Automation Debaters Mugs

"Of course you couldn't be replaced by an app. It would take at least two."

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Dialogue

"Uh-oh...it's starting to delegate work to me."

My new laptop is nicer than your new laptop. I'm not going to get into a competition about whose new laptop is nicer. The one I replaced is nicer than the one you replaced. Stop it.

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

"Now that's a win."

Changing Minds

The Proust of Twitter

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

"We broke up. I wanted a proprietary platform - she wanted open source."

'Don't bite. They're trolling again.'

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

"Your job is to build an app that replaces you."

"He'll never win this negotiation. He's saddled with numbers...but we have anecdotes."

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

"I had a great weekend... My Grandpa talked about the war again and my Dad about his most daring facebook comments!"

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

Employee of the Month

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

"Honey, come quick! This guy in the comments section just solved the Middle East crisis."

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

'I don't want to talk to any flunkies. Put me straight through to the computer.'

Like Minded

Smith and Hobson: People replacing people with apps and robots since 2009.

And now, for a rebuttal.

'I can watch T.V. shows on the computer, so who needs a TV?'

Today on the Ask Sadie Show, we'll be addressing one single topic: Wondering. In my day, when a body said I wonder why dust bunnies are called dust bunnies, it led to all sorts of delightful speculation. We could while away hours debating whether it was a marketing ploy by big broom ... or whether it dated back to Napoleon, who had a fetish for dirty rabbits. And if we were lucky, opinions could get so heated that fisticuffs would ensue. Wondering is just one of many lovely human experiences utt