Rayquetzalcoatl

The way it generated “See that ~/ at the end? That’s your entire home directory.” is so funny. It’s like a threat 😂

This cannot be real lol

Yes

What’s the first punchline? I see one punchline.

I’m gonna defer to women’s experiences on this one, as I don’t experience it myself.

I think I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying mate. The comic is totally different if you remove the punchline, you’re right.

I mean I don’t experience being asked when my period was or having symptoms I report being flippantly put down to “being a woman”.

The point of this comic is to express frustration about a current and long-standing issue I’ve heard many women express frustrations about, which I understand to be: doctors not really listening to them when they list specific issues or symptoms, and “railroading” them into it not being something to worry about, or putting it down to them being a woman.

The question can be seemingly routine, but as a guy who doesn’t experience this kind of thing when I go to the docs I can certainly imagine how frustrating it could be to encounter these questions upfront and to feel unheard, especially by a medical professional when I’m worried about something.

I wonder if that’s a bad analogy or just not a very good one 🤔

Haha, sorry yeah it was a bit much

“well you don’t have to get defensive about it… Is YOUR whole personality asking people if their whole personality is asking other people if it’s their whole personality to ask people if travelling is their whole personality?”

shitting

Wait, so your sibling went to Thailand in a bungalow paid for by your dad, and dated a prostitute who was scamming your sibling? Or scamming other people?

Right? It’s so hostile 😂

“What else?” is such a hostile way to engage in small talk. Yeah okay so somebody responded with a bit of a vague answer, but “tell me about yourself” is hardly a specific question.

This is just normal small talk openers; they don’t really get you anywhere, but they open a dialogue and you can both work to keep the conversation in the air from there.

For the asker in this situation, I would have tried following up by asking “oh cool, where did you go?”, which might have advanced the conversation and potentially led to a more specific conversation about one particular place or experience.

If I was answering this question, I’d struggle. I’d probably try to avoid answering with my job, so I’d probably pause (which is totally allowed in conversation), and honestly I think I’d ask what they wanted to know - because I find the question too vague. If I absolutely HAD to answer, though, it depends on a couple of bits of context. Firstly, who is asking? What’s my relationship to them? Secondly, where are we?

If they’re somebody I’ve just met at a pub, I’d give a wider answer that opens up responses, like “well, I’m big into music - I play a lot of guitar and bass, and I’m actually on the lookout for some new artists to check out – are you listening to anything this week?”

I know it’s a vague answer and might even come off deflective, but it’s a hard question to answer and really I want to move off of speaking in vagueries as soon as possible when I’m talking to people because I find it boring.

I’m curious about and interested in people, and don’t find it hard to be invested in things people tell me, but when you stick on the very very surface level and non-specific details like “I like music” or “I like food” or “I like travelling”, it’s sort of difficult to find anything to latch on to without digging deeper to specifics.

Not that I’m gifted socially, I’m not saying that (and in actuality I find socialising pretty nerve-wracking and uncomfortable a lot of the time, you might be able to tell lol), I’m just thinking through what I would do and have done in these situations. Also yes yes this comic is a joke obviously etc., this is more of a response to the comments.

Well, yep, Marjorie Taylor Greene sure is revolting.

Remember when she physically chased and harassed an 18-year old school shooting survivor?

She opposes women’s right to choose when it comes to abortion, she undermined the USA’s response to COVID, and she’s fought for the USA to lift sanctions on Russia and parroted Russian propaganda.

She’s opposed attempts to invest in America’s infrastructure, she has attempted to ban US embassies from displaying pride flags, she calls herself a “proud Christian nationalist”, she doesn’t believe in climate change - the list goes on.

I’m only really scratching the surface here, but this person is disgusting and dangerous to have near the levers of power.

It is a mockery of any sort of political system that somebody with as cruel, backwards, selfish, and narrow a world view as Greene has climbed the ranks and is able to affect the lives of millions of other people.

She is a mean-spirited, stupid, greedy, and arrogant prick.

Just a heads up for anybody seeing this: not only is this disinformation program obviously a bad idea that will serve only to muddy the waters, but this guy loves AI and is presumably using it to build the whole thing. What a fucking mess.

Y’all 🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠

But also Cloudflare confirmed an issue:

Hahaha uh oh!

…who isn’t living paycheck to paycheck?

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Ah you know what, fair enough. As much as, to me, all these universes feel like the inauthentic, uncreative, soulless machinations of an algorithm-led profit committee, I’m sure much of the art I like is shitty pretentious drivel to other people.

The world is fucked, everything is hard. If people like this, I’m happy they’ve got something that makes their life feel easier, just for a bit.