2371: Election Screen Time

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Election Screen Time

Title text: Feels like I picked a bad year to try to start having a healthy relationship with political news.

Explanation

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Cueball is looking at his phone, which informs him of time spent doing two activities: Staying updated about important election events (26m) and unimportant election events (9h14m). Both the wording on the phone and the title text suggest that too much time has been spent on trivial election minutiae.

This comic was probably created because of the upcoming 2020 United States presidential election between the incumbent President Donald Trump and the challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden.

The title text is referring to the wide amount of news coverage during this election season.

Transcript

[Cueball is looking at his phone screen time report. The screen appears above his head]

Screen Time Report

Staying informed about politics like a good civic minded person

..26m

Reading election updates that won't affect your actions in any way but slightly improve your knowledge about what's going to happen in a few weeks

.................................................9h14m

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Discussion

I think there should be a screen time category - there seems to be a lot of comics with this trend -Donthaveusername^talk

K I did-Donthaveusername^talk

The title text seems like a reference to the movie Airplane! Barmar (talk) 00:19, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm not finding the connection, although I'm not familiar with the movie. Could you please explain? Nk1406 (talk) 02:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

”I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue”

"GETTING INTO POINTLESS ARGUMENTS WITH PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW: 17h 23m"

Reminding people to sign their posts: 25h 58m Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 08:39, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

It's probably worth knowing about the fake collecting boxes for ballots. Robert Carnegie [email protected] 162.158.154.215 09:56, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

You're referring to the California Republicans' "unofficial ballot boxes"? Worth knowing about, yes, though I don't see any particular relevance to the comic. BunsenH (talk) 15:33, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

I suspect this is a direct response to the comic. With all the confusing illegal stuff happening, voters need to focus a little extra on the news, so they don't (for example) accidentally drop their ballot into a decoy ballot box labeled as "official" --172.68.132.161 16:48, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Seems to me that the transcript should be text-only: "[Short blue bar-chart bar]", or something like that, rather than an actual graphic bar. No? BunsenH (talk) 15:02, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Agreed. Text describing their relative size would be good too.

ProphetZarquon (talk) 17:48, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Write in the candidate you want. That is all. ProphetZarquon (talk) 17:48, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Coincidentally, or maybe not, https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/salt Cellocgw (talk) 11:34, 14 October 2020 (UTC)