Freefall

I believe saucers of milk are traditional, but probably not helpful for robotic processes. And there’s no such thing as a cow on this station anyway.

Of course, the big problem is that if you talk about brownies, they leave.

Overdoing it◊

Also, two fan images of Florence in Zero G here◊ and here◊ (second has a wardrobe malfunction, but at a tasteful angle)

I recognize that artstyle! TwoKinds

Edited by Adembergz on Apr 12th 2024 at 2:26:46 PM

Want to know, probably not need to know◊

The power of mass◊

Florence, bro, do u even lift?

Robots and Common Sense◊

The Robots: ”If we were bad worker robots, we wouldn't be sitting here discussing it with you, now would we?”

(Sorry for the double post)

Fixing one problem to expose another problem… That’s why you should check for yourself that your fix has worked.◊

Incidentally, I find that programming can work similarly sometimes - Sometimes, a bug fix in one part of the code exposes issues in other parts of it, too.

Only "sometimes"? In programming you know you're making progress when it still fails, but the error is different.

No worries at all on the double post. :-D As you can see, it happens fairly often. But yeah, as an engineer (software engineer FWIW), this is incredibly common.

I now want to see an episode of Star Trek based on this.

Messing with him◊

It would make for an amusing lower deck episode, as Engineering tries to repair the ship after the latest brilliant plan by the starring cast... sure, reversing the polarity on the warp drive got them out of the Negative Space Wedgie, but parts of the hull are now made out of crystallized cheese, the wiring is uniformly an inch longer, and all of the lights have an annoying hum... and every time they fix one thing, they realize that that just uncovers another nasty side effect.

Him being weirded out due to not having seen or heard about a Bowman’s Wolf before doesn’t bother me.

What bothers me is how he refers to Florence as an ”it”.

He thinks she's a dressed-up animal. Nothing wrong with referring to an animal with "it".

Maybe not, but the Mayor and Mr. Kornada having referred to Florence as an ”it” specifically to dehumanize her previously still leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it’s done by somebody else.

Edited by MagmaTeaMerry on Apr 24th 2024 at 8:15:20 PM

And, of course, one of the underlying issues with many forms of prejudice is that "it" gets used specifically because it's dehumanizing, and absolves the person of any guilt. That said, this case feels a bit closer to "Oh, well, this is a non-intelligent dog that someone is trying to portray as a person so as to make a joke" rather than "Bowman's Wolves aren't human, and are therefore an 'it'".

Perils of misplaced tools◊

Then again, the people who owned that equipment could sue

Better to spend 10 minutes doing nothing than trying to exit your shift early and set a bad example.◊

Bad dog! Bad dog! You left 10 minutes early!

Topless Florence bent over a bench and showing tail◊

This time without sqidly interruptions

Open showers... not so much the shaking◊

Unexpected luxury◊