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OOO

I did a little research. The ink sac is indeed attached near to the anus. It's thought to be an evolution of the hypobranchial gland still present in many mollusks, and the mucus-producing funnel gland that it works alongside may have originally been used to trap and excrete dirt particles when breathing through the gills - I guess very similarly to mammalian mucus in the respiratory system. It's used in conjunction with jet propulsion for distribution of the ink.

We're not sure what the use of the melanin that makes ink black was (it's kept it's current form in cephalopods for at least 300 million years) but it may have been a waste product from use in the body for camouflage or adjusting photosensitivity.

You're such pests. In your depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Well, whatever it is you want, I can't deliver because I just don't see it.

One fascinating cultural practice of the Sarmatians is that they would gather together and stand in a line to block off closed roads.

Just move to Portmeiron and you'll get your own canopied penny-farthing.

"Best I can do is a horse that reports crimes"
- Bethesda

Issue #1 or 5? You decide!

This got a bonus chuckle from me.

For sure, but that's exactly what I was doing. OP linked an article, I thought the framing of the Gemini conversation by the author was a strange choice, and I commented on it.

I can't say I've ever felt any particular obligation to only talk about the direct subject of the article (the threatening message) and not the way the article is written, but maybe I could have led into my observation more clearly?

It's a quote from the linked article.

Not to distract from the inappropriate response from the bot, but:

In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults

Read: "during a session where a student copied and pasted their assignment questions one-by-one into Gemini instead of actually answering them himself...

Comparisons here on Wikipedia, sometimes on the linked page.