If Gus Gus is happy and I’m sad but smart, which of us is the bigger fool?

Actually, I just ate breakfast. Things are looking better already.

Has Elon started listening to his public relations team?

He looks like someone just asked him to spell ‘necessary’ without using his phone.

“We dropped all our bombs! PEACE!”

Wish I could appreciate the irony, because there’s nothing else going for the situation.

In the books, you couldn’t mistake Murderbot for a human.

In the books, Murderbot repeatedly remarks that it can easily pass for human among humans, but other constructs would spot it immediately.

I love the books. Murderbot is my competence porn. It’s all about smart people getting out of bad situations by doing smart things.

C’mon guy, don’t be like that.

You can contain so much more coffee than that tiny mug.

And that’s why it’s the best place to live.

He also breathes oxygen. Whatcha gonna do now?

…but it’s meant to be gold…

The Culture. Which is all of the above plus friendly superintelligent AI to run it for us.

More details please.

I never would have made the connection between chemistry and fluid behaviour. Other than, y’know, this fluid dissolves that.

I happen to be a theoretical chemist

What do you do in that role? Is it about finding new materials?

Well of course he’s an amateur. He’s a pilot, part of the bridge crew. How’s your baking, La Forge? Up to scratch?

NO

What’s the girl equivalent of this? I’d like to have some conversations with my wife that don’t send her off on list-making/plan-making expeditions or remind her of something she wanted to research on the internet.

Also the myths of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Antarctica.

I bet Elon can’t even do the neck trick.

I dare you to take it further.

You know the answer to that.