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WCDT Strips 3166-3170 (29 February - 4 March 2016)
MrNumbers:
Jeph: "I ship May's parole officer with that cactus"
Ah, cactus, the most tsundere of plants.
Martin:
i wonder if we just met Hank the Dismemberer. Maybe he need an outlet after work ^^
osaka:
I was just thinking that May's been out, what, 7 months? If her chassis is already out of warranty chances are it was already a beat-up chassis before May got hold of it, and they refurbished it to a bare minimum usability and given the shortest warranty period law would allow. Or, in other words, typical public administration work.
Problem is that May should've been at least informed about this. It's her body after all. In a way it's as if you weren't informed about a small tumor until it becomes stage 4 lung cancer. Just a little note, "To whoever it may concern, this thing is falling to pieces so we advise you to get a better body ASAP".
Now would it have helped May in the slightest? Probably not since she does have a bottom tier job, but at least she'd know. And she happened to know a metalworker looking for a job (now working on the skate park) who she could've asked a favor and at least get the body restored to a much more proper condition.
moriastar:
I honestly feel for both sides here. Lets start with Parol Officer. He is here, and probably sees this sort of thing every day. He has probably seen several ex cons go back to crime because they needed what amounted to medical care, but he wasn't allowed to give it. He probably signed up for this job to help get AIs back into society and have them see they can be helpful instead of trouble. He knows the more human an AI looks, the more freaked out humans will be by limbs and skin damage which can do as much harm as having humans be robbed by AIs. Then he gets told he can't do anything, even though a human would get medical help.
Then we have May. She admits she has issues, but has been making an honest effort. Jail obviously traumatized her because she never reported that shop (that we know of) because she was scared even making a wave in the name of whats TRULY right would send her BACK. Keep in mind she is so scared she has made a point at times of loudly saying she wouldn't do anything illegal incase someone was listening in somehow. She has been told by Momo and other AIs that if she plays nice and does what she should, she'd be rewarded in the end. Now admittedly she was already in a bad mood getting "hurt" so bad that morning, and knows she could lose her job if she suddenly can't keep one arm working; but hearing that the body was out of warranty (Probably a donated one) and that they can't/won't fix or replace... it makes her wonder what was the point of playing by the rules instead of trying to be sneakier than last time. I imagine right now the jail trauma is the only thing keeping her from doing anything. I really think that may only last so long, particularly if she loses her job.
Zebediah:
And now you're starting to get the dilemma of life as an ex-con. The deck is stacked against her in the legal economy and her only recourse is the underground economy, and that's likely to get her sent back to jail.
That RL parole officer I said I knew? She knows damned well that the system is rigged against her parolees. She does the best she can for them but that's often not enough.
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