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{{comic | number = 4692 | date = November 11, 2017 | title = specialization | image = 1510428871-20171111 (1).png | votey = 1510428924-20171111after.png | titletext = People who say we'll become one with the machines should really specify the machines they're talking about. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Written by: Zach weinersmith :Art by: Abby howard :According to sociology, about 5% of human beings are super weird. :Average :Weird :These guys :As the human population grew, the absolute quantity of super weird people expanded. :I've just calculated a 73% Sturdier bricklaying pattern that would also require fewer bricks :Business leaders discovered surprising opportunity.. :It's now possible to build a furniture facility and staff it entirely with people who experience transcendence when monitoring chair parts for defects! :Soon, regular people were less able to find work :It says here you have 25 years of experience at all levels of engine repair, but your psych profile doesn't say anything about an erotic attraction to unpaid overtime. :But- :I'm sorry. :The strange people were clustered by type, :Sometimes I lie awake at night fantasizing about a more efficient cardboard box design. :Marry me. :And more average people didn't possess the resources to have children, :I wish I'd married a real man, with pathological desire to find multiple uses for leftover industrial cellulose! :I won't have this argument again, I won't! :As the baseline human being became stranger, the outliers became ever more use useful. :It says here you have 50 years of experience in plumbing, but none of your extremities are shaped like Allen wrenches. :But- :I'm sorry. :Humanity speciated into endless forms most functional- :Automotive reparians :Chemical enginese :Computer Programmerfolk :Tap-a :Tap-a :Tap-a :Tap-a :When the time came to merge with our tools, there was no humanity left in us to oppose the change. :We want to put some electrodes on your cerebellum so you're no longer able to stop thinking about industrial solvents. :My whole life has been leading up to this moment. :There are no machines. There is no nature. Only the drive to ever greater heights of productivity, :It's better this way. :Can you imagine what it was like being distracted by love, hope, and beauty when you really needed to focus on making smoother Beryllium spheres? :What a nightmare ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :- :.. :C :Soooo happy. {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Guest artist]]
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