CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@wdormann allegedly German.
Kugelschreiber is a pen, amongst many other excessive words

but Hans, Poland, ja? was enough to start world war 2

@thursdaybot it's Friday here.
Get with the times!

@autolycos @mcnado it's just stupid deep state paranoia.
"They're out to get us and make money, so they won't let us have the good stuff"

@janneke @minego I think the point was not that animals were automata, but that, for instance, a cat behaves like a cat. There is a tendency to attribute human motivation to animal behaviour.

@minego my zoologist friends at uni were carefully instructed not to anthropomorphise animals. AI is even riskier, as we may start to care about it, and that will definitely be a selling point.

@0xabad1dea have to say, I'm with your husband on this
Less Confucius, more Tao.