A lot of the ethos here is captured by the Gemini protocol, basically a return-to-roots web 1.0 thing. Here’s a portal to gemini and other similar protocols I posted a while back:

https://portal.mozz.us/

Still have to worry about domain name lapse, but a lot of the other concerns go away like JS framework bitrot

Disable user-select: none; (and variants) on body to be able to select text again. I like the idea of a blog post that calls out something annoying and demonstrates the annoyance inline, though

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

The most loving, gregarious dogs seem to get down to their basic instincts pretty fast when you reach for their food bowl midmeal. (For a real thrill, try reaching for it in slow motion. Dogs love the sensation that their food is being stalked.)

I started playing with this tendency in dogs, and it just sort of evolved into the grizzly bear cartoon seen at left.

Yeah, some people want to take the easy out and blame the youths. I think it’s interesting to consider what should happen though. People want to get ahead in life and you can’t really blame them. Do we need to burn it all down and go fully automated luxury communism, or is there a way to fix it?

This reminded me of this concept:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction

Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the condition of a society that has an excess supply of potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure. This, he hypothesizes, is a cause for social instability, as those left out of power feel aggrieved by their relatively low socioeconomic status.

This is an earlier comic of his, 1980 (copyright date on top right) is shortly after The Far Side was started and the art still kind of resembles his earlier strip Nature’s Way. Here’s another Nature’s Way strip to compare:

How are you viewing them? With an app or with a web browser? I haven’t changed the way I’ve been posting them recently. Someone else messaged me recently about an error, but it turned out to be an issue with their client parsing the post wrong.

An early version of this comic:

Great for kids or when you’re drunk:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91514/rhino-hero

For accessibility, and to make it easy to find later. The original page has the caption as regular text and I add it to the image, so it’s easy to include it

Neat, that page references this comic:

He was featured in the syndicated comic strip The Far Side, which showed him as a clumsy person who spilled things in various stages of his life; as a baby (his cup), teenager (pen ink in his shirt pocket), and ultimately as an adult, driving into a water tower.

For better or worse, PBF tends towards subtle humor that makes you look back and forth at the panels a few times

Nice, that just came up in the daily posts!

https://discuss.online/post/26904906

This is one of the weirder ones, since it was the holidays at the time:

Epilogue:

An early version of this comic, from Gary Larson’s pre-The Far Side strip called Nature’s Way:

I think the dog bowl is actually an oilpan, for changing oil. The hose is probably for washing cars getting said oil change.

Some people just need to make excuses for themselves to like things. Whatever lets them enjoy themselves 🤷

The newer comics are drawn on a computer and are often literally copy/pasted. Sometimes all 3 panels are identical other than the speech bubbles.

This is great! Did you make it yourself? SRoMG would love it