What we get upset about.

[jor@eldritch.cafe]

@royaards Looks AI generated.

[christianriegel@digitalcourage.social]

@jor @royaards

I hope it is. The axis labeling is wrong.

[royaards@newsie.social]

@ChristianRiegel @jor I'm a cartoonist, not a graph maker, so composition (placement of the text) comes first. Second, before you accuse me of using AI to make my cartoons (I do not), could you just do a minimum of investigation into my work?

[bdm@iceshrimp.de]

@kdl this is to your point

[privacymatters@defcon.social]

@royaards People only tend to care about things that directly affect them - which is kinda sad.

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@royaards - And all caused by the Orange Man.

[fuzzygroup@ruby.social]

@royaards Agreed. My reason for posting about gas prices is simple -- people dying 7,000 miles away is abstract. But you see the price at the pump roughly every week.

Yes that's fscking horrible but it is true.

[clintruin@mastodon.social]

@royaards @ChristianRiegel @jor
Tjeerd, I think you hit a nerve.
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[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@royaards i think it’s a side effect of not having a draft

[slyence@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@royaards im14andthisisdeep ahhh comic

[vgoller@nrw.social]

@royaards excellent

[archivescribe@mastodon.social]

@royaards Horrible but true.

[christianriegel@digitalcourage.social]

@royaards

I'm sorry that as an artist, you feel as offended as clearly do. Please believe me, I love the message of the cartoon.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@royaards How about this?

Victims : 🤬
Gas prices :

[robo105@mastodon.social]

@royaards Sad but true where Israel stubs a toe and it is the end of the world but you can pile up dead Muslims and nobody cares. Tragic

[babababa@famichiki.jp]

@royaards Painfully true. Powerfully communicated.

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@royaards

Not to worry! Someday soon we'll be able to kill all the people we want in developing countries and the cost of transpo won't budge.

And! We'll be able to do it with minimal "friendly" casualties but...yes, there is always a "but"...the robot losses may be severe.

We'll learn to usefully lament *their* grisly deaths too tho! Just to keep the righteous anger levels up to a properly useful patriotic level.

Cry, cry for the bots.

[talpa@fosstodon.org]

@royaards Am I the only one bothered by the label for the x axis?

[weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz]

@talpa @royaards

Came here to say that. If this were serious, it would be chartcrime.

[lonespelunker@mastodon.social]

@talpa @royaards

I know, right?!

Of course people would be blasé about only 7.5 victims across 2750 Middle East wars. There are intersections in every town with higher death rates.