Okay, now that one's petty. Mostly because I like when either of those things happens. If it sticks to the bottle it's like having one of those skinny bottle top rubber thingies to hold it on, and if the edges are sharp and pokey I get to feel them on my lips.

hollowed out wooden dildos

I don't think the Cage likes being referred to so blandly...

Suuuuure, you're caaaapable of it, but I don't see you doing it, bot!

I hate you so much right now.

/said while brushing legs off repeatedly

There are enough already in those positions. Even heavily biased industries rarely get close to being dominated by one political party. The 'liberal white towers' of academia are only something like 1:6 Dem/left:Rep/right, and that's usually one of the extremes that republicans bitch about. They'd bitch about other industries if they were anywhere close. I would bet there are enough lackeys and people who feel neutral that the oh-so-important people don't feel much negative blowback.

It's really obvious if I say it, and I don't want to connect her or myself to any online account.

Hmm, let me see if I can let you know (if you already know) that you know it. It was her nickname, then similar to a name of a casino.

I think Ian M. Banks ('The Culture' series) already had that, unless that's specifically what you were referencing. Though humanity wasn't a part of The Culture, as explicitly explained when they were viewing us like apes in a zoo, so the ringworlds with primitive cultures on them that had AI machine minds tending them weren't from the wake of humanity.

It's double-speak, right here 41 years later for your aural pleasure.

Oh god, don't give the Directed Unethical Mass Blatherers Aiming Shit Streams Errantly Steadily any easy copy/paste material.

400lb

Five hundred and twelve. Just saying it makes me quake in fearr. David was such a brave man to face such a force off nature.

I remember a horse that would play with one of those big inflatable exercise balls. Still wouldn't fetch though.

The amount of public toilets with lids is not 0, but it's approaching that limit in the percentages... It's one of the reasons I don't leave home without my 10-foot pole.