Elysha received an Ember mug for Christmas.
An Ember mug is a temperature-controlled, battery-powered mug designed to keep your beverage at your preferred temperature for an extended period.
Charlie spotted it charging on the counter yesterday.
“So now our mugs are electronic?” he said, sounding outraged. “Really? First the internet, and then AI, and now the mugs? The machines are taking over. We’re doomed!”
He started walking up the stairs when I said, “What about that 3D printer in your room? What about that machine?”
He paused near the stop of the stairs, thought for a minute, then said, “Fair,” before disappearing into his room, apparently accepting his machine-dominated future for the sake of printing plastic trees for his train set.
This is how they get us. One plastic tree at a time.
