Does anyone know where a digital copy of this might exist? It was a classic.
ETA: asked and answered in r/Dilbert: https://www.reddit.com/r/dilbert/comments/1wya90a/dilbert_sunday_strip_from_the_90s_where_asok_is/
"No More Sex, Flirting, Scrolling or Swiping." She now wants to be a turtle instead. I'm just spitballing here, but my guess is there were in fact men out there who would have made her feel safe, but Josh was probably not the ideal choice for that purpose:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/style/modern-love-no-more-sex-flirting-scrolling-or-swiping.html
A few days ago, on r/askReddit, there was a thread for "what has gotten worse in the past couple of years?" and the answer was unanimous and apparently bipartisan: "EVERYTHING!" Certainly I don't disagree. Things aren't terrible, but there seems to be a kind of depressing undertow to everything, not just economics.
So, when do you expect things to start getting better, and what has to happen for that to turn? Could we be at the beginning of a Japan-style spiral, where things have basically gotten worse, with some relatively brief pauses, for 35 years now? That seems to me to be where things are going, barring the emergence of a Roosevelt-like figure who can reboot American democracy, but it's always easier to see festering problems than the proverbial "green shoots".
I was inspired to write this up by a kind of persistent annoyance with the disproportionate coverage that Israel gets in US news coverage. Foreign policy in general is of course important, and underreported, but the most important countries don't usually get the most coverage. To get things started, here's my list of my best guess of the top 50, with Israel at #43. Note that this is not to be considered praise of any of the "high-ranking" countries, just an objective-as-possible measure of their relative importance to the future state of our own (US) lives (which of course means the state of the world in general as well):
Article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opinion/birthrate-kids-parents-demographics-future.html . I was glad to see it, since this articulated quite well a feeling I have had for a while but couldn't quite come up with the right words for. It's not the cost per se, but the uncertainty of whether you'll be able to handle the cost, as well as other demands. The authors call this "vibes" but to me it looks more like a clearheaded evaluation of an increased risk/reward ratio.