Same. Cancelled since the gave Joe Roegen a platform for his fascist propaganda.

This picture being generated aside, do people just call all automation “AI” now because they can’t tell the difference?

Absolutely. I agree. I’m not against expressing pain and personal struggle in art. Some of my favorite art pieces are exacly that and it feels extremely personal. It’s exacly as you say: the problem of loss is not that it expresses pain, suffering, etc, but that it feels weird in the sudden tone shift, style and with the funny gaming webcomic context. Not that a tone shift can never work, but i wouldn’t say it did in this case.

I’m guessing part of fhe meme being successfull is because a lot of people felt that way. It’s definitely art, but art comes with the ivitation of being up for interpretation and criticism.

In a way, the meme turned that four panel comic into a whole seperate artpiece, one that is born from and does express the awkwardness in a way.

I do feel bad for him, and especially the ex-girlfriend having the miscarriage in college (it was years back before he drew the comic and not his wife according to wikipedia with his own blog post as source).

And while a do feel bad about the event, I’m not a fan of him putting this trauma event of his and her life in the public as part of a gaming/gag webcomic.

I agree with you and like to emphasis on one point you already mentioned. The demcrats encompass everything to the left of the GOP. Because the GOP is far right, everything to the left of it includes center right, conservatives, centrist and liberal opinions, as well as a lot, or most of the left wing depending on definitions.

In my opinion this is one of the major reasons why the democrats seem so undecicive, because there already are so many different world views of people that are forced to be in the same party, because effectively, there only are two of them, and the alternative is straight up fascism.

If the democrats ever regain power, changing the voting system to allow for a 3rd or 4th party to actually emerge would be a saving grace, but unfortunately, the above mentioned composition will likely prevent them from it, even when in power. And on top of that they will have their hands full with the debt crisis.