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WCDT Strips 4316-4320 (27-31 July 2020)
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: Datalore on 27 Jul 2020, 18:03 ---
--- Quote ---How realistic/practical would it be for people to pitch in for the "nobodies"? I bet there's a pretty steep triage, where if your problems aren't severe enough, you'll be classed as not needing immediate attention, and subsequently never get any attention.
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I feel like it could be feasible on the local community level, but you need local community involvement. Without some sort of community involvement most broad sweeping efforts are doomed to fall flat, because it takes more than just cash to help people in meaningful ways. They need to know there's a place for them, and that there's at least some level of investment in their success, and also them as individual persons.
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I love what you said about asking for help in the work place. I still need to remember to catch myself, but when I do I try to make a point of remembering that and talking it through in my head. I'm hired to do a job, and if I need an additional piece of information to do it well, it's quicker and potentially much less damaging to ask someone who would know than it would be for me to try and scour the internet or something to cook up my own solution. Not everything is that cut and dry obviously, but baggage isn't something you just unpack once and call good. It's a process. Sometimes it takes a rando page from a webcomic to resume forward progress on an otherwise forgotten (but still present) cognitive distortion.
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That's quite a story! I'm sorry you and your mom had to go through that. You've given me a lot to think about.
Also, comic's out, and the terrifying sixth sense of the forum members strikes again. Seriously, how do you guys know what's going to happen every single time?
Farideh:
Oh May <hug>
Fingers crossed she didn't accidentally look at the fundraiser website with the wrong currency selected..
shanejayell:
Awwww.
Betcha Jeph never actually SAYS how much money is in there. Just enough for the new body and some add ons.
chris73:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Jul 2020, 00:06 ---I think that May is coming up for a serious journey of self-discovery. Why is it that everyone values her far more than she thought? Why would they do this for her? Who is she that they would do this for her? I've posted this before but I'm expecting her to repeat that lovely phrase: "I want to cry but I don't have any tear-ducts!" Possibly followed by Momo offering her the squirt bottle of solution that she uses to allow herself to simulate crying.
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Because in this comic you can be as unpleasant as you like to people and instead of people not wanting to have anything to do with you (see Faye) as they would normally they seem to go out of their way to want to befriend unpleasant people
Or not
shanejayell:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 27 Jul 2020, 20:11 ---Because in this comic you can be as unpleasant as you like to people and instead of people not wanting to have anything to do with you (see Faye) as they would normally they seem to go out of their way to want to befriend unpleasant people
Or not
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People who have been hurt (Faye via trauma and May via poor choices/jail) can develop hard outsides that hide a soft inside. Which Faye had demonstrated more than once. Admittedly May less so... but I like scrapy types anyway.
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