Sharkwellington @ Sharkwellington @lemmy.one

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Brb stealing your cookies.

From Fight Club:

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Nosex for dinner again?

Perfect for OnlyBanans.

I'm not well versed in alien evolutionary theory at all, but wouldn't differences in gravity, water, temperature, air makeup etc cause a significantly different evolutionary path? Earth is a Goldilocks planet for human life, have we considered that other planets may be a Goldilocks for something else?

Oh good we can just go back to doing nothing about it like we always do.

This is why gentle "don't alarm the public" predictions are always a terrible idea, all they do is keep the frog calm while the water continues to boil. I'm sure we'll find a solution by 2090... or 2095.... Know what let's give ourselves til 2100 for a nice even number.

It should absolutely terrify everyone that we may be 2 years out from climate collapse. Who cares about 2090, 2025 is right fucking there.

It's funny, I corrected this in my head and had to go back to confirm it said "who".

Ah, the old Lemmy cumaroo!

Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog!

I decided to look into some context for this comic. It was published September 21st, 2013. The artist later added this text to the post:

WARNING! THE FOLLOWING COMIC IS INSENSITIVE AND CAN BE VERY UPSETTING.

HEY EVERYONE,

IN THE LAST YEAR I HAVE RECEIVED A LOT OF UPSET EMAILS ABOUT THIS COMIC. I HAVE BEEN VERY CONFLICTED ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT. THE COMIC WAS MADE DURING A TIME WHEN I MYSELF WAS DEALING WITH MY OWN ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND TRAUMA FROM PAST ABUSE. HUMOUR AND CYNICISM BEING ONE OF THE ONLY STRATEGIES I KNEW HOW TO DEAL WITH SUCH THINGS. MANY OF THESE OLDER COMICS YOU WILL NOTICE HAVE A DARKER AND MEANER EDGE.

TIME HAS CHANGED THE COMIC AND ME. I'M STILL IMPERFECT AND I MAKE MISTAKES, BUT I AM WAY MORE EMPATHETIC AND KIND THAN I USED TO BE AND THAT IS REFLECTIVE IN THE COMIC NOW. THIS COMIC WHEN PLACED AGAINST MY CURRENT WORK IS VERY SHOCKING AND HURTFUL TO A LOT OF YOU AND I AM SORRY FOR THE PAIN THAT IT CAUSES. I WOULD NOT MAKE THIS KIND OF JOKE NOW, BUT IT IS PART OF THE ARC OF MY STORY. I AM LEAVING IT UP BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN BEING HONEST AND BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUR MISTAKES. IT ALSO ALLOWS US TO HAVE HARD CONVERSATIONS WHICH ARE WHAT ULTIMATELY LEAD TO GROWTH.

I AM TRULY SORRY FOR THE HURT THIS COMIC CAUSES ANYONE. I NEVER THOUGHT AS A YOUNGER PERSON THAT A JOKE INVOLVING POKING A HOLE IN A CONDOM WITH A STAR WARS TOY WAS ASSUALT OR RAPE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE ABUSE I SUFFERED SEEMED SO MUCH WORSE. I KNOW BETTER KNOW AND I AM SORRY.

I AM OPEN TO CONTINUING THIS CONVERSATION IF YOU WOULD LIKE or IF YOU JUST WANT TO VENT OR BE ANGRY WITH ME, THAT IS OK AS WELL. I WILL BE THERE TO LISTEN. HERE IS MY EMAIL: lunarbabooncomics@gmail.com

All the best,

CHRIS

So here's my take: This comic is almost ten years old. The artist has already realized it was a mistake and apologized for it. Maybe OP wasn't aware, as I was not, but now we both are, so let's not stir shit any further.

Fixed it. Wasn't even hard. It's not funny, but the original wasn't either, so...

Put my dick in what now?

Street Fighter 6 is FANTASTIC at teaching people how fighting games work and Modern controls are a godsend. Highly recommend.

Bernie, Joe, and the other guy are all within 4 years of age with each other. Bernie is the only one in that group who's decided NOT to run, so I'm not sure why you're singling him out. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Generally the opinion I've seen from his supporters is that he can do better from his current position and that his chance at the presidency has passed.

I imagined as much, was meant to be a PSA since a surprising number of people who pay extra for high-speed RAM have no idea to even check if it's running full speed.

They also didn't mention the clock speed so probably put no consideration into that either.

Side note: Open up task manager and make sure the RAM clock speed matches the one advertised on the box. If not you may have to override in the BIOS. May cause crashing and if so just lower it a setting at a time until it's stable, it won't damage your computer.

It's spherical. SPHERICAL!

This comment has stuck with me the past few days. Top of the post by a wide margin. Apologists in the comments saying it's meta-humor to just repeat sexist jokes with no indication that they're terrible.

I'm of the belief that if you let that kind of shit go, ESPECIALLY on a meme sub, you turn into a toxic cesspit very very quickly.

What company do you consider to be liberals' darling? I'm completely drawing a blank on this.

Sounds like the people who bought those houses are streets ahead.