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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)
TheEvilDog:
Not sure what the building requirements are in Northampton, but I'm pretty sure that all buildings providing a service must also have restrooms, even if the occupants of the building don't need them.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 14 Jun 2019, 08:56 ---Not sure what the building requirements are in Northampton, but I'm pretty sure that all buildings providing a service must also have restrooms, even if the occupants of the building don't need them.
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Now that does sound like local government.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 13 Jun 2019, 08:17 ---Forcing a personality patch would be like forcefully brainwashing someone or slicing up their brains. There is a reason we don't do icepick lobotomies anymore.
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And as long as May is under correctional control, I would not believe any claim she had consented to a patch.
Neither would Arrogant Architeuthis, I imagine.
The strip has shown wetware-based intelligences seeking change through therapy. Would patches with informed free consent be the equivalent for silicon-based people? Why have we never seen it happen? Do they prefer talk therapy?
brasca:
--- Quote from: DashaBlade on 13 Jun 2019, 23:49 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Jun 2019, 23:26 ---Nelson has managed to be Employee of the Month so many times because he has held the record for the number of AIs he manages to disabuse of any notion that anyone will give them practical assistance and, instead, that they must learn to accept their lot in life. Maybe he'll be the one to explain it to Roko (much like how O'Malley was the voice of the cynical policeman). Roko is going to get in a lot of trouble for actually offering May practical assistance by bothering people in the Department of Corrections over something that no-one (in power) is even remotely concerned about.
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In my (wildly speculative) headcanon, until it's disproven, Nelson has won Employee of the Month because he's the only one there with a license to practice law, so he's the only one who can actually get anything done. My only reason for thinking this is that it would be hilarious to picture Nelson, attorney-at-law arguing in court.
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Wonder what attorney persona he has.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Jun 2019, 13:52 ---The strip has shown wetware-based intelligences seeking change through therapy. Would patches with informed free consent be the equivalent for silicon-based people? Why have we never seen it happen? Do they prefer talk therapy?
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I suspect that AIs either do talk therapy and support groups like us meat-beings, or maintain that to speed up the process in the outside world, use a cluster.
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