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Tornado Kit AI

Silentpoisen asks an AI to build his family's tornado-alley emergency kit and gets a full checklist back with total, unearned confidence. He spends the episode finding out exactly what that confident-sounding list quietly got wrong.

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Item 8 on the AI's list: an emergency whistle. Magpie wants to know the actual threat model.

"Photo-grafs" (printed backup photos) becomes a whole bit about a word he hasn't said out loud in years.

A water purification dosage from the AI doesn't match the number on the actual product label.

The AI never asks about pets, medication, or the…

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