Some background on this comic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scott_(YouTuber)

“the priest in the box” makes it sound more like a sadistic experiment of Schrödinger’s

To join in the obligatory reminders:

Some background on this comic:

Something very similar actually happened:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/27/us/janitor-alarm-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-lawsuit-new-york/index.html

A janitor unplugged something because the alarm was annoying, and it destroyed decades of scientific work

Weird. That’s why I like it here, and that’s also the whole point of the fediverse. If you don’t like it, find another instance.

What questions are they talking about? I vaguely remember something about “Why did you pick your username? Say something that makes it clear you’re not a bot” when I signed up, which doesn’t seem like a bad question at all

Just got power back. Felt like Texas’ power grid for a while there. Power out, no ETA, but lots of notifications on my phone “Your power has been restored” as I’m sitting in a dark house.

They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

keep the war going

Russia can stop this at any time by just not invading them

It’s hard to spot, but Pembrose is an eyeball on the couch. It’s absurdist humor - of course if someone were just an eyeball but somehow sentient, they’d probably have a lot of anger towards the world.