I had the same kneejerk reaction to the comment, until I checked the link. OP could have worked on their setup a bit better, and is doing themselves no favours by doubling down on it

I dont get how snakes breathe

Edit: yes I do now

His lungs apparently are somehow just warping around it

Check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series.

For a long while you’re not actually sure what species the characters are, what their defining features are, if they even have gender, and/or how many limbs they have.

You just know what they’re like from their cutting remarks to one another.

It’s a series that focuses solely on plot and has a very loose definition of identity (and it’s awesome)

“neilty son”, aww cute name

“He kept saying that a stick insect had gone up his shorts, and it was for the good of all insectdom for us to find it and document its secretions.”

Arrested Development: “It’s balls”

what is that game about
like, how do you win

It’s an old WW2 story. They were trying to improve their bullets thus analysed the returning planes which had collected many. By siphoning the bullets out of the frame they could see which ones had the most luck, and could then manufacture luckier bullets.

Wood Bison looks healthier to me, despite all the negativity of the annotations

“WIIILLSOOONNN”

…not quite sure where the hostility is coming from.

The question OP asked is what is likely to vanish in 10 years, and I described the already forced-digitization of household appliances and took it one step further to depict Appliances-as-a-Service, based on the model the printer industry is already rolling out.

How his offends anyone, is a little beyond me. Maybe I should have added quotes?

Yup. Worse still, I can see this extending to other appliances. Haven’t paid your monthly washing machine service fee? Our partnership with the only water company in your area authorizes us to shut off your water.

Shark-zula, the mic rulah
The old schoolah, you wanna hunt?
I’ll bring it to ya (raw)

that sun function is a bastard

If you think my comment was vacuous, you should see the ones that replied to it

57k a year is a decent salary if you live in the UK.

A seasoned postdoc could expect to make 55K max. A professor a bit more.

Manual appliances. You can open the fridge, but only if you pay your monthly subscription fee to keep it restocked.

We work hand-in-hand in retailers to make online shopping the default, whilst making the UI only accessible to AI bots, so if you want a stocked fridge; pay your fees.

self-inflicted, if they played nice we would all be printing from home.

upside is less paper waste

Thank you so much!