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Explanation
This comic takes the form of a philosophical dialogue about Stoicism. A person announces they want to embrace Stoicism -- the ancient philosophical school that teaches acceptance of things beyond one's control and maintaining equanimity. An unseen interviewer asks basic questions: "What are you?" ("Human"), "Age?" ("50"), "When?" ("Early 21st century"). The interviewer then says something like "Yeah, you see, sorry, the Stoics' framework was accepting. Time was hard to accept."
The punchline is that a being who exists beyond time tells the person that post-2023 or so, even Stoic acceptance becomes insufficient for the sheer volume of things one would need to stoically accept. The implication is that modern life has become so overwhelming, chaotic, and absurd that even a philosophy specifically designed for enduring hardship throws up its hands. The person is told "You can go die" or some similarly blunt dismissal.
The humor is in the idea that Stoicism -- a philosophy literally built for suffering -- has met its match in the 21st century. It satirizes both the trendy modern adoption of Stoicism (often through pop-philosophy books and social media) and the genuinely unprecedented weirdness of contemporary life. The comic suggests that Marcus Aurelius could handle being emperor during a plague, but even he would struggle with doomscrolling Twitter.