Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3316-3320 (26th - 30th September 2016)
Jakk Frost:
Y'know, they say; "You have to set goals and then strive to reach them, If you want to get ahead in life."
I say (and apparently Brun does too); "I have to set ridiculously unobtainable goals just to be able to get out of bed every morning to get to the mediocre in life."
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 27 Sep 2016, 18:17 ---The jam is moldy in the kitchen and the rolling rabbit gathers no moss
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Prepare for Operation Plan Code Two One Four.
Zebediah:
"No! Not Two-One-Four!"
"Are you questioning me?"
"Um - no ma'am."
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Sep 2016, 23:23 ---We have no idea what Bubbles's rank was, do we?
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None at all. I think she's got the NCO vibe about her, and an obvious keen tactical sense, but there might be issues with placing human soldiers under the command of an AI. Regardless of their talents, I imagine units of AIs would be placed under human officers, much as the officers of the 54th Massachusetts all "had" to be white.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Sep 2016, 23:14 ---Something tells me that filling out a standardised DHHS form would be something for which Brun would have a natural aptitude. After all, if there is one thing she's good at, it is understanding and communicating things that are true as opposed to not true.
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Eh, the trouble is that Brun takes a brutally honest stance on things she does. It's likely that what she put down is 100% true to the best of her knowledge. That's not how the government operates, especially social services. Since they are chronically and tragically underfunded, trying to get help is more like a dance where your partner is doing their best to make sure you fall on your face without being to obvious about it. It's dancing around with enough truth so they can't call you on facts and deny your claim while at the same time jumping through the hoops and avoiding pitfalls they throw in your way to reduce your assistance, deny it completely or get you so frustrated you give up.
I don't blame the workers at these places most of the time. It's a difficult, stressful job being caught between helping people who are in desperate circumstances and your employers who want to keep slashing your budget. It's just that the system is stacked against you. And I've found being 100% honest tends to make it easy to get disqualified from personal experience.
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