.c13d-paper,
.c13d-paper * {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.c13d-paper {
–navy: #102d57;
–blue: #1e70b7;
–sky: #eaf7ff;
–cream: #fff8df;
–gold: #f7bc3d;
–orange: #ef8a2f;
–red: #c83f37;
–green: #23765a;
–ink: #1f2937;
–muted: #526277;
–paper: #fffdf6;
max-width: 1180px;
margin: 0 auto;
color: var(–ink);
background: #f6f0df;
border: 3px solid var(–navy);
border-radius: 20px;
overflow: hidden;
box-shadow: 0 18px 46px rgba(16,45,87,.18);
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 1.68;
}
.c13d-paper a {
color: inherit;
}
.c13d-paper img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
.c13d-masthead {
padding: 19px 22px 17px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
background:
linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(8,34,72,.97), rgba(29,112,183,.96)),
repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, transparent 0, transparent 18px, rgba(255,255,255,.06) 18px, rgba(255,255,255,.06) 20px);
border-bottom: 7px solid var(–gold);
}
.c13d-edition {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
gap: 9px;
flex-wrap: wrap;
margin-bottom: 9px;
}
.c13d-badge {
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px 11px;
color: #fff;
background: rgba(255,255,255,.14);
border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.36);
border-radius: 999px;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 900;
letter-spacing: .08em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.c13d-masthead h1 {
margin: 4px 0 6px;
color: #fff;
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: clamp(39px, 6vw, 77px);
line-height: .98;
text-shadow: 2px 3px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}
.c13d-masthead p {
max-width: 920px;
margin: 0 auto;
color: #f2fbff;
font-size: clamp(17px, 2.3vw, 24px);
font-weight: 800;
}
/* FEATURE VIDEO */
.c13d-video-area {
padding: 24px;
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #effaff, #d8edf9);
border-bottom: 3px solid #b5d7e9;
}
.c13d-video-label {
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 7px;
margin: 0 0 12px;
padding: 7px 13px;
color: #fff;
background: var(–red);
border-radius: 999px;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: 900;
letter-spacing: .07em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.c13d-video-label::before {
content: “▶”;
font-size: 12px;
}
.c13d-video-shell {
padding: 8px;
background: #08172d;
border: 5px solid #fff;
border-radius: 16px;
box-shadow: 0 13px 30px rgba(16,45,87,.25);
}
.c13d-video-shell video {
display: block;
width: 100%;
aspect-ratio: 16 / 9;
background: #000;
border-radius: 9px;
}
.c13d-video-bottom {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
gap: 14px;
flex-wrap: wrap;
padding-top: 14px;
}
.c13d-video-bottom p {
flex: 1 1 520px;
margin: 0;
color: #23435e;
font-weight: 800;
}
.c13d-buttons {
display: flex;
gap: 10px;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.c13d-btn {
display: inline-block;
padding: 11px 16px;
color: #fff !important;
background: var(–navy);
border: 2px solid var(–navy);
border-radius: 999px;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 900;
text-decoration: none;
transition: transform .18s ease, box-shadow .18s ease;
}
.c13d-btn:hover {
transform: translateY(-2px);
box-shadow: 0 7px 15px rgba(16,45,87,.18);
}
.c13d-btn-red {
background: var(–red);
border-color: var(–red);
}
.c13d-btn-gold {
color: var(–navy) !important;
background: var(–gold);
border-color: var(–gold);
}
/* FEATURE IMAGE */
.c13d-feature {
padding: 22px;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fff9e7, #f9e8ae);
border-bottom: 4px solid var(–gold);
}
.c13d-section-title {
margin: 0 0 13px;
color: var(–navy);
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: clamp(27px, 4vw, 43px);
line-height: 1.08;
}
.c13d-feature img,
.c13d-comic img {
display: block;
width: 100%;
border: 5px solid #fff;
border-radius: 14px;
box-shadow: 0 10px 24px rgba(16,45,87,.18);
}
.c13d-caption {
margin: 10px 0 0;
color: #596579;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: italic;
text-align: center;
}
/* REDESIGNED COLORFUL ARTICLE AREA */
.c13d-story {
padding: 24px;
background:
linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,255,.42), rgba(255,255,255,.42)),
repeating-linear-gradient(0deg, #f7edcf 0, #f7edcf 3px, #fff9eb 3px, #fff9eb 8px);
}
.c13d-story-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1.48fr .72fr;
gap: 18px;
}
.c13d-card {
padding: 20px;
border-radius: 15px;
box-shadow: 0 8px 18px rgba(16,45,87,.11);
}
.c13d-card-white {
background: rgba(255,255,255,.94);
border: 2px solid #d9e2e8;
}
.c13d-card-blue {
color: #fff;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(–navy), #286ca7);
border: 3px solid #fff;
}
.c13d-card-gold {
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fff0af, #ffd867);
border: 3px solid var(–gold);
}
.c13d-card-green {
color: #fff;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1f6c53, #349474);
border: 3px solid #fff;
}
.c13d-card-red {
color: #fff;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #a92f2a, #df5d3c);
border: 3px solid #fff;
}
.c13d-card h2,
.c13d-card h3 {
margin: 0 0 10px;
line-height: 1.15;
}
.c13d-card h2 {
color: var(–navy);
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: clamp(27px, 3.5vw, 40px);
}
.c13d-card h3 {
color: var(–red);
font-size: 22px;
}
.c13d-card-blue h3,
.c13d-card-green h3,
.c13d-card-red h3 {
color: #fff;
}
.c13d-card p:last-child {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.c13d-dropcap::first-letter {
float: left;
margin: 6px 8px 0 0;
color: var(–red);
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: 74px;
font-weight: 900;
line-height: .8;
}
.c13d-sidebar-stack {
display: grid;
gap: 16px;
align-content: start;
}
.c13d-sidebar-list {
margin: 0;
padding-left: 19px;
}
.c13d-sidebar-list li {
margin: 7px 0;
}
.c13d-big-quote {
margin: 18px 0;
padding: 18px;
color: var(–navy);
background: #e9f7ff;
border-left: 8px solid var(–blue);
border-radius: 12px;
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: clamp(21px, 3vw, 30px);
font-weight: 900;
line-height: 1.3;
}
.c13d-story-band {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
gap: 15px;
margin-top: 18px;
}
.c13d-story-band .c13d-card {
min-height: 100%;
}
.c13d-office-warning {
margin-top: 18px;
padding: 17px 19px;
color: var(–navy);
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fff1aa, #ffd45c);
border: 3px dashed var(–red);
border-radius: 13px;
font-weight: 900;
text-align: center;
}
/* FULL COMIC */
.c13d-comic {
padding: 24px;
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #e9f8ff, #d8edf9);
border-top: 4px solid var(–blue);
border-bottom: 4px solid var(–blue);
}
.c13d-punchline {
margin: 18px 0 0;
padding: 17px;
color: #fff;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(–red), var(–orange));
border: 3px solid #fff;
outline: 3px solid var(–red);
border-radius: 11px;
text-align: center;
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: clamp(22px, 3.6vw, 36px);
font-weight: 900;
line-height: 1.18;
}
/* TRANSCRIPT */
.c13d-transcript {
padding: 25px;
background: #fff7d8;
border-bottom: 4px solid var(–gold);
}
.c13d-panels {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
gap: 13px;
}
.c13d-panel {
min-height: 180px;
padding: 15px;
background: #fff;
border: 3px solid var(–navy);
border-radius: 12px;
box-shadow: 4px 5px 0 rgba(16,45,87,.13);
}
.c13d-panel-number {
display: inline-block;
margin-bottom: 7px;
padding: 3px 8px;
color: #fff;
background: var(–red);
border-radius: 999px;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: 900;
letter-spacing: .07em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.c13d-panel h3 {
margin: 0 0 7px;
color: var(–navy);
font-size: 18px;
}
.c13d-panel p {
margin: 0;
font-size: 15px;
}
.c13d-speaker {
color: var(–red);
font-weight: 900;
}
/* YOUTUBE */
.c13d-youtube {
padding: 24px;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f5fbff, #e8f3fa);
border-bottom: 2px solid #bfd7e5;
}
.c13d-youtube-frame {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
padding-top: 56.25%;
overflow: hidden;
background: #000;
border: 5px solid #fff;
border-radius: 14px;
box-shadow: 0 9px 20px rgba(16,45,87,.16);
}
.c13d-youtube-frame iframe {
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
border: 0;
}
/* SOCIAL */
.c13d-social {
padding: 26px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(–navy), #184579 65%, var(–blue));
}
.c13d-social h2 {
margin: 0 0 11px;
color: #fff;
font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
font-size: clamp(27px, 4vw, 41px);
}
.c13d-social p {
max-width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto 16px;
color: #edf8ff;
}
.c13d-social-links {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
gap: 9px;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.c13d-social-links a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 9px 13px;
color: #fff;
background: rgba(255,255,255,.12);
border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.33);
border-radius: 999px;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: 900;
text-decoration: none;
}
.c13d-social-links a:hover {
background: rgba(255,255,255,.23);
}
.c13d-footer {
padding: 16px 20px;
color: #33465e;
background: #eef6fb;
border-top: 1px solid #c8dce8;
text-align: center;
font-size: 13px;
}
@media (max-width: 900px) {
.c13d-story-grid,
.c13d-story-band,
.c13d-panels {
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
.c13d-video-area,
.c13d-feature,
.c13d-story,
.c13d-comic,
.c13d-transcript,
.c13d-youtube {
padding: 17px;
}
}
Sunday Workplace Edition
Fresh Office Nonsense
AI Efficiency Meeting
Artificial intelligence promised to save time. Management immediately scheduled fourteen meetings to explain how.
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Press play first. George, Diane, Slick, Muffin, and one dangerously enthusiastic manager are ready to demonstrate how technology saves time until the office calendar gets involved.
The Sunday Funny Papers Front Page
The company promised fewer meetings. The computer studied management and immediately scheduled another one.
AI Efficiency Meeting: The Office Revolution That Needed Fourteen Appointments
The AI Efficiency Meeting begins with a promise that sounds almost too good to be true. Artificial intelligence will save employees hours of unnecessary work. Everyone in the conference room briefly imagines a future with fewer emails, shorter calendars, and enough time to finish a cup of coffee before it turns cold.
Then the manager reveals the company plan. Before artificial intelligence can reduce meetings, every employee must attend fourteen mandatory AI training sessions to discuss how the technology will reduce meetings. The calendar fills up. The coffee supply enters emergency mode. Somewhere in the building, a conference-room speakerphone quietly begins questioning its purpose in life.
George asks the only practical question in the room: “Great. Can it shorten this meeting?”
That is the heart of this original Choice1-3D Funny Papers satire. New technology often arrives with the promise of efficiency. The office then creates a committee, a planning session, a training session, a follow-up session, and one final meeting to decide whether the earlier meetings successfully reduced the need for meetings.
Diane Identifies the Problem
Diane joins by video call and summarizes the plan perfectly. It sounds like using a leaf blower to organize paperwork. Technically, something is happening. It is loud. Everyone is busy. Papers are moving rapidly. Nobody can find the stapler.
Slick Finds the Business Model
Slick launches Automated Excuses, an AI-powered service that sends polite emails explaining why he missed the AI training. Available options include calendar glitch, technical difficulty, vague emergency, and the reliable classic: blaming the Wi-Fi.
Muffin Discovers the Future
Muffin looks at her laptop and realizes the computer has already learned management faster than expected. The screen announces that the current meeting has been replaced by another meeting.
OFFICIAL OFFICE WARNING: Technology saves time. Meetings immediately spend it.
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Technology saves time. Meetings immediately spend it.
AI Efficiency Meeting Comic Strip Transcript
Scene 1
The Big Announcement
Manager: “Artificial intelligence will save everyone hours of unnecessary work.”
Scene 2
George Looks Hopeful
George: “Great. Can it shorten this meeting?”
Scene 3
The Training Plan Arrives
Manager: “First, we need fourteen meetings to discuss how it will reduce meetings.”
Scene 4
Diane Joins the Call
Diane: “That sounds like using a leaf blower to organize the paperwork.”
Scene 5
Slick Automates the Excuses
Slick: “My AI sends polite emails explaining why I missed the AI training.”
Scene 6
Muffin Reads the Results
Muffin: “The computer learned management faster than expected.”
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