No complaints about the comic here, but if I/we may go off on a tangent about the subject matter:

To what extent is "destroy the patriarchy" a red herring to get people angry at "men" rather than "sociopathic billionaires of all genders?"

Sexism is still a thing, of course, just like racism and all kinds of other awful shit. But those awful parts of our nature are often stoked by those in control to keep the attention off of them. "No war but class war," as the Lemmings say.

In my little corner of the world, when I see memes about crushing/destroying the patriarchy, it's usually in the social context of a sticker on suburban moms' Stanley cups, or t-shirts, or even occasionally SUVs. They (mostly) hate Trump, sure, but they have no problem with J. K. Rowling or Kamala Harris.

We have two miniature dachshunds, and a 9 year old son. He will occasionally just call them penis dogs and think it's hilarious.

I showed this picture to my wife just to joke txt here's one to not show the boy. Good times. lol.

Somebody with their priorities straight.

I hesitate to even mention the hobby rabbit holes I've gone down thanks to having just one kid.

It is unfortunately not unexpected for me at all, american born into a conservative family.

So many people will literally virtue signal about how they would attack or kill a person who offended them in some way or who deserves it or has it coming, when most of the time they would passively do nothing.

Driving into somebody's kids right in front of them is pretty fucking bad, obviously, so a person doesn't exactly need to be iamverybadass material to go on the attack.

well yeah, I imagine the passing down of the evil is taught much moreso than genetic.

This is basically saying "reject humans, become a Google/Microsoft/Anthropic subsidiary!"

It's really great to see one of our politicians answer questions as if they were actually a public servant concerned with the good of the country. I mean, obviously.

But it's equally tragic how unique it is for a politician to answer like that, and how many people in her own party (in addition to 99% of Republicans) will assume it is BS political talking points to suggest that somebody is serving a high profile political position for any reason other than blind personal ambition.

It cuts to ONE OF the roots of the problem. It's just not the "evil gigacorp" problem.

It's the problem of the effect on the user, regardless of how evil or altruistic the AI and its creator are.

I have lamented in a few comments recently about how many people seem to think the purpose of technology is to make it so they don't have to put effort into their life. They don't need to learn, and they don't need to create. They just need the right technology and a good enough bank balance to pay for it.

I'm a tech person but for the last couple years I have made my hobbies and home life as much about nature and life sciences and physically interacting with the outdoors, building shit, taking care of my animals, etc. It has been very very good.

Absolutely.

It's almost funny, like they are going through a checklist to retcon everything they ever said about their opponents to be projection.

Of course, a lot of it was genuine projection because that's how they think.

Plus obviously it's not funny to watch a cult of personality take hold so easily and wreck so much for so many.

When I did my taxes this year it asked if I wanted to open a Trump Account for my kid, so that it would receive any future deposits the government gave out.

It was so disturbing and disgusting to see something that gross in writing in a real-world context.

No fucking thanks.

Better use the self-checkout while you still can!

https://www.gs1us.org/industries-and-insights/by-topic/sunrise-2027

I remember seeing that as an image with text on it ages ago before we started calling those things memes.

The picture was something like generic young bombshell blonde in a swimsuit, I want to say.