Sunday, November 25, 2018


2075

OK, so we've gone from "the Black Mirror-Mythbusters scale" to "the worst thing about modern technology is that it doesn't monitor you closely enough" in barely a week!


2076

Look everyone, another incredibly realistic conversation such as you might have with your own friends

Monday, November 19, 2018

Friday, November 16, 2018


2073

I know Carl always used to say this, but man, Black Hat Guy (BHG) has really lost his touch, hasn't he? This isn't even a troll, it's something you might write on Twitter and immediately forget about. Making an actual comic out of it is deeply cringeworthy. What's supposed to be the joke? That BHG actually convinced the committee to do this? That BHG is just saying the committee did it? The responses? If the responses, which response? The two people saying it's a good idea, or Megan, the Voice of Reason? Each possibility is worse than the last.

Monday, November 12, 2018

2071

Note Randall once again getting upset about the idea of other people having opinions he disagrees with. Note too how he reflexively conflates "terrible opinion[s]" with "awful" people.

And what's wrong with hunting unwanted stray animals for sport, anyway? If no one is adopting them from the pound, they're really just taking up space that could be used to collect other stray animals from the streets. The longer an animal resides in a pound, the less chance it has of being eventually adopted. Such animals are doomed to be euthanized in any case. Why not hunt them for sport? You could charge admission to these events and use the proceeds to fund operations and maybe even expansion at the animal pound.

Friday, November 9, 2018

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

2069

A reader says:

$70 million in funding and Beto still couldn't get chosen for Smash

But I want to talk about this crap from yesterday:


This may be the epitome of lazy millennial virtue-signaling, at least as it pertains to voting. "Check[ing] in with friends and family [to] make sure they know when and where they're voting" is not even a little bit helpful on Election Day, and it's shockingly idiotic for Randall to suggest that it is. If you don't know when and where you're voting by Election Day, it is because you either failed to register (in which case you in fact cannot vote no matter how much you get hectored by twerps who read XKCD) or failed to make even the most rudimentary effort to learn about the election (in which case we would all appreciate it if you did not vote, thank you very much). What does Randall imagine here? That everyone is just sitting around waiting for his dickhead millennial cousin to call up and remind him to go and vote? If you wanted "to help", you should have done so three to six weeks ago, before the registration deadlines had passed in most states. Or you could have volunteered at a precinct-- you know, those places where people actually go to vote. Oh, sorry, I forgot, that last one might actually require some effort.

  2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job