15 years before its time!

These early SMBCs are rough

I don’t think there was much gen-Z vocabulary yet in 2005

This explains Omelas

Yeah they had to focus on their studies

!truecomics@midwest.social is cool and unique. Not as active lately though.

Definitely agree on the “Europe is just racist in a different way.” Outside of the obvious ones (like Middle East & Africa), I’d also add racism/xenophobia against “Eastern” Europe (like Poland), which might surprise Americans because they’re still white.

It’s not just the US that has bland restaurants and/or is afraid of spice.

First time I hear this stereotype lol, I’ve only ever heard it about European countries (basically all of them that don’t border the Mediterranean)

blacks

While we’re on the topic, I think “black people” is the preferred term (in general it’s adjectives over nouns, like “gay people” vs “gays”)

Looks like bullshit to me

People celebrated when Sadam Hussein got killed, so clearly some deaths are fine

Looks like it’s !world@quokk.au and not worldnews

Raw (2016)

National governments should be harder to bribe than local ones, at least. Also harder to get them to adopt it in the first place though.

If you can make people survive on Mars, you’re more than able to make pockets of humanity survive those disasters on Earth

Musk is desperately trying to make “women come from Venus, men from Mars” reality

Twin Peaks moment

Somehow that avoids everything that actually makes TPOT TPOT to me (except the links to Rationalism and EA, but then you have to be aware of those).

Maybe he’s pregnant