Maru-maru is probably right here. Mussolini is well-known for being dead, even more so than Churchill. Probably because the British didn’t string up Churchill upside-down in a marketplace after he had died – which would have made it much more memorable, of course. Not sure why they didn’t, but the Brits are famous for being kinda eccentric like that.
And then Maru-maru tries his hand at making some motivational posters. Using AI – and, yeah, I consider making motivational posters a legitimate use of AI. The only legitimate use of AI, in fact. Because making motivational posters is one field of human endeavor that shouldn’t exist in the first place…so if you apply AI, which also shouldn’t exist, to it, it’s kinda just deserts. And the drop in quality shouldn’t really matter, for it’s only slop to start with, and everyone is instinctively ignoring these posters in the first place.
Everyone but Mopey, that is…perhaps she hasn’t been exposed to enough, i.e. way too much, motivational posters in her youth, and so failed to develop a natural resistance. So, yeah…she took a peek, and with her motivation to continue existing never truly higher than room temperature, the small hit to her motivation caused by the posters was enough to push her to the edge. Adding these demotivational phrases to her general view of the world naturally makes even the effort to draw just one additional breath seem a pointless chore.
Don’t worry, though, Maru-maru is sure to save her. As he already said, he can’t actually afford to lose even a single one of his pupils. That fact must be bearing quite heavily on the mind of a teacher…with the kind of class sizes common today, most teachers can take heart in the fact that nobody is likely to notice if two or three die. Maru-maru can’t even afford one fatality, that’s a serious restriction.
More on Thursday.