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Surely a high tech nation that runs on magic can offer affordable higher education?

Just because a nation can do the right thing doesn't mean that they do.

Ah fuck, sirens that can lure asexual people with a one hundred percent success rate.

electrotechnicians use runes to describe their magic, we use it to make rocks think, yet affordable higher education is deemed less important than shareholder happiness. Go figure.

Case in point
* waves arms around madly *

i mean, when you become a siren's dinner... you technically don't have any debt.

I mean, they have bird lower bodies.

If they can lure most non-asexual people despite that, they've got seduction power that goes well beyond normal sexual attraction.

Unless Greek sailors were really that desperate for hot cloacae.

Or fish lower bodies; let's not be exclusionary in our treatment of mythology!

In the originals they didn't sing about lust and desires of the flesh. They spoke of hidden truths, secrets, and other desires. With Odysseus it was the secrets of the trojan war.

Sex was later added by the Christians

Apparently you are unfamiliar with how Capitalism works.

Damn. I love these.