Going by that last panel, Disability Visibility by Alice Wong must be so enthralling that nearby people who are reading Pain: A Political History by Keith Wailoo will stop reading their book to read Disability Visibility over your shoulder.

I remember they used to have door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen. Thinking back on it, we had book stores back then, so people could have gotten encyclopedias from there, so how did encyclopedia salesmen make any sales??

At any rate, at some point, my parents had purchased a short set of encyclopedias. They weren’t as good as the ones at the school or library, but it was something like 4-5 large books.

And despite what people think today, I don’t think those encyclopedias were as good or as accurate as Wikipedia is today. Wikipedia is so nice. If you want to know more about a part that’s not covered well in the article, you can just go look at the source.

There are plenty of body weight exercises like squats and lunges that can strengthen the back. I think more than weights, people simply don’t like to do targeted exercises.

For some reason, I don’t have much of a problem with cat hair, like it just causes itchiness after several hours, but if a cat licks me, I quickly break out in hives.

Often times, when you want clarification about something, you’ll repeat a word that somebody said as a question.

Like, “Do you know why I’m baking a cake?” “A cake?” “A pound cake. Do you know why I’m baking it?”

That’s how I read the second panel the first time, and I was confused.

I realize it’s mostly unrelated to this comic and has outdated ideas of gender roles, but I am reminded of If You Wanna Be Happy by Jimmy Soul.

Strangely, I’ve never had someone say that my username doesn’t check out who also explained clearly why they thought that way. I think this is the second time.

And being called names by strangers online doesn’t really register as anything but noise. I guess if it was in this thread, it would be slightly on topic, but elsewhere, it would probably just lead to reports and blocks.

I wonder if it can be ad hominem if it’s a personal attack that technically bolsters your opponent’s argument. For example, if you’re debating a scientist about some scientific subject, and you call them an egghead or a nerd. I think it still counts.

a lack of intelligence doesn’t necessarily imply that something said by a given person is wrong

This doesn’t seem convincing to me because it’s the exact same sort of criticism you’d make about any other ad hominem statement.

Heraclitus said that no man ever steps in the same river twice.

The change actually makes a lot of sense. If it’s a light reflecting off of a cloud or the atmosphere somehow, which is something that has been called a UFO before, then it’s not flying and it’s not an object.

And it also helps to distance from the “flying saucer” connotation. If UAPs eventually become equivalent to “aliens”, then they’ll be forced to switch the name again, because even if you believe aliens have come to Earth, it simply can’t always be an alien.

The premise that we are talking about, from the comic, is that AI has perfected itself…

Right now, everybody is talking about claims that in the near future, all human jobs will be able to be performed by robots and AI. The reason is that humans are far less efficient than those alternatives. There’s no way that an AI would prefer human labor.

What would an AI get from enslaving humanity? If you compare to humans, let’s say we enslaved farm animals, but that’s because we want something specific from them, like meat or eggs or wool. Humanity has nothing like that to offer AI. At best, we might be like pets, but I don’t think an AI needs a pet.

No, I doubt they’d enslave us. I can think of a few more likely scenarios.

One, AI basically ignores humanity, as long as humanity doesn’t bother it. Similar to how we deal with ants, for example.

Two, AI completely destroys humanity. This could be a direct extermination, or it could be a side effect from AIs fighting each other.

Three, AI destroys the technology and culture of humanity. If we only have wooden clubs, we wouldn’t be much of a threat.

I guess one other option would be if we humans begged the AI to manage us in place of our existing governments. Some AI might be willing to do that.

The last panel isn’t ambiguous. She’s emotionally shattered because her fantasy was destroyed.

My stupid brain… When they said they took the principal to “go live” on a farm, I initially read that as if they were beginning their live stream.

Unfortunately, second-guessing yourself is a vital skill. Imagine if you could never change your mind after your first thought on a subject.

My favorite places that I’ve lived all had transit that was so convenient that I didn’t even own a car. Unfortunately, today I live in a place where there is zero mass transit near my house.

I don’t think I could ever go back to a gas-powered vehicle now, simply because it’s too convenient to just plug my car in at home. For trips, yes, it’s slightly less convenient to charge it than it is to fill up a gas vehicle, but it’s not like it can’t make the trips in a similar amount of time, regardless.

If he has the prince’s memories, then it’s pretty much the same thing, either way.