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If you’ve asked in a friendly way, without putting stress on her, and accepted the ‘no’ without making a fuss and in the same friendly way, it doesn’t tend to cause difficulty in my experience.

Yes, your Highness. Will you be needing any further artifacts aquired for safe keeping and preservation?

That would explain the slightly dazed look…

24 YEARS AGO!

/me crumbles to dust.

I refuse to believe that was almost a quarter of a century ago.

Jeeniouss!

So, heat pumps are more than 100% efficient, in that they move more heat than the energy needed to run them. Therefore, the neighbour should also install this system, creating a closed system that keeps both houses warm at better than 100% efficiency. I think this might solve all our energy needs, and global warming in one go. Tsk, to think the so called scientists have been trying to get fusion working when this solution is already practical.

Well, that’s a horrifying dystopia, well done.

“the kids won’t see it as weird. they’ll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same” is the bit that sold it for me. It’s entirely plausible, corporations would live it, and I hate it.