I always loved this comic.

Yeah just realized you can actually see Lasso in the background of the Paint Bucket comic when rereading them too.

So what are the chances he burned himself to invert his colors to be able to survive the magic wand?

Why is this so epic?

I mean that actually was one of the things that made them so great. Tracking, arrival timer and an easy app.

Literally those being things that the taxi companies had to push to replicate is a good thing it’s a shame we had to give up the idea of properly funded labor and job protection to get it.

Damn… Lucky.

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Usually it’s a badly designed heat sink that’s meant to cause an eventual short so that it has to be replaced. Or just shoddy low material builds. LEDs really can last an obscene amount of time and they don’t die another part does.

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So, I’d say there is some slight issue with replacing all decision makers with AI cause Walmart and Amazon does it for employee efficiency. It means the staff are micro managed and treated like machines the same way the computer is.

Walmart employees are moved around the floor like roombas to never interact with each other and no real availability for customers to get someone. Warehouse workers are overworked by bullshit ideas of efficiency.

Now I get that it could be fixed by having the AI systems designed to be more empathetic but who is choosing how they are programmed? The board still?

We just need good bosses who still interact with their employees on their level. We don’t need AI “replacing” anyone pretty much anywhere, but can be used as a helpful tool.

Woah, he is bad!

God I love Stephen Pastis. Great commentary and the most wholesome dumb crocodile in the world make for some fantastic comics.

I thought for a second there the shadow was the body starting to release its bowels and bladder as he said that…

Now that always makes for a great death, leaving behind a mess for everyone else.

LOL yeah… The “just ignore it all and wear this sweaty plastic thing against your face” crowd is probably getting a much shorter end of the apocalypse stick.

You still got to come out of your head up Zuck’s ass occasionally for air and food.

I love the idea of VR though. Maybe a bucket with fans on it would be a better idea though.

We just aren’t all seeing that it’s worth it to rip all the material out of the planet. Craft it a great expense into complex machines and burn our very ancestors for fuel.

So that a speech to text bot that takes imagined assumptions at exponentially more power can write an email that could be done by a person who could also do more complex tasks or hell even fetch a coffee.

Tech bros just trying to figure out why it’s a good thing to get rid of people they just don’t like from being around them and make it seem like a good thing. And I say that as someone that likes tech and often doesn’t like people.

This is so stupid.

And crypto bros somehow think that this means they are buying energy… But you can’t get it back after it’s burned.

No.