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> I'm surprised by the negative comments here so far that sound more indignant or "called out" than anything else.

I'm not.

This forum is dominated by people who write software for, and are addicted to, fondle slabs.



Fondle Slabs gets my vote!!


love "fondle slabs". I've been going with "slave phones"


My partner and I have been calling them "fun boxes", as in, "Hey, I just started to poop but I forgot to bring my fun box, can you grab it for me?".

I started it maybe a couple of years ago. Was aiming to give myself a verbal reminder of their skinner box nature every time I mentioned them while keeping a fig leaf veneer of comfortability so I didn't have to explain if someone else overheard. Maybe didn't go hard enough with it; about a year ago it came up that my partner had been taking the name at face value and didn't ascribe anything sinister to it.


"Babylon rectangles"


"Adult pacifier"




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