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... wait, did that leave it at 5 bucks or go negative? From what I understand that count is greater than four.

Upgrade(?) to mildly upset, grandma's not likely to need surgery according to the bone doctor... even after a second fall onto the same side this morning. Two fractures near the ball socket, but specific condition's such that surgery isn't likely to produce any better results in terms of restored range of motion and whatnot than not surgery. Basically everything about the situation sucks, and while she's sorta' trying to cooperate she also thought she broke her shoulder a week ago at one point this afternoon (it was less than 48 hours ago), so... yeah. Yeah. It's now gone from "she could sorta' keep an eye on her husband while other house people did things like, y'know, sleep" to "she can't even safely stand under her own power right now, nevermind herd a person with fairly advanced dementia that outweighs her by like 30-40 pounds".

Anyway, upshot is my day started at 7 this morning and it hasn't stopped until basically now, when family came to take over keeping an eye on folks for the night.

Frumple is wildly exhausted right now and most of my extremities + my spine would like to cordially remind me they fucking hate me and want me to die. I am not healthy enough to be doing this, and my basically everything is currently reminding me of that. Plus my grandmother has a broken shoulder. So, like. I'd like to check out and go home now, or at least to sleep for a little while or something.

The great vinegar sea probably exists somewhere in toriko's world, now that y'all mention it.

uh, presumably it'd be a big ol' building sitting on top of a lot of dead people

hypnotoad would not approve your usage of wizard corpses as a foundation material, cathedral or not

just gimme that isekai system loadout and praise hypnotoad, because the setting probably won't be for very long

alternatively, just provide one golden thumb and we're good

... alternatively alternatively, one multiversal teleporter set to Culture or somethin', a multiverse scanning e-book reader, and an implant or whatever that lets me run multiple synch'd up copies of myself -- to hell with whatever rando sci-fi setting you're sending me to, I'm going to AI ran glorious post-scarcity space heaven and then I'm going to read incessantly and in parallel for the next few centuries

after the berenstain bears and before goosebumps, yes

I'm still trying to figure out why there is a preponderance of unfounded certainty that "AI" will be a disaster, instead of a boon? Is this just human experience bias? What if AI turns out to be the Benevolent Dictator that saves everyone?

There's a tremendously tilted representation of AI in fiction towards AI as a disaster. There's exceptions, but just about every major/notable representation of AI in literature or film has it as a great adversary.

As to the why of it, *shrugs* Hell if I know. Probably has something to do with a fear of having made something "better" than us, with an eye towards what we've traditionally done to beings (considered, if not necessary in reality) of lesser capacity.

It's, uh. Not a pretty picture, what we've trended towards doing towards humans or non-humans of that nature. Extrapolating out that something with superior capacities of one sort or another would be "Us, but more", with exactly what entails, isn't entirely unreasonable... especially considering we'd be the ones making it to begin with.