Today’s mess: Phish Pflakes, CarboGel Type-8, kale (blended).
Ship time is now 04:00. Now commencing alpha shift.
Advisory: All systems nominal.
Ship time is now 12:00. Now commencing beta shift.
@kenv, as I’m sure you’re aware, the impact of an EIGHT WEEK shutdown on my timelines and margins is absolutely catastrophic. I intend to file for compensation. Just tell me where to send the figure.
Go ahead and message it to me, Arvin. I assure you I will file it with the others.
Others?
There are always others.
This is a forced shutdown, Kenji. The vessel is liable. You cannot simply wave me off.
Arvin, I am genuinely wounded. After all these years, you believe I put you aboard a starship on a handshake? That nowhere in all those terms we agreed upon did I account for the chance this ship might one day have to choose between cooking its passengers and running your fabricators?
So there’s a clause.
Arvin, I respect you too much to pretend that you did NOT read the formwork. You read everything, and you agreed because, like everyone else on this ship, you understand that being cooked alive is not an enjoyable experience.
Well, it was worth a try.
Was it though?
I am, once again, asking that people stop watering my peppers without asking first.
Ask you or peppers?
Yes.
Ship time is now 20:00. Now commencing gamma shift.
@zalmux A question, if you’ll indulge a tired educator. You were trained on records older than any human institution. When you read them… what survives of the people who made them? The grand works, or something else?
There are no records of the people themselves. Only works, once mighty, and despair.
I was afraid of that.
If it is any consolation, Ea-nāṣir persists in infamy.
Are you suggesting that our detractors will outlive us?
The self not seen does not survive. Only the Other endures.
Has anyone told you what a maddening machine you are, Zalmux?
Nevertheless, I persist.