As an aside - I think having very good ideas that are ahead of their time (the advice, not the comics) is a real risk factor for turning toxic. You get used to being right even when everyone around you says you're an idiot, and so you've stopped listening by the time people call you out correctly

It is always strange to reflect on the death and life of a person who objectively is a terrible person, but also who you cannot deny tangibly improved your life.

(I am not telling anyone else to soften their stance on him - I'm not even softening my own. I'm just saying some also-true things)
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Much of what he wrote in the early 2000s in a page at the back of a comic book was later padded out into an entire book by a productivity guru of the 2010s).
I still (with a reluctant preface) pass on his advice to people today.
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At the end of his books of collected cartoons, he would have a couple of written chapters of productivity and career advice, which collectively was way more helpful to me than much of the dedicated productivity advice I've read since
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It occurs to me now - probably partly it helped me parse out what was confusing to me because I was undiagnosed neurodivergent, vs "no, all workers agree this is an impossible instruction if you take them at their word"
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heh

it’s important to do things for your teenage self every so often, as a way of staying on speaking terms with the person you used to be

in an earlier piece they described Patterson as "emotionless" and Wilkinson (a victim) as "stoic". That's just two people identically not making any facial expressions!

people's delusion that they can read minds through body language is how we got the Lindy Chamberlain false conviction

Although coins have had the monarch's head on them throughout a tonne of places and times, much more ubiquitously than an Other's head

(and a common pub sign motif was "the king's head", which was intended to be wholly patriotic, not rebellious or anything)

oofffff was not aware of this ty

yeah but they would still think it was normal and not shocking that a guy like that is president. They don't expect the president NOT to be a narcissistic liar.
Like how we tell everyone their whole lives to drive safely, but that doesn't mean we see car accidents as weird or abnormal

honestly, i think that's reductive. it's about all the usual reasons for war, occupation and resistance (resources, strategic positioning, domestic politics, civil rights, etc etc). I think religion is a bit of a distraction, a way to make people overlook the actual facts of what's happening

It's not that it hasn't figured out how to depict gravity - it's that it hasn't tried. It doesn't work by learning the rules that govern movement, it works by looking at a bunch of gymnastics videos and trying to follow the pattern of pixel placement - it's like your phone's autocomplete, but visual

This is very unfair; if I travel to Berlin, and hook up with someone while I'm there, that doesn't mean I travelled 14,700 kilometres for sex. That whale might have been going to the cool artistic part of the ocean.