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Tabulation

🕑 Added 2021-05-17 01:13:22 +0000 UTC

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JourneymanWizard

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

Daryl Sawyer

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!

Nicolas Demers

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

BobC

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

Laurie Voss

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

Carin Maja Brooks

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

Comics Ladybird

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.

TubaGinger

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

Patrick Gavin

May vs. Yelling Bird!

Elberik

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.

Yelling Bird

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

Bagge

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

Darnel D Cooper

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.)

Bruce Steinberg

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

Daniel Rydberg

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

Emma Humphries

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

Leak

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

Ashley Thomas

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

Bagge

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

Priyan

Maypr0n

Samuel Fout

.. I'd subscribe to abacustube.

Thomas A. Dennis

Apron May (Maypron?) could rule OnlyFans.

Valraven

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

Nicolas Demers

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

will davison

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)

chili sunrise

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

Chase the Dragon

May needs to start an onlyfans and manyvids.

ToplessGirlsInAprons Dot Com!

kaitou

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

William Cole

Last panel is 1000% May!

Granite

Wholesome Marigold defeats sassy May.

Clifton Royston

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.

Pejo

"Well, piss" <3

Populuxe

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

Jim Feldman

Got 2 K&E.

Likeablejerk

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

Ricardo Bittencourt

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

Onedavewreckingcrew

Imagine that sentence 10 years ago

Carl Fink

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

Lenore J Jones

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

Lenore J Jones

Just balanced my checkbook!

Likeablejerk

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

Alan Wiggs

AbacusTube is cottagecore but for math

Tudza

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

Simon Green

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

Uniquitous

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

Absentia

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

Tudza

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.

That Blair Guy

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

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

Áine Yore

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

Dan Curtis

Marigold is a sweet heart

Noise

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

Hakurei06

marigold's face in the last panel is gold

Matt Grayson

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.

Somebody Else

Doing abacus maths, but it's anal beads

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

Levi

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

Miyaa

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

Nicole Hands

Abacus & Sliderule cultures are basically a circle Venn Diagram

Joseph Bonnar

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

Miyaa

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.

fluffy

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

Ack

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

KCkittysnores

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!"

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

Joseph Bonnar

Thank you for that. :)

M. R.

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

KCkittysnores

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

Miyaa

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.

Grace Kieser

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

Greg Matyola

abacusTube… it all adds up.

Grace Kieser

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

Shawn K. Younkin

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

Ted Van Roekel

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

Grace Kieser

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

Dean Reilly

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

Kajsa Anderson

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

aetherspoon

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.