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Robot bee research predates the episode by several years, see Harvard's page on it
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** [[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120832-robotic-bee-could-help-pollinate-crops-as-real-bees-decline/ Robot bees]], engineered out of concern for declining bee populations.
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* ''Joan Is Awful'': A BlandNameProduct version of Netflix depicts an original drama of a woman's life using a CGI recreation of Creator/SalmaHayek, with the real Hayek becoming disgusted with how the service uses her likeness, only to discover that she legally can't retaliate against any usage of her likeness. A few months after this episode's release, the SAG-AFTRA strike started, with one of the reasons for the strike being that the AMPTP had proposed an agreement paying background actors for only a single day's worth of work to scan their likeness and perpetually own their CGI models to be used for whatever they wanted, without any consent or compensation for the actor involved. Needless to say, '''many'' viewers began drawing similarities to what's depicted in this episode.
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* ''[=ArkAngel=]'': While rudimentary parental controls have been around for years, they've gotten increasingly smarter in the last decade; the Mobicip app, for instance, allows parents to block not only sites promoting gambling or alcohol but also dating and chat sites, and blocking adult or violent content. Other apps allow parents to track their child wherever they go, spy on who they talk to, and shut their phone off whenever they choose.
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* ''[=ArkAngel=]'': ''Arkangel'': While rudimentary parental controls have been around for years, they've gotten increasingly smarter in the last decade; the Mobicip app, for instance, allows parents to block not only sites promoting gambling or alcohol but also dating and chat sites, and blocking adult or violent content. Other apps allow parents to track their child wherever they go, spy on who they talk to, and shut their phone off whenever they choose.
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* ''The Waldo Moment'': Noted as having been made ''much'' HarsherInHindsight by the rise of openly {{troll}}ish, media-driven, populist politicians who say outrageous things to get famous and win elections. Charlie Brooker himself [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-mirror-creator-predicts-trump-will-be-president-i-find-it-fcking-terrifying stated]] that this episode foreshadowed the appeal of people like UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump to voters.
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* ''The Waldo Moment'': Moment'':
** Noted as having been made ''much'' HarsherInHindsight by the rise of openly {{troll}}ish, media-driven, populist politicians who say outrageous things to get famous and win elections. Charlie Brooker himself [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-mirror-creator-predicts-trump-will-be-president-i-find-it-fcking-terrifying stated]] that this episode foreshadowed the appeal of people like UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump to voters.
** Noted as having been made ''much'' HarsherInHindsight by the rise of openly {{troll}}ish, media-driven, populist politicians who say outrageous things to get famous and win elections. Charlie Brooker himself [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-mirror-creator-predicts-trump-will-be-president-i-find-it-fcking-terrifying stated]] that this episode foreshadowed the appeal of people like UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump to voters.
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** In interviews, Creator/CharlieBrooker admitted that the character of Waldo was loosely based on UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, who at the time was known for acting like a clownish buffoon on television and was also involved with Brexit. Lo and behold, Johnson himself would become the UK's Prime Minister in 2019, serving until 2022.
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filing a patent does not mean theya re going to for sure use it.
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*** Sony ''almost'' attempted this on the [=PS4=], as shown by this [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=514438 patent]].
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*** Sony ''almost'' might have attempted this on the [=PS4=], as shown by this [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=514438 patent]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjNhW2mR1lM&list=PLvahqwMqN4M3d_PTQywnw74cLqK82BLEO "Look in the Mirror. Do you recognise yourself?"]]''[[labelnote:For posterity]]An official screen capture from ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteBear White Bear]]'' of Victoria's television, but playing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon Steve Bannon]] speech from 2017, released by Netflix in a promotional video for series 4 ''[[LampshadeHanging that compares the show to real life]]''.[[/labelnote]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjNhW2mR1lM&list=PLvahqwMqN4M3d_PTQywnw74cLqK82BLEO com/watch?v=cNjShVDFXGg "Look in the Mirror. Do you recognise yourself?"]]''[[labelnote:For posterity]]An official screen capture from ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteBear White Bear]]'' of Victoria's television, but playing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon Steve Bannon]] speech from 2017, released by Netflix in a promotional video for series 4 ''[[LampshadeHanging that compares the show to real life]]''.[[/labelnote]]]]
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* ''Multiple'': Franchise/TheSims, those videogames where it is perfectly acceptable for us real people to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential torture and abuse fake characters]] ForTheLulz. Encouraged, even. The implications of human behavior is bad, but what if the sims have feelings and we don't know.
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* ''Multiple'': Franchise/TheSims, VideoGame/TheSims, those videogames where it is perfectly acceptable for us real people to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential torture and abuse fake characters]] ForTheLulz. Encouraged, even. The implications of human behavior is bad, but what if the sims have feelings and we don't know.
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-->"At the time I thought that was one I didn’t nail, I didn’t get the stakes right," Brooker admitted. "I thought it should have been a separate thing, like it should have been a two-part miniseries. And then you look at it now and go, 'fuck me, that’s Trump.'"
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* ''The Waldo Moment'': A television entertainer and larger-than-life mascot entering a political race on a seemingly joke platform and who is openly crude with radical society-shifting policies but wins over the public? It's so bizarre that in the episode, though Waldo gained support, he didn't ultimately win. And yet, in real life, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016 America saw it happen.]] Could also be said that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit Britain did, too]].
** Charlie Brooker noted this in his Emmy acceptance speech for "San Junipero": "People are saying the world is like a ''Black Mirror'' episode now. I like to think I wouldn't have been quite so on the nose, with the Nazis and everything."
** Charlie Brooker noted this in his Emmy acceptance speech for "San Junipero": "People are saying the world is like a ''Black Mirror'' episode now. I like to think I wouldn't have been quite so on the nose, with the Nazis and everything."
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** Charlie Brooker noted this in his Emmy acceptance speech for "San Junipero": "People are saying the world is like a ''Black Mirror'' episode now. I like to think I wouldn't have been quite so on the nose, with the Nazis and
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** A Japanese company wants to make eerily similar "[[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45450238 living pods]]": bed, TV, communal living space. Thankfully, the intended city (Barcelona) has given it a strong pass.
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* ''Nosedive'': A life based off of social ratings from others' opinions is not sane, or safe. But...
** Apparently the real life Chinese government is toying with plans to implement a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System "social credit" system]] plan for their people.
** Similarly, this [[https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/ article]] about Alibaba's "Sesame Credit" eerily reads like an alternate version, or effectively the entire plot, of ''Nosedive''. To summarise: "[the system] will ensure that the bad people in society don't have a place to go." Awesome, China. Quotes from the article condensed into a ''Nosedive'' plot summary:
---> ''"A scan of a bike’s QR code revealed a four-digit number that unlocked the back wheel, and a ride across town cost roughly 15 cents. Because of my middling score [(550)], however, I had to pay a $30 deposit before I could scan my first bike [...] a car rental company allows people with credit scores over 650 to rent a car without a deposit [...] people with scores over 750 could even skip the security check line at [the airport] [...] [Lazarus Liu] had reached 722, a score that entitled him to favorable terms on loans and apartment rentals [...] To see if I could do anything to pull my score up, I took a taxi one morning to a chic open-air shopping center outside Shanghai’s city center to meet with Chen Chen [and she] explained how to boost my score. "They will check what kind of friends you have," she said. "If your friends are all high-score people, it’s good for you. If you have some bad-credit people as friends, it’s not nice." [...] [Liu Hu, a man blacklisted,] became, effectively, a second-class citizen. He was banned from most forms of travel; he could only book the lowest classes of seat on the slowest trains. He could not buy certain consumer goods or stay at luxury hotels, and he was ineligible for large bank loans [...] The way [the credit system] is designed, being blacklisted sends you on a rapid downward spiral. First your score drops. Then your friends hear you are on the blacklist and, fearful that their scores might be affected, quietly drop you as a contact. The algorithm notices, and your score plummets further [...] After I left China, I checked back in with Lazarus Liu [and we] talked about a new facial recognition feature called Smile to Pay."''
*** ''[='=][[NightmareFuel "You could imagine a future where people are watching to see if their friends’ credit is dropping and then dropping their friends if that affects them," says Frank Pasquale, a big-data expert at University of Maryland Carey School of Law. "That’s terrifying."]][='=]''
** The "[[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peeple/id1008896593?mt=8 peeple]]" app, which is basically lets you rate your friends. While created before "Nosedive" aired, ''a ton'' of its most recent reviews contain something along the lines of "Wasn't this a thing on Black Mirror?"
** Rate My Professor, something that's actually been around for ages, which has totally never caused any damage, ever.
** The Alaskan government have banned the opportunity to post bail when arrested, replacing it with [[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alaska/articles/2018-01-01/alaskas-criminal-bail-changes-to-point-based-system?int=news-rec a social points system]] that will give the individual bail if they are ranked highly enough. It's promoted with the positives that more people who can't afford bail will be able to get it, and the rich but bad people won't.
** Apple's face-scanning technology and [=TrueDepth=] camera is getting close to making the tech side of the moral reality.
--->''"Meanwhile, ''Black Mirror'' presumably got back to the work of its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning, and not a corporate benchmark for Q2 2018."'' -- [[https://www.avclub.com/black-mirror-takes-credit-for-apples-latest-techno-dyst-1805640886 The AV Club]]
** Uber has a rating system, where depending on the experience, both drivers and riders can rate each other 1-5 stars. How polite you are and how well you provide service will influence your score. Uber drivers' ratings are available through their profile, where riders can see how many stars they have, and the opposite for drivers looking at riders' ratings.
** Apparently the real life Chinese government is toying with plans to implement a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System "social credit" system]] plan for their people.
** Similarly, this [[https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/ article]] about Alibaba's "Sesame Credit" eerily reads like an alternate version, or effectively the entire plot, of ''Nosedive''. To summarise: "[the system] will ensure that the bad people in society don't have a place to go." Awesome, China. Quotes from the article condensed into a ''Nosedive'' plot summary:
---> ''"A scan of a bike’s QR code revealed a four-digit number that unlocked the back wheel, and a ride across town cost roughly 15 cents. Because of my middling score [(550)], however, I had to pay a $30 deposit before I could scan my first bike [...] a car rental company allows people with credit scores over 650 to rent a car without a deposit [...] people with scores over 750 could even skip the security check line at [the airport] [...] [Lazarus Liu] had reached 722, a score that entitled him to favorable terms on loans and apartment rentals [...] To see if I could do anything to pull my score up, I took a taxi one morning to a chic open-air shopping center outside Shanghai’s city center to meet with Chen Chen [and she] explained how to boost my score. "They will check what kind of friends you have," she said. "If your friends are all high-score people, it’s good for you. If you have some bad-credit people as friends, it’s not nice." [...] [Liu Hu, a man blacklisted,] became, effectively, a second-class citizen. He was banned from most forms of travel; he could only book the lowest classes of seat on the slowest trains. He could not buy certain consumer goods or stay at luxury hotels, and he was ineligible for large bank loans [...] The way [the credit system] is designed, being blacklisted sends you on a rapid downward spiral. First your score drops. Then your friends hear you are on the blacklist and, fearful that their scores might be affected, quietly drop you as a contact. The algorithm notices, and your score plummets further [...] After I left China, I checked back in with Lazarus Liu [and we] talked about a new facial recognition feature called Smile to Pay."''
*** ''[='=][[NightmareFuel "You could imagine a future where people are watching to see if their friends’ credit is dropping and then dropping their friends if that affects them," says Frank Pasquale, a big-data expert at University of Maryland Carey School of Law. "That’s terrifying."]][='=]''
** The "[[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peeple/id1008896593?mt=8 peeple]]" app, which is basically lets you rate your friends. While created before "Nosedive" aired, ''a ton'' of its most recent reviews contain something along the lines of "Wasn't this a thing on Black Mirror?"
** Rate My Professor, something that's actually been around for ages, which has totally never caused any damage, ever.
** The Alaskan government have banned the opportunity to post bail when arrested, replacing it with [[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alaska/articles/2018-01-01/alaskas-criminal-bail-changes-to-point-based-system?int=news-rec a social points system]] that will give the individual bail if they are ranked highly enough. It's promoted with the positives that more people who can't afford bail will be able to get it, and the rich but bad people won't.
** Apple's face-scanning technology and [=TrueDepth=] camera is getting close to making the tech side of the moral reality.
--->''"Meanwhile, ''Black Mirror'' presumably got back to the work of its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning, and not a corporate benchmark for Q2 2018."'' -- [[https://www.avclub.com/black-mirror-takes-credit-for-apples-latest-techno-dyst-1805640886 The AV Club]]
** Uber has a rating system, where depending on the experience, both drivers and riders can rate each other 1-5 stars. How polite you are and how well you provide service will influence your score. Uber drivers' ratings are available through their profile, where riders can see how many stars they have, and the opposite for drivers looking at riders' ratings.
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* ''Nosedive'': A life based off of social ratings from others' opinions is not sane, or safe. But...
** Apparently the real life Chinese government is toying with plans to implement a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System "social credit" system]] plan for their people.
** Similarly, this [[https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/ article]] about Alibaba's "Sesame Credit" eerily reads like an alternate version, or effectively the entire plot, of ''Nosedive''. To summarise: "[the system] will ensure that the bad people in society don't have a place to go." Awesome, China. Quotes from the article condensed into a''Nosedive'' plot summary:
---> ''"A scan of a bike’s QR code revealed a four-digit number that unlockedis apparently the back wheel, and a ride across town cost roughly 15 cents. Because of my middling score [(550)], however, I had closest to pay a $30 deposit before I could scan my first bike [...] a car rental company allows people with credit scores over 650 to rent a car without a deposit [...] people with scores over 750 could even skip the security check line at [the airport] [...] [Lazarus Liu] had reached 722, a score that entitled him to favorable terms on loans and apartment rentals [...] To see if I could do anything to pull my score up, I took a taxi one morning to a chic open-air shopping center outside Shanghai’s city center to meet with Chen Chen [and she] explained how to boost my score. "They will check what kind of friends you have," she said. "If your friends are all high-score people, it’s good for you. If you have some bad-credit people becoming real life, as friends, it’s not nice." [...] [Liu Hu, a man blacklisted,] became, effectively, a second-class citizen. He was banned from most forms of travel; he could only book the lowest classes of seat on the slowest trains. He could not buy certain consumer goods or stay at luxury hotels, and he was ineligible for large bank loans [...] The way [the credit system] is designed, being blacklisted sends you on a rapid downward spiral. First your score drops. Then your friends hear you are on the blacklist and, fearful that their scores might be affected, quietly drop you as a contact. The algorithm notices, and your score plummets further [...] After I left China, I checked back in with Lazarus Liu [and we] talked about a new facial recognition feature called Smile to Pay."''
*** ''[='=][[NightmareFuel "You could imagine a future where people are watching to see if their friends’ credit is dropping and then dropping their friends if that affects them," says Frank Pasquale, a big-data expert at University of Maryland Carey School of Law. "That’s terrifying."]][='=]''
** The "[[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peeple/id1008896593?mt=8 peeple]]" app, which is basically lets you rate your friends. While created before "Nosedive" aired, ''a ton'' of its most recent reviews contain something along the lines of "Wasn't this a thing on Black Mirror?"
** Rate My Professor, something that's actually been around for ages, which has totally never caused any damage, ever.
** The Alaskan government have banned the opportunity to post bail when arrested, replacingit with [[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alaska/articles/2018-01-01/alaskas-criminal-bail-changes-to-point-based-system?int=news-rec a social points system]] that will give the individual bail if they are ranked highly enough. It's promoted with the positives that more people who can't afford bail will be able got long enough to get it, and the rich but bad people won't.
** Apple's face-scanning technology and [=TrueDepth=] camera is getting close to making the tech side of the moral reality.
--->''"Meanwhile, ''Black Mirror'' presumably got back to the work of[[LifeImitatesArt/BlackMirrorNosedive its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning, and not a corporate benchmark for Q2 2018."'' -- [[https://www.avclub.com/black-mirror-takes-credit-for-apples-latest-techno-dyst-1805640886 The AV Club]]
** Uber has a rating system, where depending on the experience, both drivers and riders can rate each other 1-5 stars. How polite you are and how well you provide service will influence your score. Uber drivers' ratings are available through their profile, where riders can see how many stars they have, and the opposite for drivers looking at riders' ratings.own page]].
** Apparently the real life Chinese government is toying with plans to implement a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System "social credit" system]] plan for their people.
** Similarly, this [[https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/ article]] about Alibaba's "Sesame Credit" eerily reads like an alternate version, or effectively the entire plot, of ''Nosedive''. To summarise: "[the system] will ensure that the bad people in society don't have a place to go." Awesome, China. Quotes from the article condensed into a
---> ''"A scan of a bike’s QR code revealed a four-digit number that unlocked
*** ''[='=][[NightmareFuel "You could imagine a future where people are watching to see if their friends’ credit is dropping and then dropping their friends if that affects them," says Frank Pasquale, a big-data expert at University of Maryland Carey School of Law. "That’s terrifying."]][='=]''
** The "[[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peeple/id1008896593?mt=8 peeple]]" app, which is basically lets you rate your friends. While created before "Nosedive" aired, ''a ton'' of its most recent reviews contain something along the lines of "Wasn't this a thing on Black Mirror?"
** Rate My Professor, something that's actually been around for ages, which has totally never caused any damage, ever.
** The Alaskan government have banned the opportunity to post bail when arrested, replacing
** Apple's face-scanning technology and [=TrueDepth=] camera is getting close to making the tech side of the moral reality.
--->''"Meanwhile, ''Black Mirror'' presumably got back to the work of
** Uber has a rating system, where depending on the experience, both drivers and riders can rate each other 1-5 stars. How polite you are and how well you provide service will influence your score. Uber drivers' ratings are available through their profile, where riders can see how many stars they have, and the opposite for drivers looking at riders' ratings.
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** The "peeple" app, which is basically rate your friends.
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** The "peeple" "[[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peeple/id1008896593?mt=8 peeple]]" app, which is basically lets you rate your friends.friends. While created before "Nosedive" aired, ''a ton'' of its most recent reviews contain something along the lines of "Wasn't this a thing on Black Mirror?"
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** Uber has a rating system, where depending on the experience. Both drivers and riders, can rate each other 1-5 stars. With how polite you are, or how well you provide service influencing your score. Uber drivers' ratings are even available through their profile where you can see how many stars they have.
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** Uber has a rating system, where depending on the experience. Both experience, both drivers and riders, riders can rate each other 1-5 stars. With how How polite you are, or are and how well you provide service influencing will influence your score. Uber drivers' ratings are even available through their profile profile, where you riders can see how many stars they have.have, and the opposite for drivers looking at riders' ratings.
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** A 2018 Superbowl commercial for Cox's new [=g1gablast=] internet service there featured an animatronic talking monkey stuffed toy, with the voice actually being a little girl's grandma. It was creepy, but apparently a real thing now.
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** A 2018 Superbowl commercial for Cox's new [=g1gablast=] internet service there featured an animatronic talking monkey stuffed toy, with the voice actually being a little girl's grandma. It was creepy, but apparently a real thing now.
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* ''Hang the DJ'': Netflix actually made a version of the app from the System, just for fun, for Valentine's Day 2018. Apparently it will gather some kind of data to give it's best accurate answer, though. Find it at coach.dating
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* ''Hang the DJ'': Netflix actually made a version of the app from the System, just for fun, for Valentine's Day 2018. Apparently it will gather some kind of data to give it's its best accurate answer, though. Find it at coach.dating
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* ''The National Anthem'': In which the British Prime Minister is blackmailed into [[BestialityIsDepraved fucking a pig]]. Introducing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate Piggate]], the scandal caused by [[UsefulNotes/DavidCameron the British Prime Minister]] allegedly fucking a pig. This one, however, was dead before penetration. Makes it better, huh.
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* ''The National Anthem'': In which the British Prime Minister is blackmailed into [[BestialityIsDepraved fucking a pig]]. Introducing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate Piggate]], the scandal caused by [[UsefulNotes/DavidCameron the British Prime Minister]] allegedly fucking a pig. This one, however, was dead before penetration.penetration, and it was (reportedly) stuck in the pig's mouth. Makes it better, huh.
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