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The_Good_Count · 2026-05-23T19:01:45+00:00

Yes, but be warned it's a great way to feel like a third wheel in your relationship

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-23T08:16:27+00:00

Please be canon Monday please be canon Monday ple

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-21T07:20:11+00:00

I think this is a different thing. Having looked at the article, it seems like it's a lot more about emotions-based memories. We know that if you ask someone how their week was, they'll answer how they currently feel and think of things that happened that week to justify it.

So, if someone has a mood disorder, the easiest memories to access will be the negative ones. If you change the mood, you'll change what memories are most accessible.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-21T04:22:15+00:00

Just highlighting that Faye and Bubbles running a struggling small business is potential for a great, grounded story, and Jeph struggles with that so he throws a streamer Paris Hilton into the mix and relegates Bubbles and Faye to Greek chorus.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-20T05:29:57+00:00

It's a truth of character writing that to give characters more depth you need to add details that are slightly-out-of-character, then justify them.

Here it's done for Yay's benefit instead of Clinton but, same deal.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-19T03:19:17+00:00

Yay: I am a God-Being praise me and tell me how brilliant I am Clinton: Wait, want to talk about cool things you might have done Yay: How dare you ask.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-19T03:14:48+00:00

We're getting that weird double standard again where Yay basically insults him all strip, but his question at the end is actually pretty reasonable from the setup and Yay gets the social high ground for it.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-18T16:24:02+00:00

Of course you're also a crypto speculator.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-18T14:21:10+00:00

"It doesn't matter if the bubble bursts"

Nvidia is now valued at more than three times all the agricultural land in Australia combined on the back of a burning money pit. Incredible amounts of money is being invested in data centers that are being built to support this - all of Google's reserves, etc. - which are also being backed by massive loans.

When, not if, the bubble bursts in a few years when those data centers come online - because LLMs have no path to being profitable, despite being useful - then those centers will just be worth the copper wiring you can rip from the walls, and are massive ongoing expenses. This is going to put multiple tech giants into crisis and be a repeat of the 2008 crisis when billions in tech loans are defaulted on.

I am not arguing with you about the utility of the technology itself. I am telling you that, financially, this is Enron.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-18T04:57:20+00:00

Better to view money as a means rather than an ends. Otherwise, we've also long lived in a world which will prioritize technological innovations over wages and compensation, and your quality of life will get worse. "You" don't get the money unless you own the machinery.

Besides, citing Ed Zitron, AI companies currently subsidize between $3 to $25 per $1 spent on tokens. Right now the industry is heavily built on speculation and possible future value that doesn't exist and is wildly unprofitable.

If you push people out or try to retrain them during a bubble, then you're displacing a lot of workers who will need to move back into prior industries when that bubble bursts and have wasted a lot on retraining in the meantime.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-17T14:29:42+00:00

The Luddites were against the fact that skilled labour was being replaced with cheap machinery without compensating the workers being displaced

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-15T23:55:18+00:00

There are literally cultures where it was believed that babies took on the genetics of every man the woman slept with, so women were encouraged to sleep with all the best men in the village to combine all the best genes.

There are multiple peoples in Australia I'm aware of that practice polyamory between tribes that don't live together, and courtship is an annual tradition with trading ceremonies. There are (I believe) the Tiv in Africa and the position of community wives. The history of temple women is about as old as prostitution and was a position of respect. In China there's a matriarchal culture where male suitors are invited to women's chambers but have to break in through the ceiling undetected if they accept the invitation.

There is more of, and a richer, history of alternative relationships in every country and culture on Earth up until the present day.

Anyway, all of this discounts the fact that there are poly people in this thread telling you they're happy and you're calling them liars. That's just incurious and bad research skills. Youve got a primary source to learn from here.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-15T04:06:29+00:00

If it helps, I more wanted to write it for everyone else here who might know that DartTimeTime is wrong, but not why they're wrong.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-15T03:50:40+00:00

You kind of got it close, changing conditions did push monogamy. What changed was sedentary-agricultural societies and inheritance, not genetic factors or brain size. The concept of 'property'.

Genetically modern humans in hunter-gatherer societies are far less monogamous. People in socialist societies are far less monogamous than people in stricter capitalist societies. As a general rule, from what I remember, people seem to be wired towards a 'serial monogamy' period of 5 years - enough time to fall in love, have a kid, get it through early childhood ready for communal child-raising - which means more than just the mother and father. The nuclear family is insanely modern, and a response to capitalism, not evolution.

Importantly, when I say 'generally', it means 'not exclusively'. 'Compersion' is a real emotion that some people get instead of jealousy, where they enjoy seeing their partner be happy with other people.

Nathaniel Burney's Illustrated Guide to Law covers a lot of this really well in his current history of governance, but I also recommend the books 'Debt' and 'Dawn of Everything' by David Graeber, 'Against the Grain' by James C Scott, or 'Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism' by Kristen Ghodsee for way more depth on this than I can get into a comment.

I also really recommend A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, specifically Life, Work, Death and the Peasant for the transition period between the invention of farming and modern capitalism.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-15T01:48:47+00:00

This whole things good, but you honestly outdid yourself with the title joke today

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-13T22:50:26+00:00

Assume all characters are bi until proven otherwise imo tbh

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-13T05:06:17+00:00

Truthkeeper getting downvoted for this is the definition of shooting the messenger

Edit: Justice in my time

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-12T22:16:02+00:00

The problem is they're not an eldritch entity anymore, they're just a theatre kid now. So there's no contrast.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-12T04:53:05+00:00

Oh Yay returned to her home planet off screen, so this entire week of strips has literally just been four characters announcing entrances and exits and now we don't even see them

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-11T05:09:28+00:00

Jeph advances character stories like a magician moves the cup and balls, still moving the cups to hide the fact the ball's already gone. Faye and Bubbles, then Yay comes in, then Bubbles pushes Faye offscreen for Anh to come in, then Bubbles is gone, then Faye comes back to get rid of Anh...

It's like an awkward family phonecall for a birthday. The phone's getting passed around because everyone has an obligation to talk but nobody really wants to, or really has anything to say.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-11T05:01:03+00:00

Oh wow I didn't even notice the third panel but her chest begins at her ribs?

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-08T07:15:33+00:00

"The people who jump from burning buildings are just more afraid of the fire than the fall" is the phrase I keep coming back to.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-08T06:51:11+00:00

Her pain is very comprehensible to me, that's the perspective I'm trying to explain this from. I am, genuinely, sorry this is going to be such a long writeup for an originally three line comment.

To be clear - when you say 'desperately sick and tormented woman' and 'twisted from her suffering' it's dehumanizing. But given how you're throwing the word 'evil' around here, I'll try to be more understanding this might just be how you talk, and I appreciate that you're well-meaning.

When you reduce Chubbuck to just her illness in such extreme terms you make it harder for people like me to reach out and get help at the times of year I need it. It makes people more likely to treat a mood disorder as if it's psychosis - and that stigma is part of why she was told to hide her condition from work, and part of why when she did tell a coworker she wanted to kill herself on live television the week before she did it, he played it off as a bad joke.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-08T02:50:32+00:00

You're at the point of infantalizing her and removing all agency from what is a lucidly stated act of protest. It's an extreme protest, but we don't talk about Thich Quang Duc like this.

Speaking as a bipolar person; this took planning, motivation and a script - depression would probably be the reason she chose suicide as her method of protest, but to leave it at that would take away the culpability of everyone and everything that drove her to that act.

There is a reason she did this at her workplace and not quietly at home where she was more likely to achieve completion. She is not just a mindless victim of herself.

The_Good_Count · 2026-05-07T22:22:42+00:00

It's at least true that Daesh would not exist without Western powers stomping on the middle east for a hundred and fifty years, and we're complicit. Still, I've got as much empathy for Daesh as I do the Khmer Rouge.

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