Happy and Uplifting Comics

I swear, new ponyfic is on the way! Possibly involving Starlight Glimmer starting a career as a therapist. In the meanwhile, this was one comic I particularly wanted to share.

My webcomic is still running here.

Comments

[Gyro Pony]

I've only read three of your Comic strips.

This was a good one.

Development of the scene (didn't know it was a garden party until the last couple of frames) plus background knowledge (I've read Dune and know the quote) plus wit = web traffic and $$$.

[Reese]

Aye, I've been following these on their website and enjoying them. :)

[ponygrad]

The best part about the bay area is that it's impossible to come up with hyperbole. See the beginning here

[Random Bits]

That's a WebP image you've linked, it doesn't display in Firefox.

[Gyro Pony]

4891172
Hey, I have a zucchini garden !
But it's in my front yard. That makes it ok, right ?

[Bugsydor]

Been enjoying your comics on the website, and I read that one this morning. I haven't been able to figure out your update schedule yet, though. Do you try to update on specific days of the week? Or should I just keep mashing refresh on a daily basis?

[Super Trampoline]

LA has the same problem.

[Wild Zontars]

> Dune
> Silicon Valley

"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."

[Georg]

4891231 LA has a very specific problem. It is a desert. It's a beautiful place, but the only water it gets is through water projects. Water projects cost money. Money in the hands of the California state is quickly used for short-term fixes rather than the long-term solutions of creating and maintaining the water projects that make the coastal communities possible.

So lots of money for very fast trains and no money for water.

Part of it is the fault of capitalism, I'll admit. We like to say that business can do anything, but it takes a *big* business to accomplish a water project, and the natural nature of capitalism is to charge out the (censored) for the resulting product, while a business cannot simply take chunks of land for the resulting pipelines and collection dams. Government does both of those better than business, and I'll admit it. Government can say "We're building a dam here, take this money and get out" or "The water pipeline is going through your south field, here's some money to make up for the inconvenience" but business can't do either worth a hoot. What business *can* do is work with government to make the most efficient pipelines or least intrusive dams, and that they do very well.

Dune was (in effect) an example of how a capitalistic society can utilize technology to survive in an intensely hostile environment while making money producing a critical product. Without spice, the planet would have been uninhabited.

[Wild Zontars]

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The fun bit is, that entire region of the US could have effectively unlimited, "green" water with 50-year-old technology: great big nuclear or solar-thermal powered desalination plants. Unfortunately, that would require a metric butt-ton of permits, studies, etc. on top of the massive capital costs, and would never be economically viable under the current way of doing things.

[GaPJaxie]

4891216

Been enjoying your comics on the website, and I read that one this morning. I haven't been able to figure out your update schedule yet, though. Do you try to update on specific days of the week? Or should I just keep mashing refresh on a daily basis?

Tuesdays and Thursdays at midnight PST. ^_^

[GaPJaxie]

4891216

In fact, the new one just went up now!

[wildlander84]

A lot of it is a liberal lunacy problem. Incidentaly, I watched an interesting Ted Talk involving a promising program that is successfully reclaiming grasslands from deserts and removing atmospheric carbon through CATTLE FARMING beleive it or not.

[Bugsydor]

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Neat! That actually fills a relatively empty slot in my webcomic rotation.

Regarding the latest comic:

I seem to self-select the way you mentioned too, entirely by accident. Only one member out of the five in our Star Wars RPG group (including the GM) might be neurotypical, and I say maybe because I never bothered to ask the fifth. Then again, this may have something to do with being RPG nerds culled from a group of brony fanfiction prereaders.

It's really frustrating for me to interact with people who use their condition as an excuse to avoid practicing social norms, though. It wasn't easy, but I've learned, dangit! Well, that and done my best to respond appropriately when my friends let me know I've crossed a line.

[Reese]

Something appears to have gone wrong with the website now, though; I'm getting an error page that includes a message asking the owner of the website to contact their hosting provider.

[GaPJaxie]

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I'm upgrading to Cloudflare and something seems to be going wrong. Give it 24 hours.

[Reese]

4892856
Ah, okay; good luck with that.