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  • 2025-08-04

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  • There's an infamous scene in The Godfather that would scare any horse that watched it.

  • 13 May, 2021 - "Meet the Artist"

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  • Just a note that I use the date from the Disqus comment threads, falling back to the date on the page if that's not available. The date on the page is the same for a lot of them (i.e. doesn't seem accurate), and the Disqus comment thread creation date seems reasonably accurate but that's just an assumption

  • What is your opinion on national pride / patriotism?

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  • This is a good commentary on it:

    It's good to want to improve the world around you, which can be given a label of patriotism. Going too far down that road leads to lots of unhappiness, though.

  • Use this information wisely

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  • ; and ; respectively, in case anyone wants to see how it renders on their machine and is also lazy.

  • I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed.

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  • I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

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  • 2025-07-30

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  • I think Randy Schueler is supposed to just be a funny name, and the joke is that he's discarding the bit that most people would find interesting about butterflies.

  • 2025-07-17

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  • An early version of this comic:

  • 2025-07-28

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  • Some background on this comic:

    Transcript:

    More than a few people misunderstood and subsequently complained about this cartoon. Apparently (and I sort of understand this), they interpreted the drawing to mean that the cat had been tied up as "bait" for the dog. That wasn't my intent.

    I was trying to create a little story here: This family owns a dog, they recently introduced a new cat to this home, and during the night the dog sent them a message, that the cat's not wanted. The did this to the cat. The dog! The dog! The dog!

    "I was deeply saddened when The Far Side cartoon depicted a trussed cat hanging by its tail appeared in our local newspaper. I shuddered to think of the children, who, looking at the comic page, might be prompted to carry out this act." —Reader, Ohio

    "This cartoon today smacks of the idea of using cats/kittens/puppies to train fighting dogs. It is immoral and disgusting." —Reader, California

    "I was astonished at the enclosed cartoon which depicts a cat subjected to anguish, tied up and suspended." —Reader, New York

    "I have enjoyed your comic panel The Far Side for years. . . . All this has changed now, thanks to one shockingly awful panel I saw a few weeks ago. . . . The cruelty and sickness of this 'cartoon' was too deep to easily forget —or forgive. . . . A depiction of a person 'hanging' a cat and offering it to a dog is not impossible. I lost two of my cats in similar situations." —Reader, California

    "My letter protested what I saw as a sadistic and pointless Gary Larson cartoon depicting a trussed and hanging cat left to be devoured by a dog." —Reader, Oregon

  • xkcd #3120: Geologic Periods

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  • Related to the title text, some people are into that sort of thing:

    Phantom time conspiracy theory is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory first asserted by Heribert Illig in 1991. It hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retroactively, in order to place them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence. According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614–911) added to the Early Middle Ages.

  • So, not?

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  • It was inevitable with inflation of course, but that's why you don't pick names like that. Wikipedia says they go up to $30:

    Five Below, Inc. is an American chain of specialty discount gift shops that prices most of its products at $5 or less, plus a smaller assortment of products priced up to $30.

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    What kind of communities would you like to see either created or become more active on Lemmy?

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  • Thanks, that would be great! And even if you don't post anything, comments are always appreciated

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    What kind of communities would you like to see either created or become more active on Lemmy?

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  • I've been posting things I find interesting to !discuss@discuss.online. I'm trying to grow it as a community that can have conversations about a broad range of interesting topics, without having subscribe to a bunch of narrowly-focused communities. Think something like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but without the tech bro mindset.

  • 2025-07-23

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  • Best guess is that he means it's hard to keep a poker face if you're old and wrinkled, combined with the fact that the accuser also is also old and wrinkled. I don't really get why being old and wrinkled would mean you have a bad poker face though.

    EDIT: Maybe an oblique reference to this show, but that seems unlikely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy

  • only locates my block, not address

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  • That probably means your house/addess isn't mapped. You can add it yourself at https://www.openstreetmap.org/. Even if you have the map data downloaded, if it's not in OSM in the first place, CoMaps won't find it. If your house is on OSM, make sure it has a house number set.

  • 2025-07-23

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  • Some context on this comic:

    Transcript:

    The clear intention of this cartoon was to imply that, for large carnivores, eating human beings must be our equivalent of eating Spam—nothing too difficult about it.

    A greeting card based on this cartoon was later produced, and the copy written on the inside (by a staff writer) said, "Thinking of you."

    Obviously, this addition gave the cartoon a whole new twist—one which I must have unwittingly approved.

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    Social media, even in the Fediverse, is so heavily censored that it does not allow for the exchange of ideas.

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  • What's an example idea that you'd like to exchange that is being censored?

  • How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?

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  • I've seen my own posts show up in specific search results based on the transcripts, which is nice to see. Tried searching for "Great Scott! The hatch is opening" on Google just now and it linked to my post at https://discuss.online/post/14315116. That's probably a bit of an issue actually. The link is for lemmy.dbzer0.com for my user on midwest.social to a community on lemmy.world and I just linked to it from discuss.online. Those might each be ranked independently even though it's the same content, vs all being ranked together if it's all centralized on one site like Reddit. Not really that hard to adjust for, but if Google doesn't care in the first place because they think they'll get fewer ad impressions out of it then it won't be changed.

    Kagi has a feature for specifically searching the fediverse. It's a paid search engine, but IMO that ends up with their incentives aligned with mine.

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    What do you think the red, green, and blue potions in Zelda would be if they were irl? What would they "restore"

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