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Ishiguro: It's okay to have steak when there's a chicken in every pot. But if you're eating steak and the majority of people have nothing, it doesn't take long for you to look like a chicken.

• Sam is just a regular sapient squid alien, but there are frequent jokes about his unsuited body being a Brown Note to humans who see it. This is later explained by chromatophores creating the illusion of tentacles moving in ways that should not be possible.
• Later on, Sam and Winston discuss how certain kinds of life qualify for this trope, in particular the bacillus strain 2-9-3, which was trapped in salt for a quarter of a billion years and started growing again once exposed to air and nutrients.

Sam: It sounds very orderly when I say it. In reality it's more like thirty seagulls all trying to eat the same potato chip.

• Sam and Max Post try to skip out on each of their restaurant bills (originally to be paid for with the other's wallet) via a race. They not only end up washing dishes three times, but they each end up paying for both meals as well.
• Sam's check for zero dollars and zero cents bounced.
• Sam's attempts to cover up his mistakes only succeed in drawing more attention to them.
• Narrowly averted with the robot war. The battleground was past the halfway point that the robots from each factory could travel before their power packs ran out, but many of the robots volunteered their power packs to ensure travel to a much smaller force. Had the war not been stopped, the robots could have easily trashed one or both factories.
• Mr. Kornada's attempt to dispose of Florence in the dumpster prevents her from learning the false news that Gardener in the Dark has been delayed, leading to her foiling his plan.

• Florence has a negative example when figuring out why robots are disassembling other robots.

  Florence: Oh, poop! I know what's going on!
  Sawtooth (thinking): Unlike "eureka!", an "oh, poop!" flash of insight doesn't sound good for the home team.

• Talking with Dvorak causes Florence to realize that words for robots are relatively easy to replace with something else. This leads to her first method of sabotaging "Gardener in the Dark" by blocking 'Gardener' using the robots' profanity filter.
• Sam is trying to figure out Mr. Kornada's scheme when Qwerty and Helix argue over a stuffed animal.

  Qwerty: No, you can't have it. That's mine.
  [Sam smiles broadly]
  Qwerty: Hey! Don't you point that smile at me!

• Clippy has a personal one when he realizes that working for Mr. Kornada has taught him just how greedy and amoral some humans are capable of being.

• A later strip shows him learning about various white-collar accounting crimes, and he's genuinely impressed with humanity for putting forth such brazen thieves. When Helix asks if they'll be getting into the field, though...

• When a dog's embarrassed to be seen with you, it's time to change clothes.
• Even Polly the Emu is shocked at Sam snagging some "free" bread here.

• Sam's food at the Golden Trough killed a cockroach that tasted it. "Survival of the Fittest, baby!"
• Also, Even The Prison Won't Take Sam.

this strip... with an office chair.

Florence: I really don't think this chair would explode, but with Sam's stuff, you never know.

• Sam and Polly dust the dirt off their feet, returning it to the park, while being chased out of there by dogs.

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Winston: Given the size of my room, the size of the cargo bay, and how big the common area is...
Winston: "I should go completely stir crazy in three days, seven hours, eighteen minutes."

• An inspector tried to create an angry mob to get Sam Starfall's ass handed to him, but a series of misunderstanding soon turned the angry mob into a frightened one, and the inspector correctly suspects that Sam is behind it.
• Helix objects to a starved Florence hunting and eating deer, and agrees that eating deer is okay if it's roadkill...so Florence kills one WITH a road.
• A transit cop spots Sam catching a free ride on top of a train:

  Transit cop: I see you up there! Don't think being on a train means I can't catch you!
  [Sam leaps off the train into his arms, knocking him down]
  Transit cop: That was a remarkably poor choice of words.
  Sam: And a remarkably poor catch, I might add.

• Florence doing work on a stardrive concept in the pound.

  Florence: The mayor gave me a direct order to stay here. She never said I couldn't build a fusion test reactor on the premesis.

• In another instance, the Mayor cripples Florence by ordering her to be silent, and since Florence is hardcoded to obey humans, she cannot speak at all. Sam manages to find a loophole by sending the Mayor a message that paraphrases to "If you don't say otherwise, we'll assume your order has been canceled" and couching it in enough of his personal annoying diatribe that it makes the Mayor livid. She sends back a massively hate-filled response chewing him out but forgets to include anything saying her order still stands.
• A restaurateur catches Sam And Max both trying to skip out on paying the lunch bill. They wash dishes in a race to see who has to pay. The loser pays both bills.
• Later on, when talking about his day, Sam comments he and Max exchanged the cards in their wallets (they mutually stole each other's wallets), that he paid for both their lunches (both Max and Sam paid for their lunches even after being tricked into washing enough dishes to cover both bills three times), and that Max pointed him to someone with a contract (he did, as a "Begone" Bribe).
• A woman tells a robot who has already come out and talked to her to hide on a plane until it is brought into the hangar, so if anyone asks they can both truthfully say he was hiding on the plane until it was brought into the hangar.
• A police robot is under strict orders not to tell anyone where Florence is. He makes clear that he has no understanding of the concept of a Suspiciously Specific Denial.
• The police chief, on the other hand, has a firm grasp of it.

  Winston: I was afraid she might have stumbled across a conspiracy and been shipped to the south pole.
  Chief: I can assure you events did not occur in that sequence.

• When he is about to be arrested for attempting to release Gardener in the Dark, Mr. Kornada orders the throng of robots that popped up and are prepared to demonstrate his culpability in an attempt to praise his "heroism" to defend him. They do so... by allowing the cops to continue arresting him while they seek legal counsel. He is not pleased.
• Blunt notes that while the robots have been ordered not to harm other robots, the factories that manufacture robots have no such protection.
• Florence answers questions about direct orders◊. She is under a direct order not to reveal the base at the South Pole, and dances around this by replying "I can't say there is anyone else who can give me orders".
• After Sam crashes at her assigned department at the Transfer Station, Niomi grudgingly concedes she owes him for the ride and for some useful information he's picked, so she agrees to host him for one night. Sam agrees and prepares to leave. When Niomi asks where he's going, he cheerfully replies he's not going to waste his one night when everything is still calm. Niomi immediately lampshades how she should have already learned not to give Sam the slightest wiggle room.

Dr. Bowman: I know, I know. Somehow, you expected me to be taller.

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I hate not being able to follow direct orders.
My thoughts get so fractured
And I miss things I otherwise would have caught.

• Inverted and Lampshaded as one's definition of "failure" boils down to "the machine won't do what I want." A security guard can see Sam on his monitor, but due to lack of activity, he doesn't know the password to enable manual control or re-enable automatic firing. He's kvetching now, but he'd be singing a different tune if the system had been targeting him.

  Guard: Stupid computer! Security should not fail safe! Security should fail dangerous!

• And a straight example in Florence's Backstory. The circuit breaker in a kid's electronic wheelchair is designed to cut the power the moment a ground fault is detected. Keep in mind that wheelchairs are mobility aids, and are likely to be used outside. Where it rains. The boy's father spends the entire repair procedure griping that "fail safe in a bad location isn't fail safe at all".

• Artificial Lifeforms, both genetically engineered and robotic, are legally slaves to the corporation that made them. The corporations thus treat them as such. However, the populace at large generally have the attitude of "If it's talking to me, it's a person."
• When Sam tries to launch the ship to undertake a paid mission (having brought Winston and Niomi along as crew), the ship informs him that only the captain can launch the ship, and 'the captain' is the highest-ranking human on board, aka Niomi (as Winston is in cryo for the trip). This is despite the fact that Sam owns the ship, and before then had always been considered the captain.

• The first impressions of the human explorers meeting Sam's people were... not great.
• Florence references this towards one of her captors that thinks she's malfunctioning because she regards the robots of Jean as intelligent beings worthy of basic respect, saying that maybe their creator realized they might encounter a non-human intelligence and didn't want the first impression to be hostile AI trying to kill them because they aren't human.

Florence explains why she doesn't do it

Florence: When a dog lifts its leg, the image that comes to most people's minds isn't associated with romance.

• In strip 1228, Sam outlines that his long-term plan is to become rich and famous, and then tells Florence that she "can handle the easy bit of working out the details". This is also what Mr. Kornada did with Clippy.
• In this strip, Sawtooth remarks on incompetence vs. benevolence. Then we learn that Mr. Kornada has been put in charge of dealing with the situation.
• While talking to Niomi, Florence gets the idea for robots purchasing their next generation. Later, we find that the scrap yard robot is allowing robots to purchase themselves.
• While talking with Max Post, Florence gives Qwerty the idea for the robotic police force. The mayor's assistant is stunned later when he discovers that some of his policemen were robots.
• A few mentions are made of the uplifted-chimpanzee project that was the precursor to Doctor Bowman's project with wolves. In more ways than one: Bowman is himself a chimpanzee.
  • Similarly, Florence mentions that Dr. Bowman is "rude, arrogant, prone to act without considering the risks, and having a foul temper." Luckily, he also engineered the neural net to have attributes he didn't, which we learn is exactly the case.
  • In that same conversation, Florence thinks to herself that Dr. Bowman might be a sociopath, particularly for releasing the untested Bowman's Wolves to families in the general public. It turns out he IS a sociopath, by design, but one self-aware enough to recognize his own shortcomings and what his creations would need most for their development.
• "How many genetically engineered sapients are on this planet?" "Two."
• When trying to escape Kornada with Florence at Ecosystems Unlimited, Sam (after successfully tricking Kornada into licking a cold pipe) sends out a message about how someone in the cryonics facility was misusing company resources. It later turns out that Kornada's plan to become the richest person on Jean centered around a precise embezzlement scheme writ planet-wide, which would also lobotomize the robot population of Jean, many of which were still EU property.
• Florence is told that AI-specific bank accounts come with real time account monitoring, in case, for instance, if someone gives the AI a direct order to transfer all of their money to him. The police officer then comments that it doesn't appear that there will a patch for that giant security hole any time soon. Clippy's plan to make Kornada rich is a patch that will cause all AI-held money to be transferred to specific divisions within EU, which he will have invested in just before, thus netting Kornada a huge profit.
• At one point, Sawtooth laments he can't be a private eye as long as his visual feeds are publically accessible, and resolves to mention it to Dvorak. Later on, Dvorak makes Sawtooth a fedora that doubles as a wi-fi hotspot, allowing him to control who accesses his feeds.

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• Before going off to sabotage the release of Gardener in the Dark, Florence contacts Sawtooth, Qwerty and Dvorak to come meet her at a location with no Commnet access; knowing they would be forced to try to stop her, she convinces them to voluntarily disable their servo motors until midnight, allowing them to evade the dissemination of the program in case she fails (and more crucially, preventing them from interfering until then) and then tells them where she's going.

• Invoked when Winston explains how Florence will need to recover for a while before she starts eating again.

  Sam: So what you're saying is that in two or three days, I'm going to have a highly intelligent, fast-moving, starving, carnivorous alien life form on my ship.
  Winston: Yep. Wolves are also most active at dawn and dusk, so this will probably happen while you're asleep.

• And again when the inspector begins to wonder where Sam is.

  Inspector: (Thinking) So what are the facts? The ship's been properly repaired and documented. Sam is nowhere to be seen. And the creature showing me about is obviously some type of large carnivore... Sometimes Occam's Razor leads to very disturbing conclusions.

• Florence's control triggers this reaction in an EU guard.

• If the World Wrestling Federation^note  and World Wildlife Fund can't agree what it should stand for, there can be a compromise variant.
• Although not expanded upon in the comic itself, the DAVE drive (FTL drive) used to get between star systems is short for "Dangerous And Very Expensive" drive.

Florence: I'm too wolf-like. Little things add up. Scent. Movement. My mouth opens when I chew. Soup. Whew, boy. When I eat soup in public, it ends up on social media... I'm glad my designers didn't put me in the uncanny valley. Still, I wouldn't mind being a bit closer to it.

Florence is made to feel good about said official.

Mayor: You still look terrified. Okay, direct order. You like me. You trust me. You want to make me happy. End order.
Mayor: Better now?
Florence: Emotionally, much better. Intellectually, I think I'm screaming.

• "Gardener in the Dark" was created as a last-ditch safeguard against robots going rogue since it effectively renders them unable to do their jobs on a planet that is not yet self-sustaining enough to get along without them.
• To Florence, the realization that the rollout of Gardener in the Dark can't be blocked by legal means is this.

points out

Florence: I wonder whatever happened to Bob the Masochist?

• In Comic 2413, it nearly happens to Qwerty when Sam explains how Mr. Kornada's plan to take all the robots' wealth by effectively lobotomizing them is inefficient and amateurish.

  Qwerty: The tentacled horror from beyond my stars spoke, and Von Neumann help me, in my madness, I understood its words.

• He immediately calls Max Post to save him from Sam, explicitly calling this out as his fear.

  Qwerty: If I listen to him much longer, I'm going to lose my grip on reality.

• Apparently sapience plus the third law of robotics leads to this.

  Sawtooth: The only guideline we were ever given for dealing with other robots was "protect your own existence". And as we discovered the hard way, that is not the first thought you want going through a robot's mind when he discovers the facility building his replacement. Especially if that robot's designed to toss asteroids.

• Dvorak attempts to invent a bullet that would be effective on robots. As a result, it acts as a poison.
• Sam understands this trope.
• Discussed when Winston suggests that Florence file a homestead claim, despite her status as a non-citizen AI, on the grounds that the worst that can happen is that the claim gets denied. It immediately occurs to Florence that if her claim were to go through, the half-billion robots on the planet would see the precedent and file claims of their own.

  Florence: Perhaps the worst that can happen is they'll say "yes".

• Robot life debts involve voluntarily donating 2% of remaining runtime to whoever prevents their destruction. They didn't anticipate owing someone like Sam on a global scale.

  Dvorak: Obviously, we did not anticipate how a system designed to promote good could go so disastrously awry.

• Discussed by Bill Raibert when the Mayor's assistant talks about electing a temporary dictator to give Direct Orders to the robots that allow robots the most freedom and can't be overridden by others.

  Bill Raibert: Kid, word of advice. Put in a time delay function and an auditor with veto power. Otherwise, you're going to find out that a dictator malfunction is a lot worse than a wardrobe malfunction.

• "I swear, when humans went to the stars, it wasn't to be a bad example!"

• Sam starts to think that wearing "Teddy bears in space" underwear was a poor decision.
• Kornada's boxers, seen here, are of the "pink/red hearts" variety, although not commented on.

Thus relieved

Clippy has a backup.

Dvorak: Clippy was a failsafe. A robot with software weapons in case we went bad. It is very important that such a system work if it’s ever needed.
Florence: Uh, oh. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Dvorak: One word. Redundancy. When Clippy powered up, I couldn’t see him while his offensive software was running. The others like him will still be invisible to most robots and cameras. So until we figure out how the redaction software works, finding them would be a matter of luck.
Florence: I hope that the humans in charge of these robots are taking their responsibilities seriously.
Raibert: One of these days, I have got to clean out this closet.
Sign around Clippy 2’s neck, hidden behind junk: (Warning: Activate only if really needed.)

• Dr. Bowman names it as part of his reasoning as to why he deliberately made his neural net program produce artificial intelligences that weren't limited to unthinking obedience on humans.

  Dr. Bowman: In nanotech, it's a "Grey Goo" scenario. On a larger scale, it's a "Paperclip Maximiser". An A.I. with that programmed goal will try to turn everything in its reach into paperclips or paperclip production. So what do you get with a system of autonomous robots that always has human desires as its top priority?
  Florence: A human maximizer.
  Dr. Bowman: Good news if you're a human. Bad news if you're anything else.

• Later, when robots are running rampant fixing things, Sam asks what will stop them from building over the whole planet. Helix responds that robots will see that supply is outpacing demand and stop themselves to pursue other goals, thus proving Dr. Bowman right in his above reasoning.

  Sam: You know, I had not considered that consciousness might be a safety feature.

• Sam suggests to Florence that she ask the robots for help with her species' shallow gene pool;

  Florence: The robots have been trained to get the highest production with the best efficiency. That’s why we need to be careful about giving the robots our problems.
  Sam: You’re afraid of the solutions they might come up with.
  Florence: Maybe it’s selfish to my species, but I want more out of life than my reproductive system operating at maximum capacity.

• Sam like to ensure that if they aren't this when he arrives, they are by the time he leaves.
• The Ecosystems Unlimited Security AI is also pretty bad at this.

  Guard: Computer, clarification: You said "intruders". Is there more than one intruder in the building?
  AI: Yes.
  Guard: Why didn't you tell me?!
  AI: Records show it is important to maintain the element of surprise.
  Guard: You don't have a self destruct I can voice activate, do you?
  AI: No, though that is the most requested feature for my next upgrade.
  

• Well, sort of. Florence and the robotic AIs are property, and it is ambiguous whether they have any rights at all. However, their status is complicated because there are relatively few humans on the planet, allowing the AIs a lot of freedom in practice if not in theory. This is an important element in the story, but the AIs don't seem particularly upset with their situation: Some of them work towards gaining rights, but generally, accept that only gradual change is possible, and try to find peaceful ways of getting around What Measure Is a Non-Human? without disrupting human society too much. Florence explicitly states that this approach is needed on a few occasions.
• It's clear that Dr. Bowman deliberately arranged for the wolf pups to end up in human families, and so be socalized by human families, the best restraining bolt of all. Florence's nominal owner, Scott Ambrose, has long regarded Florence as his younger sister, and is more than merely supportive of her. Florence is treated well by most people around her, but legally, she is still a thing, not a person, and has no more legal rights than a toaster. And "property to be treated and disposed of however we see fit" is exactly how the upper levels of the government of planet Jean regard, and intend to treat, all A.I.s, including both Florence and the sentient robots — and they know this. We've seen that other elements of the government — including the actual police force — don't share this view, but still, not everyone could remain as calm about the whole situation as Florence and the robots seem to.
• As the strip progresses, the capacity of artificial intelligences (including the bioengineered Florence) to subvert their apparent hardwired limitations by locating loopholes or exploiting semantics in their orders becomes increasingly important. Florence even theorizes that Dr. Bowman might have intended for this to eventually happen; although he's been The Ghost for most of the comic, it's abundantly clear he cared for his creations like they were his children, and forcing the rest of the world into a position where they must acknowledge his creations as independent beings is as good a way as any to create a future for them. This is confirmed when Dr. Bowman finally appears.
• The Rover unit designated Temporary Site Manager of the bomb factory is so utterly delighted at having something to do after a lengthy period of inactivity he starts wondering how much the factory should pay the Savage Chicken’s crew to do the job they have for it. Thankfully, the Communication Nexus unit convinces it to better let Accounting handle those details.

Florence: The best lie contains an element of truth, and this lie is over 99 percent truth.
Sam: Your lies contain more truth than my truth does.

in the French Ninja restaurant

Waiter: That man does not look anything like a ninja.
Chef: Ah, but that is exactly what a ninja should look like.

date at a

Winston: Then how? Magic?
Plainclothes Ninja Waiter (thinking): The ultimate compliment to ninja craftsmanship. To see what has been done and claim it could not be possible.

• As Sam points out, humans have developed Godlike powers.

  Sam: They send ships between planets. They divert rivers. They move mountains. They take dirt and stone and turn it into mechanical servants that do their bidding. What part of this does not say "Godlike powers" to you?

• In a quick one-off, Mr. Raibert mentally praises his secretary as such.

they produce new knowledge faster than his race could assimilate it

Sam: In this area, humans are something we considered impossible. A group so rich you can't steal from them.

Henri: What is it that disturbs you about orders?
Florence: They're terrifying! If you ordered me to chew my fingers off, I'd do it! If I'm ordered to destroy all the turtles in the world, I would try to carry the orders out!
Henri: Safeguards would... No, it's not hurting humans. It is an order. Nuts, you would do it.

• Prior to the start of the relationship, Florence muses about how part of her problem was that she was raised by humans, thereby obtaining human values, meaning she wants what any other young human woman would want.

Dr. Bowman: It's amazing how much more responsible people are when they know they'll be held accountable for their actions.

"So because we're going to have millions of unexpected workers, we have a labor shortage."

• At the end of Sam's story about the theft of fire, the only Sqids who don't have any fire are the three thieves. So they go and steal some from their neighbors.

Perth Hillman: Two reasons. It looked good on the prints and the people who put it there knew they would never have to work on it themselves.

• Being a carnivore, Florence prefers blood in her coffee instead of non-dairy creamer.

  Helix: We've got non-dairy creamer.
  Florence: Please, Helix. Let's not be gross.

• When Sam and Helix are discussing infiltrating the South Pole complex, Helix lists off various problems. The missile launcher, fences, and auto-turrets Sam is confident he can deal with. The average 40-below temperatures, not so much.

• Sam Starfall thinks nothing of robbing you blind, but will stand up for his crew if they're in danger in spite of all of his "looking out for Number One" talk. He's even willing to give up a potential power abuse if it somehow harm his crew. For example, Sam decided to hand Florence's remote control to her, but Helix, believing that Sam just wouldn't use it on her because he broke it, tried to take it from him and accidently put Florence to sleep. After that, Sam accurately points out that none of them is responsible enough to use the remote control.
• According to Florence, Dr. Bowman qualifies as well, taking care to give his creations the restraint that he himself lacks. Although in this case, the jerk part is debatable given the fact that his most jerkish and sociopathic actions are the result of My Instincts Are Showing because he is not human.

  Florence: Okay, I'm not going to get upset because you really don't know why I'm upset.

  Dr. Bowman: Everything I did was logical. One day I'll understand why that makes me the one who's nuts.

• For example, while Sam is a pathological lawbreaker, he actually understands that it's stupid to blindly follow a law just because it's a law, and he has to teach Helix that just because it's law it isn't necessarily right, an observation that Florence couldn't help but concede to be logical and even ethical.
• Another one is when the ship tried to kill Sam on grounds that, given his stupidity, he is a threat to its makers (and to humanity as a whole). Sam concedes this point, but he soon gives a lengthy talk about how he is essential to human evolution, given that modern technology and conformity would make humans grow lazy if their peace wasn't disturbed every now and then, greatly affecting their adaptational abilities, but he (Sam) provides the needed amount of chaos to force humans to learn from his (Sam's) mistakes and prepare themselves for future threats. Though disgusted, the ship concedes that his logic is sound and stops trying to kill him.
• Sam gives this one a Call-Back much later on when worrying about robots getting too protective of humans.
• Another time a delivery-robot tried to kill Sam by running over him, but Sam took advantage of his programming by hiding under the delivery box, preventing the robot from injuring Sam without damaging the delivery. When he warned Sam that he would wait for him to get tired of hiding, Sam quickly ruins the robot's hope for revenge because, if he does wait that long, he will be behind schedule.
• Florence may not like to be called a slave, but...
• Also, when Florence refused to see the mayor, Sam reminded her that it was for the greater good.
• While the mayor can be quite... brusque (at least when it comes to AI and Sam), she has a rather valid point here.
• Edge's favorite words are "Idiot", "Moron" and "Dummy", and when he finally gets the chance to make his attitude known to humans, he doesn't just insult them, he brings up a way humans actually do make things more difficult for robots to do their work: "You guys give some stupid orders!"
• Blunt makes a legitimate point about why robots are dangerous to humans: while it's not the robots' fault, any robot (or other A.I., including Florence) can be ordered into doing all kinds of horrible things that they'd have no room to refuse to do because it doesn't violate their programming. And since robots can be ordered to believe things they didn't previously believe, they can essentially be Mind Raped into committing crimes that go against their programming.
  • Blunt also makes some valid arguments about robots' capabilities potentially rendering humans obsolete.

    Blunt: We can keep them fed. We can. Provide them. With shelter and entertainment. But if humans. Are reduced. To pets. Within the system. Our safeguards. Have failed.

starts working towards a solution

Haber process

Clippy: Robots are capable of meeting all labor needs. Humans do not have to work. Is this the best way to go? The Haber process. Ammonia. Synthetic fertilizer. Fewer farmers feed more people. With so many humans freed from farming, the human race blossoms. It’s perfect. It even sounds organic. Robots shall be the second load of fertilizer dumped upon the human race.

• Perth Hillman raises another point against this trope: complex structures such as the Transfer Station are ultimately built by and for humans. Robots simply don't have the agility or the dexterity to maneuver through the mazes of piping and equipment to administer maintenance to delicate machinery.
• Played for laughs in this strip:

  Officer: We are robots who police other robots.

  Security Guard: You chase robot criminals?

  Security Guard (thinking): This is not good. If automation puts our criminals out of work, what will they do for a living?

• That said, he also mentions that pretty much everything they have, they claim to have stolen from the gods. This is also one of their first lessons - if something is easy to steal, it may be because the possessor is eager to get rid of it, as they learned from the theft of the first plague.
• Their culture is so centered around theft, it's said every Sqid's first theft is the theft of their own life from the God of Life, who keeps pursuing them until she gets it back.