I do post a lot, and in frantic spurts before life pulls me away.
I also categorically don't care. Crucify me if you will. A lot of artists put their signatures in the comics themselves. I don't have the willpower or desire to go on a hunt just to shitpost.
He's actually fine, look at how tiny that sword is compared to his chest.
He's pretending to lose because this world is wayyyy behind the curve on starting the industrial revolution and he's trying to trick their primitive oligarchy into realizing fundamental economic truths.
Like, obviously a knight cant kill a dragon if you think about it, right? Metal isn't going to stop fire breath and if something that outweighs you a hundred times over hits you you're not going to survive it.
Tbh, if AI was freeing up labour and people would still get the same pay without having to work, nobody would complain. The issue is that people who's work got "freed up" don't get paid.
the difference is that when the textile loom was invented, industrial revolution just started and cities weren't built yet. Today, they are, and since growth generates the majority of human labor, you're facing a huge unemployment crisis in the next decades.
yeah and then it fell and then the medieval ages started where you only had buildings made of stone if they were either fortresses for the rulers or monasteries/churches. and then the great fire of london happened in 1666 and people realized it's a stupid idea to build cities of wood and rebuilt everything in stone. that's what i was referencing when i said that "cities weren't built yet" at the very start of the modern age.
I'm currently thinking of the scene in Futurama where Bender (the robot) lies on the couch and mourns "oh if we only had some kind of machine that does the work for us". Very ironic. What if robots gain some basic pride and demand basic rights, including limited work times and such? Who does the work for them?
Robots with sapience are granted rights and don't make refrigerators or vacuum cleaners capable of abstract thinking and feelings. I'm looking at you Samsung. Washing machines and microwave ovens do no need to be "smart"
A properly managed gold horde can be used to invest in infrastructure to increase income. But these assholes will just spend it on useless bullshit and invading their neighbors because nobles lack the education to manage their wealth.
35lbs is the single heaviest weight I have at the moment, and honestly, that's for workouts, not precise measurement. In all honesty, I mostly brought up weights and measures to explain what I meant by "reference materials" as a seperate category that happens to include some books, and is far from confined to them.
All that said, the single most extreme or "esoteric" such thing I own is a 24x36x6inch granite surface-plate I got free when some jackass abandoned it in his girl-friend's garage. No idea the quality or weight of it.
43 Comments
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 127 pts · 343d
Link to the OC: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/540
It's a great series
tshirtman@mas.to · 44 pts · 343d
@Track_Shovel sharing without credit is bad though https://existentialcomics.com/comic/540
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 343d
Bruh, I robbed it off of another feed - they didn't share source. Thanks for the link though
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 343d
Just do a reverse image search before posting.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · -12 pts · 342d
I post way too much to do that.
lime@feddit.nu · 9 pts · 342d
you're arguing that what you are doing is too important and too high-volume to have time to care about crediting artists?
...what's your stance on ai?
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · -3 pts · 342d
I do post a lot, and in frantic spurts before life pulls me away.
I also categorically don't care. Crucify me if you will. A lot of artists put their signatures in the comics themselves. I don't have the willpower or desire to go on a hunt just to shitpost.
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 342d
maybe you should have.
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 342d
You can't be bothered to spend even a single minute to credit the author who's work you are mooching off?
That's what you call a parasite.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · -2 pts · 342d
Ow. My feeling (singular). I hope you liked the post anyway
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 0 pts · 342d
It's actually a repost
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 35 pts · 342d
This dragon would be a very good museum curator if he wasn't currently dying.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 37 pts · 342d
He's actually fine, look at how tiny that sword is compared to his chest.
He's pretending to lose because this world is wayyyy behind the curve on starting the industrial revolution and he's trying to trick their primitive oligarchy into realizing fundamental economic truths.
Like, obviously a knight cant kill a dragon if you think about it, right? Metal isn't going to stop fire breath and if something that outweighs you a hundred times over hits you you're not going to survive it.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 342d
Tell that to this fly thats withstood my meaty slaps and keeps coming back for more.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 343d
Thats fantastic.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 343d
This is gold... wait!
ripcord@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 343d
Existential comics is the best.
nexguy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 343d
"What you need are machines to free up labor"
Clankers?
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 343d
Tbh, if AI was freeing up labour and people would still get the same pay without having to work, nobody would complain. The issue is that people who's work got "freed up" don't get paid.
nexguy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 343d
I think the dragon is a billionaire and is tricking the knight into destroying jobs
untorquer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
Chad luddite
untorquer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 342d
Well most get hired back with the same amount of work at lower pay.
lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 342d
that's the same thing the textile loom did.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 342d
the difference is that when the textile loom was invented, industrial revolution just started and cities weren't built yet. Today, they are, and since growth generates the majority of human labor, you're facing a huge unemployment crisis in the next decades.
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 342d
...what? the city of Rome had a million inhabitants around 0AD
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 342d
yeah and then it fell and then the medieval ages started where you only had buildings made of stone if they were either fortresses for the rulers or monasteries/churches. and then the great fire of london happened in 1666 and people realized it's a stupid idea to build cities of wood and rebuilt everything in stone. that's what i was referencing when i said that "cities weren't built yet" at the very start of the modern age.
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 342d
rome was one of many million-inhabitant cities at the time. baghdad, beijing and chang'e, for example.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 342d
I'm currently thinking of the scene in Futurama where Bender (the robot) lies on the couch and mourns "oh if we only had some kind of machine that does the work for us". Very ironic. What if robots gain some basic pride and demand basic rights, including limited work times and such? Who does the work for them?
Shard@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 342d
Its a funny episode. But its a false dichotomy.
Robots with sapience are granted rights and don't make refrigerators or vacuum cleaners capable of abstract thinking and feelings. I'm looking at you Samsung. Washing machines and microwave ovens do no need to be "smart"
plyth@feddit.org · -2 pts · 342d
Almost everybody. People will realize, wrongly as some may argue, that the abolition of slavery was a mistake.
Not that I agree, but the need will drive morality, like not going vegan or keeping up Neocolonialism.
Etterra@discuss.online · 15 pts · 342d
A properly managed gold horde can be used to invest in infrastructure to increase income. But these assholes will just spend it on useless bullshit and invading their neighbors because nobles lack the education to manage their wealth.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
You can only invest, if there is other people who actually make shit, and are willing to give it to you in exchange for gold.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 343d
"Fuck the G-ride i want the machines that are makin em"
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 343d
Literally me. The only wealth I put stock in is family, friends, food, tools, reference materials and books.
No, I didn't list books twice. There's a lot of shows I keep copies of, also posters, weights, standard measures and such.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 343d
Do you own a Kilo? I've always wanted a noble metal kilo.
squaresinger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d
A tungsten kilo is the only kilo worth having.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 342d
Þe tiniest kilo.
Is tungsten reactive? I þought þey used noble metals because þey were stable.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 343d
35lbs is the single heaviest weight I have at the moment, and honestly, that's for workouts, not precise measurement. In all honesty, I mostly brought up weights and measures to explain what I meant by "reference materials" as a seperate category that happens to include some books, and is far from confined to them.
All that said, the single most extreme or "esoteric" such thing I own is a 24x36x6inch granite surface-plate I got free when some jackass abandoned it in his girl-friend's garage. No idea the quality or weight of it.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 342d
Aww. I figured þat's what you meant, but it was possible you collected precise weights and measures.
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 342d
bunchberry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 342d
real dragons? 🤔
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 342d
You know... Elon musk, Bernard arnaud, Bill Gates... Those dragons !
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 342d
Smaug is only worth like 54 billion, doesn't even make the top tier list.
The ones you ve listed are way wealthier.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 342d
The dragons you name care about power, not gold.