what I’m saying is I often fall back into old habits and cycles because I can’t escape my situation. at least, not yet. and I see myself struggling and I keep telling myself to get out of the situation but I am. I just have to be patient for a little while longer and I know this.
and yet. it’s still tough. oh well. I’ll get through it eventually. sorry if these comics sound like a broken record.
I’m goin’ through the motions. I’m on a low swing right now, so I’m trying to make or do anything I can. Turns out, not a lot of stuff gets made or done, but I keep going. I try to remind myself that even if I’m not the successful artist I always wanted to be, I can make a name for myself when it comes to the things I interact with daily. Like spiders. Spiders like me.
I watched a few episodes of The Comedy Lineup on Netflix. First two specials I saw were ~ok~but I really liked Taylor Tomlinson’s episode. It’s episode 3.
There will be more soon! Also, who owns Vermintide 2? It’s like L4D/2 but with hammers. Comment/tweet if you’d like to play with my friends and I sometime!
To you, I exist almost entirely digitally. You can hop onto any computer and type in any one of my URLs and access my websites without any sort of throttling or bottlenecking—my comic is on equal footing with the rest of the internet.
If the internet were no longer neutral, one could imagine a scenario where an artist like myself was silenced through partiality; a website would be bottlenecked so no one would wait for it to load; content you weren’t supposed to see would be buried; and you would be paying more to access presently-accessible information. Net Neutrality is good for everyone, except corporations. So now, we have to fight to preserve our digital landscape.
It’s frightening to see it laid out so bare; Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon’s ISPs (corporations already monopolizing most of America’s internet and occasionally already capping/throttling/bottlenecking it with impartiality) all stand to profit immensely from a reclassification at the cost of our freedom of information. Right now, ISPs cannot decide which sites you should access at which speeds. That may change.
We are a country built on free speech, but I guess we never specified freedom of access to that speech. Oh well. Maybe next time we make America we’ll get it right.
EDIT: In the comic, I mention “the vote” is happening “around Black Friday and Thanksgiving.” The vote won’t be until mid-December, but information surrounding the vote was released today (the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday).
