To illustrate how fucking insane this is:

Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases. With US population at 340,000,000, that means 340,000 - 680,000 dead. And that’s out of the 85 million people hospitalized, which would be a society destroying situation.

Brown Charlie?

Not op, but Warlock Vol 1 Issue 9

If you want to read the whole arc (which is one of my favorites, but I’m a weirdo), it starts with Strange Tales Vol 1 178-181, then Warlock 9 and on. Warlock issues 1-8 are from years earlier. All very confusing.

The issue 1000 Clowns is about how much Jim Starlin hated working for Marvel, it’s pretty great.

Edit: Also, this story is the first appearance of one of the Infinity Gems (the Soul Gem specifically), and ties in strongly to the Infinity Gauntlet and it’s sequel series, also written by Starlin. And the first appearance of Gamora.

Edit 2: Okay I’m crazy, Adam Warlock had the Soul Gem way earlier. This still leads into Infinity Gauntlet though.

Your math is off. The Moon is about 384,400 KILOmeters from the Earth, not meters. So 116,485 seconds, or a bit over 32 hours.

“Damn it Ubuntu, I don’t want the snap of Sonic!”

Totally safe, just don’t chmod +x sonic.sh

When I was a kid, maybe 13 years old, I heard about a Halloween costume contest at a natural history museum.

I wanted a costume somehow science related, so I decided to dress as a mosquito (seems weird to me now, but whatever). My mom sewed together a black felty fabric into a proboscis that went out over my head and a sort of cloak down my back with legs coming off it. We cut a Styrofoam ball in half and painted it yellow for the eyes. The wings were a white mesh fabric on a frame of drinking straws that we taped together.

I won the contest for my age bracket, and the prize was some Star Trek: Deep Space 9 refrigerator magnets. I don’t think I have the magnets anymore, but I still have the costume, though it’s falling apart a little.

Okay, I have to go text my mom and tell her she’s awesome.

This is a fairly niche answer, but Noah Caldwell-Gervais.

He does very smart critical analysis of video games as a medium, often in multi-hour long retrospectives of entire franchises. They are all split into chapters, so it’s easy to watch in parts. The visuals and editing are not very flashy, pretty much just footage of the game he’s talking about, but they are so well written and thoughtful I find them extremely compelling. There’s also road trip travelogues, but I’m not as into those.

No, that would be Avenged 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456.

Nuh uh!

I knew it!

That sure takes me back. Pidgin’s logging defaults are the reason I still have all my AIM chats from 2002 - 2010.

I also remember it linking to a page about how to have sex with a dolphin. Wild times.

Replace numbers with letters, and you have Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel.

I think it was very sad that Kissinger died… without being tried in the Hague.

I mean, they kinda do. All the flat earth models I’ve seen have a tiny sun going around in a circle above the disc.

He’ll have his work cut out for him.

I’m pretty sure that 100% of the people here and in the earlier thread agree that people are intrinsically equal, regardless of their skin color. It sounds like you think that because of this, anyone who supports any situation where people are treated differently based on ethnicity, skin color, etc is racist.

Let me try a metaphor.

Let’s say there was a group of people with all different skin tones. They are all going to be given money, but because the people running the organization giving out the money are racist, they give much more to people with light skin, and much less to people with dark skin. The people running the organization are replaced with people who are not racist, but it takes generations. The people with less money had to spend it all on food and shelter, and their descendants have none of it. The people who got more money spent some on food and shelter and had lots left over, which they put in a bank and got a lot of interest from it. It was given to their children, and their children’s children, and now their descendants have even more money.

It was definitely racist to originally give more money to the lighter skinned people.

Would it be racist to now give more money to the darker skinned people?

Might be a horrifying abomination, but still a 12/10 good girl.