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WCDT Strips 3091 to 3095 (16-20 November 2015)
Neko_Ali:
Going by what Momo and Bubbles have said about it, it sounds like Momo's attitude of "How can you be a soldier? You're setting back human-AI relations!" is something that Bubbles has dealt with a lot from other AIs. To the point where she's sick of it and just assumes anyone who brings up the subject just wants to berate her for the decision to enlist. It certainly does seem that's the case now, rather than a pre-AI Rights Bubbles being assigned to a combat unit.
Is it cold in here?:
Momo's views seem to be evolving. She's being much more open-minded than she would have been in the days when she was chomping at the bit to throw May under the bus and kick the wreckage to the curb. I think she honestly is seeking to understand Bubbles.
Knowing May has been good for her.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Nov 2015, 00:34 ---Momo's views seem to be evolving. She's being much more open-minded than she would have been in the days when she was chomping at the bit to throw May under the bus and kick the wreckage to the curb. I think she honestly is seeking to understand Bubbles.
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It probably helps that Bubbles is a very different personality. She's quiet, dignified and reserved and bears her pain with a certain pride and maturity that Momo could easily define as 'noble'. On the other hand, May is brash, loud and tends to cover her own traumas and sense of bitterness with outrageous behaviour. It's easier to be unsympathetic to someone who cultivates the appearance of an antisocial hooligan.
Although, one wonders if, at some level, Bubbles' reserve and May's abusive behaviour both have the same basic goal: to stop themselves from getting hurt by allowing anyone inside their emotional defences.
swapna:
Really, Momo? Bothering somebody at their place of work? What the hell.
And you want a cookie for saying you're not there to judge?
I mean, yes, that kind of behaviour was there before, but for somebody working for AI rights she treats AI a lot worse than humans. She wouldn't threaten a human with death, and she wouldn't bother a human at work with very personal (and judgemental) questions.
(And yes, asking why somebody went to the military is a personal, private, if-that-person-wants-to-share conversation. Not a public, I-deserve-answers-so-I'm-gonna-bother-you-at-your-job conversation)
Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Nov 2015, 00:34 ---Momo's views seem to be evolving. She's being much more open-minded than she would have been in the days when she was chomping at the bit to throw May under the bus and kick the wreckage to the curb. I think she honestly is seeking to understand Bubbles.
Knowing May has been good for her.
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All that, plus she seems to have great confidence in the effectiveness of Force Cuteness ("Oh Noes, she's using The Face!")
Re: Showing up at Bubbles workplace - I agree that's a big "The good reasons to pull something like that are virtually always a lot less good than you're likely to believe they are. No, a lot less still ...".
However, mitigating circumstance might apply when the neccesity to reach the people in question seems to be great enough and if the people in question don't havea place besides their workplace (cf. 3070 - it actually looks to me like she's staying at the Skating park). AND (humongous 'AND') if you take great care not to let it turn into a "You owe me answers, because [REASONS]" - type of 'intervention' (And what could possibly go wrong with that one?)
And recall that it was May who set her up to it (Friday's comic) - maybe expecting that Momo might get an upgrade to her cheerfull, good-hearted meddlesomeness? Are we in for an arc on AI-intersectionality? #SolidarityIsNotForCombatAis?
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