A long-running web comic with a cranky flower character, covering politics, grammar, literature and math jokes.
HN commenters link its comics as a quick, apt joke, especially the "Atlas Shrugged, One Hour Later" strip.
> Doomerism is the easy path. It takes no imagination to repeat doomer memes and sci-fi dystopian tropes, without articulating exactly how we get there.
It's not "doomerism" because there is a call to action, impractical as it may seem. TFA is stating one possible, if flawed course of action. There may be others. Doomerism just cries "the comet is coming, end your lives now!". Also, if you're honest, there is some articulation of how this may come to be, it's just that nobody is an oracle and the particulars are shifting.
> I don't see a way the billionaires take all power away from 99.999% of the rest of humanity without literally murdering them. And why would they want to murder them?
They don't need to actively murder them, they just need to restrict access to resources required for living (maybe made worse by the climate crisis) and this would alone cull the population "naturally".
Imagine a world of full, total automation of everything. The rich always needed the less rich to work for them, make things for them, pick up raw materials for them, take care of them, even be their security forces. But all of this would be unneeded with an inexhaustible force of robot labor [1]. This is one of my worries if they ever go all-in with the automation of the military... who will be there to have a crisis of conscience if given immoral orders? We're not there yet, but this is something to ponder.
> It's much easier to just let everyone benefit.
There are things right now that…
It looks like the guy is a graduate from
Stanford's business school... and is the
co-founder of Pricenomics. What the heck.
I used to make that mistake - or what I assume was the mistake, which now seems to have been corrected.
Many guides to using apostrophes [1,2,3,4] say they can be used for contractions (the dog's outside) and to indicate possession (the dog's ball) - Why shouldn't something possessed by "it" use a possessive apostrophe?
Some people tried to correct my using of "it's" to indicate possession by explaining "Apostrophes are used for contractions like it is" which was unconvincing as obviously they can be used to indicate possession.
It wasn't until I got to college that someone gave me a satisfactory explanation: It/Its belongs to the same class of words as he/his, her/hers, your/yours, who/whose which do not follow normal apostrophe usage rules as the rules are descriptive, not prescriptive and nothing obliges the language and its users to be consistent.
[1] http://www.economist.com/style-guide/apostrophes
[2] http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
[3] http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/apostrophe.html
[4] http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe
True. I will give the Solarpunk people that much. Like Marx they have identified a real problem with society. Like Marx their proposed solution isn't going to work. In some respects it reminds me of this obscure, old web comic, in which the protagonists embark on their glorious future but forget to bring their inexhaustible labor robots.
https://www.angryflower.com/348.html
Time for a NATO-wide Standards Committee on Responsible (and Excellent) Cosplay?
(Possibly under the aegis of NATO CPD?)
(inspired by the last 3 items on this list
https://www.angryflower.com/1587.html)
Ps: is that Kira (We The Living), Roark (Fountainhead) and Ayn herself? Who's the blonde prepster
https://www.angryflower.com/348.html)
Relevant Bob the Angry Flower comic:
http://www.angryflower.com/221.html
Instead of trying to focus on nothing at all, the standard trick to get around this problem is to focus on something extremely boring, such as your own breathing. The traditional "counting sheep" method of sleep induction could be considered a variant of this.
You spelled "you're" wrong. It should be "your."
http://www.angryflower.com/247.html
Your tense on "RELAXED" is wrong, it should be "RELAX"
"SIT BACK AND RELAXED
You can sit back and relax while Brighty summarizes all your messages. At the end of the day you're executive summary will be ready."