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rday, if you know what I mean, but today, no cursing. And if you'd like to take your experience up to that level of godliness — there's nothing else you could call it — all you need for that is a coffee mug, glass, a tankard, chalice, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Enjoy with me now the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the…

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Well ladies and gentlemen, if you were a subscriber to the Dilbert Reborn comic on the X platform, or you were a member of the Locals community, you would know that Tina the tech writer is being replaced by AI. But in the ultimate insult, the ultimate employee insult, Tina will be asked to train her AI replacement. Yeah, it's probably one of the number one suggestions I get from people when I ask for Dilbert ideas. You know, hey, is anything bothering you at your workplace? The one I get more than any other one — well actually the one I get the most is people leaving smelly things in microwaves, but I can't write comics about smells. It just kind of doesn't work. And they talk about stealing food from the refrigerator because those are like the simplest, dumbest comic ideas. But the other one is people being fired or replaced and being asked to train their replacement.

Now imagine if you had to train AI as your replacement. Is that better or is that worse? I don't know. We'll explore that in the Dilbert comic.

Well I got to tell you about something that happened to me in the simulation yesterday. For about, I don

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't know, several years now, probably at least once a day I've said to myself, you know what, I should sit down and I should dedicate a whole bunch of my time to writing up what the drinking bleach hoax was, how it was executed, and really do a good job on it. So yesterday I fell asleep working during the afternoon, which is not uncommon. I woke up next to my laptop, as I often do in my man cave, a…

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