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Pausing a second to process his relief, Staybehind checked for software updates and patches before letting anyone else wade into nearly six months of accumulated malware. With
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you’d go to sleep as a liberated California resident and wake up slaved as property in America.
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He was especially keen on the old TV series Friends, which he insisted was the first show written entirely by LLM.
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That was my job. Somebody always has to stay behind. It’s how we protect ourselves, by making sure the enemy doesn’t come back. That’s why I took this name. Staybehind.
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It was, she supposed, a way of defying death. Necessities helped people survive, but joyful excess gave them life.
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Still, humans were humans. They wanted you to know their opinions about your body, even if you hadn’t asked.
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Group chat created: Kitchen 4 members: Staybehind, Sweetie, Cayenne, Hands
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human equivalent embodied intelligence” (HEEI) individuals who were granted civil rights after the war. The way Staybehind saw it, if you could talk and feel, then you were a person. Period.
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Thanks. I really don’t want to get sent back to America. Fuck that place. It’s a hellhole run by garbage cans.
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What would it be like to reflect on his days, rather than trying vainly to forget them?
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