paused minesweeper game is a thing?

I haven't played it for decades. Actually pausing would be cheating, because most of the time is spent thinking. But it would make sense to stop counting time when the app is minimized. I guess, unless the player made a screenshot before that...

Okay, pausing is a bad idea if the hiscores are supposed to mean something.

afaik yet to solve any

cash out

you are wrong. tech is already here. recent advance has been application of deep learning to decode bioelectrical field of your brains. it's an ongoing telecom company side business

thoughts are already being read nonconsensually https://patents.google.com/patent/US3951134A/en perpetrators are even able to communicate back via Frey effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

US3951134A and they can take away it from you freely and anonymously

It's already here. And likely you are deliberately trying to deny that. Here's a nice little rabbit hole for you: https://pastebin.com/raw/8TQyPKUF

the scary thing isn't the sci-fi in this stuff, it's that the tech already exists to do the polygraph scam again

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