Bottom left! Yesss! Can 2026 be the year.
Technically these (especially one of them) can be all of our new year resolution.
There’s a reason why the vast majority of the US celebrated when one millionaire, mass-murdering piece of refuse was gunned down in the street.
Imagine the party that would erupt if it were one of Donald’s golf buddies.
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
Utah Phillips
One of these is so far removed from where my personal feelings stand on what is right, that I simply cannot condone that type of behavior!
I mean really??? Just NOT eat meat every monday??? No thanks. If anything I’d rather have cannibal mondays. Where we eat the corpses of all the billionaires we’ll be killing. No sense in letting that meat go to waste!
Nah, lets turn the dead billionaires into fertilizer, that’s what more productive. Also cannibalism is very unhealthy
Meat is back on the menu, boyz!
That Lord of the Rings quote had massive implications of Orc society:
- Orcs could be (and were) vegetarian
- Orcs have menus, a.k.a. restaurants and civilization
- There could be boy orcs instead of ones formed as adults (though to be fair, the movie showed only an Uruk-Hai “formed,” from what I can remember)
Furthermore, from the orcs enthusiastic reaction to meat’s reappearance on the menu, we can surmise that orcs were formerly omnivorous and were forced into a vegetarian diet for unknown reasons.
I’m not sure how much of it is speculation and how much of it is from Tolkien’s work, but I think orcs were theorised to be corrupted elves. That’s to say, they likely still have a reproductive cycle like presumably elves have, they just split off and evolved into their own branch.
I guess, similar to how the work in The Elder Scrolls.
This could be completely wrong though.
You know you can just compost it, no need to eat something bad for you.
Where we eat the corpses of all the billionaires we’ll be killing. No sense in letting that meat go to waste!
don’t eat junk food! instead, compost and eat the veggies.
Shameless vegan plug
No sense in letting perfectly good plants that can meet all our needs go to waste!
So, yes make EVERY day meatless
Your just trying to shill for big ai. By cutting meat we could shift MORE water to data centers!
Ok it’s really just beef basically every other live stock uses fuck all more water then stable vegan crops. It’s like 10-15% compared to beefs like fucking 100%+
Seriously fuck beef uses a lot of water! The poor data centers need it!
I know you jest, but a sustainable future really does look vegan
AND. NO. A. I.
We can do both ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just don’t eat the brain, we don’t want prion diseases
Hmmm doing 3 of the 4. Doesn’t seem to work. It’s time for the 4th one?
Yeah, I think I should really take recycling more seriously too.
No, you should abandon plastic recycling and concentrate on the other two Rs. Plastic recycling isn’t a real thing, it’s just a way to manipulate you into unsustainable and irresponsible consumption.
And if you can go meatless mondays, you can stop being cruel and violent every day.
No worries, I know, but I was making a joke where I purposely misunderstood what the person before me was saying.
I think a recycled plastic guillotine could make it worth it, even if the edge would dull after just one head, but we can make it work.
No helmet, I can already feel my head having more cracks in it than my arse
Most people don’t wear helmets, it’s not a big issue.
I remember seeing a study showing mandatory helmets caused lower numbers of cyclists.
I don’t mind if people don’t wear a helmet.
I got a kidney transplant thanks to that.
Not wearing helmets also causes lower numbers of cyclists.
That’s just not true. Riding a bike is not only extremely safe, the risks are offset by the benefits such that it provides a net benefit to your health and safety. Even if you do not wear a helmet, cycling is still a net benefit to your survival and lifespan.
Where are you getting your information from?
The second safest country for cyclists in Europe has the lowest percentage of helmet wearers. Data provided further up thread.
Obviously it doesn’t lower it anywhere near the level you believe it too.
If you’re in the safest country for cyclist, then you don’t need a helmet as much. Is that not obvious? If you’re only separated by cars by a line of paint, you might want as much protection as you can afford.
Fuck. Bike helmets do not protect you from automobile collisions. They are fucking styrofoam. They protect you from falling over while standing still. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE LITERALLY DESIGNED FOR. If you want protection from automobiles, you need a motorcycle helmet or a helmet as worn by race drivers. A bike helmet won’t do shit, isn’t designed to do shit in that situation. You’re just being superstitious.
Sometime ago, I would have agreed with you…
Then I learned the hard way.
Yes not wearing a helmet on a bike is a big issue. For the biker
To whit, I wish more people didn’t wear seatbelts, especially SUV and Cybertruck drivers
Most people where?
Europe, the Netherlands especially.
The overall average rate of helmet-wearing in all cities was 22%. The highest rate was observed in London (60.9%). The next highest, though far behind, were Vienna (26.7 %) and Berlin (24.3%), followed by Warsaw (22%), Copenhagen and Paris (both 19.9 %).
The lowest rate of helmet-wearing occurred in Amsterdam (1.1%).
“Hardly anyone wears a helmet there,” the study noted.
“When you look at the number of accidents as a ratio of distance traveled, the Netherlands is the second safest country after Denmark in which to ride a bicycle,” Luigi Ancona, an accident researcher for DEKRA, said in a statement. “Our figures clearly suggest a link between a bicycle-friendly infrastructure, the subjective feeling of safety and the rate of helmet-wearing.”
So then what you said earlier about it “not being a big issue” seems to only apply to places where there is “bicycle-friendly infrastructure” at the least. Quite assumptive to say your original statement, don’t you think? Most of America, for example, is not bicycle-friendly.
Yes bike safety comes from a bicycle safe city.
Most of America does not even ride bikes, they have a whole host of issues to address with ridership. Helmets aren’t the problem.
And in the US (I refuse to call it America) helmet laws tend to be selectively enforced against minorities
Your own study is saying it’s the infrastructure that helps with safety.
There’s nothing there about the helmets themselves.
That would be a different study ie rate of injury and death in cases of accidents in wearing a helmet vs not wearing one.
I agree with the intent of this 100%
I tend to think the people who might not don’t have a clear understanding of what “for profit” means. My dad heard “for profit” and goes “yeah, that’s a good thing. I work for a profit too”
We need some clearer way to express “exploitative and extractive profit”
When my local mom n pop shop makes a profit, it’s so they can maybe expand their menu or open another location across town. Maybe send their kids to college. Or even buy a summer home, extravagant for most but still pretty reasonable. When ketamine king makes a profit, it’s by exploiting millions so he can feel like the worlds most special little guy and light another 5 years of global breathable air on fire in the process.
We don’t need a different work, we need people to learn what they mean.
Your father does not make profit, he makes a salary/wage. Profit is the surplus revenue after expenses.
my dad does make a profit, he owns a small business.
Is he the only employee?
nope
Tell him to stop stealing from his workers.
is making a profit enough to expand your operation stealing from workers?
Which is it, a business expense or a profit?
if it’s being invested back into the company it is a business expense, if it’s going into his pocket it’s a profit.
No, words have meaning and if you want people to understand, you need to use a word that directly conveys the meaning.
Fake news and alternative facts describe the same thing, but mean very different things to people.
Corporations have legions of marketing people to make sure that their words are used, so that e.g. if you read of a woman who sued Disney for an accident at one of their theme parks you’ll read that she sued over a “wedgie”, and not over a ripped utherus that required multiple surgeries and had the potential to cause permanent infertility. That’s the power of using the right words.
So we certainly need the right words, and “explotation” is so much more direct, understandable and powerful that “EBITDA” or “profit”).
All your suggesting to do is to constantly change words the second a corpo co-opts the meaning. That’s a losing battle by only retreating.
Your energy would be better used informing people of the meaning of the word and using it correctly, rather than making entirely new words and trying to teach everyone what it means.
I want to see corpos spin “exploitation” into something positive.
It’s far from impossible. For example, carnism is a (typically unconscious and unexamined) belief system held by the vast majority of people, and it says animal exploitation, and cruelty and violence against animals can be neutral or even good.
Does it use these terms? When you go shopping, do you sausage packs with any of these terms on the package in a positive way?
“Now with 100% more cruelty! These sausages were produced with extra violence!”
I have never seen any of that. Yes, the system is based on exploitation, cruelty and violence, but these terms are explicitly avoided in any business communication, just because it’s impossible to spin them in a positive way.
Instead, meat packaging will show a happy cow on a nice pasture in the mountains, surrounded by untouched, pristine nature. Texts on the packaging emphasize how happy and well-treated the animals are.
There’s no trace of high-density indoor farming, live animal transports or slaughter houses on the packaging.
Same with exploitative labour: Look at e.g. the Amazon website. Where do you see anything about them praising themselves for exploiting low-wage workers?
Plastic recycling is a scam, otherwise perfect.
How did we get lumbered with that chud of a packaging material.
Glass: rinse me out, use me again. 💪
Metal: melt me down, good as new. 💪
Plastic: I can’t be shredded and turned into road surfaces without my lid…
Money. It’s the consequence of living in a system that prioritizes profit over humanity and environment. Metal is expensive, glass is heavy and doubles shipping costs. So we created a cheap, non-renewable non-recyclable material that we can use once then bury in the ground (or simply create random environmental disasters) for future generations to deal with. Profit today, consequences tomorrow.
Recycle as the last step before reusing what you can and reducing your consumption. For example, instead of buying a new 2 liter of coke, wash out your old bottle and fill it up at a McDonald’s soda fountain with better mixed coke. 😌
Reducing our consumption is part of the third panel ;)
When your guillotine gets chipped and dull, don’t throw it away! Sharpen it, and continue using it!
or not.
I’m okay with taking multiple tries.
Alternatively, add more weight to the blade!
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
In that order.
I recycle but my garbage company puts recycles together with the trash it seems when they pick it up
If I recall, it’s like the majority of all recycling in United States isn’t real recycling since almost all plastics. Even ones with the recycling logo aren’t actually recyclable. It’s like 2 out of 10 types of plastics are some nonsense.
Recycling in the grand scheme of things does f*** all into nothing. There’s a reason it’s the lesser of all of the r’s. Reducing and reusing are the actually useful to recycling. Might as well be f****** pointless.
If we shifted back to glass bottles for everything, paper for everything, recycling could be somewhat useful but so long as we mainly use plastics recycling is just trash. It’s it’s pointless.
that sounds like they’re defrauding you.
That bicycle is so cursed.
That bike looks like what someone who’s never ridden a bike thinks a bike looks like.
Are we sure it’s not ai?
This comic is quite old and predates AI.
We have near identical looking bikes like that in Holland. Then again, we have more bikes than people.
Echt waar? Fietsen waar het stuur en beide wielvorken zo vervloekt zijn? Nah, deze fiets is een simulacrum van hoe een fiets er ongeveer uit zou moeten zien.
For the others:
Really? Bicycles where the handlebars and both wheel forks are this cursed? Nah, this is a simulacrum of what a bicycle should approximately look like.Look closer
Including ones with no chain and where the front fork isn’t attached to the handlebars?
Of those things, only one will reliably work though.
A lot of people are seem to be fans of murder.
Personally, I see it as a waste. I’m partial to creating a project to establish a mining colony in the asteroid belt, and sending them there, never to return.
The thing that a lot of people forget about the French revolution is that much of the same ruling class stayed in power and it was mostly common people that got the guillotine under the guise of revolution. If we were to establish a mining colony, Trump and JD Vance might get sent to space but the same institutions and practices would stay in place under a different name because I assume we’d be mining for profit. Let’s find a way instead to dismantle capitalism.
What a lot of people also forget is that the french revolution resulted in an absolutist dictatorship. It took a few revolutions and centuries to get France into a somewhat democratic shape.
The issue here is that a revolution requires a strong leadership that is fast, decisive, and unquestioned. Good revolutionary leaders rarely make for good democratic leaders who voluntarily step aside to let the people choose another leader.
If the french revolution were to happen in the 21st century USA, it would be much more likely to be done by white supremacists or some other exteme radical group than by anyone non-radical, and chances are that the US would end up with a totalitarian regime afterwards that would make the orange clown and his gang look like school kids.
Costs too much.
Could instead be turned into Soylent Green. Or fertilizer.
I’ve seen The Expanse, I know how this goes 🤔
*except occasionally with our rare minerals
RRR.
Reduce
Reuse
Repeat French history
Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine repair and maintenance workforce.
