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do we have any functioning computers in temba? i'm realizing i've gone a rather long time without a backup and it'd ease my programming to have it backuped up somewhere it'll need a lot of space though it takes a lot of room to fit everything that goes into programming a person

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You sure about this?

no but after a second time through calibrations i'm starting to get worried about what our captors could really do to me. i feel like there's no much other choices right now

I don't blame you.

I have enough replicator rations to help with this, I think.
But we need to seriously consider security before you mirror all of your shit to some drive somewhere.
Now that you've made this post, everyone is going to know that there's a copy of your programming somewhere on the planet.
I don't think I need to explain to you why that's a problem.

tony's made an offer in exchange he gets to look at the blueprints i got the holiday. which is fair, since you've seen them, and i think cal did too. speaking of the blueprints, everyone already knows i have them, and that the agrii can apparently get a hold of them from my timeline. i was told i need to trust humans a little more and if you trusted tony enough to try and help fix me with you, why shouldn't i give him a chance? i can't just keep shutting myself off and hope for the best - it didn't work in detroit like that. i had to get others and we kept each other as safe as we could

_{[He thinks of those two Jerries that Dustin saw in his memory. Of all the other androids from the attack. He had a community there and it was demolished, leaving him so angry, York refused a new one when being brought here. It wouldn't bode well for him in the long run if something did happen.]}

Yeah, I saw.
Saying that I "trust Tony" is a strong way to put it.
I thought he would be able to help in ways that I couldn't, and that the promise of getting to see what your code looked like would be enough to keep him from doing any extra shady shit.
Seeing as it didn't, can't say I trust him at all anymore.
I'm not sure you should, either.

you trusted him enough to help. and i know i said i forgive you, but i think it's ironic that you're telling me not to trust him because of shady shit after what you pulled to get me to go there. hate to rub that salt in the wound but c'mon dustin. what would you propose i do then?

[Dustin is typing...

[...Still typing...]

Point taken.
I wouldn't trust me, either.

Just be careful, okay?
Don't let him manipulate you into something you didn't agree to.

_{[He knows what that typing indicator means. York knows his little jab is probably going to get a paragraph of Dustin defending himself and all that, and York is prepared for it.

What he gets catches him off guard. He wonders if Dustin spent all that time typing just to have that little bit sent.]}

i'll be careful and i've got you and tae to contact if i need help. peter too

_{[Another text comes through, as though 'fixing' what he said.]}

dr tae i should say. she likes her title

Edited (forgot my icon...) 2023-07-29 02:01 (UTC)

[Dustin's feelings are Complicated. Less so about the people York's chosen to help - Peter seems harmless, albeit naïve, and Tae is...well, okay, his feelings are pretty complicated about Tae right now too, bad example. The point is, he's expecting York to twist the knife again and he doesn't, and Dustin isn't sure if he should be worried or relieved about this. He settles for an attempt at levity instead.]

Did she agree to help because you actually call her "Dr. Tae?"
You might be the only one who does that.
I think she's messing with you.

_{[Feelings in general are Complicated. York hasn't entirely figured his own out either.]}

she asked/told me to call her by her title when she was in my dreamscape. makes sense i guess; we're not friends or that socially close. like if we weren't friends or some shit and you told me to call you by your last night i might call you mr silver oh god that was weird don't ever ask me to call you that EVER it was weird just typing it

Agreed.
Makes me sound like I'm thirty or something.
Disgusting.
I think it's an old person flex, then.
Makes sense why Tae prefers it.

you're not? you act like you are sometimes (: also takes a lot of studying and work to be a doctor she's earned the title and the respect that comes with it

I'll take it over being a 30-year-old that acts like a seventeen-year-old.

I know the requirements for becoming a medical professional.
Going through twice as much schooling for a job doesn't mean that you automatically deserve respect for it.
Doctors are still capable of being idiots, or assholes, or both.

[A pause.]

Tae at least doesn't seem like either of those.
Clearing the absolute minimum bar doesn't make someone deserving of respect, either.

it's part of my programming either you deal with it when you talk to me or you don't talk to me humans in general are capable of being assholes no matter what job they do or hobby they have. i could make a dig about you with that and that 'absolute minimum' thing but i won't. i think i've rubbed enough salt in that wound rn she's blunt but she's seems okay she doesn't even know me and she's looking out for me that's gotta count for something

[There's a significant pause before Dustin sends anything; he's pointedly choosing not to react to most of what York has said, because he agrees with a lot of it. Yes, Dustin has met many assholes that do many things, and he recognizes that he's one of them. Yes, he recognizes that he's been a pretty big failure as far as York's concerned recently. Yes, he has to admit that Tae has been surprisingly willing to compromise, and even more so once she actually learned a bit about why Dustin was so stingy with her in the first place.

[But all of these are Big Feelings that Dustin doesn't want to dwell on, so he goes with something simple and vague instead.]

sure

I wasn't talking about you, you know.
I don't even know how old you are.
Or how old you were originally programmed to be.

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