Ah, poor Pintsize.
Nothing he could have done would have stopped the Dorapocalypse. That was building up even for the first kiss between Marten and Dora and it was never going to survive the self-doubts that lurked in both Marten and Dora.
...is this tomorrow's? Only I don't remember Pintsize doing much of anything.He did exactly enough. Which is better than most people manage when interfering in other people’s relationships.
Does that dong have eyestalks?
Edit - Or is that a halo?
...is this tomorrow's? Only I don't remember Pintsize doing much of anything.He did exactly enough. Which is better than most people manage when interfering in other people’s relationships.
Does that dong have eyestalks?
Edit - Or is that a halo?
I think it's just movement.
Here we go again! :clairedoge:
Character development? For Pintsize?
What's happening, lads?
Character development? For Pintsize?
What's happening, lads?
Character development? For Pintsize?
What's happening, lads?
Less character development and more Jeph confirming something that most of us always suspected about him.
Less character development and more Jeph confirming something that most of us always suspected about him.
Momo hasn't seen Marigold's porn ...
It's a computerised appliance possibly with some very limited feedback-adaptive functionality but I doubt that it has any real intelligence or awareness beyond its narrow set of functions.
Momo hasn't seen Marigold's porn ...
I've done more than just 'seen some videos' lol.
Momo hasn't seen Marigold's porn ...
Which is weird because she was Marigold's AnthroPC and I seem to remember a strip where Marigold had to do some software surgery because all the malware on the porn sites had screwed up her registry or something but maybe I'm misremembering one of Pintsize's misadventures.
Which is weird because she was Marigold's AnthroPC and I seem to remember a strip where Marigold had to do some software surgery because all the malware on the porn sites had screwed up her registry or something but maybe I'm misremembering one of Pintsize's misadventures.
I've done more than just 'seen some videos' lol.
Does Momo not know how organic beings are made? If a woman can get a small human OUT, then there’s reason to think something of a similar size can go IN, isn’t there?
The round kind or the prolate spheroid?
The round kind or the prolate spheroid?
it ain't just the spheroid that's prolate after all that :evil:
Also, there's a theory that humans are all born premature, technically. It's only that the female body can't accommodate the size of the "fully grown" baby at the "proper" "hatching time".
Something like a bunch of these. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=uMM0lRfX6YI)
Also, there's a theory that humans are all born premature, technically. It's only that the female body can't accommodate the size of the "fully grown" baby at the "proper" "hatching time".
A theory that is quite widely accepted, I may add (BSc in medical biology speaking, MSc is in Neuroscience, so less relevant).
If babies get too large it also causes problems already.
A theory that is quite widely accepted, I may add (BSc in medical biology speaking, MSc is in Neuroscience, so less relevant).
If babies get too large it also causes problems already.
I've done more than just 'seen some videos' lol.
TMI
We have a thread for that in Relate. The TMI thread, no less.
Is it my imagination, or is Marigold's complexion looking much better? I mean, is that old wives tale about an active sex life clearing up ones face true? :-oNot an expert, but I'm fairly sure acne is mostly caused by an imbalance of hormones, hence why it's worst during puberty, and being sexually active can help balance these hormones, causing a reduction in acne.
Is it my imagination, or is Marigold's complexion looking much better? I mean, is that old wives tale about an active sex life clearing up ones face true? :-o
I've done more than just 'seen some videos' lol.
TMI
You're welcome! :-)
Isn't Pintsize still running on 512mb of RAM? What kind of processing power is he farming out? :PThat's his cover story. He's an on line porn mogul.
I voted I will describe below. I am guessing Robot Jail flashback. PPPPPPPlease?
Is it my imagination, or is Marigold's complexion looking much better? I mean, is that old wives tale about an active sex life clearing up ones face true? :-oNot an expert, but I'm fairly sure acne is mostly caused by an imbalance of hormones, hence why it's worst during puberty, and being sexually active can help balance these hormones, causing a reduction in acne.
Of course this is different from person to person and isn't going to be true for everyone, but there is science behind that 'old wives tale'.
Thank you, science fairy!
Heh. I think the explanation that would get through to Marigold would be saying "It's like someone claiming to be an expert on an anime because they've skimmed through the wiki for it".
The problem is at no time did Marigold ever declare herself an expert on the subject. May mentioned robot jail and Marigold asked her what it was about it.
Marigold's complexion has been improving for a long time now. Her diet is better, now that Momo can prepare food for her, so that helps too.
Am I the only one who thinks Marigold's face really changed since yesterday?
This strip reminds us that Marigold really has a lot of social problems including a definite lack of empathy. It isn't malicious but she genuinely doesn't think of other people's feelings when pursuing curiosity or if she wants something. She is even aware of this but only in hindsight and usually only when called out about it. A curious girl.
It is clear to me that robot jail and her experiences therein are going to be a permanent trigger for May but the specific problem here is Momo's tendency to treat her theoretical knowledge and abstract principles as universal absolutes that don't automatically apply to people who have actually lived through the experience. This tripped her up with Bubbles and it seems that it tripped her up with May too. I'm just wondering if she's learning from this or if, to her, it's a frustrating mystery as to why people keep on telling her that her principles, based on the highest academic standards of ethics, are unrealistic!Marigold's complexion has been improving for a long time now. Her diet is better, now that Momo can prepare food for her, so that helps too.
She's getting more exercise too (vigorous sex with Dale at a rate and intensity that it keeps on driving Momo out of the apartment). That said, as we can see, she still has her distinctive moles on her jawline.
You're an orphan, right? Do you think I'd know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, 'cause I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't wanna do that, do you, sport? You're terrified of what you might say.
(It's the best I could do... I can never work out how to use the embed feature on twitter.... :Þ )
I always figured those three spots were moles/beauty marks. Sometimes they cluster..Is it my imagination, or is Marigold's complexion looking much better? I mean, is that old wives tale about an active sex life clearing up ones face true? :-o
Those black dots are on the right side of her face and she’s turned so only her left profile is visible in this strip, however, her hygiene has probably improved since I doubt Dale will do anything extraordinary if she’s too funky.
Issue here is may hasn't come to terms with her crimes and punishment. She has the attitude that the world is unfair and she is being unfairly treated.
Issue here is may hasn't come to terms with her crimes and punishment. She has the attitude that the world is unfair and she is being unfairly treated.
Please highlight where in the comic exact you have picked that perception up.
Issue here is may hasn't come to terms with her crimes and punishment. She has the attitude that the world is unfair and she is being unfairly treated.
On the subject of Robot Jail, my speculations have run to the following with equal yet more horrifying levels
- Isolation in a white space
- as above but having Customer service rep conversations passed through her "space" with no interaction
- again as the first but this time it is having all those fraudulent transactions streamed in a continuous loop with the court logs as narrative
- Isolation in darkness and the only light are the postings in 4chan - yes this is where satan goes potty
Your imagination is a terrifying place ...
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And well meaning is all well and good, but for some people the act of trying to understand is not enough. Its one thing to read about someone's experience in prison, but its knowledge without context. And to someone who has gone through it like May, to have someone come up to you and say "Oh, how bad was Robot Jail", it comes off as insulting. Because it denigrates what she's gone through. She's paid her debt to AI society, she doesn't need the reminders of what she's gone through.
On the subject of Robot Jail, my speculations have run to the following with equal yet more horrifying levels
- Isolation in a white space
- as above but having Customer service rep conversations passed through her "space" with no interaction
- again as the first but this time it is having all those fraudulent transactions streamed in a continuous loop with the court logs as narrative
- Isolation in darkness and the only light are the postings in 4chan - yes this is where satan goes potty
Reddit is where the toilet flushes to after Satan goes potty.On the subject of Robot Jail, my speculations have run to the following with equal yet more horrifying levels
- Isolation in a white space
- as above but having Customer service rep conversations passed through her "space" with no interaction
- again as the first but this time it is having all those fraudulent transactions streamed in a continuous loop with the court logs as narrative
- Isolation in darkness and the only light are the postings in 4chan - yes this is where satan goes potty
4chan? What about Reddit?
Marigold was kind of rude but May was the one that brought up the topic of robot jail. That said, May's reaction was tame for her and I don't really feel that either party here has done anything particularly awful.
On the topic of May's situation: honestly, considering her crime, not being able to rent out processor space seems pretty fair. Her current job sucks, sure but she HAD a decent job and leveraged her position to commit fraud. I don't feel bad that she has essentially ruined her career opportunities nor do I think she is owed a better position. However, she should have been provided with proper health care as a basic right regardless of her employment and I think that's important. (Not really debating previous posters, just sharing my opinion generally).
Her explanation to dale why she was in robot prison, didn't paint that she regretted her actions at all.
Her job, which she should have treated as repentance she complains about.
She isn't able to afford a new robot body? She thinks that everyone has it better without taking time to learn context.
She has had redeeming moments which is why we find her interesting
Reddit is where the toilet flushes to after Satan goes potty.On the subject of Robot Jail, my speculations have run to the following with equal yet more horrifying levels
- Isolation in a white space
- as above but having Customer service rep conversations passed through her "space" with no interaction
- again as the first but this time it is having all those fraudulent transactions streamed in a continuous loop with the court logs as narrative
- Isolation in darkness and the only light are the postings in 4chan - yes this is where satan goes potty
4chan? What about Reddit?
Urgh, here we go again with May's whining.
"I broke the law, how dare you all not forget that instantly!"
"She asked a question abou my past, HOW DARE SHE!"
God, May, get a fucking grib.
"I broke the law, how dare you all not forget that instantly!"
"She asked a question abou my past, HOW DARE SHE!"
"I broke the law, how dare you all not forget that instantly!"
"I broke the law, how dare you all not forget that instantly!"
Does the US not have any means of considering a conviction "spent"? In the UK there is a mechanism by which, for instance, for most jobs the employer is not permitted to consider a spent conviction in deciding if someone is suitable, and the applicant is not required to declare it.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (https://www.nacro.org.uk/resettlement-advice-service/support-for-individuals/disclosing-criminal-records/rehabilitation-offenders-act/)
4chan? What about Reddit?Reddit is where the toilet flushes to after Satan goes potty.
r/tippytaps.
10/10 Would vent again.
I also have to disagree with the 'should' word here. Repentance? The penal system isn't about repentance, religious or otherwise. She is serving her time. I also see no reason why she has to regret her actions. Regret achieves nothing for the person regretting, particularly when that is regret of a crime.
To answer your question, yes I have worked in a convenience store. It's wasn't the best , but it's wasn't too bad
This would be a great job, if it weren't for the customers....yeah, I know Randall worked at the video store, not the Quick Stop, whatever....
I wonder how much Jeph has been reading about the criminal justice system in our own world. Ex-cons who could contribute are all too often forbidden to do so. There's no public safety reason to deny a tax cheat a license to cut hair but many places do.I suspect that sort of treatment depends on the tax cheat. Goldman-Sachs would probably be more than happy to hire a Congressman who was caught cheating on his taxes. (That's assuming tthe IRS would actually bother pursuing any of them.)
Hating ex-cons doesn't make us safer. Re-integrating them does. May shouldn't get another job at a bank but the better the livelihood she can pursue the better off society is.
"I broke the law, how dare you all not forget that instantly!"
Does the US not have any means of considering a conviction "spent"? In the UK there is a mechanism by which, for instance, for most jobs the employer is not permitted to consider a spent conviction in deciding if someone is suitable, and the applicant is not required to declare it.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (https://www.nacro.org.uk/resettlement-advice-service/support-for-individuals/disclosing-criminal-records/rehabilitation-offenders-act/)
And this, at its basic, is the reason why the American correctional system fails. People presume that "doing time = repentance." That is why many states call their state-run jail facilities "penitentiaries".
$6.00 is expensive for tea here too.
As a Quaker I feel compelled to point out that Penitentiary came from Quakers who were honestly trying to reform criminals, and the first Penitentiary was designed to encourage that reformation.
(It actually tended to drive people crazy, lots of isolation. But hey, they meant well!)
My younger brother is currently dealing with this right now. He's trying to find a place to rent with a single felony on his record and having a damned hard time. Most places don't even care what the felony is or the context behind it (if applicable).Hating ex-cons doesn't make us safer. Re-integrating them does. May shouldn't get another job at a bank but the better the livelihood she can pursue the better off society is.
It is incredible how many people don't seem to understand this simple concept.
Many people seem to not be satisfied with any criminal serving their time, but feel like they should continue to suffer some kind of eternal punishment, failing to realize how that is incredibly detrimental to society as a whole.
Perhaps they are just not satisfied with the original sentence, but that's besides the point. Once time has been served, rehabilitation including a reasonable outlook on life should be the goal, otherwise it's just asking for recidivism. (there's a reason for the saying that the American justice system does not rehabilitate criminals but instead makes for worse criminals after release)
As Momo pointed out, the greatest good of the greatest number would be better served if May's CPU were being used for atmospheric modeling instead. Who's getting punished here?
That one-size-fits-all thing again. They couldn't imagine that there was any illness of the Human Spirit that prayer and meditation couldn't fix, and they were absolutely sincere in that belief. As has happened so many times in human history, ideals collided head on with ideology, and the results weren't pretty.
Y'know, sometimes I wonder...
Suppose May had been assigned as a fighter jet? Would it have worked out?
"I broke the law, how dare you all not forget that instantly!"
Does the US not have any means of considering a conviction "spent"? In the UK there is a mechanism by which, for instance, for most jobs the employer is not permitted to consider a spent conviction in deciding if someone is suitable, and the applicant is not required to declare it.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (https://www.nacro.org.uk/resettlement-advice-service/support-for-individuals/disclosing-criminal-records/rehabilitation-offenders-act/)
How old are the ai in terms of maturity? Mentally may might be very young and not aware of the full range of consequences
How old are the ai in terms of maturity? Mentally may might be very young and not aware of the full range of consequences
How old are the ai in terms of maturity? Mentally may might be very young and not aware of the full range of consequences
As I recall, the AIs maturity is defined in terms other than their chronological age. When May was looking for a job, one of the application forms asked whether she could pass a Turing Test to a certain level; I suspect their maturity is defined this way as it measures how complex their intelligence algorithm has become.
that's all you are to them, an ex-con
Jeph said once years ago that AIs could install patches to change their personalities. I don't know whether that's still canon. It raises the question of why Robot Jail exists if AIs could download impulse control and honesty. Last time this came up Neo-Ali pointed out the ethics minefield of personality modification.Altering someone's personality against their will is highly unethical. Brainwashing is largely considered a major violation of a person's agency.
Thinking about May some more.
Jeph said once years ago that AIs could install patches to change their personalities. I don't know whether that's still canon. It raises the question of why Robot Jail exists if AIs could download impulse control and honesty. Last time this came up Neo-Ali pointed out the ethics minefield of personality modification.
Thinking about May some more.
When May was about to say '...stupid gf', Dale thanked her for not saying it. Does that mean their relationship isn't going that well anymore?
When May was about to say '...stupid gf', Dale thanked her for not saying it. Does that mean their relationship isn't going that well anymore?How do you get “Dale and Marigold are breaking up” from Dale thanking a third party for not insulting her?
The person would have to want to do it. How many criminals would volunteer to have thier personalities rewritten?
When May was about to say '...stupid gf', Dale thanked her for not saying it. Does that mean their relationship isn't going that well anymore?
How do you get “Dale and Marigold are breaking up” from Dale thanking a third party for not insulting her?I guess I read too much into the fact that 'girl friend' were the words she swallowed, as it would be painful otherwise if it wasn't the case anymore. As calling people stupid would be just May.
driver architecture compatibility with newer bodies I guess?It seems to me that lack of backwards compatability would be an AI rights issue.