And I've felt like the term, "biological imperative," has been doing a lot of heavy lifting here around The Hive's drive to convert everyone.

Like, reproduction is a biological imperative, but rape? Still not okay.

"Biological imperative" isn't a magic spell that fixes consent violations.

Yes! And the perverse incentive there has been bothering me ever since. If the goal is to make sure no lobsters die, why on Earth would you eagerly agree to cook lobsters killed by someone else?

Oh, I like that. OF COURSE they can't kill. Why would you let your slave species have the option of killing you?

My HOPE is that this ethical incoherence is either explained away ("Here's where we are building the cow-rehabilitation facility!"), or is itself a plot point ("We can't kill, but we've got no problem with them starving to death as long as we aren't the ones pulling the trigger.").

My impression has been that The Hive doesn't really have a coherent ethical system so much as they have hard-coded restrictions. They let all the animals out of the zoos, but they don't seem to have relocated them. They won't kill animals for food, but what do you do with the pigs on factory farms?

I'm making a list. Straight men with girlfriends are gay. Christians are fake and gay.

Okay, what else?

I assume that being a gay man with a boyfriend is straight now, but I may just not be clear on the rules.

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Dig Whisperer: Psychic Excavation

I feel like, "why can't I just turn off the AI," is going to be something we are asking for the next 30 years in various contexts.

Right?!?

For me it was editing form fields. I spent so long trying to figure out where they had hidden that, only to discover that it wasn't in the regular menus any longer, and I apparently had to build a custom command to do it?

I mean ... who looked at that and thought it was a good idea?

Yo,have you seen the new jumbo Indian Runner duck eggs they just announced for 2026? That shit is speckled as FUCK.

I nominate Adobe for the gulags. Every new version of Acrobat, I have to re-figure out how to do all the stuff it was straightforward to do in the last version.

You're not far off!

Now imagine that the Dalek is angry because it has not been allowed to have more strawberry yoggies.

Some online friends of ours were teaching their kid to verbalize his emotions, "oh no! It seems like you're really frustrated by that! Are you frustrated?"

And eventually, when this toddler was angry, he would scrunch up his face and clench his fists, and say "FRUSTRATE! FRUSTRATE!!"

Hot goat.

And who among us has not encountered a suspiciously hot goat we should have been more careful of, I ask you?

I mean, it's just good advice.

When my nephew was very young, he wanted to touch the barbecue at a cookout and we said, "no, Nate, you can't touch it, it's hot!"

He nodded knowingly and said, "hot. Hot!"

Thenceforth, anything scary or possibly dangerous became hot.

"Do you want to pet the goat, Nate?"
"No! Goat hot."

"Ludo" has become "Corporal Luddington of the Space Patrol."

"Babies are born worshipping unknown gods," is absolutely a new parent complaint.

"We're not getting any sleep, we are drowning in diapers, Susan and I have been snapping at one another, and you *know* babies are born worshipping unknown gods."

The Bible has been around for SO long, and is SO popular that people often confuse popular fanfic with canon stuff. It's like pre-Disney Star Wars that way.