Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 09, 2024

Sadly, that’s the style of man.

You learn WELL …… little Grasshopper! ! !

;-)

Maybe for defense to keep other people from attacking you?

It’s precisely the reason that modernity can never produce humanitarianism on its own. After all, the third Reich was very advanced…

Sometimes killing or having the ability to kill saves lives.

Who wants to mess with any prepared to kill them? It’s why we maintain military forces and police and assorted weapons around us.

(You can never be too careful, just too careless.)

He left out another destructive “advance” that was invented. It’s called money.

Welcomes to the real world kid. It ain’t just a bed of roses see. They gots lotsa thorns too.

The question is, “How can we use this to protect ourselves?”

Unfortunately, we are a self destructing species. We should be embarrassed by this, but as a species, we just aren’t. The longer time goes on, the more lethal we’ve become.

Surprising flash of intellect from a kid who always wears a space helmet.

Sad, but they didn’t have to ask, it just came naturally to our fallen nature. Or as the Bible points out, the very first boy ended up killing his first brother. If you don’t believe in the Bible, from the evolutionary side we get billions of years of “nature, red in tooth and claw,” so there’s no escaping it. We have to ask, can we escape it personally, and is there an escape for humanity in the future? Oh, sorry, rather deep and dark ponderings in a comics comments section, but the comic strip started it.

Unfortunately

What about the greatest invention ever: sliced bread?

Comic strips! Not used to kill, except in laughter.

Nobody’s weaponized chocolate yet…

I marked the heart icon. Not because it’s funny but because it true.

Sadly true.

We’ve come a long way. We used to have wars like the 100 years’ war and the 30 years’ war. Most wars now only last a year or two. At the rate were going, the next war will only take about 25 minutes.

Language has killed off a lot of carriers and marriages.

Pretty much everything except the “cat flap”. :(

Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead! …oh, wait.. that’s the Killbot. Military AI is coming.

I guess it’s good to learn early that world is full of hater, just don’t be one.

Didn’t trump promise to end all wars on day one?

Tru-Dat!

The kid’s NOT lying. Humans = Earth’s greatest disease.

Doctor Mel is the good ole-fashioned type. He only uses Bots to kill people.

Kid is paying attention.

“…to build the best big stick – to turn the winning trick – but this was something more”

So, what’s new?

When you have a “good idea”, the first thing you should ask is, “how can this be corrupted”?

Which is why all these idiots working in robotics and AI may be extremely intelligent, but also incredibly stupid.

Is anyone else bothered by the missing period after “Electricity”? Unless the item was supposed to be “Electricity motorized vehicles.”

How can we monetarize this?

What about the telegraph? …Eh, I suppose you could send a coded signal to a hit man.

This is why Marc Laidlaw’s idea was so successful. “The first line of almost any story can be improved by making sure the second line is, “And then the murders began.””

Well, the first question is “how can we use this for p1rnography?” but I suppose the kids wouldn’t have known that.

Just about everything can be weaponized.

Go ahead. Roll over and show your belly. Just don’t come crying when you, and all of your like-minded friends, are living in either literal or figurative chains. We are a violent society because some of us animals only understand that the violence protects us from those who would do violence against us. It would be great if we could all live in peace, but it will never happen.

The question has to be asked, is Tim Rickard foreshadowing plans to weaponize his comics?