If bug bites are a normal part of mosquito life, why would a mosquito consider it to be ironic that they were bitten? They’d just think it’s normal.

Foxes like eating rabbits, but wolves like eating foxes. Do you think a fox who gets eaten by a wolf while snacking on a rabbit thinks “that’s ironic”? Not unless a human who got eaten by a tiger while eating a hamburger thought it was ironic. No, to carnist humans, foxes, and mosquitoes, eating other animals is a fact of life, unremarkable. This comic relies on the premise that a mosquito would think of the human-mosquito relationship the same way a human would. But they wouldn’t. A mosquito, even an intelligent talking mosquito, would not feel that much empathy for humans, just as most humans choose not to feel empathy for cows.

But it says it’s from the 8th of may 2024. Are you saying the posting bot would lie to me?

Yeah lol this is a funny joke but the way he draws black people isn’t exactly PC these days

I disagree completely. Roads should not be permitted to have loud, dangerous, toxic vehicles driving at such reckless speeds. There should be no kind of transportation surface upon which we encourage cars. They should be banned on all surfaces.

Bikes belong on the main roads!

And cars deserve to be banned.

Well I’ve met lots of otherkin who can understand mother nature as a concept.

I think she should be portrayed as a bee. Bees are the classic example of symbiosis, representing the harmony of nature’s systems. Their winter stockpiling behaviour also demonstrates the cycle of the seasons, and they’re rather unique in being the single least violent animal species. They don’t even hurt the plants they eat. Even herbivores treat plants with violence, but bees are in perfect harmony with their natural environment. They’re not violent by nature, but they’re capable of violence when driven to it, and also capable of cooperating with those inside and outside the species. Bees are the coolest animal and mother nature should be a bee.

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Does this, uh, does this guy even know how to draw middle eastern people? Or are all his characters changed to be white?

Is the joke of these strips that the author doesn’t know anything about science?

This joke has an extra layer when you realise that killing the townsfolk and destroying the crops has the effect that there will be no people there to raid next season, so the boss viking is actually really terrible at his job and he’s going to get all his fellow vikings killed if they actually follow his orders.

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The idea of secret laws seems incompatible with democracy

I want to subscribe to NASA not understanding women facts

Yeah I don’t understand how a parent can not think deeply about their relationship with their kids. I don’t think there should be such a thing as “thinking too deep” about anything to do with how to raise a kid.

Nah, readability is low and you can’t divide by three OR five easily. Binary has even fewer prime factors than decimal.

Meanwhile I’m bucking trends as an advocate of the dozenal metric system.

Americans are still using monarchy units while the rest of the world is on freedom units.

Fuck your decimal system. Dozenal is the most intuitive number system. Arithmetic is so much easier to learn in dozenal and you can even count higher on your hands if you use phalanges instead of fingers. Base 10 is a crap number system. It’s barely composite, it only has two prime factors.

For me it would also be a matter of pride. If I dismissed all these things with the thought they’re identical, but I cannot even name them, how can I in good faith claim to know them well enough to make such judgements? I would think myself arrogant and shallow. I’m far too prideful to think myself arrogant, and so I’m too prideful to dismiss something from a place of ignorance. Surely if the kid actually knows the names of the things and I don’t, the kid’s opinion must hold more weight than mine. I would only attack my loved one’s interests from a place of certain understanding. I also can’t understand having so little pride as to think as you describe.

There is no amount of exhaustion that could persuade me not to learn the name of my loved one’s favourite toy for years on end.