Amberskin

You are believing a notorious bunch of liars.

Much more probably: they developed a cyberweapon and tested it in the wild. The victim caught them so they invented a cyberpunk history to increase the interest of potential buyers for that weapon.

You can take your fascist ‘crime prevention’ and shove it.

You don’t need an alternative to Palantir if you decide not to use the kind of distopic shit palantir sells.

You mean like… not using that kind of evil technology?

Dense public transportation sorta fixes the last mile problem. And buying local fixes the Walmart/carrefour problem. I buy groceries every two or three days, and the grocery shops are always at walking distance from home.