france

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A woman with dark hair in a yellow sweater excitedly holds up an old calculator and says, "Hey, check it out! I got France to run on this old calculator!" A red-haired man in glasses replies, "What?" Panel 2: A close-up of the woman explaining: "France is substrate independent! It's just a collection of agents that believe themselves to be in a location with certain history and relationships! France is software!" Panel 3: The skeptical man flatly responds, "France is not software." Panel 4: The woman looks down at the calculator and says, "Look! It's smoking and complaining about bread." The man says, "I'll be damned." The calculator is shown emitting smoke and a tiny French exclamation, "Putain!" Votey: A close-up of the smoking calculator, which says in French, "CETTE BLAGUE EST UN CLICHÉ!" ("This joke is a cliché!"), stereotypically French even in objecting to the joke.