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WCDT Strips 4026-4030 (17th to 21st June 2019)
TV4Fun:
It's kind of hard for me to swallow a piece of living tech having such a lack of tech-savviness.
Case:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 15 Jun 2019, 10:47 ---The manager is printing King James bibles in English to smuggle into North Korea. He's got tons of 'em because the missionary organizations only want ones printed in Korean. He doesn't pay any attention when someone tells him the copyright is in the public domain because he secretly likes feeling persecuted.
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Another interesting coffee-coloured spray-pattern on my flatscreen, thank you so much Oldgoat!
Case:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 16 Jun 2019, 19:46 ---I've worked with a lot of people like Beepatrice and they are some of the nicest people on the planet.
And the very sad thing is that I have worked with so many people like Beepatrice.
And I have wanted to strangle each and every single one of them.
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It's quite astonishing: Even in a theoretical physics department - i.e. a working environment staffed (almost) exclusively from those nerds too nerdy not to pay them for it - there's an surprising amount of non-functional printers. Accompanied by an unsurprising amount of people adamant about how easily they'd be able to fix this 1980s tech (*), if only they could be bothered to get their planet-sized brains interested in the task (**)(***), of course ... :wink:
#therealTBBT
(*) It takes a very strong ego to admit to technical ineptitude if part of your identity is based on looking down on people with advanced degrees in experimental physics or engineering ...
(**) Senior denizens are familiar with the most elegant way of fixing a printer: Holler for the grad-student, of course!
(***) Actually, most of the offending printers aren't unfunctional so much as very badly configured - or rather: The networks meant to access the printers are. (****)
(****) An obvious consequence of several decades of senior planet-sized brains solving problems by means of 'Hollering for the grad-student' - most of whom will leave the department for a better paying job without leaving a legible documentation of the solutions they implemented ...
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Mordhaus on 16 Jun 2019, 21:32 ---Ok, I get that the comic always does it's best to 'humanize' the ai's, but are you seriously trying to tell me that an AI can't access google (or whatever takes it's place in this universe) and find a video on how to install a cartridge?
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Watching a video doesn't magically confer the ability to do it right.
andrybak:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Jun 2019, 23:26 ---Okay, conspiracy theorist's tin-foil hat firmly on here: I'm starting to think that this robot aid charity is a scam, based on the fact that Beepatrice has absolutely no clue how to actually help May. I'm starting to wonder if the organisation has helped a big fat zero AIs in any practical way and all they do is listen to their clients' 'sob stories' and then hand out leaflets for therapy and support groups that are all about how nothing can be changed. Indeed, it was for this purpose that this largely Federally-funded organisation was originally founded - to give needy AIs the impression someone was going to bat for them when nobody actually was. This would stop them from rocking the economic and political boat too much by working hard to change things and instead wait patiently for the assistance for which the organisation is unequipped and organisationally unable to offer.
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.
I've just got the impression that Roko and Beeps are going to end up having to go freelance after actually succeeding in helping May, this leading members of the Federal bureaucracy to demand that her supervisors 'do something about the loose cannon'.
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After #4026, I want to put on a tin-foil hat, just like BenRG.
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