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None of these is 100% waterproof, of course.

Hopefully at least the yacht is.

Why not Peter Baggins?

I only watched one of his videos, but there was a whole verse about that.

"Any kidnapping victims inside my suit pockets?" he sings, over footage of cops rummaging through the jackets hanging in his closet.

Even if safety reflectors become widely adopted- let's suppose that workers leaving the office at 5pm put one on, clubbers at midnight have them, whatever - then won't motorists come to expect to see them? And if they hit someone, people might say, "Well, she wasn't wearing safety reflectors - what do you expect?"

Yeah, the idea of policing pedestrian outfits irks me. You don't need a license to walk. You don't need training, or to pass a test. There are no regulations written about what equipment a person must wear out in public to avoid collisions.

Operating a motor vehicle does come with those rules and responsibilities. Including headlights!

Besides, a lot of winter coats are mostly available in dark colours. They are fashionable, practical, and show stains less. Is someone supposed to buy an expensive second coat for walking around at night in? Stash a high-vis vest in their purse for when night falls at 5pm, and they are still out, on their way home from work?

When I have these discussions in-person, sometimes they say, "Oh but when they dash out across the middle of a highway and they're wearing all black, even headlights don't help!" Well, of course if they are suddenly darting across the road, crossing mid-block, of course that's dangerous! It wouldn't be okay if they were wearing a suit of glowsticks! There are rules against "jaywalking," but not against wearing navy blue!

Oof

Good point. I will have to explore this distinction in future Telepathy Snub comics.

This is the best compliment ever. I hope your day job involves inspiring youth to reach their potential and believe in themselves, and to transform their cynical self-image into optimism. Thank you.

I figured it may be their own comic, and they were linking to their own page. Oh well

I promise you, I'm not.

I've been accused of "being AI" before, but I hate AI and never use it if I can avoid it.

I write in a dorky, earnest style with big words. A lot of early Internet users write that way. AI was probably trained on such writings. Therefore, people who write like old internet nerds tend to sound like the AI that scoured their forum postings for inspiration. That is my theory, at least.

Also, I went to art school, so I can talk about shit in a pretentious way.

It makes me sad that people are accused of using AI when in reality they are just mega dorks like me.

And if you don't believe me about beinf human, check out my recent posts I guess.

Because this comic combines the cynical semi-randomness of Gen X with the Hate-My-Wife humour of the Boomer generation?

Fantastic. I like the way you took advantage of the comic strip medium to turn a quirky cat thing into an interdimensional revelation.