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When I was learning to drive, my parents read a manual provided by the state. One of the directives was “say correct, not right!”

My kid is only six and therefore not driving as far as I know, but I have maintained that standard.

Can’t argue that, but I still don’t want to live in a robot. I don’t want to die at the moment but I don’t think I want to live… However long a robot does.

You might live forever.

As far as I can recall, the theory was just conjecture, fanon, not confirmed (but neither definitively denied) by anything shown. I apologize if I misrepresented it.

Is it known that Things can identify each other?

I once read a theory that the flask they were sharing was shared with gasoline or something else noxious so that whomever filled it could judge the other’s reaction to determine whether they had been beThinged. (I think that was it. I read the comment a long time ago and saw the movie even longer ago so I might misremember the details.)

All of my loved ones want to have their organs donated to science, then have the leftovers cremated.

My wife was in the funeral industry for a while and studying mortuary sciences. She says she left because it was too depressing being pressured to upsell grieving families all the time.

Are you Markiplier?

I’m cool with that. My life could use more color in some ways.

I’m not trying to be dismissive or critical of those who use a NAS solution. I’ve never used one myself, so maybe it really is amazing; but from your response it sounds just like an NFS (or perhaps samba) server with a web interface? I did try TrueNAS once and it basically seemed like that, but also with convoluted permissions.

Again, not trying to be dismissive or anything. Just trying to understand.

I care not a whit about sports, but I love a good hot dog with sauerkraut. I usually add mustard and onions, but that might confuse the theme here.

When I started at my current job, the company was still pretty small. I don’t know that the founder’s past was, but the company had contributed significantly to his wealth and he tended to share it (or maybe show it off) in lavish ways, mostly with the executives but sometimes with the staff in general.

For example, there was what was apparently a very nice, very expensive espresso machine in the break room. (I was told this was the only thing he took when he left the company.) There was also a very very nice grill on the property … That was allegedly only used once because the owners of the complex said it violated some rule to do so. I always wondered why they just left it instead of … Moving it to somewhere else where they could use it, even if only personally.

Anyway, the reason I bring up all of this is that he was notorious for showing up with extremely costly and detailed full body costumes and gifting them, unasked, to the executives. I think most of them took them home and hung them out of sight in a closet, but at least one of them kept it in his office in a spare chair as if it were visiting.

I don’t remember for sure, but I think it actually was a gorilla suit.

You do you and I’ll do me and we won’t do each other … Probably.

Sounds like a reverse tulpa.

Fair enough. With that I cannot help.

Oh, I have. Good movie. Still not sure who’s the Thing at the end.

On behalf of a company that hasn’t been my employer for more than half my life, I give you permission.

Are you useful? How would I get to Ozma without you?

A company at which I once worked built a functioning server into the frame of a motorcycle. It was after I left, so I’m not sure of the details, including whether it had to be plugged in; but regardless, they called it “the world’s fastest server!” and I think that’s pretty funny.

Almost twenty years ago, I bought a wallet designed to look like an NES controller. I bought it for $15 from GameStop. Astoundingly, it lasted … I think seventeen years. It was still usable but disintegrating pretty fast.

I had that wallet approximately half my life and got lots and lots of compliments on it. It was sentimental. I was sad to see it go - so much so that when I replaced it I bought a wallet display (something I didn’t know existed before) and have it on my mantle to this day.