The ‘small caps’ really gave it away to me but I wasn’t familiar with which book - thank you! The Death books were always very humanizing in an interesting way, His scenes were always my favourite.

I loved EQ back in the day, but I just can’t deal with the clunkiness any more. Especially since I don’t have time to do more than solo nowadays.

For the same reason robot mops haven’t gotten to be viable in a commercial environment: human slaves are still cheaper than robots.

Autonomous lawn mowers (lawn mower robots) are a thing for about ten years now over here in Germany. I see them everywhere, just silently and slowly rolling around and mowing around the clock.

They are also very efficient in killing hedge hogs and frogs and the likes - humans pushing a lawn mower trend to keep such animals alive whereas the robots simply shred them. They have no device to detect small animals and nobody cares to implement any which says a lot about humankind.