"Chasing skirt"? Yeah, nothing makes a woman more wet than having a drone follow her!

Pretty sure military robots are currently used to take out military humans. Don't know what SciFi you are reading where they are used to control the laborers, but it sounds interesting, and I'd like to give it a read.

Depends on the drone. Lightweight plastic drones with ducted rotors probably wouldn't do too much damage. But longer battery life means added weight, so I don't know how useful a harm-free drone would be.

Any of you shoplifters want to buy my EMP device for blinding drones? The drone arms race has begun. I'm also working on a handgun mount for a drone...

Some people would rather have Linux than Windows 11. And some people would rather not pay for a Windows 11 license they aren't going to use.

Thunderbolt would be nicer, but that would make it more expensive. Is there an add-on card for that? Other than running a dedicated kiosk app on it and surfing the web, what are people going to do with these? It would be great for running SSH shells connected to all your servers.

The US government isn't currently participating in a genocide. Give Trump a little time... Is ICE guilty of ethnic cleaning, in the same way that the IDF is?

All the people on the spectrum (by their own admission) that I know overcompensate for it by being the nicest people in the world, although interactions with them can still occasionally be awkward. One of them, the first time I ever saw her, she walked up to me in the company cafeteria and asked if she could have lunch with me. Turns out she was actually on my team, and we later wound up sitting a few desks away from each other. And no, she was married, and I'm not that attractive, so she wasn't hitting on me.

One of my girl friends sent me a wedding invitation. I guess it was her way of announcing she was no longer available, but like I jerk, I actually went to her wedding. Most of her family was in another state and didn't show up, it was almost all the groom's family. So I got to spend some time with the groom, who of course asked me, "Where do you know my bride from"? Well, the truth was that she had been dating me the same she was dating him, but I decided to be a bigger man and just tell him that she was a friend who had let me use her truck when I was in a bind (which was true), and not that I had dated her. I hope they are happy together... but I doubt it. The point is, don't send me an invitation if you don't want me to show up!

When the Taliban has a more progressive stance on abortion than you do... maybe you're on the wrong side of history? Unlike Republicans, the Taliban allows abortion in certain circumstances.

Iranians refer to themselves as Persians, and prefer to be called that. They are rightfully proud of their heritage, the great Persian empire. That being said, half the Iranians I went to college with were decent (read "westernized") people, while the other half were complete dogmatic jerks.

I might have a huge cultural bias here, but if you're idea of politeness consists of lying to people, and then expecting them to argue with you, then your culture sucks. Of course, I am one of those idiots that takes everything literally, and I believe in being blunt about everything as well. How do you train logic to deal with something illogical? (Remember the one question Spock couldn't answer: "How do you feel?" I was rolling on the floor laughing at that, the best line ever in any Star Trek movie. Then I looked around the theater... and nobody else thought it was funny.)

Heck, I'm pretty sure an AI is running slashdot!

Microsoft mice and keyboards are now made by Incase, not Microsoft. I have like the Microsoft mouse and keyboard in the past, but like I said, I'm pretty sure they bought the rights to those designs from someone else. My only problem with Microsoft keyboards have been related to "Pepsi syndrome", i.e. they stop working when you spill champagne on them.

Pretty sure the Holy Bible contains much more interesting hallucinations. The Talmud was originally a compendium of human knowledge, much of it from oral folklore. So a lot of it was based on observation, albeit not on double blind testing.