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“A whack?” Tanis asked. “Is that a medical term?” “Yeah,” the man chuckled. “Right above a touch, but not quite a shit-load.”
<Humans do it, too. Your populations have all sorts of traits and abilities that only get used in particular situations, be those climatological, biological, or of your own design. The genetic oddity of one generation is the saving grace of the next. AI learned early on that we needed that diversity, too, yet we have no natural facility for it—unlike yours, which your species developed over a million years.>
“Engineers and bios have to deal with a lot of stuff that can go wrong. We have a large store of expletives to help maintain our mental health.”
“Dad humor is one of the seven natural states of matter. Without it, the universe would not exist as we know it.”
With the exception of primordial black holes, the universe abhorred and destroyed anything that attempted persistence.
