Well, hopefully Femto was never named Griffith...
Well, hopefully Femto was never named Griffith...
Welcome, new person!
Once again I am missing a cultural reference.
I mean... money *is* a poorly-designed system for the twenty-first century.
*the Internationale starts playing in the background*
We technically have enough resources to go around, not just to cover extremely basic needs, but most needs related to health, safety and basic accomodations of everyone. And we'd presumably have more resources to go in the QC-verse than in the real world.
Money is a resource that made a lot of sense when it was first conceived of, in times of extreme scarcity. We're not exactly post-scarcity, but much of modern scarcity is manufactured and artificial, and serves the needs of an increasingly small number of people.
So this guy, goofy as his reaction is, is not exactly wrong.
Have to admit I never thought I'd see the day this comic skewers socialism and sjws in general
Its quite refreshing
Have to admit I never thought I'd see the day this comic skewers socialism and sjws in generalThat is certainly an odd take on the comic. It was specifically saying capitalism is a broken system. I too would like to know how you came to your conclusion.
Its quite refreshing
Have to admit I never thought I'd see the day this comic skewers socialism and sjws in generalThat is certainly an odd take on the comic. It was specifically saying capitalism is a broken system. I too would like to know how you came to your conclusion.
Its quite refreshing
In my experience, anyone who uses the acronym "SJW" is probably a neo-nazi. Or a neo-USSRarian (I just made that up, but it describes them very well).
Of course I may also have got this interpretation completely wrong
the real aim is loot, burn and pillage
starts to think about physically blowing up something that doesn't physically exist
the guy in charge has no idea how money works yet decides it must be a poorly-designed system
I mean, I think I get where you're coming from.
No, it's not.
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The fact that he doesn't know how money works doesn't make him a socialist. He's... well, let me put it this way, Jeph's very well-worn scientist caricature.
QuoteNo, it's not.
If its not then I'd hate to see them really go for it because they're doing a heckofa job at the moment
Many a true word is spoken in jest
He also assumed Roko wanted to get rid of the carceral system and was in complete agreement so yeah combined with no real knowledge of how money works theres a good chance hes a socialist as well, or has strong socialist leaningsHmmm. I'm not sure how you made that particular leap. What does being a Socialist have to do with deciding the justice system shouldn't have incarceration as a tool?
I personally think that capitalism is the best form of government we have or have ever had, of course I'm also from New ZealandI'm pretty sure capitalism isn't a form of government, though as intertwined as governments sometimes get in the economic system, I can understand how the mis-perception can arise.
Hmmm. I'm not sure how you made that particular leap. What does being a Socialist have to do with deciding the justice system shouldn't have incarceration as a tool?
I'm pretty sure capitalism isn't a form of government, though as intertwined as governments sometimes get in the economic system, I can understand how the mis-perception can arise.
This comic is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.Have to admit I never thought I'd see the day this comic skewers socialism and sjws in general
Its quite refreshing
Care to elaborate? I don't read that this way at all. Where's the skewering? Heck, where's socialism and SJWs? There's a guy who's well-meaning, but has no firm grasp on the concept of money. If that automatically registers as either "socialist" or "SJW" to you, then I'm honestly fascinated to hear your thought process here, because I'm not connecting those particular dots.
This comic is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.
Only five (5) families own all of the major American news outlets. Dropping cable news would probably be a very good idea.
I mean, I think I get where you're coming from.
Oh yeah I can definitely accept that my interpretation is probably wrong (too much watching news I guess) and the author is certainly on the left but the left label has certainly been damaged by politicians of the left that've become immensely wealthy through politics and don't seem all that different from those on the right
In today's strip, Roko finds out that the only thing worse than none of your plans working out is to have a dear friend have absolute confidence in you when you don't think that you're worthy of it. Feeling a fraud in front of your friends is far, far worse than failing.
The only 'talking heads' I'll recommend is the band.
In today's strip, Roko finds out that the only thing worse than none of your plans working out is to have a dear friend have absolute confidence in you when you don't think that you're worthy of it. Feeling a fraud in front of your friends is far, far worse than failing.I was left wondering when Beeps is going to make a play for Roko. And how Yay would take and respond to that; they've already demonstrated their ability to zap other AIs during the CorpseWitch affair...
Didn't know; don't care. Was a reference to cognition, not appearance.QuoteThis comic is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.
If you disagree with me thats fine but as I'm Tangata Whenua (more specifically my Iwi is Ngai Tahu) I don't appreciate being likened to a monkey
Can’t send money to a charity that doesn’t exist; also, we have no idea about the distribution - Yay May have biased larger donations towards larger organisations. Or they may have done the opposite and some obscure disease research organisation with two administrators and three researchers now has enough money to buy Stark Industries twice and no idea where to start.
But...
Didn't Spookybot send billions to all layers of charitable causes?
(Either way, looks like thats next level.)
It was specifically saying capitalism is a broken system.Capitalism isn't a system, it's a way of looking at society, emphasizing resources as owned by persons. "Capital" just means resources owned by someone. Of course, that's not the end-all way of looking at the world. Socialism, for example, looks at a society, emphasizing interactions between persons (some who maybe own some resources). One problem with the version of capitalism that we have today is that it doesn't place enough emphasis on the person. One problem with the version of socialism that we have today is that it doesn't place enough emphasis on persons that prefers to keep to himself.
physically blowing up something that doesn't physically existI'm not good at understanding what a person was thinking, unless he says what he's thinking, so I'd be interested in knowing what he was thinking of blowing up. If I had a sciencey-fantasy cannon and wanted to abolish prisons, I'd probably want shoot down their gates. (If there are no prisons, then there's no "carceral state" to abolish.) Of course, that's quite a violent solution.
Todays episode is basically socialism at its finest, the guy in charge has no idea how money works yet decides it must be a poorly-designed system and not that maybe he himself is a complete idiot that has access to plenty of money but wastes it on stuff like particle cannons so the last couple of episodes have been quite critical in a way I didn't expect do well done to the author for keeping everyone on their toesSee, I agree with you that Landon's a dope. I don't agree with you that that's exemplary socialism. Credit unions are much better examples. Although it's grounded in "capitalism", because it's dealing with things owned by it's members, it's quite socialist, because it's goal is to secure it's members' wealth. One example is that they were mostly unscathed by the 2008 fizzling of the economic foam (it's a better metaphor than "bubble"---that's not important). I think that the general principle that we all could learn from is that we can't disregard the fact that the world consists of persons who own stuff, but that it's more effective for us to work together, so that our actions at least don't harm anyone else.
Didn't Spookybot send billions to all layers of charitable causes?Now back to what's important (unleashing my imagination on minor details from nonbad fiction):
It's a shame about the howl of frustration, Beeps was probably about to break into song.
It's a shame about the howl of frustration, Beeps was probably about to break into song.
I have a scanner which thinks that everything I copy should be in PDF. It is a real pain.Same here. The vendors must be under the impression that we only ever scan documents. I'd rather it just give me whatever its sensors sense in whatever format is as raw as possible---so long as it's an open format that can be translated to a format that's actually useful. (Although I admit that sometimes, that format is PDF. Maybe someday "computer vision" and "natural language processing" will be advanced enough for the scanner to output all the semantical relationships and enough aesthetical data to be able to reproduce the original document printed like the original. I think I recently have too much free time that I'm even able to wonder about that.)
I'd rather it just give me whatever its sensors sense in whatever format is as raw as possible---so long as it's an open format that can be translated to a format that's actually useful.You'll get some awfully big scan files if everything defaults to uncompressed TIFFs.
Wait, I thought that Roko's user manual was a PDF (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4177)?
Betcha it's another 'no.'
Tho considering the weird stuff that comes up (Pizza vis re-entry vehicle) the money and/or resources SHOULD be there.
Betcha it's another 'no.'
Tho considering the weird stuff that comes up (Pizza vis re-entry vehicle) the money and/or resources SHOULD be there.
Wait, I thought that Roko's user manual was a PDF (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4177)?I blame hipsters. :laugh:
Am I the only one here who quite happily uses PDFs for his employer's official documents and scans and has no problem with the format at all?
Anyway, it figures that Dr John would insist on using 'proven technology'... Including putting paper hard copy in a re-entry capsule that was designed to cook a pizza during its flight. I don't know how hot you have to make an oven to cook a pizza during the five minutes or so of re-entry but I'm sure it's hot enough to make paper anoxically incinerate! It's kind of odd that a man who is a blue sky thinker and a proven innovator feels more comfortable with tools that have been around the block a few times. I suppose when you're living with the Alpha phase of technology pretty much 24/7, you'd feel happier with stuff that you know has had time to be debugged!
Wait, I thought that Roko's user manual was a PDF (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4177)?
It doesn't say so specifically (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4181)
The original linked comic also doesn't say it in-universe, but Jeph's title says it. The question now is whether what Jeph says outside the bounding lines of the comic is or is not canon...
Physically scan it into PDF format and the resulting file is 1-2MB per page.
Oh dear. A proposition for fully socialized healthcare (for A.I.).
It seems fairly often that when I'm discussing some issue or another, it turns out that the only real answer is fully socialized healthcare. It's kind of nice to see QC veer into the same territory.
PDFs are like democracy, they're not perfect but all the alternatives are worse
Okay, Doc, that's nice. I'm sure that this will drive some real and beneficial change to how keeping people (both biological and synthetic) healthy is viewed as a responsibility of the wider community in about ten to twenty years time. What happens to May right now?
Then he'll find another SJW hot-button to pander to.
It seems fairly often that when I'm discussing some issue or another, it turns out that the only real answer is fully socialized healthcare. It's kind of nice to see QC veer into the same territory.
It appears to be a common occurrence when people are discussing the struggles of modern society. Of course there's always the threat of idealization...
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Since it's a legislation it looks like something that can take many years to pass and implement. Roko should find something that could help May in the more immediate future, something like an ordinance. Unless legislation only takes little time in QC's reality.
Emulators for emulators, sounds like something we need in few months to use Adobe's other (acquired) product.
Makes me laugh.
Emulators for emulators, sounds like something we need in few months to use Adobe's other (acquired) product.
Then he'll find another SJW hot-button to pander to.
Using the abbreviation "SJW" has the effect of obscuring that the "J" stands for Justice.
Do you feel that the urge to encourage justice is a bad thing?
While I'm certain Mae will be thrilled to hear about the progress made towards getting her a better body, I feel she will still be annoyed at the prospect of becoming a major civil rights icon.
You should consider that the only people that call North Korea that are the assholes that named it that.Then he'll find another SJW hot-button to pander to.
Using the abbreviation "SJW" has the effect of obscuring that the "J" stands for Justice.
Do you feel that the urge to encourage justice is a bad thing?
Just because a words in there doesn't make it so, North Korea is officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after all and i don't think they're big on democracy
You should consider that the only people that call North Korea that are the assholes that named it that.Then he'll find another SJW hot-button to pander to.
Using the abbreviation "SJW" has the effect of obscuring that the "J" stands for Justice.
Do you feel that the urge to encourage justice is a bad thing?
Just because a words in there doesn't make it so, North Korea is officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after all and i don't think they're big on democracy
Did not know pdf is disliked...I was about to comment how surprised you'll be when you hear physicists' attitude toward Excel, but... holy cow, people actually use PNG and BMP for documents? Who are these people!? :psyduck:
I work in finance industry.
50 percent of files we use are pdf and other 50 are excel.
With other files being such a minor thing.
Its super annoying when we get png or BMP for documents.
Cause then editing trimming merging is so much more time consuming.
Are you proud of what you've accomplished?
It was all about putting them ahead of everyone else and justifying it on the grounds that said the group is specialI think that's a stretch. Goverment/policy by single issue activists has all the evil effects you highlight, but that doesn't mean its about putting one group ahead of another. The thing about single issue activists, whether political, environmental or anything else, is that by definition they are utterly blinkered and incapable of seeing the big picture. A classic example is the promotion of diesel cars in Europe which has led to the reduced CO2 emissions the activists wanted, but at the price of catastrophic levels of particulate pollution. The BLM activists didn't want funding removed from the groups you mention, they were simply so far off their radar that they didn't consider them at all.
Social Justice as espoused by the SJW-type person has little to do with social justice.
QuoteAre you proud of what you've accomplished?
Well for what its worth you have my respect, I'm a Corrections Officer and I couldn't do what you do with the obstacles that you face
So what you’re saying is you’d be perfectly happy if the cops treated you exactly the same way they treat BAME people?QuoteAre you proud of what you've accomplished?
Well for what its worth you have my respect, I'm a Corrections Officer and I couldn't do what you do with the obstacles that you face
The good news is you won't have to do your job much longer if the more militant and vocal members of BLM get what they want. I mean in a world where police are powerless to charge anyone with a crime out of fear of triggering a race riot what need do we have of correctional services?
The good news is you won't have to do your job much longer if the more militant and vocal members of BLM get what they want. I mean in a world where police are powerless to charge anyone with a crime out of fear of triggering a race riot what need do we have of correctional services?
So what you’re saying is you’d be perfectly happy if the cops treated you exactly the same way they treat BAME people?
And regardless of either, there will always be those who are duped into going against change that would benefit everybody because incredibly selfish people tell them that whatever it is, "that's socialism" and they've been convinced 'socialism bad' without questioning just who it's "bad" for.
I've been dealing with relatives who wholeheartedly believe the current American healthcare system is socialized medicine despite it being the antithesis of socialized medicine. It's very frustrating.
Okay, Doc, that's nice. I'm sure that this will drive some real and beneficial change to how keeping people (both biological and synthetic) healthy is viewed as a responsibility of the wider community in about ten to twenty years time. What happens to May right now?(click to show/hide)
And regardless of either, there will always be those who are duped into going against change that would benefit everybody because incredibly selfish people tell them that whatever it is, "that's socialism" and they've been convinced 'socialism bad' without questioning just who it's "bad" for.
I've been dealing with relatives who wholeheartedly believe the current American healthcare system is socialized medicine despite it being the antithesis of socialized medicine. It's very frustrating.
You have my sympathies. I live in Europe but I'm aware of those groups which argue that anything which is even remotely linked to socialism is automatically bad and evil and wrong and STOP THINKING ABOUT SOCIALISM EMBRACE CAPITALISM.
It's rather difficult to discuss progress and alternatives which might be better than the current system when a large amount of the populace has been brainwashed into thinking that the status quo is the best we're going to get and any alternative must be purged from people's minds because it's the work of the devil.
Can the trolls stop derailing our discussion about file formats?
I may have mentioned this before, but I am from Europe too (but living in the US for over 10 years now), and one of the things that still baffles me is how self-centered the US society is, and how many people seem to be unwilling to learn from other societies/countries out of a weird notion that the US is by definition superior in every way. Being proud of your country is one thing (and nothing wrong with that), but having the mindset that your country is superior will hold you back, because if you think you're superior to all other countries, why would you ever try to learn from them?
Politicians, even our current president, like to point to countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden as doing so well in general, yet they don't seem to be that interested in actually trying to implement similar policies as in those countries.
Can the trolls stop derailing our discussion about file formats? Do as I do and don't read their posts.Exactly. I tried bringing the topic back to PDF, but this thread keeps going down the toilet.
Bear in mind that the people who are decried by others as being SJWs don't in general call themselves that - the epithet is typically applied by others, so often misses the target.That's what people like these trolls often don't understand (or maybe they do, but don't care anyway): they've made up a label for "these people I don't like" (SJW), and then act as if there's an organized group of people who are out to be malicious to them, when in fact they're a semi-organised mob who intrude into other people's conversations with their rants.
PDF is a proprietary standard that became popular then became an actual standard but is still largely run by the originating company for their own apps and is thus grossly inefficient and occasionally prone to breaking existing readers when new features are added. But it remains popular because only five people use XPS and no one knows DjVu even exists.
(big snip)
Are you proud of what you've accomplished?
Yeah, I’ve encountered it exactly once in a whole career in IT. It’s a cool technology but that’s pretty much all. Even Microsoft putting an XPS virtual printer into every copy of Windows hasn’t gotten it much recognition so anything more obscure than ‘already part of the majority of consumer pcs’ won’t get a look in.PDF is a proprietary standard that became popular then became an actual standard but is still largely run by the originating company for their own apps and is thus grossly inefficient and occasionally prone to breaking existing readers when new features are added. But it remains popular because only five people use XPS and no one knows DjVu even exists.
I was interested in the DjVu format you mentioned, and was then rapidly disappointed to learn that it has basically died a while ago already :(
AH well, sticking to PDFs it is for now....My only problem with it really is the near-monopolistic position of Adobe when it comes to editing them
Want to know what bugs me? People who think that basic civil rights and social justice for all are the unattainable and undesirable fantasies of a lunatic fringe. Just saying.
Want to know what bugs me? People who think that basic civil rights and social justice for all are the unattainable and undesirable fantasies of a lunatic fringe. Just saying.
Social engineering has done a great deal of damage over the last 40 to 50 years.
I don’t remember whether it was here or in Patreon, but I saw someone posting with a question about how they got together. Perhaps they’re more similar than they would like to admit.
It goes beyond that, though.Want to know what bugs me? People who think that basic civil rights and social justice for all are the unattainable and undesirable fantasies of a lunatic fringe. Just saying.
Social engineering has done a great deal of damage over the last 40 to 50 years.
It's pretty easy to achieve as long as you focus on reminding people that if everyone gets basic civil rights and social justice, that also means the groups they don't agree with get it. There's not a lot of forces in the world more powerful than spite.
Of course that's part of why it's so damaging. The ridiculous level of effectiveness.
It goes beyond that, though.
Here's a pretty basic illustration: There's a plate with three cookies and three people are present. The rich guy leans over to the white guy a tells him "The black guy is trying to steal your cookie." While the white guy isn't looking, the rich guy takes all three cookies and leaves the other two with only half of the thiird cookie.
It's the manipulation and instillment of fear and distrust. It's the pushing of learned helplessness. It's the discouragement of non-aggressive communication between groups. And it all takes place over several years while playing the long game.
That's what people like these trolls often don't understand (or maybe they do, but don't care anyway): they've made up a label for "these people I don't like" (SJW)
You’re treating social justice as a zero-sum game - more justice for some must necessarily mean less justice for others. Congratulations, you’ve walked right into their trap. Now you’re blaming people who just wanted the same rights as everyone else, instead of the people who actually looted your program.
None of this has to be zero-sum. Your funding didn’t have to be pulled to support BLM, and nobody in BLM was demanding that. A choice was made by people in power to execute this in such a way as to divide people rather than unite them.
And all for the benefit of a very few incredibly selfish individuals.It goes beyond that, though.
Here's a pretty basic illustration: There's a plate with three cookies and three people are present. The rich guy leans over to the white guy a tells him "The black guy is trying to steal your cookie." While the white guy isn't looking, the rich guy takes all three cookies and leaves the other two with only half of the thiird cookie.
It's the manipulation and instillment of fear and distrust. It's the pushing of learned helplessness. It's the discouragement of non-aggressive communication between groups. And it all takes place over several years while playing the long game.
It's both honestly. At the core of it all lies the fact that different groups have trouble getting along which then gets exploited in various ways, from amplifying the distrust to actively encouraging people to be antagonistic towards one another.
And all for the benefit of a very few incredibly selfish individuals.
Want to know what bugs me? People who think that basic civil rights and social justice for all are the unattainable and undesirable fantasies of a lunatic fringe. Just saying.Want to know what bugs me? People who think that many people think that basic civil rights are undesirable. Just saying.
This is an important point. If it's not social justice, don't call it social justice. Don't even mention that someone thinks it's social justice---you're only spreading the misuse. Eventually, someone hears "social justice" about whatever that is so many times, that they start calling it "social justice". There's always someone who'll think that anything called that is that. So you get doublethink. You say "social justice is bad" and they hear you think that what is social justice is bad. Or you say "social justice is good" and they hear you think that what's called "social justice" is good. The problem is that we're using a term that has 2 opposite meanings.Just because a words in there doesn't make it so, North Korea is officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after all and i don't think they're big on democracyYou should consider that the only people that call North Korea that are the assholes that named it that.
Well for what its worth you have my respect, I'm a Corrections Officer and I couldn't do what you do with the obstacles that you faceFor anyone that doesn't follow penal euphemisms, "corrections officer" means prison guard. By the way, I'm terribly sorry that you're in the sucky position of having to work for a prison.
The thing about single issue activists, whether political, environmental or anything else, is that by definition they are utterly blinkered and incapable of seeing the big picture.By definition? I can understand that caring about only the one thing can make it easy to ignore other things, but I don't think that prevents them from being aware of other things. Of course, I can see how one might come to that conclusion. Most of my interactions with activists was when they're "on the job". Now, if I'm not mistaken, when the activist is working for an issue in the "raise awareness" department, he's probably going to talk about that one issue, not about some other issues. He could well care about other issues, but his present focus is on the one issue that he's presently working for. From the other perspective, a "general" activist, who cares about the "big picture", would have to choose whether to spread his efforts among all the issues he cares about, or to focus on trying to solve one specific issue. It's often the case that doing one thing at a time is more effective than doing multiple things at the same time. Of course, it's important to not forget about other issues, otherwise you might get a situation like you described about reducing one pollution while raising another.
The BLM activists didn't want funding removed from the groups you mention, they were simply so far off their radar that they didn't consider them at all.Practically, there's no difference. Sure, their intentions might be clear, but if the result is funding goes from other issues to their issues, they're effectively taking that money from the other issues. Sure, it's not their fault that who they get money from simply redirects the funding, but if their intent isn't to take the help that others would have gotten, then that should be something they consider.
Perhaps they’re [Ellicott-Chatham] more similar than they would like to admit.I thought it was quite natural. Not similarity, but the combination of the idealist (Ellicot) the pragmatist (Chatham). Another example is the Steves of Fruitbasket. Ellicot's position heading a powerful research company is probably due much to Chatham's business sense. Likewise, Chatham's industries being as powerful as they are today was probably aided by the ideas from Ellicott's mind. Together, they'd be quite powerful, but making such a union live long would probably take a lot of work.
For anyone that doesn't follow penal euphemisms, "corrections officer" means prison guard. By the way, I'm terribly sorry that you're in the sucky position of having to work for a prison.
Personally, I quite like happy endings. The world is a scary place, and I don't need the webcomics I read to be all doom-and-gloom. I want them to make me feel better, if only for a little while.
[SNIP]The BLM activists didn't want funding removed from the groups you mention, they were simply so far off their radar that they didn't consider them at all.Practically, there's no difference. Sure, their intentions might be clear, but if the result is funding goes from other issues to their issues, they're effectively taking that money from the other issues. Sure, it's not their fault that who they get money from simply redirects the funding, but if their intent isn't to take the help that others would have gotten, then that should be something they consider.
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That reminds me of what one of the trans people here said about how happy the Marten/Claire relationship was, answering criticism of it going unrealistically well.
I think it was ZoeB.
Something to the effect that if we can't have it in reality, we at least want it in fiction.
That may yet happen. Jeph has foreshadowed tension between Claire's ambition and possible need to move for a job and Marten's inertia.
That may yet happen. Jeph has foreshadowed tension between Claire's ambition and possible need to move for a job and Marten's inertia.
Which again has nothing to do with Claire being trans and would be reminiscent of Faye and her actor ex
It's almost as if the author doesn't want to talk about Claire at all except in the most superficial of ways, so why bother even having her in the strip
I agree that Claire hasn't had too much development lately; I was just saying that being a trans character isn't her only role in the comic.
Jeph has foreshadowed tension between Claire's ambition and possible need to move for a job and Marten's inertia.
Also, if Claire had remained 'the trans character', then we would rightfully complain about her being one-dimensional.
I don’t think it’s a dislike as much as the inherent problem with a happy ending is that it is just that, an ending. Once you arrive, that’s it, story’s done, pack up the sets and go home. Which is obviously a problem in an ongoing serial that needs to continue indefinitely for its creator to remain fed and housed.
And regardless of either, there will always be those who are duped into going against change that would benefit everybody because incredibly selfish people tell them that whatever it is, "that's socialism" and they've been convinced 'socialism bad' without questioning just who it's "bad" for.People like my mother (who I've recently informed of her cancellation) who grew up during the Red Scare of the '50s and are the target audience for FOX News Channel's poisonous lies.
I've been dealing with relatives who wholeheartedly believe the current American healthcare system is socialized medicine despite it being the antithesis of socialized medicine. It's very frustrating.
Claire has apparently unhealed injury from her father's infidelity. That would be interesting to explore.
Only if she had no extra development. We know she has issues going into relationships so that could be explored, we could see Claire grappling with the issue of children (if she wants any that is), we could see how Marten deals with a trans woman after the honeymoon period wears off, hell we could see any number of storylines around this without labelling Claire trans only but instead it seems to be mostly about a theoretical relationship between Faye and Bubbles which could be interesting by why go down that route when you already have an interesting relationship to focus on
Unfortunately it's not just them.And regardless of either, there will always be those who are duped into going against change that would benefit everybody because incredibly selfish people tell them that whatever it is, "that's socialism" and they've been convinced 'socialism bad' without questioning just who it's "bad" for.People like my mother (who I've recently informed of her cancellation) who grew up during the Red Scare of the '50s and are the target audience for FOX News Channel's poisonous lies.
I've been dealing with relatives who wholeheartedly believe the current American healthcare system is socialized medicine despite it being the antithesis of socialized medicine. It's very frustrating.
Never liked pdf. Postscript is the way to go. That way it can be edited and changed provided you can program in postscript. (which I can).
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Never liked pdf. Postscript is the way to go. That way it can be edited and changed provided you can program in postscript. (which I can).But in many contexts the need is for a document that you can verify hasn't been edited or changed. Contracts, for example.
Welcome, new person!Well, if we're talking about sex work in the QC verse, look at Marten's mom. A career as a fetish model and a dominatrice. Apparently no blowback on raising Marten, so I might guess it's largely legalized.
Not out of line in my view. It's not shipping since they have an established sexual relationship. It's plausibly in character for them.
I do wonder what the QC world laws on sex work are and whether May's parole officer would interfere.
That may yet happen. Jeph has foreshadowed tension between Claire's ambition and possible need to move for a job and Marten's inertia.
Which again has nothing to do with Claire being trans and would be reminiscent of Faye and her actor ex
It's almost as if the author doesn't want to talk about Claire at all except in the most superficial of ways, so why bother even having her in the strip
One of our spokespeople approached me straight after one of my shows to give me a bit of feedback, and that’s my favorite time for feedback. Straight after a show? Yes, please! That is when my skin is at its thickest. The feedback? Apparently, she said, “I was very disappointed in your show this year, Hannah. I just don’t think there was enough lesbian content.”
I’d been on stage the whole time.
Back when I was in grad school, I was given a large collection of... less than legally-obtained... physics textbooks in DjVu format. It was a useful format, but even back then it was hard to find good software for that format.I seem to remember that DjVu was supported, on Linux at least, 10-ish years ago, but don't quote me on that.
I’m an experimental physicist, not a theoretical physicist. I run Windows.Back when I was in grad school, I was given a large collection of... less than legally-obtained... physics textbooks in DjVu format. It was a useful format, but even back then it was hard to find good software for that format.I seem to remember that DjVu was supported, on Linux at least, 10-ish years ago, but don't quote me on that.
EDIT: Tova, the definition of .pdf is Postscript with whatever bullshit Adobe decides to add? Has that changed?
when developers eat their own dog food ... that's a more powerful metric than whether making money was a priority.I prefer understanding before acting; therefor, \TeX.
TeX is an extraordinary achievement by an extraordinary computer scientist.\TeX resulted from lucid pragmatism.