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[Gus_Smedstad]

So does that mean her tears smell like licorice?

I fully intended to post a variant on that, but I was too slow.

[BenRG]

There's a song from a but ten years ago that has lyrics that go something like this: "I am a scientist / And I try to live on science alone!" I think that this is the case for Millifeulle. She's tries to be full-on just the research bot. I think that this is quite unhealthy and likely why she goes berserk whenever she turns on her Drinkr app; she has to let loose all that tension. In that, she reminds me of the behaviour of all the young professionals in the finance sector. One of the reasons they party so heavily and unhealthily (and, frankly, antisocially) is because of the extreme stresses and lack of normal social interactions they have.

The realisation of the total social desert that is her life clearly has hit Milli like a wrecking ball. So, maybe the time has come for Milli to look for all the people in her life who can fill in those blanks. I wonder how long it will be before she realises that guy with the moustache (Jones, I think?) would really like to be her friend if she weren't to keep completely ignoring him?

I think that, if Renee heard what Brun said in panel 2, she'd need to deny that she's crying and excuse herself to an urgent appointment.

[Gyrre]

[snip]
Yes, funny you should mention that. I see both of these as very much complementary actions. If we as a society want to rid ourselves of dangerous of soul-destroyingly boring jobs, then a UBI means no-one needs to do them anymore and automation means they still get done.

As Google keeps proving with their mismanagement of YouTube (especially in regards to copyright issues), there will always be those cases where a human (or human level intelligence) is needed to make a decision. Even when soul-crushing boredom is present.

[Oenone]

I love the cheerful chibi Renee offering helpful life advice! And I also like that Brun sincerely loves and relies on her.

[Autistic Vulture]

Brun is good at her job, even when she hasn't done it for a while.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

So, Brun got up at 4 AM to go to the bathroom - then came back to fall asleep again on the same robot butt?   
And the owner of said robot butt, while well aware that Brun had moved, made no attempt to get up in the meantime?   

By sleeping on Millie's butt, Brün has validated her decision to enhance it.
Her butt is socially useful.

[shanejayell]

Yup, that was cute.

[mneme]

"Stack up", indeed.

[Near Lurker]

EDIT: No idea who this Vrun character is, this comic is about Brun and Millie.

Funny thing is, I saw this just as I was wondering whether the proper word for ouzo was Lesbian or Lesvian.

[BenRG]

Something tells me that another hypothesis Millifeulle has had proven is that having friends is a good thing. First Dora and Tai and now Brun too! She's having such positive experiences from it!

Technical note: So, Milli has an internal storage tank that she uses to store fluids she drinks. This can then be used to augment her stores of coolant, osmotic cleansing fluid and the like. I can honestly say that, as far as eccentric chassis engineering goes, this doesn't even feel like it gets into QC's top five!

[TorporChambre]

myth that people would just stop working when they get an income for doing nothing

Producion staying incentate sans nonproducion disincentive.

[Tova]

Sorry, but this is incomprehensible.

Weren't you the one instructing us that, "a good act of language sufficiently explains itself so that each it's audience interprets it properly?"

[Cornelius]

Indeed.

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So, initially, I refrained from posting my full opinion, though some earlier posts may have signaled my irritation with this poster. My frank impression is that we're dealing with a 15 year old troll, who thinks contorting grammar, using $50 words, and neologisms that are incomprehensible to anyone else, are good ways of convincing people of their intelligence, while their only goal is to disrupt the discussion.

What's more, they seem to have absolutely no inclination to enter into any kind of debate, as I have not seen them answer any question directed to them in any thread. Any question to elucidate on their, candidly, cryptic communications - both posts and private messages - goes unanswered.

I've had students like this, when I was still teaching. They were not amused at my not rewarding such behavior with a passing grade, despite multiple warnings.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

I expect her chassis came with a user manual, but Millie obviously hasn't read it. Guess she's more focused on having learning experiences in the non-virtual world.

[TorporChambre]

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My frank impression is that we're dealing with a 15 year old troll, who thinks contorting grammar, using $50 words, and neologisms are good ways of convincing people of their intelligence.

Besides that statement being unfair to 15 year olds---according to my data, one's intelligence peaks near that age--I often grammatically contort or nonce only for my message's simplifaction or elegation. (As for the expense of my vocabulary, each member was gratis. You'd have to be an idiot to pay for a piece of data that, properly, is of our common heritage.)

Verbogeny is one of many pleasurettes afforded a creatific thinkerizer.

Any question to elucidate on their, candidly, cryptic communications - both posts and private messages - goes unanswered.

I'd like to elucidate that, to day, I've gotten only one private message from Cornelius; that message contained only a generic question about the literary-stylistic ability of it's primary audience.

What's more, they seem to have absolutely no inclination to enter into any kind of debate, as I have not seen them answer any question directed to them in any thread.

Our earliest here post was nigh month syne. Expect you that any can so easily: describe one's thoughts composed responding to an arbitrary? Due to the ongoing public health emergency of international concern, We have been freer to ponder (usual stimuli's decrease compelling towards, of such, greater attendence) for leisure. The tractile interest of that to which this is response has us here. But to such as were, by you, mentioned, response would be irresponsible.
Great debate is of our favourite stimulants. This your post, of your posts toward us, seems the first towards good debate. It may be apt to have these about this moved elsewhere. (e.g. a thread in ``DISCUSS;'' Such here probably would be inappropriate.) We wish you would have sooner expressed that at least as well as you here had.

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We're curious about your knowledge of our plurality.

[Pilchard123]

...what?

[Dinaverg]

...what?

Having bothered to interpret it, I'll tell you you'd prefer you didn't, all the way down to the 'digression' about singular they.

[St.Clair]

I'd like to elucidate that, to day, I've gotten only one private message from Cornelius; that message contained only a generic question about the literary-stylistic ability of it's primary audience.

Do your fantastic word-smithing skills include ignorance, or deliberate misuse, of the common apostrophe?

[Is it cold in here?]

myth that people would just stop working when they get an income for doing nothing

Producion staying incentate sans nonproducion disincentive.

I am having trouble understanding that. Could you please rephrase?

[cesium133]

[Is it cold in here?]

Global Moderator Comment

I am getting uncomfortable with the temperature here.

[Gyrre]

myth that people would just stop working when they get an income for doing nothing

Producion staying incentate sans nonproducion disincentive.

I am having trouble understanding that. Could you please rephrase?

It looks to be a mix of a Latinate (probably Spanish or Portuguese] and English.
Running either through a bad translator program might explain some of this.

[Tova]

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I genuinely admire IICIH? for continuing to treat this poster in good faith. It is what I normally try to do, and failed to do this time.

For the record, I don't think that auto-translation would contort "the message contained a question about my writing style" in quite this way.

"... that message contained only a generic question about the literary-stylistic ability of it's primary audience."

That's all I have to say about that. I won't respond again unless I see a genuine attempt to communicate.

Back on topic: it kinda makes sense that whatever liquid she drank ended up topping up some kind of tear duct reservoir.

[Gyrre]

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I genuinely admire IICIH? for continuing to treat this poster in good faith. It is what I normally try to do, and failed to do this time.

For the record, I don't think that auto-translation would contort "the message contained a question about my writing style" in quite this way.

"... that message contained only a generic question about the literary-stylistic ability of it's primary audience."

That's all I have to say about that. I won't respond again unless I see a genuine attempt to communicate.

Back on topic: it kinda makes sense that whatever liquid she drank ended up topping up some kind of tear duct reservoir.

I suspect this may have already been covered, but would it be safe to drink, or would it be mixed in with whatever else was in there?

[Tova]

Oh, good question.

Let's just say I'd let someone else test that question first. 

[Cornelius]

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I should just like to point out that the private message referred to, was a reply to their message, where I simply asked to speak plainly. The other option was taking offense and reporting that message there and then.
I'll not engage again, until there is some semblance of Grice's maxims being in operation.

Back on topic: it is a good question; what would they actually use? What's more, what would happen to it, going through their system? Temperatures might not be good for some things either.

I'd leave it for someone else to test, as well.

[Dolphin Jack]

I just try unless smelling "unsafe". I probably die so careless.

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I don't understand why did people care so bad about about how TorporChambers style. When I read his posts was fun, even more his stranger posts and now what if he leaves.

[pwhodges]

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Global Moderator Comment

Shaming someone who for reasons we don't know communicates in a way we find hard to follow is not cleverness either.

[Gyrre]

If they choose to leave, maybe they (gender-neutral, singular) will reflect on their decisions here.
If they choose to stay, perhaps they will opt to revert to their (gender-neutral, singular) more coherent initial posts, or continue communicating as they hve been.

Ultimately, it is ToporChambre's choice Jack.

No matter what they choose, 'tickety-boo' is my reply (barring any instances of actual bullying).

EDIT: Forgot the word 'leave' in the first sentence.

[Dolphin Jack]

It's also worry sometimes my posting language in worse. I hope he stays though some not liking his post, because I like his post.

[Cornelius]

Jack, I wouldn't worry about your language skills. Most people here realise there's a diverse, multinational crowd here, and not everyone has the same grasp of written English. We do make allowances for that.

English is not my first language either.

If you're worrying about my reactions to the other poster, let me assure you, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, until their pm to me.

[Gyrre]

It's also worry sometimes my posting language in worse. I hope he stays though some not liking his post, because I like his post.

Your English is understandable.
Bluntly put, some of TorporChambre's more recent posts come across as strings of words picked out of a thesaurus and placed slightly out of order in a passive voice with non-English/non-Anglicized words occasionally being thrown in. I can barely make heads or tails of a lot of it and I collect archaisms as a hobby.

EDIT: Typo fix.
Also, not trying to be mean. Just stating observations.

[Thrudd]

I will only add another nail in preparation to that coffin in that there was more than one private message to the person about a certain fun thread they have now usurped.
It was something to do with not following the rules as explained and then more explicitly explained and then messaged without response before said hijack.

I have given up on the matter for now and will take up the reigns once they have tired of their antics.

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I have taken this long to reply because I just got back to the office since my last posting.
I am part of that unseen crowd of people who are providing needed services to the companies that support the healthcare industry so my schedule is crazy stupid now.
At least I don't have to wear a mask and gloves in my office.

[Pilchard123]

Don't touch your face!

[TorporChambre]

for reasons we don't know communicates in a way we find hard to follow

An my prime goal is faithful translation of ideas from my thoughts (which, naturally, are of my native ``language'') to these. I not for ``cleverness'' compose thus. Now I contort, despite my interpersonal-activity consul's advice to stay mutual ignorance, for here seem personae among my favourites, (Too are some my disfavourites---likely mostly merely proximitily.)

words out of order

English' grammar factors intrasentencial order.

I will only add another nail in preparation to that coffin in that there was more than one private message to the person about a certain fun thread they have now usurped.
It was something to do with not following the rules as explained and then more explicitly explained and then messaged without response before said hijack.

Only two such from you to me private messages were. Of those, one (to which a response from me to you was) expressed delight about some posts, nonunderstanding (stricter---disambiguous---style I since for such threads use) about other posts (indication of which had been requested in that response from me to you; yet such indication I not have); another was merely notifiage of erratum (appropriate corrigendum issued)
Those minely-started threads stayed the prime purpose: recreational consumption of questionable content.

If you're worrying about my reactions to [TorporChambre], let me assure you, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, until their pm to me.

The other option was taking offense and reporting that message there and then.

Of that message what might you take as offense, or violation? Another option:

not engage again

e.g.

until there is some semblance of

Why, flouting perspicacity, chose you Grice'?

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I have taken this long to reply because I just got back to my thoughts' forms being nearer my prior posts' literary style.

I will only add another nail in preparation to that coffin in that there was more than one private message to the person about a certain fun thread they have now usurped.

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I have taken this long to reply because I just got back to the office since my last posting.

[Gyrre]

So some of it is down to grammatical differences.

From the spelling of your user name, I'm guessing either French or a former French colony?
I'm not going to try to guess which one, there's a large margin of error for that.

[JoeCovenant]

You are Yoda, and I claim my $10....