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WCDT 4181-4185 (20th - 24th, January 2020)
Perfectly Reasonable:
Negaverse? You mean where Trump is president instead of Hillary?
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Geeqie says:
Melon's hair: 28,167,74
Roko's usual hair: 149,24,81
R's Negaverse hair: 24, 149, 53
Is it cold in here?:
Global Moderator Comment Politics in DISCUSS and DISCUSS only, please.
Roko should have read her old manual as a job responsibility. Her chassis while she was on the force was her most basic piece of job equipment and she should have known it as well as she knew her sidearm.
TieDyeKat:
--- Quote from: Wingy on 20 Jan 2020, 04:44 ---And finally for today's musing, if Clinton gets told by Faye to cover his hand to keep it from getting all cruddy internally, why doesn't she insist Mays' hands have a covering?
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Because biologicals like Clinton (and all of us, I am assuming) are messy and constantly shedding - body oils, sweat, dead skin cells, food particulates, fecal matter, saliva, makeup particulates if we use makeup, shed hair, ear wax... I would suspect AI corporeal units would lack much of this incidental debris.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 21 Jan 2020, 12:25 ---Roko should have read her old manual as a job responsibility. Her chassis while she was on the force was her most basic piece of job equipment and she should have known it as well as she knew her sidearm.
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That's all well and good, but the fact is that Roko's current chassis is the exact same as her old model. Its not. It just looks like it.
Roko's chassis when she was with the police wouldn't have been a deluxe chassis. It would have been a workhorse model, something that would do the job and do it well. Being able to change the colour of her skin and hair seems frivolous and unnecessary.
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: TieDyeKat on 21 Jan 2020, 12:42 ---
--- Quote from: Wingy on 20 Jan 2020, 04:44 ---And finally for today's musing, if Clinton gets told by Faye to cover his hand to keep it from getting all cruddy internally, why doesn't she insist Mays' hands have a covering?
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Because biologicals like Clinton (and all of us, I am assuming) are messy and constantly shedding - body oils, sweat, dead skin cells, food particulates, fecal matter, saliva, makeup particulates if we use makeup, shed hair, ear wax... I would suspect AI corporeal units would lack much of this incidental debris.
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The problem is that she works in human spaces, and when we shed all that stuff, it all ends up on surfaces and in the air, so she still encounters it.
My two theories are:
1. Her chassis was designed without a covering. During Clinton's hand repair arc, it's implied that he's supposed to wear a cover normally, but chooses not to because the inner workings of his prosthetic hand are so cooooooool! This is less like using a phone without a case and more like using your phone without a backplate.
2. The wear and tear Faye pointed out was not actually part of the original reason for repair, but something she brought up while she was already working on his hand. He's never complained of performance issues (like Roko did with the hitch in her ankle), but did mention it felt smoother once it had been cleaned out. This would indicate that the damage from not using a covering is only minor, and given May's position I doubt she'd even notice the difference with all her other maintenance woes.
So either the grit problem is one that can be designed around (and Clinton was just being irresponsible) or it's not a major issue, so Faye isn't about to shame May over it while her leg and arm keep falling off.
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