They’ll implant new skills like “learning to knit”, but won’t mention anything about how to use the three seashells.

Makes sense. If orcas wear hats it’s only logical that sauropods would too.

The two things I always tell my type-A kids:

1. There is no “on time” or “on schedule”, and
2. You can’t min/max your way through life

Both are great ways to stress/burn yourself out.

It doesn’t come up much except to underscore that in The Culture there is no “normal” with regard to sex or gender because people can be whatever they want and can change on a whim. so without a base gender/sex you can’t have a queer gender/sex.

I believe in the Quantum Claus^TM theory - there’s just one guy, and he just makes one present for just one kid (on the nice list, which has at most just one name). But on Christmas Eve he exists in a superposition of states at every child’s house with every possible gift.

@[email protected] posts fantastic, fediverse-only comics to [email protected]. They can be super weird and will admittedly not be for everyone, but hey isn’t that why we’re all here in the first place?

So. Much. Fucking. Litter.

Seriously. Fully-automated luxury gay space communism. I could do without most of those adjectives and still be living it large.

Down with MATA!

The word for “male chicken” is used as slang for penis across many cultures (sorry for link to the r site but it has the most links in one place)

Yep, this is it. Show how “broken” it is by breaking it, and enough of the population won’t even notice when it’s “fixed” and they’re only getting 2/3 of what they were before (and are entitled to). Plus grift, etc.