“Please don’t go. The drones need you. They look up to you.” -the dialog you get when you try to quit the game.

Alpha Centauri has some great lines. I still make my WiFi some variation of Planetary Datalink.

Especially when one of the loudest religions actively want to doom the world so that their sky daddy can show everyone else how right they were this whole time…

The ‘they can’t have any of we’ve bought the entire supply’ approach, I see.

The phrase itself doesn’t matter, they are just listening for some indication of human speech at the start of the call.

If nothing is said, then the system believes that it is a machine doing the same thing.

Provided, of course, that their spam system doesn’t just starts playing a recorded message anyway.

Iirc, that’s usually a sign that the robot caller has found a machine on the other end, since most people first respond with some sort of greeting right off the bat.

I ended up buying a collapsible air drying rack and a separate portable washer+spin dryer for my old rental place.

The washer drained into the shower and lived behind the bathroom door once I got some extra hoses for it.

The dryer ended up living in front of the water heater cabinet for the upstairs unit.

The whole kit payed for itself after about 20 weeks with how much the Laundromat was charging.