Seems pessimistic.

What about the people who can’t afford to live and need to steal to eat? Those downtrodden because some rich CEO asshole decided to try to replace them with AI, and they lost everything being unemployed and having the price of everything shoot through the roof for no goddamned reason?

What about those people?

I’m not saying that there aren’t people who steal to fund their addiction, but that’s not the only motivator.

We’re all humans.

This is my viewpoint too.

If I’m a witness to shoplifting, I’m not a witness to shoplifting.

Unless you’re a kleptomaniac, you’re probably not stealing because you want to. You’re stealing because you have to.

Corporations have insurance, and they’re not people; so if they lose some money in the transaction, I am unbothered.

Wayyyyyy more than that is wasted.

I think that’s a positive. Americans, in the absence of law enforcement, will fight to defend themselves and their property (and vicariously, the property of others).

Stopping thievery, is, unto itself, a just cause.

I live in Canada, there’s surprisingly little pickpocketing here too, and we don’t have the same gun/weapon laws.

Like the Americans, we’ll straight up beat you to a pulp if you try some shit, and we’re very sorry about that… You motherfucker.

To be fair, they’re going to see the movies in the theatre, so the characters in this comic don’t know what they’re in for yet.

The more important thing is that one of the people in the cartoon is much happier/more comfortable in the second frame…

Canada. It’s generally easy and free (no direct cost to me). I try to avoid having to go to my doctor whenever possible and I live with a nurse (and my doc knows that). Usually when I send him a message, either by email or by calling, he’ll have a follow up question or two (sometimes none) then decide a course of action and move right to implementation. Sometimes that’s sending a script to my local pharmacy, sometimes that’s a referral to a specialist. Who knows? I haven’t seen the guy in years. But if he made the request for me to go in, I would without hesitation.

I know my experience isn’t the same as others, since my doctor and my spouse have actually worked together; but still. It’s all free and there’s usually minimal waiting.

The only significant delays I’ve heard of in Canadian healthcare relate to major procedures when the issue is non-critical. Like getting an MRI as a precaution, to make sure things aren’t messed up or something (IDK what MRIs are used to diagnose, I am not a doctor).

Everything is triaged, so if you’re not actively dying from a thing, and you need a big piece of equipment to scan you to figure something out, you’re going to be waiting a while.

I like the cut of your jib.

None of these answers are wrong.

Pretty sure we had CRTs in highschool, back when I was a teen many years ago that were Kia brand… IIRC.

Crazy, right?

Oh damn.

Manufacturing of any kind always causes an environmental impact. This is the way of things.

The one thing we can’t get that would mitigate the environmental costs of making stuff, is if stuff was built to last…

Honda built a rocket

Me: of course they did.

They launched the rocket

Me: naturally.

They landed the rocket.

Me: on the first try?

Maybe, but he had already spun the fake news narrative to his deciples, so it was easy for them to hand wave all of the convictions away as fake news based on absolutely no evidence.

Given the relative intelligence of each set of followers, I’m not surprised that they could do the mental gymnastics to disregard such a verdict.

Meanwhile, I’m not even sure Gaiman has been convicted, but he’s being treated like he’s guilty by the public, so here we are.

I just haven’t bothered to keep up to date with his situation because, though I previously enjoyed things with his name attached, I’ve never been “a fan” so to speak, of the man himself. I neither liked, nor disliked him. Now I have reasons to dislike him. IDK. I’m just some guy.

You see, the difference is… Supporting Gaiman makes you seem like a rape enabler… And anything related to rape is bad.

You want to discriminate against gay/trans/black/brown people? It might be distasteful, but it’s not universally considered bad. There’s lots of people out there willing to vote a Nazi into the white house and cheer him on as he breaks the law to deport anyone and everyone he wants to just because they’re “not from here” (or they think they’re “not from here”).

See, they’re not the same thing.

Spear phishing disagrees with you.

If you’re targeting a specific individual, cloning their SIM or performing another number hijack or even intercepting their SMS in flight, are all viable.

For broader, more general attacks SMS is usually enough to keep anyone out.

Honestly, probably not much less secure than SMS.

You must play along.

The fact is that the reality is thinly veiled. They know that if they were not being paid to be there to interview me, they wouldn’t be, but they “tow the company line” anyways. I mirror the same back at them… Oh yeah, profits uh huh, shareholders, yeah, totally.

They know I don’t care about any of that, but if you’re not willing to at least try to pretend, then it demonstrates that you lack the diplomatic skill to hear, understand, and feedback the horseshit that the company will peddle, and you’ll be able to survive all the HR, managerial, team building nonsense they’re going to throw at you while you’re there.

They know you don’t care and just want the paycheque, because that’s what they want too. Nobody needs to say it.

Good point.

… Compared to what?

If you compare to MacOS, then yeah, maybe.