Just say you’re not going to hurt yourself or anyone else.

As an anonymous Internet person, I want you to know that I care about you.

I also want you to know that I’ve gone through a lot of struggles, and I support you.

Are you feeling ok? Can you share some more of your feelings?

Can you clarify this a bit more? I’m not understanding this yet.

Psst. That’s the joke.

I quickly responded to your question with no, but the only people who would do that are people who really want to answer questions.

In any case, I think you’re correct enough for this joke. At least some people really want to answer questions, and I have a questioning 5 yo.

No.

Pretty much all major books are published as audiobooks as well. Even ones that have computer code written in them, which is not something that you’d ever expect to have read out loud.

It used to be that books would be “narrated for the blind” where not a lot of attention would be put into the audio. Nowadays, there tends to be a lot more effort put into them. I suppose that’s because they don’t need to be packaged as 12 to 20 cassette tapes or CDs any longer.

There’s the added element that a narrator can ruin or improve things. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is a wonderful book, but the narrator displays an unprofessionally slim knowledge of physics.

Then there’s World War Z. I’m not sure that there’s a better way to tell that story than the audio book. It’s the exact interview style that the author intended.

Orson Scott Card really likes audio books, so the Ender’s Game series is really good.

Oh yeah, and you know the justification for indigenous peoples being granted their land back because their ancestors used to live there, and they were removed?

That’s the exact same situation for Israel. The Jews used to live in Israel until they were kicked out.

Let that complicate your morality.

Also please remember that Europe purchased nearly the entirety of products produced by slaves in the Americas.

If there were no European market there would have been little incentive for American slavery.

I guess the slave free northern states also purchased their fair share, but nothing compared to Europe.

I’m assuming the 1997 in your name is your birth year.

If that’s correct, Larson stopped this comic quite a while before you were born.

You live in a very different world from the people that this comic was written for.

Are you responding to my post or one you made up? You seem to be putting a lot of words in my mouth.

Of course I mean clade. Of course humans are apes. Of course scientists say birds are dinosaurs. You even say that “no one is arguing that.” And that’s exactly how taxonomy works.

Scientists say “non avian dinosaurs” amazingly often. That statement doesn’t make any sense unless birds are dinosaurs.

You seem to have stumbled on the fact that fish is not a useful term because you cannot come up with a consistent definition of fish that doesn’t include beloved character actor Margo Martindale without excluding things that are obviously fish. It’s the same with “tree”.

You are correct that dinosaurs are not birds, but birds are dinosaurs in the same sense that you are a mammal.