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1. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Simple solution: stop watching (so much) television. Try a book. No ads in most of them. Just avoid books by or about people you see on your TV.

2. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   “Back before the internet…” You are so right.

   For anyone alive today, there were always those radio nutjobs on some channel out there somewhere in our big continent, from the 1930s right up to and beyond the great gasbag, Limbaugh.

   And the internet began to spew things in a much more concentrated and public way as its everyday presence grew throughout the ’90s and aftrer.

   But humanity did not accurately anticipate or prepare for, and is still drowning in, the tsunami of collective nutjobbery that has poured out with the introduction of the “smart” phone 15-20 years ago.

   Twitter was always really just a phone thing and in 2015-16, the first time it was widespread enough to do it (together with some other established social media giants), it elected a president who campaigned through his phone.

3. 8 days ago on Doonesbury

   In my (probably faulty) recollection, Wang was a (or possibly the) leader in early smaller office systems (at least in the US), especially word processing (character based interface!), for at least a year or two in the later 1970s (not sure of the exact years, or even if it’s the same Wang company, but no doubt a person could look that all up online if they wanted to).

   While I think Wang was very innovative when it started, its new, smaller, but still centralized (and still not cheap) office system got totally overrun by the extremely rapid growth during that same time of increasingly cheaper microprocessors and the personal (desktop) computer model. Huge important software growth followed the hardware, including perhaps the most important new thing, the graphic interface (see XeroxPARC), with easier, individually managed, input/output, including networking. Systems like Wang’s (at the time) were left in the dust.

   Those were exciting times for young computer nerds, when there was plenty of room for customization of everything and “hacker” had a mostly positive meaning.

4. about 2 months ago on Endtown

   Ask your AI to generate the sound for you.

5. 3 months ago on Rudy Park

   Now do one for the other guy. To be even remotely accurate and lifelike, what comes out of the phone will have to be mostly incoherent (if dangerous) self-centered drivel.

6. 7 months ago on Nancy

   Brilliant mouth art but, IMHO, there definitely should have been layers separated by fillings in that cake. C’mon, Nancy!

7. 7 months ago on Frog Applause

   First comment??? :)

   So, content: Use a special flossing handle – much easier to reach in there!

8. 8 months ago on Endtown

   As we move on in Aaron’s comic with his surviving cartoon characters hopefully escaping from the sharp angled, imminent collapse of a universe of hallways with fake doors, up into a rough (dirt-lined?) tunnel hopefully leading to a better universe (at least not one ruled by toothbrushes), I so love these wordless drawings and graphics!

9. 9 months ago on F Minus

   “Adhesion” contracts. They stick to you.

10. 10 months ago on Endtown

    I thought he might have a few fingers at risk (but not so much of his arm).