No, but corporations have always legally been persons. Citizens United just took that legal fiction a little too far. As the anthropomorphic personification of a corporation she is now both the fictional “person” that was Whimsy Corp. and a NHS acting as the CEO of Whimsy Corp.
Let’s tone down those anthropocentric value judgments. She’s just doing what her kind has done instinctively ever since her ancestors began extracting shareholder value from marine animals with their circular rows of teeth over 100 million years ago.
She’s not organic, so she doesn’t have the same moral or ethical framework as we do. She’s more like an AI than pretty much every other NHS we’ve encountered in the comic, and as Helen once said, they don’t think the same way we do.
At least she didn’t order the hippOs shot. There are probably more hippos in the wetlands than hippies. You find hippies mostly in the snack aisle at 7-11.
There are hippos running wild and free in Columbia. Pablo Escobar the druglord is blamed for releasing them from a private zoo, so they are considered feral. But it is worth pointing out that hippos are good swimmers (duh!), and are the closest four-legged relative of such ocean-going animals as Shamu and Flipper. So they could have swam there by themselves, following some big-mouthed Moses of their own, no doubt.
Newsweek has reported that Escobar’s hippos are going to be captured and “sterealised”. Assuming that is a typo, they must have meant “stereolized” so perhaps Whimsy has already dealt with them.
So the government is going to shoot the hippos (assuming that you wouldn’t go that close to a fully alert animal)? Truth is sillier than fiction, I suppose.
So does the Narboniverse have it’s own version of Banksy running around making art-as-commentary that is highly critical of the Narboniverse version of Disney?
Maybe it merely has a coffee cup with nothing in it, as a sort of character prop meant to promote a productive business attitude in other Whimsy employees by visually suggesting energy, activity, and alertness, while also reinforcing the ever present imperatives to purchase and to consume.
Since I’ve always strongly identified with the little critter (apart from the sexuality and frequent smugness), I refuse to answer that question lest I incriminate myself. I’ll just say that Artie is perfectly sane by his standards, which is not something you could say about Helen or Tigerlily, who are crazy and proud of it.
Likewise, Collodi’s Daughter is perfectly sane by the standards of corporations. Not maximising quarterly profits at the expense of all else would be madness.
Dear God, she’s the literal embodiment of a corporate entity.
Dude! She’s not an “entity,” she’s a legal person. Show some respect. Sociopaths have feelings too.
People are entities too!
Actually, part of the definition of sociopath is the lack of empathy, and feelings towards others.
I’m going back to lurking now.
Wasn’t Citizen’s United overturned?
No, but corporations have always legally been persons. Citizens United just took that legal fiction a little too far. As the anthropomorphic personification of a corporation she is now both the fictional “person” that was Whimsy Corp. and a NHS acting as the CEO of Whimsy Corp.
Who’d’a figured the little unicorn had a conscience?
Or at least a vague sense of lust for Aimee.
Wow, she got crooked fast.
We never knew she wasn’t before after all. She IS a not-Disney…
Let’s tone down those anthropocentric value judgments. She’s just doing what her kind has done instinctively ever since her ancestors began extracting shareholder value from marine animals with their circular rows of teeth over 100 million years ago.
She’s not organic, so she doesn’t have the same moral or ethical framework as we do. She’s more like an AI than pretty much every other NHS we’ve encountered in the comic, and as Helen once said, they don’t think the same way we do.
But those hippies might be valuable insane gerbil habitat!
At least she didn’t order the hippOs shot. There are probably more hippos in the wetlands than hippies. You find hippies mostly in the snack aisle at 7-11.
7-11 has other aisles?
There are hippos in the Western Hemisphere?
If Greece is in the Western hemisphere, then the West Coast of Africa is…
Jonathan Fisher
D. Walker: There are hippos in Florida. https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/animal-kingdom/disney-animals-hippos/
There are hippos running wild and free in Columbia. Pablo Escobar the druglord is blamed for releasing them from a private zoo, so they are considered feral. But it is worth pointing out that hippos are good swimmers (duh!), and are the closest four-legged relative of such ocean-going animals as Shamu and Flipper. So they could have swam there by themselves, following some big-mouthed Moses of their own, no doubt.
Newsweek has reported that Escobar’s hippos are going to be captured and “sterealised”. Assuming that is a typo, they must have meant “stereolized” so perhaps Whimsy has already dealt with them.
So the government is going to shoot the hippos (assuming that you wouldn’t go that close to a fully alert animal)? Truth is sillier than fiction, I suppose.
Hippos don’t actually swim. Who knew?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/flight-of-the-hippopotamus/524343/
So does the Narboniverse have it’s own version of Banksy running around making art-as-commentary that is highly critical of the Narboniverse version of Disney?
Panel 3 reminds me of how subdivisions and shopping centers are usually named after the natural features that were destroyed in order to create them.
If they’re all animatronic, why does the rabbit have a coffee?
Maybe it merely has a coffee cup with nothing in it, as a sort of character prop meant to promote a productive business attitude in other Whimsy employees by visually suggesting energy, activity, and alertness, while also reinforcing the ever present imperatives to purchase and to consume.
You might as well ask, if they’re all animatronic, why Mary smokes.
Come to think of it, why does Mary smoke?
Her own explanation is that she’s venting core buildup.
Oh, Whimsy, truly all of us must serve you or die!
Man, Whimsey. If this was live action, you’d be like this: http://www.james-atkinson.co.uk/Pictures/Absinthe/4.png
Okay, now that’s disturbing. Equal parts Dormammu and Elphaba. Which might be a fair comparison to Whimsy, actually.
Y’know, even Mr. Green of Anasigma has more moral qualms than Miss Whimsey…
To quote Dr Narbon, I think you’re failing to grasp something about *mad* science
Well, if the *products* of *mad* science are themselves *mad*, explain Artie to me.
When has Artie ever seemed sane? o_O
Since I’ve always strongly identified with the little critter (apart from the sexuality and frequent smugness), I refuse to answer that question lest I incriminate myself. I’ll just say that Artie is perfectly sane by his standards, which is not something you could say about Helen or Tigerlily, who are crazy and proud of it.
Likewise, Collodi’s Daughter is perfectly sane by the standards of corporations. Not maximising quarterly profits at the expense of all else would be madness.
“Sane” and “good” are not synonymous in this.
Mr. Green is human.
Or…she knows full well there are AIs running around in the sim and she wants Baron M to admit it so they can all do something about it.
Baron really has found something worth being brave for here.