[DarkIye]

Yeah, me too. We're paid for the lip service - that's our incentive.

Linus has no incentive, financial or social, to be nice to Kay. Chewing him out, however, probably lowers his blood pressure and saves him the time of refactoring his immediate emotional reaction into a polite response, both of which are probably critical metrics to him.

[chris_wot]

I hope Linus is not that emotionally stunted.

[DarkIye]

If he were emotionally stunted, he would have difficulty expressing his emotions. Evidently, he does not have that problem.