your opinion has been noted

[rushthatspeaks]

Scene: a bedroom, containing FOX (extremely awake, as they are every morning at five-thirty), RUTH (awake, but at what cost) and ME (going to bed, dammit).

Fox and I are sitting on the bed as Ruth gets dressed, which at this hour takes place in slow motion. Fox has located Ruth's iPhone, which was basically under the pillow as it is also the alarm clock, and is randomly poking at buttons, as both Ruth and I keep an eye out to make sure they do not do anything too irreversible. They manage to turn on the flashlight and open Safari, but not to load any webpages.

ME: I wonder at what age we should get them their own phone?

RUTH: Clearly, not yet.

ME: Probably at the age where they start needing it to schedule things?

RUTH: That sounds about right.

ME: But I think their first phone should have really limited data and maybe only call like two or three numbers--

SIRI, sounding displeased: I OBJECT TO CATEGORIES BASED ON SUCH ARBITRARY GENERALIZATIONS

FOX: ??? why has everybody doubled over laughing ???

ME: Siri, that was creepy.

RUTH: Siri, that was hilarious.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Wow!! How did Siri say that?! What input prompts that response?

[rushthatspeaks]

I have no idea! There was the conversation quoted, and Fox was poking at random buttons and making occasional noises. Not sure exactly what got Siri paying attention at all, let alone the specific response.

[ckd]

Holding down the home button for a few seconds will trigger Siri (unless disabled), and that seems like something Fox could easily do.

[rushthatspeaks]

That makes sense-- that is definitely something Fox could do. The content of Siri's reply is... what it is, and I continue to be amused by it.

[ckd]

Yeah, that both stumps and amuses me as well.

[davidgillon]

I needed that laugh!

[larryhammer]

Ha!

(FWIW, we let TBD have their own phone at 3, which since it's Janni's old iPhone without a SIM card, is basically a mini iPad -- it can WiFi but not call or use data. Its main uses are screen time if we are out and about during the usual Quiet Time (via downloads from Netflix), educational games, and Facetiming grandma.)

[jesse_the_k]

My goodness. I didn't realize Siri was a post-modernist.

[wild_irises]

This.

[amaebi]

<3

[hobbitbabe]

That's fabulous.

[skygiants]

I look forward to the ongoing adventures of A Child And Their Post-Structuralist Robot.

[nineweaving]

Glorious!

Nine

[amaebi]

Wow!