optimism
Original: optimism on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (top banner): THE SINGLE-FACTOR CASE FOR OPTIMISM.
The panel is a hand-drawn line graph with a black vertical y-axis and horizontal x-axis. A thick red curve starts high at the top-left of the y-axis and slopes downward to the bottom-right, ending in an arrowhead.
Y-axis label: RATIO OF SPANKINGS THAT ARE FOR CORPORAL PUNISHMENT TO SPANKINGS THAT ARE A WEIRD SEX THING
X-axis label: TIME
Votey:
SADLY, THE U.N. LATER CREATES A PROGRAM TO INCREASE CONSENTUAL SPANKINGS ENTIRELY IN ORDER TO IMPROVE ON A HIGHLY PUBLIC METRIC.
The panel is a hand-drawn line graph with a black vertical y-axis and horizontal x-axis. A thick red curve starts high at the top-left of the y-axis and slopes downward to the bottom-right, ending in an arrowhead.
Y-axis label: RATIO OF SPANKINGS THAT ARE FOR CORPORAL PUNISHMENT TO SPANKINGS THAT ARE A WEIRD SEX THING
X-axis label: TIME
Votey:
SADLY, THE U.N. LATER CREATES A PROGRAM TO INCREASE CONSENTUAL SPANKINGS ENTIRELY IN ORDER TO IMPROVE ON A HIGHLY PUBLIC METRIC.
Alt text
A single-panel comic titled "THE SINGLE-FACTOR CASE FOR OPTIMISM." It shows a hand-drawn line graph with black x- and y-axes. A thick red curve starts high on the left and slopes steadily downward to the right, ending in an arrowhead. The x-axis is labeled "TIME." The y-axis is labeled "RATIO OF SPANKINGS THAT ARE FOR CORPORAL PUNISHMENT TO SPANKINGS THAT ARE A WEIRD SEX THING." The joke: over time, spankings are increasingly consensual/sexual rather than punitive, framed as cause for optimism. The votey (aftercomic) is a small box of text reading: "Sadly, the U.N. later creates a program to increase consentual spankings entirely in order to improve on a highly public metric." (spelling "consentual" as in original).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.