Kicking Ice Under The Fridge
On defiance.
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I don’t code, but I know algorithms. I was raised with many. Most notably, “Don’t do X, or Y will happen.” You remember it well, I’m sure. Don’t run with scissors, you’ll poke your eye out, don’t open an umbrella in the house, it’s bad luck, don’t cut the crusts off, it’s where the “vitamins are,” and so forth. Are we not simply a generation of people raised by threats? Heaven forbid I got caught kicking an errant ice cube under the fridge, like a human being, instead of picking it up and putting it in the sink to melt into memory. Then you’d really get a show.