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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 31 May 2018, 19:00 ---Sooo I just need to vent. Apparently ignorance towards AIs does exist in the real world. I shared the Faye/Bubbles storyline with an online friend and he said some pretty closed minded stuff.
Jeez!
Sorry if this is against the rules to share. I'm just mad. Apparently this kind of ignorance would exist if the QC world was real.
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Bigotry is always here. It would be nice to believe that AIs would be accepted, but I expect instead that there would be a huge backlash against them (They'll take our jobs and do them better! It isn't fair that they don't need food -- that means that they can do our work for lower pay! etc.)
And I'm sorry your online friend was a jerk. That sucks.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 31 May 2018, 19:05 ---
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 31 May 2018, 18:08 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 31 May 2018, 16:38 ---I don't understand money laundering law but it might apply to depositing illegally obtained money into a bank. Faye probably didn't do that.
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Yeah, unfortunately, I do understand money laundering. (I do data science in the financial industry.)
Depositing illegally obtained money in a bank is not money laundering. In fact, I'm not even sure it is a crime: obtaining the money? Yes. Spending it? Nope. Stupid, sometimes, but I can't think of a way that's illegal in and of itself.
Now, ship it out of the country as cash and then try to return it in a form which doesn't look like it was obtained criminally? Yeah, now that is money laundering. Trust me, you don't want to go there.
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Not my field, I don't claim knowledge.
How is what Faye did (if she used her bank account) different from what Piper Kerman did?
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I don't know the details of Kerman's behavior, so I can't speak to that.
(Also, be glad you don't have to know about money laundering. It's extremely important, and incredibly boring. To give you a sense: one of the compliance training suites I had to go through used crates of runner duckies as a key part of describing a hypothetical money laundering scheme. That was the high point of the module.)
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: mgrayson3 on 31 May 2018, 07:53 ---As thrilled as I am by the whole sequence, I desperately want to see Bubbles' mood rebound. It seems to take a huge dive from panels 1 to 3. I assume her inner state is still pegged at panel 1's "happier than I ever expected to be in my life", and hope that her last facial expression is ironic. I just want to see her relaxed and happy with her friends.
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I don't think it's her mood. Her expression in the 3rd panel seems to be her envisioning the "screaming and confetti", and how much she wouldn't like it. She doesn't seem to be too keen on loud parties and celebrations. I can relate... I've made that same expression myself, because I'm not a fan of such things either. I allowed my family to throw me a party when I turned 40 (it's quite an elaborate tradition on every tenth birthday, so I really didn't have much choice), but for the most part, I prefer sitting quietly in the shadows.
fayelovesbubbles:
I'm trying to decide who's worse, Tai or Claire.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 31 May 2018, 21:02 ---I'm trying to decide who's worse, Tai or Claire.
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Not sure who's worse. Tai may be more of a danger to herself. I'm not sure how Bubbles would react if Tai did this to her. Claire is probably a little safer, since Bubbles has a "Claire Threat Evaluation Protocol".
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