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which makes one grateful for citation styles that contracts the 90 references into one, instead of doing stuff like

this.

According to ART's research in Artificial Condition, the Ganaka Pit incident resulted in 57 casualties, total.

Ten SecUnits deployed and an unknown number of hauler bots and other independently mobile pieces of mining equipment ran amok, crashing recklessly into anything in their paths. The number noted in Murderbot's logs was not its personal kill count. It can't be.

Maybe it controlled itself enough to attack primarily other SecUnits and equipment and didn't kill any humans. Maybe it attacked to wound. Maybe it killed one client, or two, or three, or maybe any kills it made were made in conjunction with other SecUnits and bots through the accumulation of damage. Maybe it killed all four ComfortUnits. We don't know. It doesn't know.

But it blames itself for 57 client deaths.

Because it's supposed to save them. All of them. All the time. If a human dies anywhere near it, that death is its fault for not being fast enough, smart enough, strong enough, deadly enough, good enough at its job. If it doesn't save you, in Murderbot's ruthless self-reckoning, that's the same as if it killed you itself.

Navajo Relief Fund: http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nrf_index

Navajo Water Project: https://www.navajowaterproject.org/

book 4 vs. book 7

I just saw the news that the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY is facing foreclosure after a group of donors failed to produce about $30 million USD that they had promised.

The museum is run by the Paleontological Research Institution, whose collection has about 7 million fossil specimens—one of the largest in the US—and is one of only a few natural history museums in upstate NY. PRI runs both the Museum and the Cayuga Nature Center, which is also dealing with the budget shortfall.

The organization is working on restructuring (namely downsizing) to improve their financial sustainability but they still need funds, and one thing they've said could help is if people shop at their store!

The foreclosure news broke like two days ago and their shop is already selling fast (testament to how many people want them to survive!) but there are a few items left in stock, including some prehistoric plushies. If you want to make a purchase to help maybe keep them afloat, their online gift shop is here and is honestly extremely reasonably priced.

so how about a FOOT LONG TULLY MONSTER

OR A DUNKLEOSTEUS

OR SOME

TRILOBITE SLIPPERS

They've also got some books, shirts, toys, etc. and I'm sure those sales numbers will help the authors/artists as well.

It states what it is -- the function its supposed to serve. It states the fact that it's theirs, that it's meant to serve them, owned by them if only for the remainder of the contract -- that it's owned at all. It feel like "I'm your smart fridge". This "I" feels like mockery together with the words that identify it as an appliance, as their appliance. "I" is supposed to mean the person speaking, but these aren't the words of the person saying them.