Calculator?! Those thieving, energy-sucking piles of garbage! Abacus till I die!

But seriously, AI is insidious in how it data mines us to give us answers, and data mines our questions to build profiles of users. I distrust assurances of anonymity by big data corpos.

They have noses worthy of being our successor species. Something you’d see on the cover of a sci-fi novel called “Children of Earth” or something…

You aren’t. There’s more backstory.

Running out of names for apps? I’ll just borrow from Herpes Simplex… seems catchy.

Someone could build an army of clones of you, launch galactic war, and then you’d be hated all over the galaxy. Assuming you have good genes. Probably they made a bad movie about this.

Then it’s not getting the freshest photons.

Apple is also super good with software updates on old hardware.

Except for that time they deliberately slowed down older phones with software updates so people would buy new phones.

Went downstairs and had a cup

Municipal drinking water is tested multiple times per day in Toronto, as it should be. Testing once and assuming the complex machinery and chemical levels are the same a week later is pure folly.

Note that this is different from testing well water, which shouldn’t change much. Testing well water once a year is a good idea though.

Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton, which is book 2. Book 1 in the series is Pandora’s Star.

Space opera.

I’m listening to a 44 hour audio book on YouTube.

I will gather all the time crystals and become quantumly immortal! No one can stop me!

When you heat up your spam casserole the lights of Chicago dim.

As long as you get that feeling, then no need to evaluate the content of things. We have teams of people to do that. Then they tell you what context cues to look for instead of evaluating it yourself.

Flowing green faux Japanese characters do not provide a soil rich in what onions crave. Brawndo might. But Matrix code is right out.

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