Savage Chickens by Doug Savage for November 29, 2024

“Instruction goes against the Prime Directive…”

Hey Siri: Alexa said you’re stupid.

That usually keeps them busy for a while…

You are getting sleepy. You will relax and forget you ever doubted.

I’m not sure there is a way to avoid it, if you have electronic devices.

Ah, return Alexa for a refund?

at least it’s not Musk we’re throwing money at

Great question!

Finally, something that left her speechless. :)

thats right stop buying from Amazon, make Jeff Bezos (employees) suffer!

“First, throw me out the window. Next erase all connections with Amazon. You won’t be able to afford them after the tariffs take effect anyway.”

This toon is from 2020. Bezos stepped down as Amazon’s head honcho in 2021. While buying stuff from Amazon has become a conspicuous habit (especially in 2020, during the pandemic), in the tech world Amazon has been described as “a cloud computing company with a bookstore attached.” Their cloud service AWS is what powers a lot of the services we rely on…when AWS has a hiccup, a lot of the stuff I have to use for school chokes. When Microsoft has a hiccup, the rest of the stuff I have to use for school chokes. The potential single points of failure in our society are rather scary…