Tell HN: I finished the short story I started as a comment in 2018
Here it is: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Salad.pdf
And here is the comment from 2018 (on an account I lost access to): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18579131 Specialization run amok! I enjoyed it very much, I like these detailed brief vignettes of future possible life. This is hilarious and creepy all at once, 'tip' and options hidden in nested menus was particularly funny. Over time there is no limit to the bizarre social customs we will practice as long as the change is gradual. Would we recognize subtlety in human interactions from 400 years ago if we witnessed them? Asimov in The Robots of Dawn tossed in a curious device, a Spicer it was called. In the future all the spices are locked up in a little machine and elaborate gestures and secret controls are necessary to release them onto the food. It probably looked like some Bop-It! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWIe0pD-AHs ) of the future. Marshall Brain has written a story that imagines the gradualness of slipping into a dystopian future called Manna. It is a good read also ( https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 ). You should sit yourself down and make an anthology of these stories, all short and wildly different, for a book! I like dependency-hell too. It would be funny if nuclear war had broken out while he was trying to make some coffee and he was too focused to notice. Good job. I'd like to see more. Does the world crumble, or does the human spirit falter? Slice of sci-fi life pie is fun, but I always wonder why is this story being told? Is it a cautionary tale, or something that seems obscene to those of us who do not have eyes to see the beauty in it? Is its' heartbeat electric or robotic? Congrats! Just one nitpick: lettuce seems to be misspelled as lattice.