Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)M

MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

Posts
6
Comments
1083
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Vim

    Jump

  • Holy shit, that looks real.

    I... Don't have words. It's beautiful. And it's terrifying.

  • Leaky

    Jump

  • Yeah, if the woman is lucky.

    But the woman in this comic doesn't look like she's rolling in spare money to replace a buck that still mostly works.

    (Having to spend time to carry water on a walking path isn't usually a signal of extravagant wealth.)

    She probably threatens the bucket with replacement daily, though.

  • Zombies

    Jump

  • Yep! So at first humans don't think the zombies have any higher brain function, since the zombies cannot have any higher brain function when they smell a human.

    Eventually humans figure out that hiding their scent can provide them some protection. Then they realize they've been killing sentient people when defending themselves against the zombies.

    There's a whole plotline in between where humans think it's just a few zombies that are sentient, including the title character - "the Girl with All the Gifts".

  • Supertroopers

    Jump

  • Bread

    Jump

  • We have the best comics on the Internet, because of jail.

  • Leaky

    Jump

  • Lol. But that bucket isn't going to get fired because it provides balance and still almost doubled the woman's carrying capacity.

  • Unfortunately

    Jump

  • Tragic.

  • Karate School

    Jump

  • Lol. I would just go with it. If learning Hadouken with friends is wrong, I don't want to be right.

  • Zombies

    Jump

  • You may want to check out "The Girl With All the Gifts" - book or movie.

    The Zombies turn out to be able to reason (whenever they don't smell prey) and are able to reproduce to sustain their own numbers.

    This turns the story into a humans vs neanderthals, or homo-sapiens vs homo-superior, kind of situation.

  • "Woke"

    Jump

  • Yeah!

    Weirdly, The Orville is the recently created media that stands closest, in my opinion.

    I think it's a far cry from DS9.

    And I'm pretty sure I don't share many politics with Seth MacFarlane.

    But The Orville genuinely prioritizes asking the audience to reflect on tough topics through a lens of empathy and compromise.

  • "Woke"

    Jump

  • Jadzia Dax presents very strongly as fem but behaves very outwardly as masc.

    But the bit that matters is that characters we're meant to admire chose to accept Dax as they presented at any given time, without giving them needless crap for it.

    I recall most LGBT characters on TV at the time had to accept a studio mandated minimum quota of jokes at their expense.

    Dax was refreshingly different, in being allowed to present as LGBT and as a heartthrob love interest.

    (And bonus kudos to Garak the Simple Taylor for also being an LGBT heart-throb love interest when that certainly wasn't allowed by the studios.)

    This is a character ultimately designed to satisfy the male gaze and the male desire for a “drinking buddy”; i.e. the “action girl” trope.

    I mean, yeah. You're very correct that Dax is about male gaze much more than Trans representation.

    But this sign I had made special for Star Trek applies once again:

    Empathy through horniness still technically counts as progress.

    Lol.

  • "Woke"

    Jump

  • Lol. I'm gonna steal that. The first word of the first episode intro is indeed, pretty politically neutral.

  • "Woke"

    Jump

  • We Stan Rom in this house.

    If you haven't seen Ron's guest appearance in Star Trek: Lower Decks, be sure to check it out. It's a delight.

  • "Woke"

    Jump

  • Slight correction but TOS didn't have the first interracial kiss. A very, very early one, but not the first.

    Do I recall correctly that Trek did have the first one aired at primetime? I feel like I read that somewhere, but I don't have a source.

  • Biden, Dems Suddenly Realize TikTok Ban Means TikTok Will Be Banned

    Jump

  • Somebody's bribe money check cleared.

  • Walgreens CEO Distressed to Learn That Locking Everything Up Keeps People From Buying It

    Jump

  • Walgreens decided that underpaying and understaffing the pharmacy is their new secret to profitability.

    It's one of the faster enshitifications I've seen. Last time I had a prescription filled at Walgreens, I had plenty of time in line to realize that my stupid shopping choice could also actually get me killed this time.

  • Walgreens CEO Distressed to Learn That Locking Everything Up Keeps People From Buying It

    Jump

  • Lol. I'm guessing they earned this discovery after an agile data driven pivot away from keeping the front doors of the store locked all day...

  • On the internet it's forever

    Jump

  • Unhireable. A real tragedy.

  • Elon Musk Reportedly Emerges As a Potential Intel Buyer, Involving Qualcomm & Global Foundries In This Blockbuster Deal

    Jump

  • Yeah. Rockefeller pretty much owned the government in his heyday, too.

    And then at some point he didn't anymore. Money can buy power, but it does run out eventually.

    Rockefeller was a lot smarter than Musk, and got a bit ahead of it with publicity stunt donations, before his influence ran out.

    Musk thinks he can achieve a better outcome by controlling the media or the courts.

    I think it's objectively true that controlling the media does work, but I also think Musk wildly overestimates his own competence, and is in for a worse time than Rockefeller had.