Breathtaking Innovation

Arguably in that instance the server *is* the body. It's just one that doesn't physically move. At the very least it is the physical embodiment of the brain.

Simon Green

I love Winslow's line in the last panel. He seems to have a good grasp of what May is like.

awgiedawgie

Not that I know of. Nor are there any magical wardrobes. We want a QC universe, it's our responsibility to MAKE a QC universe.

Joseph Bonnar

I can get away with THIS advertisement because it's for one of Jeph's products, as well as being relevant. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1829/4817/products/qc-gooddogs.jpg?v=1571449018

Joseph Bonnar

Cue the Pride Orb!

Captain Button

Dude, you gotta socialize your healthcare or when it gets older it'll keep barking at other people's healthcare and you don't want that. Wait no, that's dogs I'm thinking of. SOCIALIZE YOUR DOGS! (Preferably with me)

She probably *would* be down with that, but I also think it wouldn't be fully fair to expect her to be on the forefront of a civil rights movement. She wants a body that works, and I wouldn't hold it against her for wanting to pursue that through faster avenues than advocating to change the entire structure of AI rights.

Leah Shaffren

May actually seems pretty down for "making stuff better for everyone". I don't think she's actually an arsehole, she just behaves like one as a sort of defence mechanism. And I can see Hannelore's dad possibly fixing May's immediate problem by just giving her a job that comes with AI healthcare. Although this might give her worrying access to fighter plane bodies :s

Chris Crowther

May is such a good character, I want her to have her own spin off.

Andrea Andrew

Is it America or Canada?

Andrea Andrew

An AI without a body would be very vulnerable. "We are closing down this division and thus this server, you have a week to get a job with someone else and get downloaded to their server before we shut this one down and sell it for parts."

Nicholas A Wagner

One standard coffee for visiting humans, one special robot coffee for them?

From a distance, the right to correct embodiment seem much bigger than socialized healthcare. I would more put it to the level of "right to a correct habitation". It's also very different if there is a theoritical right to a correct body without actual consequence if it fail, or if AIs can sue something to get a new body. (from a country with socialized stuff)

Frederick Ohlmann

TIGGER WILL HATE HER!

Joseph Bonnar

Synonyms for poo might be involved

Bagge

May's got reserves of vocabulary that she hasn't even touched yet.

Sleepy John

I see no downsides here.

Simon Green

Why do the robots have what appear to be *two* coffee machines? And how do I sign up to work there?

Simon Green

Clearly, it would be "Bleepatrice"

Fart Captor

Healthcare and horny robots is the future liberals want

Fart Captor

I would like to live in QC America please

Jason Rock

Heh. My Aspergers is too strong for that level of maturity. Good job on you, though.

Wait times 100. Private costs 5x-10x as much as before. I call that an oof.

He said on the internet

Hilda Leyes

For some reason I'm envisioning this as a bonus comic. Basically Yelling Bird, with a different art.

Alex Borders

I wish there were, Captain. I honestly wish there were.

Joseph Bonnar

Or it would short her out and we'd need Nelson with a paper clip again. In the paperless world of the future in QC there will ALWAYS be room for a paperclip. And PDF's.

Joseph Bonnar

Um, maybe, maybe not. BS = Bull shit. MS = More of the same. And PhD? Piled higher and deeper. (This is intended as a joke, folks. I have several advanced degrees and they have served both society and myself very well.)

Joseph Bonnar

The hardest thing I have to do is to keep my ol' alligator mouth shut and not fan the flame wars. But having read what Jeph said, I'm gonna do just that. :)

Joseph Bonnar

I wish for a world without the pumpkin man

Dylan T

On the plus side, May gets to come back into the story.

Andrea Andrew

Is there some kind of like, inter-dimensional portal that would lead to the QC universe?

speaking for australia you get basic health care for free but to get faster, better healthcare you need private insurance, some jobs offer that as a perk of employment, that may be what was happening

Brad Kirkwood

Thank you for qc amirca

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a block function in Patreon for other commenters.

Captain Button

Please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Dora say she wouldn't file Faye's firing from Coffee of Doom until the insurance went through after she went to the hospital for alcohol poisoning? If so that would mean that at that time insurance was still tied to employment.

Dan Curtis

Did he not specifically say do not?

This is an answer for everybody who is commenting about the earlier strip, where Faye was kept on as an employee to allow insurance coverage. Jeph is creating a wonderful, interesting, and very complex story. I will NOT criticize him on anything until I am SURE I can do better, and unless I have PROOF of that. Which ain't gonna happen. (Translation, I done lost my rights to bitch at Jeph.)

Joseph Bonnar

Whether she's intending to or not, Roko is being a good lawyer for May here. A lawyer's responsibility is to her client, not society at large (even though society is hopefully helped by the lawyer's efforts for her client!). Roko's doing right by May: her focus is on helping May, and she's asking how May wants to proceed. So interesting to see a former cop turn basically into a defense attorney overnight!

seeprybyrun

Fuck everything else, I want a full strip of just May, swearing. :)

Joseph Bonnar

One of my favorite things about QC is the way Jeph shows us what a better world looks like. Today we're seeing it in the big things, but how often do we also see it in the small - in the way people relate to each other, work on their traumas and issues, take care of themselves and each other? I want to live in the QC world; to get there, we're going to have to make it ourselves.

Yonatan Zunger

Let's assume that they just copied Canada.

Mitchel Huffa

TBH, AI's probably run the economy in this world, so my bitching about socialized stuff not working on the last comic was probably pointless since an AI-run tax/social benefit system is probably highly efficient. Edited:

Awww... It's so nice to know the human QC characters get good healthcare! I would be very happy living in that world. (The robots are cool, too.)

Alex H.

I mostly wish I lived in QC America just because of the robotics technology

FuzzyDragon Cosplay

No wonder she wanted to steal/inhabit a jet fighter: MAJOR flight upgrade, to say nothing of the weapons...

Czarzhan

Beeps will get more than she bargained for. This could be life-changing...

Douglas E. Smith

Maybe it happened after that. If not directly relevant to the story, background news is background noise.

Czarzhan

Well ya, you have AIs, you better run things right or they will make you!

Nicholas A Wagner

I have socialized medicine and it's great 👍👍

Chris Henry

#Bodycare4All Until all of us are free, none of us are free! Stand in solidarity with our AI siblings!

Sandrock

I just had a lightbulb moment... May has been in the comic a lot longer than anyone thinks! Prior to her current body, she was an AI bird... a yelling bird!!! :O

Aussiewan

I've always wanted to see May curse like Sydney does in Grrl Power. That would certainly help Beeps.

Chris Reed (aka Animeraider)

phd stands for Pretty Heinous Dictionary

LH

What is fiction if not a place to indulge your ideals?

Thisguy

So... What's the name of the Beepatrice/May ship? Maypatrice or Bay? Bay seems appropriate, because it could be pretty... explosive.

Evgeniy Semyonov

its nice to take a break and imagine a better place. i love QC america

phoebe

I hear QC America healthcare is pretty much any other 1st world country? 😓

Yay(not spookybot) the story gets back to May. Also I'm expecting a full page of cussing

Tachpmg

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2886

Captain Button

She's Michelangelo when it comes to swearing!

Grace Kieser

It isn't <i>completely</i> socialized, since Dora thought it was important to keep Faye technically employed until after the emergency room bills for alcohol poisoning came through.

Captain Button

Just the AI made me want to live in the QC universe. And now eccentric billionaires that actually want to help society? Now I'm in even more.

Anthony Gaglianese

Sooo.... how does one move to the QC America? Asking for a friend.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

I hope this leads to May going up to station, and then experience the laser demonstration that Marigold experienced. “This is the greatest day of my life!”

Miyaa

I'm Canadian and I want to live in the QC world Q_Q

TanithGhost

I'm hoping for a string of curses so powerful it melts all earwax within 30 meters

Thomas Halpin

May's Profanasaurus, 3rd Edition.

Spoogle McGee

Now, I really wish we all lived in the Questionable Content world!

Andrea Andrew

Be careful of what you ask for?...

Michael Boettger

i was hoping the qcverse would have socialised healthcare, thank you jeph &lt;3

Tamara Macadam

Ooohhhhhh... I can't wait to see May's response.

Bailey Tighe