This is me any time I’m going somewhere. If I have to get on a plane at 1PM, I’m arriving in the airport at 9AM at the latest. Otherwise, I just feel increasingly anxious the longer I wait. I’d rather spend three and a half hours sitting in a terminal than be stressing out about whether I’m going to make it in time.

“Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome pope?”

Not to mention, if you miss a payment, you typically have to pay interest on the full original loan from the date you took it out, at some egregiously high interest rate.

More of this, please.

I am quite familiar. Relatively few comics make me actually tear up, but almost all of hers do (as does this one).

Credit where it’s due; his work is excellent.

Not sure why that is! Maybe try copying / pasting the url?

Comic as a whole: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pet-foolery/list?title_no=691801

This episode (part 1): https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pet-foolery/big-jack/viewer?title_no=691801&episode_no=94

Part 2: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/pet-foolery/big-jack-2/viewer?title_no=691801&episode_no=98

Artist is Ben Hed; he has an instagram, as well: https://www.instagram.com/pet_foolery/

Sam Altman’s appeal to humanity is pretty weak. Dude directly took actions that made life worse for a huge number of people, whether because data centers are being erected in their communities, because their friends and loved ones are being victimized by AI-originating scams, because the jobs they went to college to get are being lost to AI, because the internet is being overrun with slop, or simply because they can’t afford ram and storage anymore. He shouldn’t be surprised that, when he antagonized hundreds of millions of people, some of those people are going to take their frustrations out on him. Maybe he should have thought about those potential consequences before he acted - but no, he saw the dollar signs and just couldn’t resist. Now he gets to live in fear.

So you’re saying he has a future career in government?

Even just like… hitting a speed bump would be pretty bad.

I think about it every time I pay for health insurance, personally, which is every paycheck.

Yeah, I mean… Steam holds the vast majority of the market share, but they got there by… having a good storefront that people actually want to buy from. Any of the others could compete on this metric, too, but they choose not to. It’s like a store surrounded by barbed wire and landmines and caltrops complaining that another store gets more business.

Yeah, unfortunately you can get a DWI for pulling over and napping in your car on the side of the road because you didn’t feel safe driving. Because they argue how else did you get there if not by driving. And I suppose no one sober would choose to start drinking on the side of the road in a car.

It’s even worse than that. You can be parked right outside of a bar and still get a DWI, because if you’re in the driver’s seat and could conceivably access the keys, you’re considered to be ‘in control of the vehicle’, which is all it takes. So if you’re going to do this, make sure the car isn’t running, the keys aren’t anywhere near the ignition, and you’re in the back seat.

Ooh, this looks great!

And where are democrats screenings and making this a big deal?

Trump actually (probably accidentally) made a masterful play in 2020. Democrats spent 4 years shutting down his insane-sounding claims that the election was stolen, and the ‘The election was stolen’ rhetoric became so synonymous with crazy that they couldn’t even question the results in 2024 despite obvious interference, and I think it’s still keeping them from putting up a fight over it now. They’re afraid that all of the republicans will just throw everything they said in 2020 right back at them, as if this situation is even remotely the same thing, and that it will make them look like the crazy ones.

“If you want to make a historically accurate moon landing sim, you must first model the universe.” -Carl Sagan

There were even cartoons in the 80s and 90s that made this joke. I vaguely recall a Bugs Bunny cartoon or something similar where the characters were at an auction, and one went to hit another and the auctioneer interpreted it as a bid, and they spent the rest of the show trying to get other people to accidentally place bids, too, to outbid them so they wouldn’t have to pay for it.

I live in one of the bluest states; I actually like our politicians well enough. My district’s house rep in particular has been consistently on the right side of every important vote I’ve checked up on. As a result, though, I don’t exactly have a lot of contact with the crazier part of the population.

Mark my words, someone’s going to make a video game with 100% historical accuracy with this.

he sure is an antichrist

He is anti-Christ.