Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter

[Lynn McGuire]

Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter
https://scottadams.locals.com/post/3690833/dilbert-march-17-2023

Dogbert got the job so he can read private messages and blackmail his
enemies.

Lynn

[Paul S Person]

There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.

Those who are paying will see it anyway.

The Rest of Us don't care anymore.
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[Quadibloc]

On Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 9:50:36 AM UTC-6, Paul S Person wrote:

> There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.
>
> Those who are paying will see it anyway.
>
> The Rest of Us don't care anymore.

Perhaps the assumption is that these capsule descriptions of the
new Dilbert strips will entice more people into ponying up $70 a year
to be able to see the works of this newly unfettered great creative
mind.

Of course, that is not to comment on the actual likelihood of this
actually happening.

John Savard

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <scnb1i5ri2f1m7mlu...@4ax.com>,

Paul S Person <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:22:04 -0500, Lynn McGuire
><lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter
>> https://scottadams.locals.com/post/3690833/dilbert-march-17-2023
>>
>>Dogbert got the job so he can read private messages and blackmail his
>>enemies.
>
>There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.
>
>Those who are paying will see it anyway.
>
>The Rest of Us don't care anymore.

The same could be said of Heinlein.

Or any number of things.
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What's not in Columbia anymore..

[John Halpenny]

Those who like Dilbert will pay. Those who like complaining will refuse to pay. Scott Adams will make money and get rid of the whiners. What's not to like.

John

[Alan]

On 2023-03-18 08:50, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:22:04 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter
>> https://scottadams.locals.com/post/3690833/dilbert-march-17-2023
>>
>> Dogbert got the job so he can read private messages and blackmail his
>> enemies.
>
> There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.
>
> Those who are paying will see it anyway.
>
> The Rest of Us don't care anymore.

Some of us never cared.

[Gary R. Schmidt]

It was amusing when it presented life in IT, through a glass, darkly,
but it hasn't done that for a long time.

I suspect most of us who followed it into this century due to habit will
just drop off.

I had a look at the new thing, and it came across as a place where,
"those people who point out we are arseholes can't find us", and left.

All things must pass. Sometimes much later than they really should've...

Cheers,
Gary B-)

[Hamish Laws]

Personally I'm in favour of not liking racism

[Thomas Koenig]

Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> schrieb:

I find it a pity that Dilbert is now behind a paywall. This will
make many meetings more boring.

[Paul S Person]

On 18 Mar 2023 17:39:09 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan

I think you are missing the point.

The point is not that only those willing to pay will be interested,
and they will have seen it already.

The point is that posting it /here/ is pointless because anyone who
isn't paying won't be able to see it and so not be interested.

[WolfFan]

On Mar 19, 2023, Paul S Person wrote
(in article<qdbe1ipaeqmequ096...@4ax.com>):

> On 18 Mar 2023 17:39:09 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
> <tednolan>) wrote:
>
> > In article<scnb1i5ri2f1m7mlu...@4ax.com>,
> > Paul S Person <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:22:04 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> > > <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter
> > > > https://scottadams.locals.com/post/3690833/dilbert-march-17-2023
> > > >
> > > > Dogbert got the job so he can read private messages and blackmail his
> > > > enemies.
> > >
> > > There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.
> > >
> > > Those who are paying will see it anyway.
> > >
> > > The Rest of Us don't care anymore.
> >
> > The same could be said of Heinlein.
> >
> > Or any number of things.
>
> I think you are missing the point.
>
> The point is not that only those willing to pay will be interested,
> and they will have seen it already.
>
> The point is that posting it /here/ is pointless because anyone who
> isn't paying won't be able to see it and so not be interested.

That would be it.

When Adams shut down the free site, I deleted Dilbert from my daily rotation.
I am not now, never have been, and never will be, interested in financially
supporting someone with his opinions. He is perfectly free to have his
opinions; I am perfectly free to have mine. And one of mine is to never let
one penny go to the likes of him.

What I may do, if people insist on posting about a site that I will never
patronize, is to simply add ‘Dilbert’ to the kill file. That way they can
worship at the altar of their racist god to their heart’s content, I will
never see it.

Do carry on.

[pete...@gmail.com]

Wasn't dilbert.com ad-supported? Your actions definitely benefited Adams
financially.

If you can get over the unaccountable antipathy many Usenetters exhibit
towards Reddit, you can (for the moment at least,) find New Dilbert posted there:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dilbert/

One of the people there has also created an archive of past strips,
https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/
which sadly lacks the indexing and search capabilities of the old site.

Pt

[WolfFan]

On Mar 19, 2023, pete...@gmail.com wrote
(in article<3c4db9a5-8a2c-410f...@googlegroups.com>):

It complained about my ad-blocker.

>
>
> If you can get over the unaccountable antipathy many Usenetters exhibit
> towards Reddit, you can (for the moment at least,) find New Dilbert posted
> there:
> https://old.reddit.com/r/dilbert/

Not interested enough to go to that much trouble.

[Alan]

Don't get me wrong!

I enjoyed Dilbert for many years.

What I never cared about was Lynn's narcissistic need to post links to
the webcomics he followed.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <qdbe1ipaeqmequ096...@4ax.com>,

Paul S Person <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On 18 Mar 2023 17:39:09 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
><tednolan>) wrote:
>
>>In article <scnb1i5ri2f1m7mlu...@4ax.com>,
>>Paul S Person <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:22:04 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>>><lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter
>>>> https://scottadams.locals.com/post/3690833/dilbert-march-17-2023
>>>>
>>>>Dogbert got the job so he can read private messages and blackmail his
>>>>enemies.
>>>
>>>There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.
>>>
>>>Those who are paying will see it anyway.
>>>
>>>The Rest of Us don't care anymore.
>>
>>The same could be said of Heinlein.
>>
>>Or any number of things.
>
>I think you are missing the point.
>
>The point is not that only those willing to pay will be interested,
>and they will have seen it already.
>
>The point is that posting it /here/ is pointless because anyone who
>isn't paying won't be able to see it and so not be interested.

Also anyone here won't be able to read Heinlein without buying a book

and so not be interested.

And as Lynn said:

https://reddit.com/r/dilbert

[Lynn McGuire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dilbert/

Lynn

[Alan]

On 2023-03-19 08:45, Paul S Person wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2023 17:39:09 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
> <tednolan>) wrote:
>
>> In article <scnb1i5ri2f1m7mlu...@4ax.com>,
>> Paul S Person <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:22:04 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>>> <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter
>>>> https://scottadams.locals.com/post/3690833/dilbert-march-17-2023
>>>>
>>>> Dogbert got the job so he can read private messages and blackmail his
>>>> enemies.
>>>
>>> There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.
>>>
>>> Those who are paying will see it anyway.
>>>
>>> The Rest of Us don't care anymore.
>>
>> The same could be said of Heinlein.
>>
>> Or any number of things.
>
> I think you are missing the point.
>
> The point is not that only those willing to pay will be interested,
> and they will have seen it already.
>
> The point is that posting it /here/ is pointless because anyone who
> isn't paying won't be able to see it and so not be interested.

Posting it here was ALWAYS pointless.

None of us are ignorant of the existence of webcomics and Lynn didn't
just post notable comics...

...he posted them EVERY SINGLE DAY.

[Paul S Person]

On 19 Mar 2023 17:55:15 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan

People who own and have read the book might be interested in
discussing it.

People who haven't read it, don't own it, and have no intention of
doing either might still be interested in reading the discussion.

You are desperately trying to pretend that apples and oranges can be
compared. They can't be.

Are you /sure/ you are paying attention?

[Paul S Person]

And I found most of them worth looking at.

I still check Doonesbury, although I missed yesterdays because the URL
didn't exist (per the server). I wonder if that will happen every
Sunday from now on? That is, that only the old strips will be put up
without explicit payment being required.

[Scott Lurndal]

Paul S Person <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 11:12:10 -0700, Alan <nuh...@nope.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2023-03-19 08:45, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On 18 Mar 2023 17:39:09 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
>>> <tednolan>) wrote:

>>>=20

>>>> In article <scnb1i5ri2f1m7mlu...@4ax.com>,
>>>> Paul S Person <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:22:04 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>>>>> <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dilbert Reborn: Dogbert is now the CEO of Twitter

>>>>>> =
>https://scottadams.locals.com/post/3690833/dilbert-march-17-2023
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dogbert got the job so he can read private messages and blackmail =

>his
>>>>>> enemies.
>>>>>
>>>>> There's no point to posting Dilbert any more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Those who are paying will see it anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Rest of Us don't care anymore.
>>>>
>>>> The same could be said of Heinlein.
>>>>
>>>> Or any number of things.

>>>=20

>>> I think you are missing the point.

>>>=20

>>> The point is not that only those willing to pay will be interested,
>>> and they will have seen it already.

>>>=20

>>> The point is that posting it /here/ is pointless because anyone who
>>> isn't paying won't be able to see it and so not be interested.
>>
>>Posting it here was ALWAYS pointless.
>>

>>None of us are ignorant of the existence of webcomics and Lynn didn't=20

>>just post notable comics...
>>
>>...he posted them EVERY SINGLE DAY.
>
>And I found most of them worth looking at.

And I have less than zero interest in any of them. This is rec.arts.sf.written,
how does dilbert or doonsbury meet the group charter?

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <Gv%RL.893340$t5W7....@fx13.iad>,

Dilbert, at least, lives in an SF universe with aliens, parallel dimensions,
robot characters, & demons.

[James Nicoll]

In article <Gv%RL.893340$t5W7....@fx13.iad>,
Scott Lurndal <sl...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>

snip

>And I have less than zero interest in any of them. This is rec.arts.sf.written,
>how does dilbert or doonsbury meet the group charter?
>

Long ago, Doonesbury had fantastic elements. Specifically, plants
could talk. BJ Eddy being fired from his position as head tulip
made the news.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1976/11/30

It is possible that this is less a revelation about plant intelligence
and more that Zonker is a giant pot-head subject to hallucinations but
I think either Mike or Mark also heard them.

(OBSF: plants feeling turns up as a plot point in a David Drake
story)
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[WolfFan]

On Mar 20, 2023, James Nicoll wrote
(in article <tva13p$pl$1...@panix3.panix.com>):

> In article<Gv%RL.893340$t5W7....@fx13.iad>,
> Scott Lurndal <sl...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> snip
>
> > And I have less than zero interest in any of them. This is
> > rec.arts.sf.written,
> > how does dilbert or doonsbury meet the group charter?
>
> Long ago, Doonesbury had fantastic elements. Specifically, plants
> could talk. BJ Eddy being fired from his position as head tulip
> made the news.
>
> https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1976/11/30
>
> It is possible that this is less a revelation about plant intelligence
> and more that Zonker is a giant pot-head subject to hallucinations but
> I think either Mike or Mark also heard them.
>
> (OBSF: plants feeling turns up as a plot point in a David Drake
> story)

In several Drake stories. One of the Lacey stories had plant behavior as a
major plot point; to be sure, Drake later commented that someone else had
remarked that only someone who hated plants could have written that story.
Drake’s opinion of plants was confirmed by the ’Seas of Venus’ stories;
I was particularly impressed by the homicidal honeysuckle and the venomous
walnuts. And Drake also had a battleship named ’Night Blooming Cereus’.
Look it up.

[Thomas Koenig]

Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> schrieb:

Does not appear to have a search engine.

I used to remember a strip from the past by a few keywords, search
for it, and then share it on Teams.

Now I'm restricted to xkcd, I guess.

[Kevrob]

Was this the last D strip sent out "in the clear"

https://web.archive.org/web/20230312203257/dilbert.com/strip/2023-03-12

Requests for later ones are being redirected to Adams' new front page.


--
Kevin R

[pete...@gmail.com]

Yes.

Upthread, some alternate sources can be found.

pt

[Robert Carnegie]

Did I not see a Monday strip and then the end?
That URL does contain date of March 12th, when
a March 13th comic wouldn't be there anyway.

[The Horny Goat]

I just finished reading that from March 13 forward and didn't see
anything particularly more offensive than usual.

Of course Adams has annoyed enough people along he way they'll be
criticizing before he even puts pen to paper or moves his lips.....