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There’s a completely different set of assumptions outside the US.

No. I live in New Zealand, we don’t have any native tree-dwelling mammals. A few uninvited ecological pests like Australian possums. We ask them politely, but firmly, to leave.

I haven’t got a joke, how about a tongue twister?

“When a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, there’s a packet pocket socket racket error to report.”

Invest it in companies positioned to take advantage of a glut of server RAM hitting the market in about 18 Months.

At the bottom of a flooded cave. Cave-divers can do everything right and still die in a hole.

I think I speak for all of us when I say please log off the internet forever.

Let’s not go to extremes, now.

Burning them dead would be just as good.

Seems like a pretty good guiding principle, unless you’re the kind of self-serving muppet who skims philosophy texts to find reasons why it’s ethically okay to behave like a selfish dick.

The Death Star is a weapon you can live in. It’s an important consideration.

Maybe I don’t want it faster and cleaner…

Then I choose the pistol (given the name Rimpoche by an AI Bhudda) from Redrobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. It provides target identification, auto-aim and sarcasm.

One of the Lazy Guns from Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks. Point at target. Pull trigger. Target is destroyed in some ridiculous way, like having a piano fall on it.

But don’t point it at the sun. It doesn’t like that.

I’ll take some garlic knots, thanks. Next time’s on me.

Especially if they use it to ask for steak well done.

Just lately - one fried egg, salt, nothing else. It’s basic, but it’s what I’m enjoying.

What am I going to see if I click that link?

Alphonse Bentley McChicken.

Isn’t that because human computer technology was based on reverse-engineering a downed alien scout ship?