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This comic features a parent grounding their child. When the kid asks why, the parent reveals they spent the child's college savings to build an algorithm so accurate it can predict bad behavior before it even occurs -- a reference to the "predictive policing" concept from science fiction like "Minority Report."

The algorithm immediately produces a printout predicting "backtalk, disrespect, swearing" from the child, which the parent uses as justification for the grounding. The child protests, but the parent smugly notes that the algorithm also predicted this exact reaction. The final panel reveals the bitter irony: the parent blew their kid's college fund on this device, then uses it to punish the kid for behavior that hasn't happened yet. The comic satirizes both overconfident predictive technologies and authoritarian parenting styles, showing how the "tool" simply confirms the parent's existing biases while the real damage (spending the college savings) has already been done.