Comic logic aside for a minute, 15 weeks seems implausible what with at least one change of season guaranteed.
I did try searching for what the actual longest becalming might have been, but search is terrible, my search skills are terrible, or that information isn’t neatly packaged anywhere.
(One “helpful AI” suggested a particular number of days, but after asking for its source and it failing to provide one, I was able to get it to tell me that it made that statistic up. Isn’t AI brilliant?!)
depends on the open sea, don’t you think?
Idk, seems pretty plausible to me. Like, what if one of the crew members took his crossbow and shot an albatross? Then you’d expect it to be as idle as a painted ship upon a painted sea.
They got stuck in Doldrums?
Oh, this one hits good.
I feel like I should understand this comic, but I don’t. Is it that LLMs all give the same advice to unemployed people or something?
Unfortunately, this is the kind of advice that regular people used to give unemployed folks before LLMs were in use. But you’re on track in that it’s making fun of that bad advice.



