I’m just thankful the RSS feed has been working properly for about the past month. I’m used to it working fine for a handful of days (not even a week a week in a row, usually), then suddenly silence for about ten days, then a day where the past ten days’ posts show up all at once. I’m usually pretty good about remembering to check (helps when it’s daily), but sometimes my executive functioning is more of a mess than usual, and I forget to check for several days in a row.
And now that I’ve mentioned this I’ve probably jinxed the feed.
It’s not only me then! I’ve basically been reading it in irregular bursts of ~two weeks worth of content for years, now, but I much prefer the daily fix
I’ll be a third comment full of gratitude for that! This is much nicer 🙂 Especially because once there’s a bunch of updates there it becomes too much to catch up on at once and then I steadily end further and further behind and before you know it, whoops, there’s 2 months to catch up on now!
I’m always afraid that use Chapstick – I always end up getting it in my mouth and it tastes awful (and is probably full of chemicals that don’t belong in the human body).
Rabbit
… Given that it’s made to be put on the mouth, not really? Like you wouldn’t eat it but it’s not gonna kill you.
Plonker
Just because it doesn’t inst-gib you on contact, doesn’t mean you wouldn’t be better off, long-term, without that exposure.
Also, remember radioactive toothpaste? Made to be put in the mouth, but have you ever seen what radium jaw looks like? (Do not, for the sake of all that is holy, google the pictures.)
She’s become too attached to the relationships she’s formed here. Joyce and Walky the most. That plus the trauma’s she likely wouldn’t have survived without her friends like nearly being stabbed, and getting kidnapped, probably terrify her to be away from them.
I think Dorothy might be underestimating just how much the various happenings on campus have affected her.
She’s not in a healthy place and she’s trying to avoid that by solving other people’s problems, very Billie.
My suspicion is that she made the decision awhile ago in the wake of last semester’s trauma and thought she couldn’t abandon her friends to deal with that alone.
Now she’s worried they don’t need her as much as she thought they did.
That makes a lot of sense. It’s an unfortunate choice possibly, but it could also be a good thing if it means she’s reexamining what she wants in life and what’s really important to her. It might still be a career in politics and she still might want to end up in the Ivy League at some point, maybe for grad school. But figuring out what you actually want your life to look like is a huge part of college and I hope she really embraces that process here.
thejeff
It could be, but I don’t think she is. Or at least not yet.
It could also be that she is struggling with last semester’s trauma and isn’t sharing. Like, imagine going through that shit and then just cutting out your entire support network right after. Can’t be easy.
I would have said this about 5 years ago in real time, but since then it’s become clear that Dorothy would make a god-awful politician, so no, I think she should stay right where she is, get a dual major in polisci and journalism, and write essays for Jacobin or something
I’m becoming convinced that everyone would make a god-awful politician, and it’s just that some of the most especially god-awful are the ones that most often go for it/get attention. Listening to my state legislature’s committee hearings is convincing me that it was a lie that you need to be a good public speaker to be a politician. There’s also no reason she couldn’t attend Yale and then write essays for Jacobin anyway.
tunasammich
I think politics weeds out anyone who can’t handle being scrutinized over everything they’ve ever said or done in their entire lives, and dragged through the mud with exaggerations and distortions of everything they’ve ever said or done in their entire lives. That probably weeds out 99% of good people. So we get to have people who don’t care if everyone knows they were BFFs with Epstein, got drunk with their high school students, and literally lie about everything representing us.
Jamie
It’s sorta a lie. You need to get a good public speaker to be a *good* politician.
To just be a politician, you need citizenship and a following.
I think most 18 year olds would make god awful politician. But she’s not going to Yale to immediately be a politician. She’s going there to learn the skills necessary to be a good, successful one.
BarerMender
You don’t go to Yale for skills. You go for connections.
She’ll have to work her way up through “field reporter” and “political correspondent” though.
bubba0077
Nah, she’s not personable enough for that. She would make a great Chief of Staff though.
Needfuldoer
She’s not naturally personable enough for the morning breakfast news shows (Today or Good Morning America), but she could hold down the afternoon hard news slot.
Politics does not come naturally to Dorothy, she just doesn’t have what it takes to achieve her political ambitions.
Now, to be clear, this is a compliment in my book. It is not an easy thing to become president and it is probably impossible to do so while being an even halfway decent person.
Eh, that’s a little too cynical for my tastes. I think Obama and Carter both show it’s possible to make it to the White House while not sacrificing everything you believe in, though you do end up having to make hard choices about what you value more, and where you’re willing to yield.
Dorothy’s weakness, like many youthful idealists, is that last point, of course. Right now, she’s got serious prioritization issues–she can’t go half-hearted on anything.
Thag Simmons
I would not describe Obama as an example of proving that you can make it to the presidency without sacrificing everything you claim to believe in. The exact opposite, honestly.
Freemage
What principles or values do you think he gave up to get into office? Other than selling his soul to the Devil to get his opponents to fall upon their swords to clear the way for his rise to power, I mean? (Seriously, his opponents, whether Democrats or GOP, seemed struck with political idiocy the moment they decided to oppose him. It was uncanny. A Faustian pact is about as good an explanation for that as anything.)
Moon
Politics is compromise. I think a lot of people are hard on Obama because he promised change and ended up being a lot more centrist than was advertised.
And that’s not to say that I don’t think there were some big wins. I think the Affordable Care Act was a laudable first step, but the escalation of the drone program and the handling of the bailouts are the two particular sore spots in my personal view of Obama’s legacy.
Freemage
Oh, Obama’s no saint. Never was, though. But I think a lot of the ‘change’ people thought they were being promised was actually, weirdly, a result of listening to the GOP and FOX, who painted him as a hard-core Marxist communist who was going to single-handedly end capitalism as we know it. That was never part of his agenda or ideology.
And while I agree with your assessment of his weak spots, legacy-wise, that’s not quite the point I was taking issue with. Presidents often end up moderating themselves once in office–and I’d argue that the Soggy Cheeto is a good example of what happens when you get someone in who refuses to be moderated in any way.
But I was getting at the idea that the mere road to power must be so riddled with ethical detours that it’s impossible to have some sort of principles intact by the time you win election. I reject that notion, just as I reject the futurist claim that we’re marching towards progress (the ‘arc of history’ argument), so stop worrying. The notion that either is inevitable is, ultimately, an argument to stop trying, either because victory is fore-ordained, or because it’s impossible.
Obama’s rise to power happened in the soup of corruption that is my home city (Chicago). Yet he managed to avoid all the pitfalls, compromises and back-alley deals that would’ve undermined anyone who didn’t have a will of iron.
Keulen
He pretty much ignored all his campaign promises once elected, but that’s not really unique to Obama. All presidents and politicians do that in America.
238 thoughts on “Logic holes”
DarkoNeko
for a moment I thought Doroty would accidentally give in to pressure and spill the beans.
Rose by Any Other Name
12:08 and 50 seconds. The server is getting really weird.
Amós Batista
Server must be hosted in Midway, or Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(I’m lazy, somebody make the calc to determine the site world time)
Tawdry Quirks
I’m just thankful the RSS feed has been working properly for about the past month. I’m used to it working fine for a handful of days (not even a week a week in a row, usually), then suddenly silence for about ten days, then a day where the past ten days’ posts show up all at once. I’m usually pretty good about remembering to check (helps when it’s daily), but sometimes my executive functioning is more of a mess than usual, and I forget to check for several days in a row.
And now that I’ve mentioned this I’ve probably jinxed the feed.
uze
It’s not only me then! I’ve basically been reading it in irregular bursts of ~two weeks worth of content for years, now, but I much prefer the daily fix
Furie
Genuinely thought it was just me.
Aura
I’ll be a third comment full of gratitude for that! This is much nicer 🙂 Especially because once there’s a bunch of updates there it becomes too much to catch up on at once and then I steadily end further and further behind and before you know it, whoops, there’s 2 months to catch up on now!
Sirksome
Dorothy knows this comic will never reach next semester.
Doctor_Who
She’s well aware of this website, she saw that old print of Sarah and Joyce on the dryers and it gave her the idea.
DarkoNeko
how old is that print, actually ? the only record I found it it was from some agregator comic site dated 2021
emeraldbeacon
I believe it’s one of the one-off images on Slipshine.
DarkoNeko
uh. I guess I remembered it from an ad banner here to it, then.
Cass
2012, here’s the original.
Yotomoe
Dorothy took a second before answering to smell her lower lip.
chuckroast
Her new chapstick smells like birthday cake.
True Survivor
I’m always afraid that use Chapstick – I always end up getting it in my mouth and it tastes awful (and is probably full of chemicals that don’t belong in the human body).
Rabbit
… Given that it’s made to be put on the mouth, not really? Like you wouldn’t eat it but it’s not gonna kill you.
Plonker
Just because it doesn’t inst-gib you on contact, doesn’t mean you wouldn’t be better off, long-term, without that exposure.
Also, remember radioactive toothpaste? Made to be put in the mouth, but have you ever seen what radium jaw looks like? (Do not, for the sake of all that is holy, google the pictures.)
jeffepp
The artist has been reading Jusicka comics. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
…
I admit nothing!
The Wellerman
Come to think of it, Jusicka and Jennifer do look rather similar ?
Yotomoe
And we’ve never seen them in the same room at the same time.
mmmm suspicious.
Rowen Morland
Jusicka is Amazegirl?
Clif
Don’t be silly. Sal looks nothing like Jusicka.
not someone else
…Really looking forward to the in-universe logic for this. I’m sure there is some! But I am really curious!
Doctor_Who
“I asked some Yale students, the dryers on campus are stacked vertically, you can’t climb up on one. It just won’t work, a girl has needs.”
Sirksome
She’s become too attached to the relationships she’s formed here. Joyce and Walky the most. That plus the trauma’s she likely wouldn’t have survived without her friends like nearly being stabbed, and getting kidnapped, probably terrify her to be away from them.
Opus the Poet
Like her relationship with the dryer?
Axel
pretty sure it is “Joyce* needs me here”
*(and maybe others)
Annamal
I think Dorothy might be underestimating just how much the various happenings on campus have affected her.
She’s not in a healthy place and she’s trying to avoid that by solving other people’s problems, very Billie.
thejeff
My suspicion is that she made the decision awhile ago in the wake of last semester’s trauma and thought she couldn’t abandon her friends to deal with that alone.
Now she’s worried they don’t need her as much as she thought they did.
pope suburban
That makes a lot of sense. It’s an unfortunate choice possibly, but it could also be a good thing if it means she’s reexamining what she wants in life and what’s really important to her. It might still be a career in politics and she still might want to end up in the Ivy League at some point, maybe for grad school. But figuring out what you actually want your life to look like is a huge part of college and I hope she really embraces that process here.
thejeff
It could be, but I don’t think she is. Or at least not yet.
Zal
It could also be that she is struggling with last semester’s trauma and isn’t sharing. Like, imagine going through that shit and then just cutting out your entire support network right after. Can’t be easy.
butts
aw dotty
True Survivor
Come on Dorothy, don’t through away your future for these losers. You’ve got dreams, you’ve got drive, you’ve got heart!
Sporky
I would have said this about 5 years ago in real time, but since then it’s become clear that Dorothy would make a god-awful politician, so no, I think she should stay right where she is, get a dual major in polisci and journalism, and write essays for Jacobin or something
True Survivor
True, she has too much integrity. Also, she’s a bit neurotic – maybe needs to do some more dumbing of age before she find her real calling.
Annika
I’m becoming convinced that everyone would make a god-awful politician, and it’s just that some of the most especially god-awful are the ones that most often go for it/get attention. Listening to my state legislature’s committee hearings is convincing me that it was a lie that you need to be a good public speaker to be a politician. There’s also no reason she couldn’t attend Yale and then write essays for Jacobin anyway.
tunasammich
I think politics weeds out anyone who can’t handle being scrutinized over everything they’ve ever said or done in their entire lives, and dragged through the mud with exaggerations and distortions of everything they’ve ever said or done in their entire lives. That probably weeds out 99% of good people. So we get to have people who don’t care if everyone knows they were BFFs with Epstein, got drunk with their high school students, and literally lie about everything representing us.
Jamie
It’s sorta a lie. You need to get a good public speaker to be a *good* politician.
To just be a politician, you need citizenship and a following.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
I always figured she’ll end up a policy wonk on some issue.
The Blueprint System
I think most 18 year olds would make god awful politician. But she’s not going to Yale to immediately be a politician. She’s going there to learn the skills necessary to be a good, successful one.
BarerMender
You don’t go to Yale for skills. You go for connections.
Amós Batista
I was looking for this comment.
Lan
Indiana University: “I can make her better”
Yale: “I can make her worse”
Needfuldoer
Robin had her number when she called her a “future cable news anchor”.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/provisionally/
She’ll have to work her way up through “field reporter” and “political correspondent” though.
bubba0077
Nah, she’s not personable enough for that. She would make a great Chief of Staff though.
Needfuldoer
She’s not naturally personable enough for the morning breakfast news shows (Today or Good Morning America), but she could hold down the afternoon hard news slot.
Thag Simmons
Politics does not come naturally to Dorothy, she just doesn’t have what it takes to achieve her political ambitions.
Now, to be clear, this is a compliment in my book. It is not an easy thing to become president and it is probably impossible to do so while being an even halfway decent person.
Freemage
Eh, that’s a little too cynical for my tastes. I think Obama and Carter both show it’s possible to make it to the White House while not sacrificing everything you believe in, though you do end up having to make hard choices about what you value more, and where you’re willing to yield.
Dorothy’s weakness, like many youthful idealists, is that last point, of course. Right now, she’s got serious prioritization issues–she can’t go half-hearted on anything.
Thag Simmons
I would not describe Obama as an example of proving that you can make it to the presidency without sacrificing everything you claim to believe in. The exact opposite, honestly.
Freemage
What principles or values do you think he gave up to get into office? Other than selling his soul to the Devil to get his opponents to fall upon their swords to clear the way for his rise to power, I mean? (Seriously, his opponents, whether Democrats or GOP, seemed struck with political idiocy the moment they decided to oppose him. It was uncanny. A Faustian pact is about as good an explanation for that as anything.)
Moon
Politics is compromise. I think a lot of people are hard on Obama because he promised change and ended up being a lot more centrist than was advertised.
And that’s not to say that I don’t think there were some big wins. I think the Affordable Care Act was a laudable first step, but the escalation of the drone program and the handling of the bailouts are the two particular sore spots in my personal view of Obama’s legacy.
Freemage
Oh, Obama’s no saint. Never was, though. But I think a lot of the ‘change’ people thought they were being promised was actually, weirdly, a result of listening to the GOP and FOX, who painted him as a hard-core Marxist communist who was going to single-handedly end capitalism as we know it. That was never part of his agenda or ideology.
And while I agree with your assessment of his weak spots, legacy-wise, that’s not quite the point I was taking issue with. Presidents often end up moderating themselves once in office–and I’d argue that the Soggy Cheeto is a good example of what happens when you get someone in who refuses to be moderated in any way.
But I was getting at the idea that the mere road to power must be so riddled with ethical detours that it’s impossible to have some sort of principles intact by the time you win election. I reject that notion, just as I reject the futurist claim that we’re marching towards progress (the ‘arc of history’ argument), so stop worrying. The notion that either is inevitable is, ultimately, an argument to stop trying, either because victory is fore-ordained, or because it’s impossible.
Obama’s rise to power happened in the soup of corruption that is my home city (Chicago). Yet he managed to avoid all the pitfalls, compromises and back-alley deals that would’ve undermined anyone who didn’t have a will of iron.
Keulen
He pretty much ignored all his campaign promises once elected, but that’s not really unique to Obama. All presidents and politicians do that in America.
Needfuldoer
She doesn’t have the soft skills needed for the job. Just look at the “race” for RA with Roz.
Yotomoe
You’ve got a hulk.
Yotomoe
You’ve got the TOUCH. You’ve got the POWER.
Proxiehunter
What power?
Yotomoe
THE power.
The Wellerman
The power of Grey Skull? ?
StClair
The power of voodoo.
The Wellerman
You do?
a/snow/mous/e
Who do?
The Wellerman
Do what?
StClair
Remind me of the babe.
thejeff
What babe?
a/snow/mous/e
The babe with the power. (loop back to Proxiehunter)
ValdVin
Yes, and I might add, “So well”.
True Survivor
TRANSFORMERS
Needfuldoer
The one Snap sang about in 1990?
DarkoNeko
Yeah
CJ