To explain what I see:

This comic isn’t saying (or even implying) that people are born communist, at all. The comic isn’t even implying that communism is necessarily a good thing. It’s saying that the random person clearly thinks that it should be morally acceptable not to love people who express or possess certain traits, while the messiah gave no such qualification. If your god says “love everybody”, you don’t get to say “but these people worship a different God, so I should get to hate them!”

Love everybody.

The comic makes clear that you can’t just claim to be a Christian, then reject one of the few things about which Christ was unequivocal. The ultimate point here is that most modern Christians do not follow the teachings of Jesus. That communism is mentioned is simply because it is a common scapegoat among american conservatives, who overwhelmingly identify as Christians. There has never been a significant communist presence in the united states, but that didn’t stop McCarthy from turning people against their neighbours in snipe hunts for the “reds”.

It was placed there when the grass wasn’t green.

1. mostly looking based on podcasts I already enjoy.
2. The Magnus Archives. It’s an examination of the Architecture of Fear. It is one of the finest examples of worldbuilding I’ve ever seen, It just makes sense that the world works in the way it does, and every piece you learn makes more sense. Tight storytelling, and everything is connected, even though it’s a monster-of-the-week episodic show. The entire 200-episode storyline was planned by the time they finished the first 10 episodes. You’ll know whether it’s for you by the end of the fourth episode.

I mean, yeah, one of the more famous police procedurals is literally “Miami vice”.

This is an AI slop Spam Bot. Every single post it has made in the last two hours stops in the middle of a sentence, with each comment being at best sycophancy, and at worst a total non-sequitur. Everyone should report this spam from an undeclared bot account.

But the “Miami police department” does, and these character saren’t named as specific individuals. Only the police department. The police department is certainly, itself, a “public figure”, which the defendants could easily demonstrate using the public figure’s social media posts and press releases. Is there case law saying that a group such as a corporation cannot constitute a “public figure”?

It’s missing the diagonal and would be way off-center. The 4 would have to be sideways. You can see what it should look like in the discard pile.

Ah, yes, the ultimate hallmark of trustworthiness.

I think this might be AI. What card is the 4 supposed to be with that symbol in the middle?

Nah, I think we’re all clearly misinterpreting this: OC thinks furries are so hot they uncontrollably ejaculate fire at the very thought of them.

I, too, find that perspective compelling, but I think it’s worth pointing out that societal intelligence, as defined there, isn’t unique to humans. Mycelial networks allow communication, learning and reactivity among entirely different species within a forest. Eusocial insects like the hymenopterans have their own unique languages. Whales communicate among their pods and across oceans to pass on information and teachings. I’m not saying that a tree knows what a beetle is, but there’s something deeper than mere genetics at play when unrelated species communicate the presence of parasites through a mycelial network, and each tree begins to produce insecticide toxins, even those which have never been infested by a beetle. We too-often discount the many languages which are already spoken on this planet, simply because they are less intelligible to us, or seem more simplistic than Infinite Jest.

You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.

Meme aside, crabs are slightly different, since they are a case of convergent evolution. The reason mosquitoes, crocodiles and sharks basically look entirely unchanged is because there has been little to no selective pressure for those species, since their survival and propagation strategy remains incredibly effective. If there’s nothing random mutations could do to make individuals of a species (or a subgroup thereof) more likely to survive long enough to breed, then natural selection won’t have anything to sink its teeth into. If no other competitor comes along to outcompete those species, nor some devastating plague or other disaster which makes their strategy unviable, they will remain unchanged, and we get the coelacanth, horseshoe crab or, yes, the mosquito.

I commented this when the last poster made this claim a month back: Sharks are older than most of the current, eaily-visible rings of Saturn. The E-ring is primary composed of material ejected from Enceladus, and there is no indication I have found which would suggest that the hydrothermal processes which cause the jets are anything new. Additionally, just because most of Saturn’s current rings were formed more-recently doesn’t mean there weren’t rings back then. The gas giants have hundreds of moons, and they certainly used to have more. I think it is an undeniable, generally - accepted fact that the gas giants have all had significant rings at some point in the past (and they all, in fact, do have rings, just not all as spectacular as Saturn’s current ones.

Thanks.

I know that I’m obviously missing that “8-Ball” is a drug reference to something, but I choose to believe that this person walked up to your table, offered to sell you acid, and basically said “if you get 15 tabs, I’ll throw in this resin billiard ball for free.”, pulled out an actual 8-ball, and slammed it down on the table, with a look on their face like they had just made the most compelling argument possible.

I feel like the thing we are all missing is this: what on earth is the writer of the second note doing in a classroom where the kids have to have the ABCs plastered on the wall?

I think you need to reread the post. The pasta is very clearly the lesser of the two by value.

Be very careful with “let’s bar all felons from office”, because then, all one would have to do is Trump up charges against their political rivals (something made far easier when the entire justice department is at your beck and call).

Only if your class has access to speak with dead, and you’ve chosen it as a spell known/prepared.

All good! I still appreciated it, but I felt like I was missing some level of implied depth.