As a person who's job is threatened by AI, I still refuse to blame the technology. The problem with AI is capitalism, and any ire directed at the technology is just a distraction. If all our needs were meet and we had better limits on environmental destruction, it'd only be aesthetically bad instead of morally bad.

we haven't gotten to you yet ;3

we hate Steven Universe here? when?

You have a lot of confidence for someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. You haven't brought up overall image tones or anything "clearly"

As I previously mentioned, there's no reason to think there isn't a jump in time between panel 1 and 2. She hears something on the TV, only to later realize while working that there's no reason for her to continue if she's already been written off as worthless. Both the inconsistencies in her eyes and in the grass could easily be compression artifacts (zoom in on her hair to see very blocky compression artifacts as the algorithm fails to capture detail). There's also the fact that errors could easily just be human, as artists do make all those types of mistakes.

The biggest thing that makes me think this is human made is the cropping on the left side, like someone cropped out the artist's signature. If this is AI, the person who made it put a lot of trouble into some goofy 4d chess mind games

but rip and tear? 👉👈

honestly, he might. might be too ace to ever be happy with her. just because she was a good catch for many doesn't mean they were compatible

She might just not get the implications until the second panel

You overestimate how difficult it is to stand up to so many people so hell bent on you dying. Violence cannot be used as a deterrent on them, because they don't the consider long term consequences to their crusade. If they did, they wouldn't do it

It all comes back to how bs and constructed sexual categories always were. Yes I mainly like girls and fem people and think they're just way better to be with than men, but why write off every guy on earth when I can just live life free to love? I'm fine sitting in a box bc it has pretty colors, but my box only matters when it suits me. The boxes never were innate, and never will be. So long as people get that I like women, they don't need to worry about me excluding men.

That said, saying these flexible girls are straight is like saying a person with my skin color and ethnicity is white. The category of "straight" functions in a similar way that is defined by historically powerful exclusionary norms. If you're not only ever into "the correct" people, you're a filthy degenerate failure who must kill off that part of yourself to be "straight." Girls who fuck girls cannot fit into that social order unless they deny that part of themselves. It's not enough to mostly like men, you need to conform

right to left instead of left to right

why be only strange when you can be any and all at once?

ur a goof. Like i said, you're missing the trees focused on the forest. It literally doesn't matter if humans live or not bc your foolish behind is dead either way

When life first boomed enough to trigger a multi million year long ice age, it bounced back and established a new homeostasis. The life that caused it did not go "extinct," instead evolving to not be the architects of its own demise. When homeostasis is broken, evolution uses mass death and heavy handed selection pressures to reestablish it.

Unless basically all large multicellular life goes extinct, humanity will continue. Industrial civilization will tear itself apart from environmentally triggered human conflict before it could ensure that.

We ain't going "extinct" and people quite frankly need to realize that "extinction" is an incredibly low bar to clear. Billions will die and millennia of suffering lay before us, but the human species will be a-ok, especially if our industrial civilizations collapse. It's a fire that'll burn itself out, and thus history will continue.

The human species isn't people, but a term to describe our shared code; code that isn't you or the people you love. We are more than just our long term machinery. If we only focus on the forest, we miss the well being of the trees. I'd rather all our bloodlines end and us live lives focused on ourselves, than have an eternity of worshipping constructs that force us to live for them.

why many word when few word?

eh, there are better uses of your body and life

There is a rule still, but not of law. We live in an era of total might makes right, with not a shred of legality to be found. If you don't have resources or violence, you have nothing. We have no institutional recourse and only our labor as power. We are all effectively slaves who can be sent to death camps at any time if we don't use our single bargaining chip every month, so put all the labor you can afford to into providing essential services and goods for neighbors (healthcare isn't available for us any other way, so start there)

Products and services should only be findable when you actually need them. Think using a search engine to find a specific good, or a business sign labeling an establishment. Such bare bones information could be considered advertising, but it does less to to drive human behavior than facilitate it. It's not convincing you to get something, but helping you get what you already decided you need.

The advertising problem, like all problems in capitalism, stem from the ever increasing desire to outcompete and be the only power in town; the need to not just meet the needs of society, but have more power than everyone else in society. Competition drives innovation, but to what end?

Spoiler alert: the end is holding power over fellow men, not making life better for you or them. This evolutionary force optimizes for something other than you as an individual, just like Darwinian evolution.

edit: bonus panel in question: