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2020-06-27

by shaenon on June 27, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Alphaghoul
    June 27, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Heh, yeah, that’s annoying, as the world gets more modern you’re supposed to keep up with blogs instead of more direct communication. Isn’t it spelled opossum?

    • Frank
      June 27, 2020, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      With mad science? who knows?

    • Rick
      June 27, 2020, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      Officially, the North American nocturnal marsupial is the opossum, transliterated from the Algonquian name for the animal. But it is often informally called just possum.
      Meanwhile, the small Asian and South Pacific marsupials looked very similar to the opossum, but different enough that the British actually named them possums.
      https://www.grammarly.com/blog/opossum-vs-possum/

    • David Simon
      June 27, 2020, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      In the Skin Horse universe, is Google Reader still a thing?

      • Jay
        June 27, 2020, 3:18 am | # | Reply

        Maybe it’s still a real thing, but hidden behind a Black Ops Social Services “Somebody Else’s Problem” field?

        • Ray Radlein
          June 27, 2020, 4:02 am | # | Reply

          Somebody Else’s Possum

  2. Towering Barbarian
    June 27, 2020, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Who in their right minds would expect a covert government organization like Skin Horse to pay any attention to current events? o_O

    • Shadowmehr
      June 27, 2020, 10:15 am | # | Reply

      Given the number of disasters they resolve / cause / both, it’s not surprising that they might be a bit distracted.

  3. awgiedawgie
    June 27, 2020, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    Ah, yes… the Generation Gap rears its ugly head.

    • Efogoto
      June 27, 2020, 1:43 am | # | Reply

      Gap? The older I get, the more it’s a yawning chasm.

  4. dexitroboper
    June 27, 2020, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Really, it should be Tik-Tok.

  5. Frank
    June 27, 2020, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Instagram? I have to wonder what the script said back in 2007

    • Marisa Mockery
      June 27, 2020, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      MySpace

      • mickeyjf
        June 27, 2020, 9:22 am | # | Reply

        Dial-up BBS.

        • awgiedawgie
          June 27, 2020, 11:03 am | # | Reply

          That might be going back a bit too far.

        • Daibhid C
          June 27, 2020, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

          Usenet!

          What? I was definitely still using Usenet in 2007. I distinctly remember wondering where everybody was.

          (Twitter, as it turned out.)

          • Daphne Eftychia Arthur
            June 28, 2020, 4:51 am | #

            I’m still using Usenet. In addition to some local-to-my-ISP newsfroups, alt.folklore.computers and rec.arts.sf.fandom are still reasonably active. (Though most of my old haunts are now just the occasional “hey, and old-timers still here?” post.

            I do spend way more time on Twitter, admittedly.

          • David B Huber
            July 6, 2020, 6:42 pm | #

            I still use the Google Groups web interface to Usenet.

  6. Frank Carver
    June 27, 2020, 2:04 am | # | Reply

    “Greenbacks Hollow Crisis” sounds like a euphemism for running out of money to me!

    • Frank
      June 27, 2020, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      So… just another day in the Civil Service

  7. Max
    June 27, 2020, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    Oh, this is SO on point. I have no issue with people using various online social channels to communicate (none of which I use), but I do take issue with quite a few using them for OFFICIAL stuff (ie. anything that you NEED to be aware of as opposed to “might want to”) exclusively, which – even in 2020 – should be conducted through traditionally accepted means – yes, I do have a postal address. I do have a phone number. I do have an email address. Yes, Facebook or whatever else might at some point become the universally accepted standard even for official stuff. NO, IT ISN’T THAT YET – “de facto” standard is NOT the same thing.

    • serpentrose
      June 27, 2020, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      Agreed, and if you’re going to be regularly wanting to get information to someone(s) specific it’s best to find out which channels will actually work for them.
      Annoyingly I can’t sign up for a bunch of things with my primary email address due to idiots who didn’t pay attention when signing up for stuff. What’s really facepalm worthy is that I’ve gotten emails for important stuff (like banking) because someone didn’t make sure they had the right email address.
      https://xkcd.com/1279/

    • soft
      June 27, 2020, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      Yup, in agreement here, too. The school around here – despite having an actual website, even – puts all of its updates out on Facebook. Seriously, wtf? I don’t have a FB account (anymore) and have no desire to ever get one again.

    • Sheik
      June 27, 2020, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      Just keep in mind that when the Russians found out we could hack damn near _anything_ they deliberately went back to paper records.

  8. Robert Nowall
    June 27, 2020, 7:28 am | # | Reply

    But what about the “I’m coming for you!” dreams?

    • s854
      June 27, 2020, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart told Elena about them; now they’re her problem. That’s how it works, isn’t it?

    • jdreyfuss
      June 27, 2020, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      They left to go find Pavane and figure out what’s going on. She was letting Jonah know and he dropped this on her.

  9. Robert Nowall
    June 27, 2020, 11:54 am | # | Reply

    What is Sweetheart packing? When they got off at the Habakkuk, they didn’t have any luggage. I didn’t see any later, far as I can tell from a glance through the storyline page.

    Unity did change shirts a couple of times, and Tip, well, we know his mystical powers with clothing. (Remy had a shoulder bag, filled with arms and legs and rattles of various sizes, but he came separate.)

    • Frank
      June 27, 2020, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

      Souvenirs!

      • Robert Nowall
        June 27, 2020, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        But Unity ate them!

  10. Sean K.
    June 27, 2020, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    I see that Nera is enjoying a cool, refreshing Ellman’s soda.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 27, 2020, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

      Is that it? I thought it was a can of Mello Yello.

      • Bubba
        June 27, 2020, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

        http://narbonic.com/comic/november-20-25-2000/

        • Robert Nowall
          June 28, 2020, 12:23 am | # | Reply

          Can’t track it down. Can find Ellman’s Reagent, which is something I could see Helen making Dave drink, but not something Jonah Yu and Nera would.

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