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There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children".
by reggieband 5y ago
There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children". I linked a couple of examples [1], [2], [3], [4] but the satire, IMO, is incredible. It lampoons humanities proclivity to layer pseudo-rationality onto the irrational things that we do.
It also reminds me of the TV show "The Wire" when Stringer Bell, a senior member of a street drug distribution ring of urban thugs, forces them to conduct their meetings using Rules of Order. [5] If you watch to the end, you see that in those circumstances order means nothing, it is just a facade.
I guess you could say that I'm cynical about the prospects of such a court and I tend to see the underlying truth in the satires that point it out.
1. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2015/02/26 https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2015/02/26
2. https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2014/12/25 https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2014/12/25
3. https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/545850417313484171/ https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/545850417313484171/
4. https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/178807047675716661/ https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/178807047675716661/
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1zxPRRf4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1zxPRRf4g
- ghostbrainalpha 5y agoThose comics were genius. Thanks for putting them together for us.
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- distrill 5y agoThe lengths that pintrest is going to prevent me from viewing the image full size is frustrating. But these comics are great.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoPlease understand, you might like it so much and download it, that would be like shoplifting, no no.
- robbintt 5y agoBut if you hit the 3 dots it literally says "download image", and it's full size...
- cgriswald 5y agoIf you try to use your browser's standard right-click Pinterest intercepts and gives you the option to Save (to Pinterest), open link (the very one you are viewing) in a new tab, see more ideas about education (on Pinterest!), see more from renee ma (on Pinterest!), or login or sign up for Pinterest. If you click on the image, which is a link, it gives you a sign-in form. Sure, the three dots are there to click; but "Download Image" is the only function listed. Why wouldn't it just be a download button... Edit: And it's truly a 'download' versus viewing it directly in the browser...
- db48x 5y agoAny time a page does something stupid when you right–click, try it again while holding down shift.
- cgriswald 5y agoThanks for bringing that up. They've also hi-jacked that by making sure you can't hover over the actual img.
- db48x 5y agoIn Firefox, open the Page Info window (it’s in the tools menu these days). The image will be in the media tab. Alternatively, (shift) right click and choose “Inspect Element” to open the browser dev tools. The element covering up the image will be selected. Delete it. With it gone, you should be able to interact with the image itself; right click on it and view it or save it.
- cgriswald 5y agoPage Info > Media does work. Inspect Element doesn't work great. It highlights the body tag. You have to go through a series of about a dozen nested div tags to get to the relevant image tag, at which point you can open the image link in a new tab or copy and paste it. However, the point is that you shouldn't have to do any of this. Pinterest took a normal browser behavior, co-opted it, and moved it behind a menu even though it's the only function available in that menu.