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** And after 25 years running, the comic is approaching ''4,000'' comics.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: (Stupid) corporations are bad, m'kay? As are [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyers]] and politicians, but, [[AcceptableTargets well, y'know...]] And middle managers are dumb. This can all be rolled into one all-encompassing {{Aesop}}: {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s are (far) more dangerous than an AlienInvasion. Or in [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01704.htm the words of Sam Starfall himself,]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: (Stupid) corporations are bad, m'kay? As are [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyers]] and politicians, but, [[AcceptableTargets well, y'know...]] politicians. And middle managers are dumb. This can all be rolled into one all-encompassing {{Aesop}}: {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s are (far) more dangerous than an AlienInvasion. Or in [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01704.htm the words of Sam Starfall himself,]]
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* AcceptableTargets: ''Any'' kind of ObstructiveBureaucrat.
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00072.htm Government in general.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Run One example]] is ''extremely'' nasty, in that [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00071.htm Flo thinks it's the reason]] humanity has a [[AtomicHate permanent psychosis]] when it comes to nuclear research, even at its most beneficial.
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01856.htm Politicians in general.]]
--->'''Sam''': Engineers and politicians are such opposites I’m surprised they don’t burst into gamma rays when they touch.
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00526.htm Government scientists (Or possibly just Global Warming/Climate Change scientists).]]
--->'''Helix''': If I were a scientist out to prove GlobalWarming was man made, I could throw this one fact out as data scatter.\\
'''Sam''': Now, now. Let's not make this decision as if our funding depended on it.
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01732.htm Accounting Department.]]
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2000/fc01987.htm Airline security.]]
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fc02504.htm Reality television.]]
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00072.htm Government in general.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Run One example]] is ''extremely'' nasty, in that [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00071.htm Flo thinks it's the reason]] humanity has a [[AtomicHate permanent psychosis]] when it comes to nuclear research, even at its most beneficial.
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01856.htm Politicians in general.]]
--->'''Sam''': Engineers and politicians are such opposites I’m surprised they don’t burst into gamma rays when they touch.
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00526.htm Government scientists (Or possibly just Global Warming/Climate Change scientists).]]
--->'''Helix''': If I were a scientist out to prove GlobalWarming was man made, I could throw this one fact out as data scatter.\\
'''Sam''': Now, now. Let's not make this decision as if our funding depended on it.
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01732.htm Accounting Department.]]
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2000/fc01987.htm Airline security.]]
** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fc02504.htm Reality television.]]
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** Tess and her friend Al talk about taking a sample of Sqid cells to grow and taste test and then flavoring their Mycoprotein food to match if it tastes better. Nettie has to chime in and point out how immoral that actually sounds.
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I feel like the overlap between "hard sci-fi webcomic fans" and "People who think about AGI risk" is large enough for this to be amusing.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Mr. Kornada was put in charge of paperclip allocation, but because of insufficient control was placed on him, his immense stupidity caused him to try and essentially kill hundreds of millions of computers. He is the exact inverse of a [[https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer Paperclip Maximizer]].
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** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fc02504.htm Reality television.]]
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** This could cross into SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, depending on the reader.
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, reverting this to that pending formal name change.
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--->'''Helix''': If I were a scientist out to prove [[ClimateChange global warming]] was man made, I could throw this one fact out as data scatter.\\
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--->'''Helix''': If I were a scientist out to prove [[ClimateChange global warming]] GlobalWarming was man made, I could throw this one fact out as data scatter.\\
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* MagnificentBastard: Sam may be a kleptomaniac by nature, and considered a foe by almost everyone on Jean, but his study of human behavior allows him to often manipulate things to his benefit, even to the point of [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01780.htm tricking a bunch of AIs to all target the mayor with pies.]]
** The police chief [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2700/fc02602.htm is shown to be one]], but a benevolent one.
--->'''Chief''': No one said a mastermind has to be evil. However, they are the ones who get all the press.
** The police chief [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2700/fc02602.htm is shown to be one]], but a benevolent one.
--->'''Chief''': No one said a mastermind has to be evil. However, they are the ones who get all the press.
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--->'''Helix''': If I were a scientist out to prove GlobalWarming [[ClimateChange global warming]] was man made, I could throw this one fact out as data scatter.\\
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** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00526.htm Government scientists.]]
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** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00526.htm Government scientists.scientists (Or possibly just Global Warming/Climate Change scientists).]]
