Tabulation

zero strips as "outdoor wear" (see previous three strips for hijinxs)

JourneymanWizard

Wait, so how long has May been rocking the "topless apron" look as outdoor wear?

Daryl Sawyer

All is well, your excellency! I am off to grease my abacus!

Daryl Sawyer

Though remember that these human-scale AIs don't really think faster than humans. There are a lot of things they can do faster / better, but their consciousness is on a par with ours. (Station, or Yay, that's a whole different kettle of fish) And it looks like they're happy to do human things, like working and owning forks and getting drunk. So I bet a lot of them would love AbacusTube because it's cool, not just because it's low-tech

Nicolas Demers

I read "give May a semi" and my brain made it "give May a semi-transparent apron".

BobC

There are in fact a lot of videos on YouTube about how to use an abacus, according to a search I just did.

Laurie Voss

I'm sure she has an electronic equivalent of an abacus somewhere...

Carin Maja Brooks

I hear abacuses do have their benefits if you’re going to have to enter everything by hand anyway (e.g. the point of sale terminal with integrated code bar reader is out of commission)… but for someone like May who likely has access to means of computations without such an input bottleneck, using an abacus is akin to cutting an onion with a knife when you’ve got a mandoline at your disposal: pointless drudgery.

Comics Ladybird

If it bit you, it would have confirmed its identity as a subtracter.

TubaGinger

May vs. Yelling Bird!

Patrick Gavin

I'd simp for sure

Elberik

People would fight each other to simp for her

Elberik

People would fight each other just to get in line to simp for May.

Elberik

ABACUTUBE IS SOME HOT SHIT! I MASTURBATE TO IT ALL THE TIME!

Yelling Bird

Panel 2 May is so 100% pure and wholesome. Not only does Marigold extend trust - May accepts it.

Bagge

I found this fairly satisfying for some reason,.... May emoting, Marigold embracing, each one saying I like you in their own ways. The comments took me back to my full nerd days,... thank you. And Yes,.... I think May has grown past being a fighter jet, and Marigold has dumped a buttload of her insecurities. The only way their family grouping gets better would be Momo finding love w/o frying someone, or Dale popping the question. (Unlikely, everyone seems content.)

Darnel D Cooper

Given her recent demeanor, I’d guess she’s passed out in the basement with the spiders.

Bruce Steinberg

Video 1, 14 million views: How to acquire a chequebook

Daniel Rydberg

I expect May to flip flop on this until she accumulates enough to decide to increment on the idea.

Emma Humphries

I think you mean "hired" - didn't we abolish owning people?

Leak

i think this trust could do a lot for mays self esteem.

Ashley Thomas

Let's split the difference - give May a semi regular segment on the show where she goes on rants insulting whatever caught her interest that day. she keeps the proceeding for those episodes. She'll be a fighter jet before the year is over

Bagge

Maypr0n

Priyan

.. I'd subscribe to abacustube.

Samuel Fout

Apron May (Maypron?) could rule OnlyFans.

Thomas A. Dennis

Well, now we know why she didn't take that route.

Valraven

Her brain may be trash, but her heart is gold!

Nicolas Demers

I’ve met the slide rule people, so abacus subculture’s not too much a stretch. (Also, thank you for Marigold faces in panels 3, 4)

will davison

May is not sure if she wishes to seize the means of production.

chili sunrise

May needs to start an onlyfans and manyvids.

Chase the Dragon

ToplessGirlsInAprons Dot Com!

I was once abacosted by a snake. I think it was an adder. (It had beady eyes.)

kaitou

Last panel is 1000% May!

William Cole

Wholesome Marigold defeats sassy May.

Granite

Thinking back, Marigold's had quite a journey as a person. Her story hasn't had the same limelight as Faye and Bubbles or Hannelore's, but she's sure grown in a lot of ways. She comes off now as someone who really knows who she is.

Clifton Royston

"Well, piss" <3

Pejo

May is absolutely going to rule as Marigold’s manager, isn’t she?

Populuxe

Got 2 K&E.

Jim Feldman

mmm, baby. I love the motion of your heavenly beads. Oh god, complement those tens!

Likeablejerk

Don't know about abacus, but there's definitely a community about slide rules. I own 3 of them, all vintage.

Ricardo Bittencourt

Imagine that sentence 10 years ago

Onedavewreckingcrew

Is there any reason you can't just rotate the abacus 180 degrees before you use it leftie?

Carl Fink

Merriam-Webster says either one. Of course, dictionaries are permissive.

Lenore J Jones

Just balanced my checkbook!

Lenore J Jones

I really loved that one of the first things she did in her new body was go see if she was taller than Bubbles.

Likeablejerk

AbacusTube is cottagecore but for math

Alan Wiggs

This book on the soroban ( Japanese abacus ) seemed to work for me - https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Abacus-Theory-Takashi-Kojima-ebook/dp/B00CST3NLY/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=soroban+book&qid=1621217285&sr=8-12

Tudza

Oh baby slide that bead on over ... yeah, all of them, just like that. Your hundreds row is [eggplant emoji] [water doplets emoji]

Simon Green

Put forth effort!? No, no I think not! Good day sir!

Uniquitous

So here's my question To you pluralize abacus as abaci or abacuses?

Absentia

Bought a full sized business soroban, taught myself to use it, and worked through a bunch of long addition problems. Simple enough, but I've had no reason to use it since. Pro-tip: they are harder to use left-handed because you work from the highest value column down and your left-hand covers the previous columns. It's all pattern recognition so you really need to see the pattern you just created. Right hand, no problem.

Tudza

That last frame... I think Marigold knows she just owned May.

That Blair Guy

There IS a whole abacus subculture - literally now-adult Montessori school kids.

Jeebus May’s new body is huge. In many ways.

Áine Yore

Marigold is a sweet heart

Dan Curtis

Then there was the r/sliderule3.14 subreddit, but after that one guy got caught with a circular slide rule, the Feds ended up getting involved

Noise

marigold's face in the last panel is gold

Hakurei06

I got two pocket slide rules as Bar Mitzvah presents. I have my fathers K+E and his circular slide rule. Never cared for the abacus.

Matt Grayson

Doing abacus maths, but it's anal beads

Somebody Else

Oh, *please* do. As a (slightly oddball) child, I used to loved playing with a toy abacus in which nobody else had any interest.

It’s what, Rule 34? If it exists there’s porn of it on the internet?

Levi

Yup, that’s the one YouTube recommended first to me.

Miyaa

Abacus & Sliderule cultures are basically a circle Venn Diagram

Nicole Hands

Hannelore is probably behind the counter, hyperventilating, breathing in her paper bag. :)

Joseph Bonnar

It gets really bad when you slip into the dark hole that is excel spreadsheet YouTube which then leads to forbidden abode creative cloud YouTube videos.

Miyaa

I looked up abacus fans on youtube and found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJL0gZtxxYo so... yes

fluffy

May: Tries to screw with Marigold. Marigold: Well, here's how to do it. May: WellThatBackfired.jpg.

Ack

Woman says, "I'd rather balance a checkbook with an abacus than perform for internet randos." Internet Randos say, "she should get an OnlyFans account!"

KCkittysnores

r/abacus is a private subreddit. Some shit must have gone down

Thank you for that. :)

Joseph Bonnar

There is now renewed interest in the astrolabe, so why not.

M. R.

I never before realized how much I'm like May.

KCkittysnores

Oh it’s definitely a thing. The first video from a search was a 2019 global abacus championship for children in California from the United Abacus Arithmetic Association. I’m not making this up.

Miyaa

All the clacking of beads would already be on the cusp of ASMR

Grace Kieser

abacusTube… it all adds up.

Greg Matyola

He's a spreadsheet wizard, though. Abacus programming seems more like a Steve Mould thing!

Grace Kieser

Kill her w/ kindness Marigold, never stop being you!!

Shawn K. Younkin

With the new chassis, May could set up an OnlyFans easy enough.

Ted Van Roekel

Airforceproud95 is basically the male version of May. His Flight Sim videos are quite entertaining and irreverent!

Grace Kieser

May later makes a fortune from her series of YouTube videos on how to balance a chequebook.

Dean Reilly

Abacus + sliderule... and with the right ones, I'm sure you could work ASMR in there, too.

Kajsa Anderson

You know, in a world with post-singularity AIs, I can totally see AbacusTube being a popular thing, probably along the same lines as slow culture here in meatspace.

aetherspoon

http://imgur.com/a/7jw0FJr I googled it. Wasn't surprised.

Phill Green

Ah, I see you've heard of Matt Parker.

Anthony Gaglianese

Marigold is an absolute angel. Taking May's sass and offering her help. And May's response is classic May.

Michael Boettger

Definitely a thing

MikeT

I mean May could play flight simulators?

Dylan T

I mean she would probably satisfy a very non-trivial niche... the masochistic kind...

Ting

Jeff needs to stram an abacus now, it's like hypnotoad, :p

Alphones Armorman, suitperson

In Japan, there IS a niche group of abacus lovers. Pretty sure it could be a thing > abacustube

Stéphane Lapie

Marigold is too pure for this world! And that's saying something for an internet denizen!

Grace Kieser

AbacusTube?

drone r0m-3

Damn, I should have been making abacustube videos all this time...

Erin Moriarty