Without the industrial revolution I wouldn’t even exist; setting aside the butterfly effect of my parents never having met because they’re from different parts of the country for a moment I owe my existence to modern medicine, which would not exist without industrialization.

Well if they called it Steam Controller 2 what would they call the next one?

AI has not pushed me one inch towards suicide. Then again I treat it like a calculator for words and not a therapist

I can think of a couple

• expectation management: sometimes call volume is genuinely high, and if you set a floor at say 10 minutes it only feels like a 5 minute difference if the caller’s actual wait time is 15
• engineering downtime to allow agents time to complete paperwork or catch up on emails
• make us all so annoyed with the process of waiting in line we welcome AI agents as liberators

To hide the soundstage they’re building for the mars landing. It’s my fault, really, I forgot to forward the order for the regolith camo dropcloths on time. The project lead decided there wasn’t enough leeway to delay construction so it’s been quite a strain on the PR team.

Honestly I’m incredibly embarrassed. My manager is telling me it’s okay and that everyone makes mistakes but honestly I almost wish they would fire me. Everyone here at Illuminati hq has been incredibly understanding and kind to the point it makes me feel weird.

I have similar feelings but I tell myself this: If nothing else rails to trails maintains the right of way. The carbrained city planner says you’ll displace the cyclists, but in 30 years that planner will be retired or dead. What would kill railroads forever would be carving up the ROW and selling it off.

you could do that in XP I’m pretty sure. Can you not do that in 11?

I could see donating to your favorite terminal emulator. cool-retro-term is, well, pretty cool.

Use catch-all emails so if someone shares you know who