That’s supposed to keep you from being monitored by bad actors over public Wi-Fi, iirc.

There’s a guy on the internet who does videos comparing Vancouver real estate with literal European castles of a similar price. “Not livable” money in Vancouver can get you “has gardens and outbuildings with servant’s quarters” in some parts of Europe.

Ok… I’ve never seen on a log on a plate before.

Ah, the ol’ Reddit switch-a-roo. Hold my relevant topic, I’m going in!

And my axe!!

“Oh yes sure please make my comfort food more difficult to eat thanks”

I’m right there with you. Serving shrimp tail-on might as well be serving something on a log instead of a plate.

iirc, that’s the protocol that lets a connected device turn a display on via HDMI.

I’m a simple man. You go into ad hominem territory, I leave the conversation. See ya.

How would you have written this comic to get the idea across, then?

I realize that. The person above seemed to think that everything in this clearly allegorical comic is somehow intended to be taken literally.

I mean, they can rein them in or not. I really don’t care either way, because I’m going to leave most of them off anyway. I turn off the obvious ads, of course, but almost everything else too. Basically, unless it’s something that I can take direct action on or someone I know who is intentionally trying to contact me, it doesn’t get a notification.

No. What is actually happening in the comic is that a character is having a discussion with another person (not a racist conversation, because sea lions are not sentient beings despite what is about to happen). Treating it as anything more than that is reading something into the story not intended by the original comic. Not everything is so literal, particularly with Malki comics.

Not gonna cry over what the victims of racism do to racists.

Eh…I dunno. I’m not going to tone police anyone, and consequences for bad actions are definitely good, but do two very-wrongs make a kinda-right? I’m not sold.

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Look…if you don’t vibe with the comic, that’s fine. It’s just obviously not about all the stuff that you seem to think it’s about.

Yes, I think you’re correct, but using browsers to coerce the web back into static documents will result in companies creating their own apps so that they can continue to deliver experiences. And the past 10+ years has shown that users will absolutely follow them.

Dang, that comic will be ten years old next week.

Racism justifies harassment and home invasion? I don’t think I can necessarily agree with that. Consequences, yes. But harassment? I’ll have to think about it.

The point Malki was making, I think (and the way I take it) is less about the purpose or content of the discourse and more about the harassment veiled in false civility as a means of silencing discussion.

There’s also an element of Person C inserting themselves into a private conversation between Person A and Person B, even if that conversation is being held in a public place.

Pretend he’s not a sea lion, but a conservative, and you’ll get the intended effect.

It’s not a whatabout, but since you have your mind made up, by all means don’t let me get in your way with facts.

No, in theory, they work like a well-funded savings account: you put in a predictable amount of money every month, and they store it for you until you need to withdraw it; with an added benefit that they would allow you to withdraw more than you have (internally using other people’s money to cover the difference) under the assumption that any shortfalls that result will all come out in the wash eventually; some people overpay, some people underpay, and you invest what you have in low-risk investments in the meantime. All insurance companies work like that in theory, or at least that’s what they tell regulators. But in reality, they don’t pay out nearly enough to provide the consistency people need.

Yeah, I get it, but like…the same could be said for emails in a world where phishing exists.

With stuff like Tesla and Twitter, it can keep away the weird nerds who search those terms in hopes of white-knight-sealioning a conversation into oblivion. I think it just became part of the lexicon.