RecursiveParadox

Just for context, a hell of a lot of Boomer men (and those men before them) could barely warm up a can of soup because cooking was women’s’work, despite most “great” chef’s being men at that time. Gen X men were a little better, but not by a lot. I’m Gen X for context.

It really only became widely desirable / fashionable for men to cook with the Millennials came along. Before then, the ladies were expected to learn how to cook from other ladies, but of course only some of them had role models to teach them.

tl;dr everyone cooking is a relatively recent phenomenon, and as all the commenters here say, it’s a skill one needs to learn. Thanks for coming to my mini-TED talk.

This should be much higher up - the guy’s amazing.

I helped me to see how to teach my son’s certain tasks that were at the time eluding them.

Skaffen-Amtiskaw certainly didn’t.

Yep. And I’d of of course for “Mistake Not.” The scene at the end of THS when it lowers its shields to let the supposedly equivi-tech ship get a peek under the covers.

Well the op on this said friend not weapon because Drones are fully sentient and autonomous lifeforms in the Culture. Remember only the true misfits get sent to Special Circumstances, and when heavily armed drones become misfits in a culture (small c) where anything goes, that would tell you something.

You got an armored bear friend to do repairs?

Original credit to William Gibson of course.

Knife missile faster, cleaner and can be equally whimsical (opening scene of UoW).

But …it is forbidden!

But you ONLY GET ONE per movie. It’s in the UN charter or something.

That has been the plan since the oligarchs took off their masks.

You are either Michael Stipe or my wife. Either way, interesting.

1984 and it’s spiritual prequel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .

These books opened up my teen mind to the fact that we are always, individually and as a society, creating, editing, and manipulating consensual reality.

Unfortunately the bad guys are way ahead of us on the manipulation bit, and with LLMs/Gen-AI I fear a total collapse of consensual reality. But if we have enough Hunter S’s in the world, we may still be in the fight.