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HI! I'M CHARLIE!

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Senior pets have a hard time getting adopted. The likelihood of adoption is only 25% compared to 60% for a younger dog. Unfortunately, this is often due to prejudice. I want to raise awareness with this comic (and also get back to my roots, which I haven't really managed to do yet). But I want to start uploading more regularly again. Thank you for your patience so far.
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rraszews
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Is this the first time we've seen human spirits?
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CodeSOD: Totally Valid

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Greg's co-worker really wanted to make sure that a variable was correctly set to true or false. So they did this:

if (isValid == true)
{
	isValid = true;
}
else
{
	isValid = false;
}

If isValid is true, set it to true, otherwise set it to false. isValid is a boolean in C#, so the only options it could have are true and false.

The real WTF is that in languages with truthiness, this code may actually be useful- converting a falsey value to a literal false. But in C#, this is both useless and stupid.

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rraszews
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The idiom I like for converting "truthiness" to truth in C-like languages is "!!". It's a weird little idiom that is more WTF if you understand what it's doing than if you just assume it's pure syntactic sugar.
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Everything to Remember Before Star Trek: Discovery Returns for Its Final Season

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This week, Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes for one final adventure. After years of waiting—and knowing that this fifth season would be its last—the Trek show that launched the franchise’s current renaissance will begin its victory lap. But before that, it has been a while since Discovery was last on our screens—so…

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rraszews
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I think they make too much of Earth's isolationism and the loss of the Spore Drive. Earth had become insular, but they were never depicted as this going farther than "Would make a good analogy for pandemic lockdown". And Stamets only says they'd need to return to spacedock to repair the spore drive, not that it was destroyed.
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Here's the Full AI-Generated Script From the Willy Wonka Disaster

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An event based on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory made international news over the weekend after a promised world of imagination turned into a full on disaster. “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” in Glasgow, Scotland was promoted with elaborate AI-generated images of lollipop forests and jellybean waterfalls. But…

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rraszews
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TBH this seems like a perfectly good script for a dark ride. Pretty sure the AI wasn't the villain in this fiasco.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Calculus

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Hope you're getting a good laugh, cybo-people of 2073!


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rraszews
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Is this the anti-basilisk?
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The Metaphor of Godzilla

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rraszews
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I would watch a movie about a kaiju that is trying to preserve old buildings from redevelopment.
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jlvanderzwan
66 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame#Architecture
jlvanderzwan
66 days ago
... although I think that calling Quasimodo a Kaiju would be uhm... very not cool these days
rraszews
66 days ago
I would also watch a movie which framed Quasimodo as "The Littlest Kaiju"
jlvanderzwan
66 days ago
If you frame it like that it becomes affectionate again
jlvanderzwan
70 days ago
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But consider: the nuclear bomb is also a metaphor! For humans destroying themselves with their own hubris!
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