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7 years, 4 months ago

Work was never the same

Work was never the same for Joe after Lacey got sick. He never rescheduled that meeting with the VP. He just couldn't muster the fucks needed to give it his all for on-demand wholesale distribution. People he'd started with left to work for experimental divisions doing partnerships with self-drivin…

—p.201 Radicalized Radicalized (181) by Cory Doctorow
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7 years, 4 months ago

who had been denied coverage by their insurers

[...] Ostensibly, it was for fathers whose wives were dying of breast cancer [...] but actually it was for fathers whose wives were dying of treatable breast cancer who had been denied coverage by their insurers.

—p.189 Radicalized (181) by Cory Doctorow
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it was a door that only swung one way

More sobbing. Then a deep breath. "I saw the doctor." A long pause. Joe wanted to hang up. More than anything. Because he knew that he was about to go through a door that led out of his life as it was and into a new, worse life. It was a door that only swung one way and once you went through it, yo…

—p.185 Radicalized (181) by Cory Doctorow
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choose a side between New York and New Yorkers

Watching these devices get wheeled into position for use on New Yorkers did something to the American Eagle [...] He'd seen New Yorkers scared, brave, defiant, beaten, noble, and cowardly, and he'd never once wondered which side he was on. Now he had to choose a side between New York and New Yorker…

—p.155 Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow
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he's how things are supposed to work

"For that son-of-a-bitch to be doing what he's doing, there have to be a lot of people in on it: the DA, the judge, his commanding officer, the other cops in the cruiser with him. Bianchi isn't any rotten apple, he's a prototype, Mr. Eagle, the very model of a modern major bushwhacker, and you can …

—p.150 Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow