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Re:Scott Alexander: The Dilbert Afterlife by dragonwriter on Saturday January 17, 2026 @03:58PM (#46662023)
When in the 1990s-00s people posted Dilbert strips, it wasn't, IME, because they identified with the character Dilbert.

They did it because they saw in their work environment echoes of the environment portrayed in the comic, of which Dilbert was as much a part as the PHB.

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Re:Scott Alexander: The Dilbert Afterlife by michaelcampbell on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:06AM (#46667525)
All of us did in the day, and most of the strips were common from multiple people for a given office, for the obvious reason.

This seemed so blatantly obvious (and the answer if asked "why did you put this one up?") that I'm agog at anyone thinking otherwise.

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