technologies would be very useful to a government, especially an authoritarian government. Who do you imagine wielding this technology, exactly? Agents of a foreign power? Internal dissidents? In either case it is difficult to imagine a circumstance in which the same technology is not already available to the CCP themselves.
Hey son, you and your fellows are looking full drip, no cap. Remember to be back in time for dinner, your mom is making pork chops, and it is going to be bussing bussing af.
As someone over 40, I probably enjoy too much the ability to destroy any exclusivity or sense of cool these words may have previously held to the younger generation by using them excessively in their presence.
I think he has thought about this question and 1000's of other scenarios that we will never know.
I write "you" figuratively, interchangeably as "one" or "oneself". I don't expect a reply. I'm asking for others sake or just simply to put my own thoughts down.
