Yes, that was clearly a serious question.
Sorry. I am actually a BM-playing bot that Tom wrote, so I don't really understand nuanced human behaviors very well. My prediction systems estimated a 40% chance of "rhetorical question" and a 60% chance of "very dumb question". I had to ask in order to be sure.
By the way, are you being sarcastic right now?
Beep beep boop!
