You can tell the muse of engineering is the one lower down because she's dressed in drab colors, is wearing a watch, and faceplanted trying to have a social interaction.

@ZachWeinersmith That piece of tape makes no sens though 😅.

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The mummies were on to something

@ZachWeinersmith Of which week, month, and year?

@ZachWeinersmith Which Wednesday? I'm definitely not up last Wednesday's!

@ZachWeinersmith She's a strange girl, but she asks good questions

@ZachWeinersmith this is actually beautiful

@ZachWeinersmith I read this at my painting table for tiny figurines.

@ZachWeinersmith Cause of ongoing systemic racial inequity, explained.

@ZachWeinersmith Weird place to ask, perhaps, but is there a searchable index or functionality for your archives? A few times recently I've been unable to find specific ones, generally relying on either google (thus spawning more AI pages, because why not) or duckduckgo, and occasionally trying oh no robot (which seems...inconsistent at best).

Like I was looking for the talking to god/"regular murder" one, for example, and couldn't refine my terms enough to get it to spit it out.

@ZachWeinersmith Basically Alain de Botton's "Status Anxiety" summarized in a single cartoon panel.

@ZachWeinersmith The Lost Metal (Brandon Sanderson), Oathbringer: Part 2 (Brandon Sanderson), and Myst: the Book of Atrus (Rand and Robyn Miller).

And no, not at all ashamed.

@ZachWeinersmith Not even a little bit. Haven't read Nomad Century yet, though, so maybe I will be at some point.

@ZachWeinersmith The museum of Rain by Dave Eggers, Hild by Nicola Griffiths, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, and yes, since two of them were on kindle

@ZachWeinersmith after this and yesterday's comic back to back, I feel like I have to ask: are you ok? Need anything over there?

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Great comic!

@ZachWeinersmith well f***
(I now realise that this is valid comment to most of your comics)

@ZachWeinersmith Typo in second panel. "Matter if" instead of "Matter of".

@ZachWeinersmith I know it would spoil the joke, but the best Batman stories actually address this. Bruce Wayne tries to address the root causes of crime with Wayne Enterprises' charity donations, employment, and community outreach efforts, while Batman is more of a symbol of justice to make the people feel not completely abandoned. Plus Gotham tends to attract folks like The Joker that the normal systems in place can't really stop the "right" way.

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Actually it's mostly a few billionaires that's wrong with the world, it would be fixable...
#EatTheRich

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I'm imagining a plot where a bunch of out of work teens and 20yos on native land hear about on the internet artifacts from their tribe at the local university. All of them jump in their rez runner and have a road trip/indy type movie.

Plot twist: the entire department at the university is on their side and helps them in the climactic police chase through the desert with ATVs, horses, and choppers.

@ZachWeinersmith In that case they'll just be taking back their stolen relics.

@ZachWeinersmith its called Jindiana Iones

@ZachWeinersmith i should do that too :think_bread:

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Not in Antarctica.

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Do I trust 'law scholors' or Ron1953783 on Xitter on this matter?

@ZachWeinersmith oh, if I had a dime, for every one.....

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Uncharacteristically to my general nature, I suddenly want to prove that smug bastard wrong.

@ZachWeinersmith Dutchman Rutger Bregman wrote a book about this: "De meeste mensen deugen" (most people are kind of Ok).

@ZachWeinersmith Sir, I'm going to need to see your citations with DOIs.

@ZachWeinersmith I read that as “I pooped your tires!” and now I like that version even more.

@ZachWeinersmith I don't know exactly where this comic takes place. But if there's a business that will use quantum physics to identify my nemesis, I'd pay for that.

Think how motivating it would be to have a nemesis assigned by science.

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That woman seems to have five fingers instead of the usual four.
How odd.
Wonder if that comic is AI generated.

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@ZachWeinersmith I'm glad you're here so I don't have to look for you on the Xitter.

@ZachWeinersmith Let's argue about why this wasn't released earlier. It is inhumane to make me wait until Nov 7.

Like about a year ago I got genuinely confused talking to a guy and he suggested waiting on something. I couldn't figure out why and then he clarified that it'd be too much stress for me. Like, that was the only reason. Little thing, but it really wasn't like this just five years ago.

@ZachWeinersmith I can report that major outlets on gaming journalism seem sensitive these days to the topic of crunch. Studios and publishers waving the flag of work/life balance - sometimes as PR stunt, sometimes genuinely, but either way, sacrificing mental health and family life for work, especially when working for a corporation, is no longer seen as en vogue to (publicly) expect from developers and designers.

@ZachWeinersmith I feel seen...

@ZachWeinersmith While reading I had a feeling that you had already done something similar.

It's not exactly the same joke (it's kind of the reverse ?), but I find interesting to see the difference in your takes of the same idea a few years apart.
I like the progressive daddification of the guy in the new one.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/paternity-test

@ZachWeinersmith https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?si=XIkiux-tZrqWq9eu

@ZachWeinersmith I thought you were the unlubricated monocle guy?

@ZachWeinersmith I still remember (and miss) your funny sketch videos. Always pleasantly surprised to see one of your ensemble in something else.

@ZachWeinersmith Secret librarian network, I'm telling you!

For my #blind friends:
The image shows a single pane comic with two green anthropomorphic aliens in purple unitards, globes and shoes.
The first alien is saying "I will now enact the rite of beginning a diet by gorging myself on the worst quality of fried trash-foods."
The second one responds "WOW. so in tune with your body."
A man a the end of a gray corridor screams "STOP THAT! HOW DARE YOU!"
At the bottom a legend:
"The worst thing about living among the aliens was the cultural appropiation."

@ZachWeinersmith A tool typically applied in solid state physics is Density Functional Theory, which allows to reduce the complexity explosion of many-particle problems to basically a 1 particle simulation. It is relatively easy to show that the Density Functional exists, and that it is equivalent to a many-particle N-dimensional simulation, but nobody has found the exact formula for that Functional yet - so all DFT simulations are estimates...

@ZachWeinersmith the question is : how can a composite material produce cooper pairs? Easily asked but difficult to answer also because temperature plays an important role too. A big quantum computer may still not be enough.

@ZachWeinersmith I think it's (at least) two different issues, one of which is 'we don't really know how properties scale down at this level, only observational data and theories that seem to work pretty well' and the other is 'know the internal structure? I want to live in your reality'.

This is mostly just me observing what people who know a lot more than I about this stuff seem to be saying, though, my materials science knowledge is...minimal.

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As a vegan, I wouldn’t post a comic promoting animal milk for calcium, no matter how lighthearted

@ZachWeinersmith man this is the same thing Ayurvedic "doctors" do over here lol

@ZachWeinersmith This dovetails nicely with the Malcom Gladwell book we started on our ride back from a family camping trip yesterday. I continue to be surprised by the certainty expressed by that variety of pop science writers.