The specific type of bird represented in the picture is different, in that it does have live birth, so the joke works.

But it would still work regardless, because a joke doesn’t have to be scientifically accurate - it can play off the human tendency to anthropomorphize, so a “big bird with little birds inside it” can still be a mother instead of the logical explanation that it’s a predator, and this unexpected shift in view point (ruthless predator who just ate a bunch of babies, to the loving aspect of motherhood) is what makes it funny.

We’re overanalyzing this…

Yes.

Silly metric conversions, everyone just calls it 14-inch shells.

But now that Walmart doesn’t have them how am I gonna supply my King George V-class battleships?

This is a critical aspect.

The utter disregard for everyone and everything for the sake of making more money is the second most valuable asset of a capitalist.

The first is obviously capital.

There’s a lot of that to go around, for sure.

Politicians have been relying on the “surely no sane person would vote for them” for way too long, instead of cutting down the capitalist overlords that rule the planet.

Guess what, looks like with enough money and astroturfing you can get anyone elected, and now we’re all fucked.

It was for the best. Neither man nor beast should ever see the things poor Raggot saw…

I might be getting overly sensitive, why does it read like Claude to me? 😭

Why must you tease us this way??

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Light it

This reminds me of one of the OG memes.

“In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil,” Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.

Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew “Kiki” Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. “I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in,” he explained. “As usual, Kiki shouted out ‘Armageddon,’ my cue that he’d had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn’t come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him.”

At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. “The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Mr. Tomaszewski’s hair and severely burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil’s fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball.”

Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract

Valid points, and I agree that the “packaging” of vices into this format of “7 deadly sins” is traceable to early Christian origins.

You’ve also conceded that this format is clearly rooted on the earlier Hellenistic vice/virtue framework, so I’ll call the 7 deadly sins a “dark age one pager”, meant for monks and other people of simpler minds.

I think it’s been explained, but to reiterate, while humans aren’t fast, we’re very good at walking/trotting for extended periods of time - both because we have sweat glands that many animals lack, but also because bipedal locomotion is more efficient over a long distance.

Our earlier ancestors would set out after a herbivore, say an aurochs (the bigger the better), during the hottest part of the day, and cause it to flee. When it stopped to cool, they’d jog up after it and caused it to run away again, until it got so hot that it collapsed from heatstroke.

We’re having steak, boys!

On national TV? That’s being brave.

They can be. The cabin crew will communicate to the flight crew when the interior is ready, they won’t takeoff without it, and someone refusing to sit down or buckle up definitely counts as not ready.

If a passenger gets up and causes a disturbance later, that would also get communicated to the flight crew and, shot of the plane having started its takeoff roll, there’s a good chance everyone is going back to the gate to remove this person.

Everything the Dems attack seems to get elected, so there’s hope yet.

I was triggered by that statement too and about to throw a rant, but I think they mean it like “creating a webpage”, using stuff like wordpress and the like, because they’re an artist who wants to show off their portfolio or something.

There’s a lot of “DIY” that abstracts away the actual programming part, so others can just build what they need easily.

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Hard pass. I feel that this is one of those cases where ignorance is bliss.

GPT?

Ah yeah makes sense. Nothing against the Score, but Queen lends itself more to the proposed activity.

That’s a joke I cannot afford to make…