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Bradley, Chadley, and Thadley

Bradwick, Chadwick, and Thadwick

Braddeus, Chaddeus, and Thaddeus

Eric, you fool, the bros are not of House Bros, they are mere pretenders!

Purple Monkey Hamwasher for Space Dishes

[Dal Gurak]

Forget Comic Sans, we have Akima. 

Very droll.

"akima" would actually be a good name for a font.

Yes, but it would have to have both Chinese and Australian characteristics... somehow. 

Well ... okay.  I never thought I would post something - I've been reading the comic ever since the one where Hannelore asked Faye to make her a Tom Collins for barf-cleaning purposes.  So however long that's been.  But I've only been reading the forums for a couple of years, and had nothing really important to say.  But today I have made an account in order to post.  I hope I'm not going to piss anyone off or offend anybody - it's not intentional, and I apologize in advance.

The name of that font you're talking about?  I propose it should be called Waltzing Akima.  Sing along:

Once a liumang, camped by a heliu
Under the shade of a Katsura tree
He sang as he watched and waited for his Biluochun
"Who'll come a-waltzing Akima with me?"

Waltzing Akima, Waltzing Akima
Who'll come a-waltzing Akima with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited for his Biluochun
"Who'll come a-waltzing Akima with me?"

Okay.  Had to get that out there.  Again, I thought it was funny and kind of awesome - not trying to offend anybody.  I'll go back to lurking.  Everyone take care.

[cesium133]

I for one welcome our new robot hegemons.

Fortunately, it appears we don't have much to worry about in our universe... yet:

An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong

The blog that that's from also has several attempts at AI-invented recipes. One of them someone actually tried to make, and they claim it's not completely horrible.

[Kugai]

Baby steps folks, baby steps.

[HiFranc]

I can't help but think of these two (guest) strips:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1975
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2231

[Gyrre]

Also, theologically speaking, that's a "no". Since Hanners and her dad are two entirely separate beings as opposed to being two parts of the same trinity (see the term "god head"). The deeper stuff is kind of hard to wrap your head around at first. Ravi Zacharias helps.

Not all Christians accept the teaching of the Trinity as being anything but recycled Babylonian paganism adopted for marketing reasons.

...?
If he's teaching that sort of thing, that might explain why I haven't had a small group use any of his lesson plans for the past 8 years.

I did like the timey-whimey stuff he covered.

[Method of Madness]

recycled Babylonian paganism

I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to make the concept of the trinity sound awesome, but you did.

[cesium133]

Thinking of AI taking over the world, here's one that writes very eccentric gay porn. 

[Case]

Thinking of AI taking over the world, here's one that writes very eccentric gay porn. 

Lacks a bit in imagination, compared to Pintsize's Twitter.

[Tova]

You're setting the bar pretty high there, Case. 

[OldGoat]

You're setting the bar pretty high there, Case. 

Or low, as the case may be.   

[Jakk Frost]

Didn't Faye give May shit for exactly this objectification?

Yes, but in May's case she walked up to Bubbles and remarked about her posterior so it was more about her being rude than objectification which honestly everybody does and is only a problem if people act on those impulses.

That's not the popular narrative these days, even just looking can be a crime, if you look at the wrong person.

And I'm pretty sure they consider the real life robot sex dolls to be sexually objectifying, at least when the robots look like women.

Well, sex-dolls are sexually objectifying, but then they are inanimate objects.

Well my point was they call sex dolls and even "pocket pussies" or fleshlights sexually objectifying, but they don't apply the same thinking to dildos, which have a much larger market.

[Gyrre]

Your complaint has been noted, Jakk.

However, it should be stated that things are seldom so simple as the terms you've placed them in. Kudos for addressing that a double-standard does exist amongst part of the population in some regards. However, it should also be noted that that's 'one grain of rice weighed against a hundred' so to speak.

[Tova]

This should apply both ways, too.

https://the-orbit.net/greta/2011/12/29/why-yes-but-is-the-wrong-response-to-misogyny/

[pwhodges]

"Yes, but..." is the standard introduction for an example of a "two wrongs make a sort-of right" argument.

[Tova]

Yes.

[JoeCovenant]

Yes.

Butt.

 

[Tova]

Butt me no butts.

[Jakk Frost]

Your complaint has been noted, Jakk.

However, it should be stated that things are seldom so simple as the terms you've placed them in. Kudos for addressing that a double-standard does exist amongst part of the population in some regards. However, it should also be noted that that's 'one grain of rice weighed against a hundred' so to speak.

Well, one could argue that one side makes one grain of rice seem like 100, while the other side makes 100 grains of rice seem like one, and others could argue that both sides do both.

[Gyrre]

"Yes, but..." is the standard introduction for an example of a "two wrongs make a sort-of right" argument.

A double standard is a double standard. And double standards are always wrong. To treat one any other way in any particular instance would be a double standard.

I was trying to point out the much more complex nature of the situation and the relative one-sidedness of the complaint in regards to the context of the matter. Apologies for any miscommunications, sometimes I'm terrible at explaining things.