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A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes.

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"A better world is possible" used to be an uplifting message about the dream of creating a better future.

Now it is just a straightforward statement. Like…FOR SURE a better world is possible. This stupid shit we are up to now definitely isn't the best we can do. Not even close.

06.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 309 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

original comic is by @tbtoro.bsky.social btw, since it never gets credited.

03.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
03.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 354 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

In other words, maybe...and I'm just brainstorming here, it is actually BAD for an AI Chatbot to decide who to bomb, etc.

03.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
A computer can never be held accountable.

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

03.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 533 πŸ” 193 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

Wrong. America could never produce Socrates because Big Sophism would give a billion dollars to Protagoras to form a think tank that would drown out his message with a million sock puppet accounts on social media, who would all claim that Real Men don't care about the philosophy or the truth.

02.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Intelligent Life of Earth A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Intelligent Life on Earth -
existentialcomics.com/comic/644

02.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

It must suck to spend your life getting wealthy and famous, only to realize too late that the true secret to happiness is studying old Greek philosophers and eating huge pots of cheese.

01.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 214 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

27.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, in fact, I do believe that a man's virtue can be measured directly by what video YouTube think you want to watch next.

24.02.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Marx is Unfrozen in the Future A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Marx is Unfrozen in the Future
existentialcomics.com/comic/643

23.02.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

Slowly realize that everything is terrible: sadness.
Quickly realize that everything is terrible: comedy.

22.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Computers have automated away millions and millions of jobs already by the way. It neither caused mass unemployment because there is always more to do, nor improved our lives much because all the money went to the ownership class.

21.02.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 196 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Do these idiots not realize that AI has been out for a while now? We can't perpetually be "a couple months" away from it automating all human labor.

21.02.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 176 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3
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if i were a boxer i would simply spray insulation foam inside my skull, rendering me IMMUNE to all knockouts, and easily become world champion of the world

20.02.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

There are generally accepted to be 6 stages in human history, based on the material that is most fundamental to the economy:

Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Industrial Age
Information Age
Like and Subscribe Age (the final stage of human development).

19.02.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever a game goes to overtime or something the announcers are always like "you could not script this!!"

Sorry, but yes I could. I have the capacity to write down on a page "it went to overtime." Get on my level at scripting.

19.02.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 192 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Vodka Drunkenski, the Soviet boxer in Nintendo's 1984 arcade game "Super Punch-Out!!" was renamed to "Soda Popinski" for the NES release of "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" in 1987, in what many have described as the first instance of "political correctness gone mad".

17.02.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 225 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

My dude club frisbee is not "sort of" playing sports in college, that's a firm no.

17.02.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hollywood executive are spooked by A.I. because they too are only capable of imitating what others have created. They too lack the spark of divine creation which gives us the gift of free will.

16.02.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 159 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Presidents Day is one of my favorite holidays, because if it wasn't for discount mattresses no one would even know when it was, or if it even happened at all.

A true American holiday.

16.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Cut for space I wanted to include it, actually. It's probably the funniest because they starting coming with their own combinations.

16.02.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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David Hume on Creativity A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

David Hume on Creativity
existentialcomics.com/comic/642

16.02.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Human kind has risen ourselves to be the masters of the Earth, so why should I be afraid of a little bug, just because it is in my soup?

13.02.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

This just in: Trump administration to repeal Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's doctrine of pre-established harmony of the universe, in which God created non-interacting, independent substances (monads) that are perfectly synchronized with the material world from the beginning.

13.02.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Summoning of Bertrand Russell A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

The Summoning of Bertrand Russell -
existentialcomics.com/comic/641

09.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Remembering the biggest blowout in Superbowl history, when Robert Mueller and the Rule of Law got dismantled by the unhinged mob 54-3 in Superbowl LI.

08.02.2026 23:49 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that the New England Patriots are ontologically evil, so therefore any act against them is inherently good.

08.02.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 181 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Okay I did NOT click through and read the article. I take back my comments, AI writing is probably perfectly capable of replicating......whatever that is.

08.02.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Me, shopping at the book store: "excuse me, sir? which of these books was written the fastest? I'm looking for a book with as little thought and effort put into it as possible."

08.02.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 345 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1