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Teacher of the Year

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30. It will help them find us after they become self-aware.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2026, 04:38 AM

Yesterday

Thank Goodness their analysis of the data was skewed by crappy programming. No, mr self-aware computer, your analogy that 100% of people cannot resist checking an empty box to prove they are human, is not correct. We don't HAVE to check the box, we just had to to get our DU fix.

(sorry for the bad sci fi references... it's late, I"m tired, I think I'm funnier when I'm this tired.

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