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Me getting my shoes on at 7:25 only to wait around doing nothing for an hour.

Yeah, when did it become necessary for a comic to be more than that? When I was a kid at the library I’d always immediately go to the comics section to see if there was a Garfield book I hadn’t read yet - they’re great. Comics can have a deep message if the author wants them to, but the idea that they’re required to is kinda ridiculous. They’re just meant to be something to get a little chuckle out of the reader, like a dumb dad joke or a pun.

I mean, yeah, the expectation being subverted is the bigoted parent assumption, which is overdone, but the joke is still funny. And honestly, the fact that we can look at something like this and Immediately assume that the parent isn’t bigoted means that overdoing it is making acceptance the norm in media, at least in spaces like these, which is helpful. The more we depict people being accepting of themselves and their loved ones, the better.

I’m farsighted, so I can only conclude that I spent too much time outdoors as a kid. See Mom!?

I’ve always had multiple copies of my birth certificate. If I’d only had one, I’d have gotten a copy before sending it in with my passport application.

Yeah, but that might make them less reliant on AI! Just where are your priorities, anyway? One might think you don’t agree that more capital is the only goal worth pursuing…

That’s why your therapist said to try. So often people think they’re only trying if they’re succeeding. Just being at the party is a hell of a lot better for gaining social experience than being at home. You’ll fail countless times before you succeed, but it gets easier and easier the longer you do it. Trying just means not giving up, so good on you for continuing.

“Oh no, now we have to give even more taxpayer money to the defense contractors, which I’m sure won’t personally benefit me, one of the people who made sure this war started and continues. No way, I definitely don’t get a cut of the profits for my role in everything.”

Yeah, that’s the point. Push away the scientists to make people dumber, then take advantage of that stupidity by blaming everything on another country to make people more xenophobic. Rinse and repeat until you’ve got a nice, malleable population that won’t put up a fuss when you start another war to get more kickbacks from the defense contractors.

My cat’s certainly was. Switching to wet food with extra water mixed in cleared it up nicely.

I can’t even pee when someone else is in the same public restroom. I can’t imagine trying to do it while someone’s actively touching it.

I pet my cat’s belly kinda like this, though I never grab the scruff. They’ll scratch and bite you, sure, but it’s never hard enough to actually be dangerous; they understand that it’s play time. You just get used to having a few small scrapes on your arm most of the time.

By the time you’re in your mid 20’s you stop caring about how old people are. I hang out with older and younger people alike; who they are as a person is far more important than when they were born. I stopped keeping track of my own age by my late 20’s, and now I have to do quick mental math every time someone asks me how old I am.

Now, I don’t have a weird condition that makes my mental age the equivalent of someone in their 20’s, but I imagine that someone who did would have all the more reason to want to hang out with similar-minded people. The real question that should be asked is why do you think it makes so much of a difference when everyone is well into adulthood, even by self-proclaimed mental age?

I hate it. Drop the “step” you cowards!

My boss asked people with tech skills to chime in about AI, so I made a quick report of a bunch of things that AI sounds like it’d be useful for in my line of work, and why it wouldn’t be, with examples of times when a real human made the same kind of mistake while I’ve been working there, and how much that mistake cost the company. He decided not to pursue AI. You can call it sabotaging the AI strategy, or you can call it helping keep the company from making a major fuckup, take your pick.

Exactly. All these arguments about how “the money would be more useful elsewhere” only serve to confuse people into thinking the government is just making uninformed financial decisions. This isn’t a mistake, they’re doing everything on purpose to make as much money for themselves as they can, and they love how we’re giving them the free out of being able to claim they were just dumb. Everyone who would be convinced that this regime needs to be toppled already believes it; there’s nobody left to be swayed, only confused about the true danger of their enemy.

Community is uncomfortable; when you’re dealing with other people there’s no way to avoid getting mixed up in each others’ emotional states at least a little bit. Even with this comment that you made and I’m now responding to, we’ve given each other a small spot in our emotional space for the day, and it’s our responsibility to at least take that fact into consideration. You don’t have to be nice, but if you want to interact with people, even online, you’ll find more success if you think about their feelings as much as your own.

Eh, I support my local record store. Lady’s just trying to sell good music at fair prices while paying her workers a good wage. I’d hardly call her Petty Bourgeois just because she’s trying to give my community a better option than Amazon for physical media; she’s barely making ends meet at that. Pretty sure I make more money than her just working a normal office job.

Just because it wouldn’t do them well doesn’t mean it won’t still convince our bosses it’d do them cheaper.

My mom fell for internet scams that convinced her to treat her cancer with “vibration therapy” before AI was a thing. I can’t imagine how much more common shit like that is now.