To be fair, the comic artist is from Boston. This comic strip has been around for almost 20 years, and this community is solely focused on the comic. This is like saying to ich_iel “God, this community is so German!”

Incorrect. They’ll just delete the parts listed as “redacted”, so it looks complete.

Here, you want a mind fuck? I’ll let you have it for free:

Bell’s Theorem: The universe is not locally real (either the speed of light is violable or properties of things do not exist until observed). Light simultaneously takes all paths, and so does everything else if given the right conditions. We just perceive “Location” as a property things have because of probability and the fact that all of the other potential locations have probability functions that average out to zero (not a quantum physicist, so probably not using quite the right terms there). “Everything” literally is “Everywhere, All At Once”. The world that we perceive is nothing more or less than a vast ocean of waves within overlapping fields. The interference between the waves, the troughs and crests, are the objects we perceive. Nothing is truly as you see it, even yourself. Also, the force of gravity doesn’t exist. Time just passes slower near massive objects.

That’s the best I can do for ya. First hit’s free.

Thanks for the fascinating read! It seems like the specific taxonomy is still far from certain and needs validation, by the study authors’ own admission, but you’re absolutely correct that it wasn’t the bones of multiple species! I could swear there was another one of those from Germany that was a mishmash. Do you remember what that one was? I’m just a geochemist, not a palaeontologist. But anyway, I look forward to seeing validation studies by others of the 2015 findings! It would be great to see all of that hard work pay off! Do you know of any? I wasn’t able to find any from a cursory glance around the internet.

The reason everyone would have moved on already is because, by now, an identical crime would have already occurred somewhere else, all part of the tide of violence perpetrated by those who continue to turn a blind eye to mental illness and access to weapons of mass-casualty (because, make no mistake, it is not solely those who pulled a trigger who are responsible for those deaths). If america is going to move on, then someone would need to do this again and again, in a neverending cascade of Nazis being shot with ruthless efficiency, just like what happens to our children. Then, surely, the country will just move on to the next tragedy with thoughts and prayers, like they do with school shootings, right?

The catholic church uses thousands of pages of additional made-up stuff that other sects don’t believe in, from ex-cathedra edicts to the canonisation of saints, and the other Christian faiths don’t hold those as “inspired by god”. If that’s the primary difference, then the LDS faith is at the same level as Catholicism, not Islam.

Tent gets smaller every day, though

No, much like how brontosaurus was later discovered to be a mix of bones from various individuals, “Distanceraptor” is actually a conflation of multiple Displacemosaurids.

Nah, you’re thinking of the much more dangerous “acceleraptors”. Velociraptors were very different from how they are commonly portrayed.

Upvoting for the deep cut back to the future reference. Excellent.

The last time I remember anything good coming on the history channel was before 12/21/2012, because for something like half a year they just could not fucking stop with all of that “Nostradamus” and Mayan Doomsday shit. The last History Channel original series I remember being wholly worth watching was Life After People, several years before that. History International took a few more years to enshittify.

Yeah, I have curated my library to be focused on the history of science, with special focus on the sorts of books which include information necessary to bring society to the technological equivalent of the age of reason (with extra chemistry and medicine). At that point, it’s mostly practical, and the practicality of the source speaks to the likely authenticity of other texts within the collection.

Congratulations, you’ve just written a quarter of the plot of the Book of Eli with Denzel Washington

You know, people get very particular, saying that you should go all natural and get fresh ingredients, straight out of the ground, and that this gets you more bang for your buck when you follow the recioe but, really, the markup price is worth it to get the pre-packaged uranium that has already been centrifuged. Not everyone has access to a stand mixer, just like not everyone has access to enrichment-capable centrifuges.

Meanwhile, in other breaking news:

• Recent archeological studies suggest that Abraham Lincoln is, in fact, dead;
• Physicists have determined that the sky is sometimes blue;
• Neuroscientists are making the bold claim that most humans are more intelligent than rats. They have found that the reverse correlation exists for all those who report surprise at reading our top headline on RFK Jr’s testimony!

If you don’t want people to eat your genitals, have you considered filling them with deadly alkaloids and neurotoxins? Alternatively, just make your genitals look deeply diseased and likely to kill anyone who breathes near them? These methods seem to work pretty well for most mushrooms.

If you’re absolutely determined to make sure that no one eats your genitals, and you don’t want to learn from the mushrooms, I would recommend registering as a Republican (or your local fascist party, as the case may be)

The problem is that one stupid tends to take many “unlucky” down with it when it kills itself.

The problem is that the vaccine regimen is very expensive, and the government is run by people who use every single failure of the regimen to push for a less-strict regimen, which causes more failures. They do this because they actively profit from a populace infected with stupidity.

Yeah, and there was no explicit text that said “separate, but equal” was about racial purity and whites being the best race. But here, “separate, but equal sciences” is totally normal, right?

I agree that there is not a difference, but this meme is claiming that there is. That is what I am complaining about. I agree with literally everything you have said. The meme is trying to paint a qualitative difference, because that is literally the implicit context of this meme template. I am disapproving of that implication