Hey everyone! This is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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A community for comic lovers who just want to get away from politics and gloom and doom.
- Rule 1 - Be civil.
- Rule 2 - Don't be uncivil.
Posting guidelines:
- No political comics. This generally includes anything referencing whatever bullshit Trump is up to, but also includes the megacorps. Essentially if the comic is about how the world today sucks, it doesn't belong here.
- Where possible, tag the title with [comic name]. This refers to the name of the artist or overall comic, not the title of the specific strip.
- Tag NSFW / NSFL / AI content accordingly.
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This one time I put a guy on mute and he must have thought that I couldn't hear him. So he starts joking with his buddy. "I bet he's just Googling it"..
I was indeed. I think the real point is that not only do I know what to Google but I know what to do with what I've googled.
Which Is part of why I don't do IT services for my friends anymore. Most of what I know is applicable to deprecated operating systems, and google is shit now.
I put "googling" down as a skill on my resume.
Also, sometimes you want to be 100% sure and not 99%.
This is really true for many professions. The information is out there somewhere, that's why it's called research and not presearch. There's a lot of info we just take for granted that took time to learn.
I watched the IT person we hired look u YouTube videos right in front of me when I asked him to try and set something up.
I didn't care cause I had already watched like 15 youtube videos and still failed because I don't have the background knowledge to be able to comprehend a lot of the information and the risks that doing something might have on other systems and programs. Let him do what he did and it was done in a few hours when it would have taken me multiple days.
Being able to quickly find and parse the information you need is a valuable skill in and of itself.
Usually they have already looked it up and didn’t find anything and don’t think I’m going to find anything. Yet somehow I do.
I think technical people underestimate how much of a skill internet searches are. We wish people would do their own searches but really there is a lot of experience that goes into finding and applying the answer.
Ha yes but most people cant understand what theyre reading!
Yet, they can google what they don't understand.
I googled what I didn't understand and all I got was these lousy targeted ads.
That's what's I tell my wife and my mother. I don't know the solution, I will Google the issue and try find the solution. They can do the same and usually it will be a very simple fix
I recently showed my mother how to use chatgpt and she was actually able to install the scanner, I was impressed
LLMs might be the ultimate noob friendly tech support tool. You can throw it 99% of basic tech issues and it'll probably work.
100%, I hate LLMs but once I hooked up my father in law with duck.ai, the times I get called for IT support has halved. It's easier to describe your problem to a LLM than to find exactly the right keywords to search.
A fuzzy search tool is literally the best use of AI since that's literally what it's trained to do!
About the only thing an llm is good for. If only it wasnt trained by destroying earth/the economy.
Except if you are new at the position and you have people screaming over "are you crazy?" Lol
Might be shocking to some but every professional is looking stuff up all the time. In contrast I would be suspicious of someone not doing it. I mean even if you have the best memory there are always new developments and stuff.
This summarizes my experience at work and at home.