“Yes, I have a game called polymorph the mouthy brat into a toadstool.”

There was a time when people thought legally mandated interoperability could become the law of the land. That dream is probably dead, but if there’s ever a chance to push it through, it would be worth doing. It’d be a complex piece of legislation to be sure and would probably need to go through a number of iterations to get it right, but it would be a start.

For Facebook specifically, they’ve constantly been in the crosshairs of government regulators for (amongst other things) anti-competitive practices, privacy violations and so on (and that list only goes to October 2021).

Up to now they’ve escaped any serious consequences for their many violations of the law, broken regulations, and ignored consent decrees, and thus have been allowed to grow unchecked as a result. Simply enforcing the laws as written back in the day would have helped. Now? I have no idea. Legal enforcement will not be coming any time soon.

That’s what makes it so funny!

I think the meta-joke is that the fictional artist of this fictional comic has kinda given up, and is bitterly phoning it in. 🙃

The future’s so… ugh:

Talk about daddy issues!

“Do you believe that my being thiccer or more bodacious has anything to do with my badonk in this place? You think that’s gas you’re passing now?”

Indeed! I fell in love with that move back in the day. Luckily, Alex at least got to directly pilot the Starfighter – but our alien freedom-fighters in the comic strip are sadly only looking for remote controlled drone pilots.

“And that’s why if an audience doesn’t laugh at my jokes, they’re wrong.”

Like the guy is unironically a treasonous criminal con-man so obviously under Russia’s (or more specifically Putin’s) influence it’s laughable.

All of that may be true, but it’s easily overlooked by his voters because they hate immigrants so very VERY much.

“Dammit kid, take the deal – we really need that cream cheese back here.”