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How often do people get the death penalty for their first crime, which was a single murder where there were no other victims? My understanding is that it’s quite rare. There must be a different set of laws when the victim is a rich CEO.
You’d think an advanced civilization would have invented handrails.
You gotta feel sorry for the nerdy male kangaroos who don’t even have a pouch to begin with.
This reminds me that Andre the Giant said that often, if he went out to a bar, some drunk guy would pick a fight with him, and he’d be forced to beat them away. None of those aggressive drunks ever had a chance against him, but he didn’t like those experiences.
Back then, the poodle was a hunting breed, used to hunt waterfowl. I don’t know when it became popular in America, but it would have been a useful farm dog, just not with that haircut.
A very timely comic from 1981. I wonder how they choose which old comics to post. Are they going in chronological order or something, and this is just a coincidence, or did they actually choose this one, presumably because of what’s going on in the world?
I’m sure that Vincent van Gogh had no idea that he’d be famous in the future. But I wonder what he’d think if he knew how much we focus on his ear.
Maybe if she specialized in milkshakes
This comic is a joke.
This Far Side comic is from 1984, so it’s obviously much older, but it reminds me of a scene in Babylon 5 where Londo Mollari uses his tentacles to cheat at a card game by drawing additional cards from the deck.
This comic is pretty prophetic, since most people I know, at least, don’t carry any cash. People asking for spare change might as well be asking for spare armadillos.
Fingernail scratches all over his back? That’s pretty spicy for a Far Side comic!
IRL “that guy” would probably have already been partially eaten by the others.
Speaker of the House is not a political party position. The House Republicans don’t work for Johnson any more than the House Democrats do. They are supposed to be working for their constituents.
And while there is the need for wheeling and dealing in Washington without announcing everything, really, essentially, the House members should be bringing all of their concerns to the public. That is their fucking job, and Mike Johnson is unamerican for suggesting that they do otherwise.
The US isn’t supposed to execute people for smuggling cocaine.
You shouldn’t just be able to call them enemy combatants if they’re not even combatants. Words are supposed to have meanings.
By the logic that you can just call things whatever you want and then you’re magically allowed to treat them as that thing, then why not just call them “fish” and say that the American military was just “fishing”? That makes just as much sense to me as what they did.
They tried something that was 5% noodles, 5% vegetables, and 90% water, and decided that the result was water.
I’ve not heard this. What’s wrong with CBS news?
Their mistake is thinking of themselves as Democrats. Instead of thinking of yourself as supporting a political party, you should think about what specific policies you support, and then vote for politicians who support those policies.
Once they viewed themselves as Democrats, their views become distorted, just like how MAGA constantly make excuses for some of the worst politicians this country has ever produced. The moment they thought of themselves as MAGA, the people on their team could do no wrong.
I could understand identifying as a political ideology, if you support that ideology. Like socialist, communist, or whatever. Those labels mean something. But Democrat, MAGA, Republican? Those are political parties that don’t inherently mean anything. They’re just team names. Hell, the Democrat and Republican parties essentially switched ideologies in the past.
I’ve heard that this type of cicada lives underground for 13 or 17 years, which immediately jumps out as being two different prime numbers.
It seems odd at first that a species seems to know about prime numbers, but there is a natural explanation. If there are ones that emerge in non-prime intervals, they are more likely to emerge at the same time due to their common factors. So those ones would tend to emerge in greater numbers, making them easier for predators to specialize in.
But staying underground for long intervals in prime numbers of years makes it difficult for those predators, so the prime cicadas would have an evolutionary advantage.