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2017-09-19

by shaenon on September 19, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Sure as You're Born
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  1. Evan Theilig
    September 19, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Damned reality filters, now he’ll never replace that waffle iron at this rate.

    • Candace
      September 19, 2017, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      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…”

  2. Robert Nowall
    September 19, 2017, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    When you check out, Sweetheart, don’t tip this guy.

    • Candace
      September 19, 2017, 1:16 am | # | Reply

      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.)

    • Marisa Mockery
      September 20, 2017, 12:01 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart not tipping? That’s rampage behavior!

  3. thejoemoose
    September 19, 2017, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Quick, Sweetheart! Sing Gilbert and Sullivan again!

    • Candace
      September 19, 2017, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      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!

      • maarvarq
        September 19, 2017, 1:32 am | # | Reply

        Could your Scottie reach the soprano’s high D in Dulcissime? Impressive!

        • Candace
          September 20, 2017, 1:04 am | # | Reply

          Not quite. He preferred to harmonize. 😉

  4. Urlance Woolsbane
    September 19, 2017, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    I thought the receptionist looked familiar…
    Then it hit me: He’s Cancer Man!

    • awgiedawgie
      September 19, 2017, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      I thought it was Ira at first, and then I realized they’re in the hotel lobby.

    • Midwestmutt
      September 19, 2017, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      I don’t recall cancer man. Can you provide a link?

      • emusam
        September 19, 2017, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

        http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2016/02/29/x-7/

        • Daibhid C
          September 19, 2017, 1:46 pm | # | Reply

          Ah, beat me to it.

        • awgiedawgie
          September 19, 2017, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

          Nose is all wrong for Cancer Man.

          • Candace
            September 20, 2017, 1:08 am | #

            And he’s way too cheerful. Cancer man doesn’t smile.

      • Daibhid C
        September 19, 2017, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

        Sure (last panel).

  5. Max
    September 19, 2017, 3:27 am | # | Reply

    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…

    • awgiedawgie
      September 19, 2017, 3:33 am | # | Reply

      Whereas now people get their news from reading small thin screens that are more current, but often even less accurate.

      • Sheik
        September 19, 2017, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

        Or wholly fictitious.

        • K. Dragon
          September 19, 2017, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

          Or semi-correct in misleading way.

    • Barking Monkey
      September 19, 2017, 6:31 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • Khno
        September 19, 2017, 10:37 am | # | Reply

        That’s why I only read periodicals. To know what an event actually is, rather than to know that something is actual eventually.

      • awgiedawgie
        September 19, 2017, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

        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.

        • David Breslin
          September 20, 2017, 8:02 am | # | Reply

          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.

  6. Bruce A Munro
    September 19, 2017, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart seems oddly blind to reality blindness. 😀

    • awgiedawgie
      September 19, 2017, 5:44 am | # | Reply

      She’s not blind to it. She’s used to it.

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/aesthete-would/

  7. EvilMidnightLurker
    September 19, 2017, 5:45 am | # | Reply

    …worst case scenario: the surge of news surrounding the election has somehow increased reality blindness in the area.

    • OneUniverse
      September 19, 2017, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      Good and bad have little meaning in that scenario.

    • Bruce A Munro
      September 19, 2017, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • awgiedawgie
        September 19, 2017, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

        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.

        • Bruce A Munro
          September 19, 2017, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

          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.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 19, 2017, 8:38 pm | #

            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.

          • EvilMidnightLurker
            September 19, 2017, 11:30 pm | #

            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_.

  8. Sheik
    September 19, 2017, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    That might be really bad news for HT.

  9. Shadowmehr
    September 19, 2017, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

    One begins to see Sweetheart’s frustration with humans in general. Although she still enjoys the scritches.

  10. Andy4Hire
    September 19, 2017, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

    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.

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