Yah there people in here, on Lemmy of all places, making the argument for the stability of businesses.

I feel the effort we put into the smallest acts of kindness is a much better measure of who and what we are as a species.

I’m sure some of the folks responding in here may be on the spectrum or failing to express their arguments and reasoning in a neurotypical way, but for the rest, I hope they actually never learn what it feels like to be the entity depending on someone or something to save them for no reward to themselves. It’s a rotten, hopeless feeling and the callousness that people embrace to justify allowing others to experience that, well that’s a state that spreads quickly through our society when we allow it to fester. Always push back on heartlessness.

You’re digging yourself into a hole that seems oblivious to normal human feelings and getting irate at the responses. This is all you baby.

No no, I’m sure that old wooden pole with the ceramic donut insulator, splinters and dangling wires is powering like fucking NORAD or something. 🙄

No really, thank you. There is a segment of people who think themselves “progressive” in spaces like Lemmy but are utterly heartless and exist like soulless automations when it comes to the stuff that actually matters in our lives like protecting the innocent and making sacrifices for small things that make someone or something else have a better experience in life, even if the risk “outweighs” the reward. It’s denying the human experience to make that kind of calculation.

Imagine how much better our world would be if everyone, everywhere stopped what they were doing to help someone or something innocent in need. We wouldn’t have the fucking Epstein files right now. It actually makes my blood boil and I deleted a few comments here before moderating my tone to be more civil.

He was my only friend for many years, living in isolated areas and being kept out of school I didn’t have much else besides shitty parents and siblings that just wanted to get high, the whole idea of people being heartless towards innocent beings in need of aid makes my blood run cold and the back of my neck feel hot with anger.

Lemmy, looking at an old wooden pole with splinters and hanging wires and old ceramic insulators: “LET THE CAT DIE, THAT THING IS POWERING THE ENTIRE WESTERN SEABOARD, RUSSIA WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE AND INVADE, MILLIONS WILL DIE.”

I hate you all and hope your non-existent girlfriends leave you one day for being heartless and mechanical.

That power line fed some houses. It’s an old wooden residential line, they also usually have redundancy because these things have to be serviced all the time.

It’s crazy how many people in here are like “FUCK LIFE UTILITIES ARE MORE IMPORTANT” no wonder we’re in an age of heartlessness where people don’t care about harm to innocents.

Isn’t Lemmy supposed to be mostly rational intelligent people?

Are you fucking insane.

When I was about 11 I had a cat I loved dearly get stuck in a massive cottonwood tree over my house for 5 days, it was agonizing listening to him cry every day.

My parents were cold and heartless about it and joked that there would be a “cat skeleton tree” in our yard.

I tried everything, finally got an older sibling to help throw a fishing line up and pull up a bucket with wet food. It didn’t make it quite to his limb, but eventually the smell drove him to climb towards it, and from there I was able to coax him down. He was covered in ants and dehydrated but he was fine.

A couple weeks later he ran up a pine tree and got stuck for 4 days again. This time I fashioned a pole and just knocked him off the branch. He fell about 20 feet into a pile of leaves and pine needles and was fine.

They reroute and turn off sections of wiring all the damn time for maintenance, they have crews out in the field who are literally going around, turning some lines off after turning others on, and doing routine work on lines, transformers and other components. It’s not life and death, it’s just a company being cheap and lazy.

If having a love for life and wanting better outcomes and hope and inspiration for innocent life baffles your sense of logic, then maybe your sense of logic is flawed and holding you back from emotional growth.

I would be astonished if that janky, raggedy wooden pole connects to anything but neighborhood housing.

I have delved deep and hard into my own limitations and contradictions and predictable responses as a life form and as a complicated human entity. That part is even more soul-crushing because if I have learned how limited I really am and how predictable my brain is, and it means that the average person who doesn’t meditate or contemplate their own thinking must be either far more trapped in cyclic behavior, or even more crushing… far happier.

I am happy I had a chance to interact directly, because you did touch on something in this comic that I appreciate and I know AI is a very long way from taking from us, which is that “flow of an experience” that comes with art. You feel a scene, a situation, an exchange or a mood, you have an internal experience born from your own imagination and you want to share that feeling. Keep doing that and you will easily compete with the “Greats.”

Keep at it, the next biggest thing you need is just consistency and patience. It can take a long time before enough people experience the world through your eyes that they start missing it and seeking it out.

There are not NEARLY enough subtle, cerebral comics out there, this is giving me vibes like the few good ones like Bizarro or Perry Bible Fellowship, lean in harder, make art and stories for yourself, not public appeal, you will get a much more loyal following and make bigger waves. (I used to be a professional artist, I know the pains.)

Also, yeah there are AI all over reddit asking how to be human, asking the meaning of things like comics and memes, the whole “explain the joke” ring of subreddits exploded in volume since reddit announced that they were going to partner with Google and AI companies to use the platform as a training ground.

AI is going towards some strange directions and it’s going to be bigger and smarter than we expect. Eventually.

But it will be a long, long time before it starts making art like this, which gives a glimpse into an internal, personal idea or experience. Keep fighting the good fight.

A flashbulb or powder flash for a camera.

Also, I love your art.

I feel it’s a little of column A and a little of column B.

But what happens is all the good stuff, the bad stuff, everything in between, it just stacks up and stacks up. You get bored with a lot of things because you’ve seen it all before so many times. I cannot stand “new” movies because I’ve seen them all before in other forms. I am disappointed by tragic things humans do, but even with current problems in society, it’s new specifics but the broad story is the same. I see people debating things that they were debating 30 years ago. I see people voting against their best interest just a few years after doing the same thing.

What burns you out on life broadly, not in a dark, depressing way, is just the utter lack of novelty after a while. You will want to see more new things, you will want to travel and try new foods and experience new things, but even that all starts to feel cyclical.

After a point, and I’m not there yet, I am quite certain that I will feel a draw to a great unknown, because there’s nothing new left here to surprise me.

I’m not the penguin walking to the mountains yet, my community needs me and I need them… but I always have a side-eye to the mountains and a little voice in the back of my head: “Someday.”

I got it immediately, I thought it was clever.

Don’t be discouraged by the minority of people and AI posing as people who have a hard time with subtlety.

I’m probably one of the older users on this site, and can say with depressing clarity that everything just repeats over and over. The details, tone and accessories may change through the decades, but the rest stays the same, just this flat circle spinning 'round and round forever.

I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.