It’s not really his fault. He’s obviously a nice guy, just reality-blind. He thinks Sweetheart is an ordinary dog. If he were a jerk, and reality-blind, he would just shoo her out of the store. (Maybe even call the pound.)
Lol! That would be awesome! We used to have a Scottie who liked to sing along with Neil Diamond (go figure) and the soprano in Carmina Burana. It was so adorable!
At least two days behind? So you can remember a time before reporters had access to telephones? No daily paper in my lifetime has run more than 24 hours behind the news cycle old timer.
So you’re what? A teenager? The local papers around here 20 or 30 years ago were doing well if they were only two days behind. It was a running joke that you only read the paper for the comics and the editorials — maybe the classifieds. If you actually wanted to know what was going on, you had to watch the telly.
I guess “locals” and “nationals” always were very different things. Both cities I’ve lived in, the local paper comes out once a week. I think the regionals do a bit better, but there aren’t many of them left in my country.
That does sound like some sort of mad science solution to the issue at hand: deal with the prejudice against nonhuman intelligences by inducing reality/weirdness blindness in the _entire_ baseline human population. No perception of nonhuman intelligences, no prejudice.
But I foresee a problem with that plan: If all humans become blind to NHSes, then it would become increasingly difficult — if not impossible — for said NHSes to make any further progress in NHS rights. Their only means of contact would be electronic. Since you can’t see who’s on the other end of an email or blog, reality blindness doesn’t affect that. But face-to-face communication would no longer be possible at all. And so far, they have rights only in California, and now maybe in Vermont. H.T. would definitely not be content stopping there.
True, it does sound like a mad science solution, since they have an discomforting tendency to do things simply because they can, not because they’ve thought them through.
Face to face communication will work in some cases but not others. Sweetheart is seen as a regular dog, but Unity as a human being in makeup or maybe suffering vitiligo, while a robot gorilla, IIRC, was seen as a store clerk.
Good point — the blind do tend to see non-humans as that which they most closely resemble, so some are seen as ordinary humans. But the blindness still poses a problem. If humans cannot see non-humans as non-humans at all, then it will be nigh impossible to get any non-human rights legislation introduced, let alone passed.
The argument runs something like this: why waste our time on legislation for people that don’t (as far as they can tell) exist? We could be wasting time on so many other things for actual voters.
However, if they can actually see that there’s a sizeable population of non-humans — and more importantly, see them as potential voters — it’s much easier to get them to pay attention.
And we don’t know what percentage of the population suffers Bill Davenport level blindness, where they simply don’t perceive mad science related entities _at all_.
Damned reality filters, now he’ll never replace that waffle iron at this rate.
I’m sure another customer will report it broken at some point. And then he’ll be mystified as to when it happened. “Well, it was working yesterday…”
When you check out, Sweetheart, don’t tip this guy.
It’s not really his fault. He’s obviously a nice guy, just reality-blind. He thinks Sweetheart is an ordinary dog. If he were a jerk, and reality-blind, he would just shoo her out of the store. (Maybe even call the pound.)
Sweetheart not tipping? That’s rampage behavior!
Quick, Sweetheart! Sing Gilbert and Sullivan again!
Lol! That would be awesome! We used to have a Scottie who liked to sing along with Neil Diamond (go figure) and the soprano in Carmina Burana. It was so adorable!
Could your Scottie reach the soprano’s high D in Dulcissime? Impressive!
Not quite. He preferred to harmonize.
I thought the receptionist looked familiar…
Then it hit me: He’s Cancer Man!
I thought it was Ira at first, and then I realized they’re in the hotel lobby.
I don’t recall cancer man. Can you provide a link?
http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2016/02/29/x-7/
Ah, beat me to it.
Nose is all wrong for Cancer Man.
And he’s way too cheerful. Cancer man doesn’t smile.
Sure (last panel).
Awww, I remember when people used to get their news from reading large thin sheets of paper that were at least two days behind any actual event…
Whereas now people get their news from reading small thin screens that are more current, but often even less accurate.
Or wholly fictitious.
Or semi-correct in misleading way.
At least two days behind? So you can remember a time before reporters had access to telephones? No daily paper in my lifetime has run more than 24 hours behind the news cycle old timer.
That’s why I only read periodicals. To know what an event actually is, rather than to know that something is actual eventually.
So you’re what? A teenager? The local papers around here 20 or 30 years ago were doing well if they were only two days behind. It was a running joke that you only read the paper for the comics and the editorials — maybe the classifieds. If you actually wanted to know what was going on, you had to watch the telly.
I guess “locals” and “nationals” always were very different things. Both cities I’ve lived in, the local paper comes out once a week. I think the regionals do a bit better, but there aren’t many of them left in my country.
Sweetheart seems oddly blind to reality blindness.
She’s not blind to it. She’s used to it.
http://skin-horse.com/comic/aesthete-would/
…worst case scenario: the surge of news surrounding the election has somehow increased reality blindness in the area.
Good and bad have little meaning in that scenario.
That does sound like some sort of mad science solution to the issue at hand: deal with the prejudice against nonhuman intelligences by inducing reality/weirdness blindness in the _entire_ baseline human population. No perception of nonhuman intelligences, no prejudice.
But I foresee a problem with that plan: If all humans become blind to NHSes, then it would become increasingly difficult — if not impossible — for said NHSes to make any further progress in NHS rights. Their only means of contact would be electronic. Since you can’t see who’s on the other end of an email or blog, reality blindness doesn’t affect that. But face-to-face communication would no longer be possible at all. And so far, they have rights only in California, and now maybe in Vermont. H.T. would definitely not be content stopping there.
True, it does sound like a mad science solution, since they have an discomforting tendency to do things simply because they can, not because they’ve thought them through.
Face to face communication will work in some cases but not others. Sweetheart is seen as a regular dog, but Unity as a human being in makeup or maybe suffering vitiligo, while a robot gorilla, IIRC, was seen as a store clerk.
Good point — the blind do tend to see non-humans as that which they most closely resemble, so some are seen as ordinary humans. But the blindness still poses a problem. If humans cannot see non-humans as non-humans at all, then it will be nigh impossible to get any non-human rights legislation introduced, let alone passed.
The argument runs something like this: why waste our time on legislation for people that don’t (as far as they can tell) exist? We could be wasting time on so many other things for actual voters.
However, if they can actually see that there’s a sizeable population of non-humans — and more importantly, see them as potential voters — it’s much easier to get them to pay attention.
And we don’t know what percentage of the population suffers Bill Davenport level blindness, where they simply don’t perceive mad science related entities _at all_.
That might be really bad news for HT.
One begins to see Sweetheart’s frustration with humans in general. Although she still enjoys the scritches.
My headcanon informs me that this hotel clerk is closely related to Ira. Maybe a brother or something.
Not because of the reality-blindness (which Ira doesn’t have anyway), just because it would be fun.