QC has sentient AI sex toys that are surprisingly popular. I could see some of the ladies preferring interacting with one of those over real people.
Leadsynth
This brings up questions about the ethics of “using” a sentient AI for sex.
Sure, it’s a sex toy, but does that imply consent? What if it’s not in the mood?
I’m starting to wonder if Willis is testing how well he has his audience hooked by seeing how much sleep he can deprive them off before they stop waiting up for the new strip to drop and just decide to catch it the next day.
no, it just does that and when the lag gets too much it gets rebooted or something
Decidedly Orthogonal
It’s a shame that there is no way for servers to keep there clocks sychronized. Like a global network infrastructure that could interconnect all the servers and coordinate the time using some kind of networked time protocol. Ah well… manually winding the server clocks works just as well.
butting
Those solutions would take energy away from constantly winding the readership up, and why interfere with valuable research into what could well prove an endlessly renewable resource?
handling a server is a pain and if the current way works for DMW then it’s fine with me.
Like it’s just a few minutes of potential delay. On a comic that’s never missed a single day of update since 2010. Come on.
butting
Like I said: valuable research. Tuck a server in small void in a corner, lose all track of it, accidentally plaster it over with just network and power cables coming out, and nothing to worry about as long as files queued up on it get posted as they should. Meanwhile: the weaker element of the readership go nuts.
Prove that we’re not seeing a breach of the First Law of Thermodynamics in action. Dare ya.
I believe we are in the same time zone and should not stay up to read the comic as it updates. Or wake up to read it as it updates, unless that’s what works for your internal body clock/externally dictated sleep schedule anyways…
From experience the vibes that college kids can afford are about as effective (and apparently longlasting) as a dryer
Tawdry Quirks
Although there are many students that couldn’t spare enough for even the simplest of bullet/egg vibes, Dorothy could probably afford a solid mid-tier vibe.
I suspect the reason Dorothy apparently doesn’t have one is that she’d insist on finding the absolute most perfect vibrator in her price range, and she’d get stuck in an obsessive loop of research and spreadsheets, unable to choose one.
thejeff
Why do people think she doesn’t?
She brought Joyce down here because “Here, use this vibrator” would have been a huge step too far for her. Even if she’s now trying to replicate Joyce’s experience, she’s not trying that hard and she’s mostly angry about other things
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Nahh, she’d buy one of each. For…research purposes in the comfort of her own dorm room. 😉
Needfuldoer
But dryers are extremely effective at the task they’re designed for, and can last for decades if they’re taken care of.
Masturbation techniques and effectiveness can vary WIDELY, yeah. There are some people I know who can only reach orgasm through masturbation in very specific ways (for example, one guy cannot ever orgasm if he’s lying on his back or sitting down. He either has to be on top or standing up.)
Technically it’s a community dryer so this is Public abuse.
Bicycle Bill
Since I assume it requires coins or tokens to operate the laundry machines, it’s a violation of Indiana Code Title 35. Criminal Law and Procedure § 35-45-4-3: (a) A person who knowingly or intentionally pays, or offers or agrees to pay, money or other property to another person:
(1) for having engaged in, or on the understanding that the other person will engage in, sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct (as defined in IC 35-31.5-2-221.5) with the person or with any other person; or
(2) for having fondled, or on the understanding that the other person will fondle, the genitals of the person or any other person;
commits making an unlawful proposition, a Class A misdemeanor.
This also means that Indiana University is operating or promoting a place of prostitution.
Bicycle Bill
Don’t laugh too long. If the GQP-controlled legislatures in states can prohibit abortions even in the case of rape, incest, or a medical abnormality resulting in an unviable pregnancy, they’d probably try something like this too.
Needfuldoer
Of course! They’re the types who would call corporations and appliances “people”, but wouldn’t call women “people”.
Ugh.
The Oracle
The second appliances get legally recognized as people, I’m reinventing warfare as humanity knows it.
Bicycle Bill
According to the “Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission” ruling, corporations are defined as people and now have certain rights equal to a flesh-and-blood human with regard to elections and political campaigns; and PeTA has been trying for years to get animals many of the same rights as humans. So now that we have robots that have bridged the Uncanny Valley, autonomous cars, and AI, is only a short step to when these enhanced gizmos ARE considered to be people
thejeff
But only when it’s useful for corporate power. We’re not going to be giving self-driving cars any rights that companies will have to respect.
Also, that’s not what Citizens United determined. Corporations have been defined as people in at least some sense since the 1886 Supreme Court case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. And in some sense, that’s a necessary legal fiction – in order to allow companies to be represented in court and the like.
Mark
Only if a clothes dryer is defined to be a “person.”
But then, we’re the state where a legislator tried to make a law redefining pi to make it easier to help his kids with their homework….
Asma’s face tells me that the only reason she hasn’t snapped and killed everyone yet is she won’t give the clickbait sites the satisfaction of writing the headline “Asma Attack!”.
My reading of the strip is the time on the dryer ran out before she got off, she got frustrated instead of adding time, and wound up denting the door by kicking it with her heels.
203 thoughts on “Repair”
Ana Chronistic
I’m sure it’s fine, just needs some lube
Amós Batista
Gotta try in my car engine, someday…
Decidedly Orthogonal
Wait. … Did Dotty switch over to the dryer _Joyce_ was on?
Decidedly Orthogonal
Ah. It was (unsurprisingly) spotted yesterday. and yes.
ValdVin
This makes me wonder about sentient dryer. Now I want a crossover with QC.
Opus the Poet
QC has sentient AI sex toys that are surprisingly popular. I could see some of the ladies preferring interacting with one of those over real people.
Leadsynth
This brings up questions about the ethics of “using” a sentient AI for sex.
Sure, it’s a sex toy, but does that imply consent? What if it’s not in the mood?
DarkoNeko
aand the server clock shifts later and later~
True Survivor
I’m starting to wonder if Willis is testing how well he has his audience hooked by seeing how much sleep he can deprive them off before they stop waiting up for the new strip to drop and just decide to catch it the next day.
Stop teasing us! JUST INJECT IT INTO OUR VIENS!
Blackdrazon
DOA fandom kicking the
dryerserver from above.DarkoNeko
no, it just does that and when the lag gets too much it gets rebooted or something
Decidedly Orthogonal
It’s a shame that there is no way for servers to keep there clocks sychronized. Like a global network infrastructure that could interconnect all the servers and coordinate the time using some kind of networked time protocol. Ah well… manually winding the server clocks works just as well.
butting
Those solutions would take energy away from constantly winding the readership up, and why interfere with valuable research into what could well prove an endlessly renewable resource?
DarkoNeko
handling a server is a pain and if the current way works for DMW then it’s fine with me.
Like it’s just a few minutes of potential delay. On a comic that’s never missed a single day of update since 2010. Come on.
butting
Like I said: valuable research. Tuck a server in small void in a corner, lose all track of it, accidentally plaster it over with just network and power cables coming out, and nothing to worry about as long as files queued up on it get posted as they should. Meanwhile: the weaker element of the readership go nuts.
Prove that we’re not seeing a breach of the First Law of Thermodynamics in action. Dare ya.
Mark
I have often wondered where all the heat went.
Needfuldoer
Tired: staying up late to read the comments.
Wired: getting up early to read the comments.
DarkoNeko
it’s 6AM for me 😥
Miri
I believe we are in the same time zone and should not stay up to read the comic as it updates. Or wake up to read it as it updates, unless that’s what works for your internal body clock/externally dictated sleep schedule anyways…
Opus the Poet
Wired: staying up late to write the comments. I have most of a 2 liter Coke Zero and several cups of tea in me when that happens.
Thag Simmons
It creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
Clif
To the last syllable of apology letters.
Clif
Recorded apology letters.
Let’s go see if there are any more bits handed to me I can screw up.
Sirksome
I guess dryer’s don’t work for everyone. Shame.
Steamweed
They’re less effective with extensive experience.
Er, so I’m told.
Rose by Any Other Name
Yeah. Go figure. Maybe Dorothy should…
… oh I don’t know…
… go buy herself a fucking actual vibrator already!
Yotomoe
Why buy a cow if milk is free? As it were.
GholaHalleck
*Dull infomercial monotone* For as little as a dollar a day and a dryer sheet, you can sponsor this frustrated college student’s sexual deviancy.
Casi
in the arms of an angel starts playing softly in the background as pictures of Dorothy and other sex starved college students pass on the screen
JBento
The song about suicide by drug overdose? O_o
GholaHalleck
its what they use in those “Show you pictures of sad neglected animals so you donate to the animal shelter” commercials.
Allandrel
Was Jonathan Melvoin’s death ruled a suicide?
Opus the Poet
The sex-starved lesbian newspaper editor gets several pictures from different angles. I think her name started with a D.
Bogeywoman
From experience the vibes that college kids can afford are about as effective (and apparently longlasting) as a dryer
Tawdry Quirks
Although there are many students that couldn’t spare enough for even the simplest of bullet/egg vibes, Dorothy could probably afford a solid mid-tier vibe.
I suspect the reason Dorothy apparently doesn’t have one is that she’d insist on finding the absolute most perfect vibrator in her price range, and she’d get stuck in an obsessive loop of research and spreadsheets, unable to choose one.
thejeff
Why do people think she doesn’t?
She brought Joyce down here because “Here, use this vibrator” would have been a huge step too far for her. Even if she’s now trying to replicate Joyce’s experience, she’s not trying that hard and she’s mostly angry about other things
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Nahh, she’d buy one of each. For…research purposes in the comfort of her own dorm room. 😉
Needfuldoer
But dryers are extremely effective at the task they’re designed for, and can last for decades if they’re taken care of.
Jon
Perhaps a washer with an unbalanced load?
Zaxares
Masturbation techniques and effectiveness can vary WIDELY, yeah. There are some people I know who can only reach orgasm through masturbation in very specific ways (for example, one guy cannot ever orgasm if he’s lying on his back or sitting down. He either has to be on top or standing up.)
Doctor_Who
Don’t feel bad, it happens to lots of dryers.
True Survivor
Domestic abuse?
Yotomoe
Technically it’s a community dryer so this is Public abuse.
Bicycle Bill
Since I assume it requires coins or tokens to operate the laundry machines, it’s a violation of Indiana Code Title 35. Criminal Law and Procedure § 35-45-4-3:
(a) A person who knowingly or intentionally pays, or offers or agrees to pay, money or other property to another person:
(1) for having engaged in, or on the understanding that the other person will engage in, sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct (as defined in IC 35-31.5-2-221.5) with the person or with any other person; or
(2) for having fondled, or on the understanding that the other person will fondle, the genitals of the person or any other person;
commits making an unlawful proposition, a Class A misdemeanor.
This also means that Indiana University is operating or promoting a place of prostitution.
Bicycle Bill
Don’t laugh too long. If the GQP-controlled legislatures in states can prohibit abortions even in the case of rape, incest, or a medical abnormality resulting in an unviable pregnancy, they’d probably try something like this too.
Needfuldoer
Of course! They’re the types who would call corporations and appliances “people”, but wouldn’t call women “people”.
Ugh.
The Oracle
The second appliances get legally recognized as people, I’m reinventing warfare as humanity knows it.
Bicycle Bill
According to the “Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission” ruling, corporations are defined as people and now have certain rights equal to a flesh-and-blood human with regard to elections and political campaigns; and PeTA has been trying for years to get animals many of the same rights as humans. So now that we have robots that have bridged the Uncanny Valley, autonomous cars, and AI, is only a short step to when these enhanced gizmos ARE considered to be people
thejeff
But only when it’s useful for corporate power. We’re not going to be giving self-driving cars any rights that companies will have to respect.
Also, that’s not what Citizens United determined. Corporations have been defined as people in at least some sense since the 1886 Supreme Court case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. And in some sense, that’s a necessary legal fiction – in order to allow companies to be represented in court and the like.
Mark
Only if a clothes dryer is defined to be a “person.”
But then, we’re the state where a legislator tried to make a law redefining pi to make it easier to help his kids with their homework….
StClair
I was thinking exactly this. Thank you.
DailyBrad
Dorothy’s really going through it, huh.
True Survivor
Oh good, we’re not crazy: Dorothy real is starting to loose it.
Reltzik
… define “good”.
Masumi
I think she needs to lose it to find herself
Needfuldoer
Well then she should tighten it.
DarkoNeko
“ok sure i’m gonna put it next to the repair order for that wall you punched”
Doctor_Who
Asma’s face tells me that the only reason she hasn’t snapped and killed everyone yet is she won’t give the clickbait sites the satisfaction of writing the headline “Asma Attack!”.
Durandal_1707
Sorry, I beat you to that pun way back in 2019. 😉
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/chase/
ktbear
You really think you can beat a time traveller to anything? He prolly posted this comment several centuries ago.
Clif
And if he hasn’t yet, he will.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
“How dry I am”
“How dry I am”
“Nobody knows”
“How dry I am”
Stephen Bierce
I was going to quote a Maytag jingle, but I couldn’t find a good one.
Shitbird
I don’t understand what Dorothy is doing here
Yotomoe
Defacing public property, it looks like.
Vanessa
Losing it
Reltzik
Going through a drier spell?
Bogeywoman
Underrated comment of the year lol
Sirksome
She’s frustrated in more ways than one.
bubba0077
My reading of the strip is the time on the dryer ran out before she got off, she got frustrated instead of adding time, and wound up denting the door by kicking it with her heels.
miz
i don’t think so- she still has the vibration lines around her in every panel, there’s nothing to indicate that it stopped at any point.
EpochFlame