Comic Strips

I tried saying no once. Like, with an empty fridge, I said 'no'. I'm not gonna go buy food. I went to bed hungry and cried myself to sleep. Saying no is not possible.

Some disadvantaged people here are expected to fax certain forms to certain ministries. I eventually learned how and how to advise them how.

The library costs $1 per page. The insurance company across the street does it for free. I am not usually anti-library but why charge to send a fax? Like, receiving costs a small amount of toner, sure, but when scanning at the rate of $1 per page, you should be considered criminal.

I regret to inform you that Nintendo is suing you for using their copyrighted trademark "Nintendo" without express written consent. That will be an additional $80/per minute to exist. Failure to pay will result in no longer existing.

worse than that.

it's something I can existential labour.

if you rent, and are good and neighbourly, just by existing you create value. but it's value in property you don't own, and then you have to pay more rent or get evicted so someone will can afford to live there can enjoy to be part of the community you helped build.

there should be no friendly laws towards land parasites.

It should be illegal to rise rent prices or evict tenants who pay rent and aren't a nuisance. if the rent is 400$and you live there for 10 years, the rent is still 400$.

if the land lord doesn't like it, he can sell the house and get a real job.

A park near me went from $5 parking to $10 recently. It feels pretty unreasonable.

...to die elsewhere if you can't afford to live here.

The next part of that lie is the fallacy that we have some kind of intrinsic "freedom of speech."

People think our "freedom" gives us a view into the rest of the world and how it's still the best thing in the world to live in the USA.

All you have to do is open your web browser in the airport of another country. We have a sliver of perspective here, we don't get to see what challenges other countries have overcome, from healthcare to housing the homeless to giving people actual freedoms by giving them peace of mind about their future.

If nothing else, you get to see how much the rest of the world really hates the US government and would be happy if we stopped building bases and blacksites in their countries.

I love that this sentence works no matter if you interpret that as "Point of sale" or as "Piece of shit".

You can select 0% but it takes 3 extra button presses and includes 2 prompts to make sure you really don't wanna leave a tip. And also the button is kinda worn out so you have to press it really hard and everyone knows you're using the no tip button.

And the mold. Oof, thats a drug prevursor. Gonna be a lot if you dont have good insurance. Also if you do.

I've already called the DEA, please pay quickly and leave the building, or ill have to charge your next 9f kin for the window they shoot you through.

I always think of the scene in Pulp Fiction where they talk about a $5 milkshake. It's supposed to be a crazy high price for a milkshake. Like something you would see and go "Whoa, HOW much? For a milkshake?!"

I recall in iRobot they had two beers at a bar and it was like $50.

I think we're ahead of schedule at this rate.

Edit: $46.58 for two beers in 2035.