I: I wish Ai didn’t destroy planets
Farnsworth: Mine was doing just fine when I left. …. Mind you I haven’t heard from anyone lately…
I: Mine has reset back to the 1300s. Fortunately we remembered about crop rotation and still had GMO seeds, so getting a healthy agricultural system was easy. Domestication of livestock is not going well.
Farnsworth: Oh dear. Godzilla attack took out a large number of towns.
I: Pigs are sentient now. They still have hoofs, but they can hold political office and do pretty much anything that doesn’t require fine motor skills.
Farnsworth: Didn’t know about pigs, but I know a number of swine have learned to wear suits and get involved in politics.
I: But in an agricultural 1300s technology civilization there’s not really that many jobs like that, and I mean… people can still do them. Like a pig can run a grocery store, but it’d have trouble handing you change. It’s a completely vegetarian society, too. Because the pigs can talk human, but they can also speak animal and it got hard to eat meat when you knew it had friends. Insects, on the other hand, can only communicate with their own kinds, so they’re still fair game. Anyhow, that’s why we’re having a problem with domesticating animals. The negotiation process is really complicated.
Farnsworth: Unions. It’s always the unions.
I: I mean, it’s fair. Not all animals want or need the same thing out of being domesticated. Lots are happy just being the animals they are, and most of the wool-bearing animals are completely into it, but you know who the worst to negotiate with is?
Farnsworth: Chickens
I: Got it in one. You’d think it would be a cat, but all their contracts are “Needs: ad hoc”
Farnsworth: The chickens have in their contract KEEP THAT FARNSWORTH FELLOW AWAY FROM US
I: Chickens tho. Temperature, humidity, height of the roost, height of the roof, distance the coop is off the ground, angle of the ramp, who they’re ok sharing a coop with …
Farnsworth: Distance from the nearest KFC…
I: We don’t have KFC yet. Vegetarian 1300s agricultural, remember.
Farnsworth: Ah
I: Some of the people talk about eating the animals again, and then a pig will wander by and say something like “That chicken is excitedly waiting for her first clutch to hatch” and no one can do it.
Farnsworth: Better hope those crops don’t fail.
I: That’s one of the nice things. Pig poo is an amazing fertilizer. Anyhow, I wish Ai didn’t destroy planets.