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4 days agoEarly Gen X here, been on line since 1992.
I’ve had the interwebthingies change so many bad ways of thinking of mine. And I was (relative to the normal Lemmy/Piefed user) already a pretty lefty liberal. And I used to adore a defending my “point” in a good internet argument.

You would like Blane the Train in the second of King’s _Dark Tower _ series.
He’s sentient hypersonic train (monorail if I remember correctly) left over from a fallen but very advanced society, and our Gang of Merry Heroes must answer his riddles to stop him from jumping his track and killing himself (and our Gang of Merry Heroes).
Edit third book: The Wastelands.