Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 03, 2025

Punxsutawney Phil is now just a tawny punk.

You still have several days to sell Super Bowl predictions (there have been weirder sources).

Not to worry, the National Weather Service will soon be privatized.

After all, that information is Worth Money, so why should the government have it?

And every forecast will be loaded with ads!!!!

They’re sitting this one out.

Speaking of being replaced by AI: the titles at the edge of the comic are now in a formal font instead of handwriting. I wondered why Wiley took that extra step to write it all out (unless he just photocopied it) and now it’s a font.

Mammalia, Rodentia, Sciuridae, Chucked Asideium.

Phil, my lad, I hate to break it to you, but you were replaced decades ago. We just didn’t have the heart to tell you, so we let you keep showing up to work and doing your thing while we got our weather predictions from Jim Cantore

Can anyone tell me why when trying to read the comments the page keeps jumping up and down by itself?

The page is very happy?

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice” – Diedrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity

MAGAt stupidity is more dangerous than AI as they are the sheep of evil. Soon their bleating will be “High Grocery Store Prices Good, Low Grocery Store Prices Bad.”

MAGAts are the country’s most dangerous domestic terrorist organization.

Phil’s accuracy rate was about 35%

Next month gocomics is starting a new policy that will only allow comments from AI,

A groundhog and his shadow are a very famous pair

They forecast the weather together, a trick that is rare

Now the one little thing that bothers me whenever outdoors I go

Does my shadow mean springtime, or sixteen feet of snow?

Never know which, I just can’t remember

Will it be warm, or make like December?

The whole thing just confuses me, and that is why I sing

A groundhog’s shadow just doesn’t mean a thing.

Tonight l think l’ll watch a certain classic movie with Bill Murray.

Not literally you understand. He stars in it. I’ll be watching it with the missus.

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Guess what my comment will be tomorrow, folks!