“Oh, and by the way, Roy,” the robot said, “while I’m voicing reached conclusions I previously decided against announcing, I should probably inform you your gut fauna levels are currently lower than homeopathically recommended too, so… like- there, just so you know, already.”

Roy shook his head. “And you are scanning me why?”

“Who said I was intentionally scanning you, Roy?”

“You did, Robot.”

“I said no such thing.”

“Okay,” Roy said recognizing the robot’s feeble attempt to come up for air and regain some semblance of the buoyancy it had previously maintained while currying favor with the ‘Universal Consciousness by default’ in their discourse, begging the inherent literality o...

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