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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: brasca on 04 Jul 2019, 19:47 ---Strip is up!
Assuming that’s an honest answer what makes Roko fun to be with?
--- End quote ---
"Roko is your plastic pal who's fun to be with!"
Eminence Grise's assets may have been in financial instruments, stocks and bonds and whatever else Wall Street has invented. Those can be liquidated fast. 2 billion would be a fraction of a percent of a day's trading on the Treasury bond market, for example: https://www.statista.com/statistics/189302/trading-volume-of-us-treasury-securities-since-1990/
Cornelius:
Even if their marketing division is going to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes, you've got to admit SCC makes a durable chassis.
BenRG:
I've been trying since I saw this strip on Patreon yesterday to properly interpret panels 5 and 6. As best as I can tell, Roko is admitting that she finds SpookyBot's entirely-inept attempts at friendship cute but she isn't sure yet as to whether it's safe to like them or whether it's better to treat them as a fluffy nuclear bomb which she needs to stop from detonating through regular attention!
'Fun' is such a wonderfully subjective word. We may not understand it but the point is that SpookyBot enjoys interacting with Roko for whatever reason appeals to them. Yes, a lack of morbid fear of them is a factor but I also think that they appreciate her personality, her dedication to her cause and how she interacts with others.
Wealth is such a difficult thing to define. Yes, there are liquid assets. However, a lot of wealth is in forms that don't liquidate easily (like real estate) things whose value is highly and unpredictably variable (like stocks and commodities) and things that probably cost a lot but depreciated in value real fast, perhaps because they're so tasteless (like Donald Trump's gold-plated furniture and dinner set) or just because you appreciate them more than others (weird alternate art collections).
FWIW, I've always liked Sir Terry Pratchett's thesis that a lot of people who are highly wealthy on paper are actually quite poor and dependent on the perceived value of their assets for influence and buying power. However, in truth, their disposable assets are quite small and a stock premium cheque being delayed for any reason leaves them asking the butler for a few bucks to tide them over until the mail arrives!
traroth:
Spooky Bot obviously is not used to human-like interactions. Which actually makes him kind of a... nerd.
ZoeB:
"Because... you're fun..to be around?"
Yeah well, my partner and I married 38 years ago for that very reason.
It's gotten even more fun since, for both of us.
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