FairySlayer

Your phone’s predictive algorithm is hella shit

If you were British and were adding “double cream” it would have been even wose.

Ooh! Congratulations on moving one year closer to becoming a curmudgeon like me. BTW I think that neon cake looks hella cool (and much better than the one I made for someone when I was drawing). Here’s to another great year! 

Happy anniversary! The best gift would be to write a fanfic of her OCs and do a dramatic reading by the fireplace after a few glasses of wine. Meanwhile, when she was texting you back her phone probably suggested anal.

I always found autocomplete infuriating because the various words sliding around derail my train of thought while rarely showing the word I wanted in the first place. Besides, I can type faster than it can suggest words anyway.

Ruin…or make betterI?

Definitely, contemporary dystopian fiction doesn't have any scare value: “It's going to be society exactly as messed up as it is today — but on a train!” It almost sounds like a parody, but maybe they're trying to simplify what they think the root causes or possible solutions are… or just take random guesses at how it can always get even worse.

(Yesterday I was talking with someone about They Live! and how boring the first half of the movie is because it's indistinguishable from most major U.S. cities these days.)

The past decades have been even more bizarre than fiction. Imagine if George Orwell saw that people are happy to pay for their own tracking devices and even more eager to share all their most-intimate thoughts and details with all the world’s corporations and governments.

Actually Nixon had just enough shame and/or intelligence to resign before the debate for his impeachment began. The only other U.S. presidents to actually be impeached were Johnson and Clinton (and there have been a bunch of judges, a senator and a cabinet member). I guess Trump really wanted to be able to say that he was the most-impeached person ever. Winning?

Heh, I just re-watched a video from just before the general election in 2016 asking if it was even possible that Trump or Hillary could become the worst U.S. president ever. After listing several other asshole presidents they argued that GWB would probably hold that title forever. It all seems so quaint now. Also I guess SNL needs to make a new episode of “The X Presidents” too.

While I agree about the proximate cause of the attack that they need to be removed and punished, the truth is that Trump is merely the painful symptom of what's been destroying the U.S. for decades, not the cause. As Krystal Ball says, "The ugly truth is that Trump is as American as apple pie."

So why is half the country so angry that they're willing to believe terrible things and blindly follow an absurdly blatant liar and criminal? Many ordinary people are angry, and it's been festering for decades. From where they're sitting, the politicians and corporations have been steadily destroying their lives and the lives of their children just to make an extra buck. The spectacular failures of the pandemic response at every level of government does not help with that anger either. And sadly Trump and many other bad actors are very good at using that anger.

Meanwhile most news outlets have found it more profitable to keep people ignorant and polarized, ever fearful that either the bad brown man or the bad orange man is coming for us… while it's actually an entrenched corrupt system that’s slowly killing us from the inside.

Unless we fix the many underlying problems in America we'll only be seeing more and more of this violence all around the country.

(And the preppers are laughing their asses off right about now.)

I’d meant to pick up some tongs, but instead handed stuff out with a ladle as I froze my butt off outside. (Though in fairness, the ladle was also good for smacking hands when people tried to reach into the bowl.) Though most kids on the side street stop before they get to our buildings… for various reasons.

Anyway, if 2021 continues like 2020 then next year the kids will be in camouflaged hazmat suits and combat gear when they come to your door demanding water, canned goods, and all the toilet paper they used on your house in years past.

> ‘Hotel Pijpslet’

Google didin’t give me any useful definition results, but of those few it did I can’t help but feel I’ve been added to a government watchlist…

Your phone knows how stressed you are and wants you to legally get some herbal remedy.

Even still, it’s a refreshing change from the usual results of “Marsha Marsha Marsha!”

Let's celebrate: Espresso for everyone!

Someone will have to write a fanfic based on that one… especially if it doesn’t have enough bears.

Chrome simply recognized that all mainstream entertainment is pretty much the same these days and gave up trying to keep track of the supposed differences. At this point I think a lot of straight-laced people would be delighted to revel in the sex lives of their favorite fictional characters. Expect a lot of new hits on your fanfics.

I’ve mostly been trimming my own hair, bit by bit and occasionaly buzzing it all off, for over 15 years. In other words, I don’t care how awful it looks because it distracts from my face, my body, my personality, etc.

It must be my age, but M*A*S*H: The Musical gave me the best laugh. Now you have me wondering which modern actors would be cast for the main roles… and who would play the helicopters?

Still, all of them are fun. Now I’m almost tempted to start the process to have some grandkids of my own.

@JayDee I wish you got to write the action for when Bree from Narnia tracks this guy down and punishes him properly  – whatever that means. (The guy is a horse’s ass, so it should fit.)

With most people going out of their way to be a bit kinder, this is even sadder. If only there were CDC guidelines to stop the spread of ignorance…

Best of luck as you continue to deal with it all.

How many pages are the rejection letters? After a point I’d hope they’d at least give you some notes. Maybe your brain is pausing the second book until you get some kind of resolution on the first? Perhaps I shouldn’t be using question marks this way?

The third book should just be an anthology of your many original stories.

BTW the actual reason something is rejected often isn’t even what you think: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3266

Even better, a bunch of Ukrainians get to enjoy the story as well, since they’re already listening to all the recordings “for quality assurance purposes” anyway.

At my age I’d be happy for any pussy that comes my way.  Also, I vaguely remember an old manga about a young man who saves a cat’s life but gets badly injured in the process, so the Cat Goddess turns the cat into a young girl to thank him “properly,” whatever that means.* Hopefully your kindness will be appreciated in some nice way too.

 * I just can’t resist!

At least it didn’t suggest “a pickup truck,” which would mean your phone thinks you use people. No, it sounds like your phone think’s you’re a nice guy and wants you to be happy.

Unless you're a tree counting your rings, time is arbitrary. Still, I'm glad you're still around to share your imagination and wisdom. Just remember to make your celebration more about the people in your life — because they get to decide where to put you when you're old.

Have an awesome day and thoroughly enjoy this next solar cycle.