Of course! Because, just like with Jan 6th, anytime they are put in a negative light because of their own crimes, it’s an antifascist false flag operation!

I disagree with the claim that they are, as a rule, universally applicable, though I certainly do not disagree that this is highly US-normative. There is a significant subset of comics specifically about US issues, stretching back all the way to the very beginning. I can, upon request, provide examples.

1:

known mostly for

[Citation Needed]. You clearly are not a regular reader if you haven’t seen his near-constant references to US politics, electoral systems and why the US’ sucks, or literally one of the first and most oft-quoted XKCD comics of all time, which only makes sense from the perspective of a country where, even in the 2000’s, literalist interpretations of religious texts and anti-science narratives are not just ever-present, but were already one of the primary voting issues for the entire country

2: You are not entitled to an “excuse” for Randall Munroe daring, nay, displaying the absolute temerity to make a comic about pizza. For someone supposedly calling out US-Normativity, you certainly seem awfully clueless about the implicit assumptions you make.

3: I’m sorry that you feel entitled to an apology for an american comic artist drawing a comic about something quintessentially american. I am more sorry, however, for whoever failed to teach you that expecting other people to conform to your normative beliefs when they do something for themselves is a bad thing. He never once said that he would make it non-“US centric”. The only promise he has ever made about it is that it is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” This comic is both sarcastic and related to the semantics of language. That you feel it is too “US-Centric” is your own concern. As a resident of Ameristan, I can say with confidence that you making that normative expectation is the most american thing you could do. Unless, of course, you were eating a weird slice of “pizza” while doing it.

To be fair, the comic artist is from Boston. This comic strip has been around for almost 20 years, and this community is solely focused on the comic. This is like saying to ich_iel “God, this community is so German!”

Upvoting for the deep cut back to the future reference. Excellent.

Yeah, I have curated my library to be focused on the history of science, with special focus on the sorts of books which include information necessary to bring society to the technological equivalent of the age of reason (with extra chemistry and medicine). At that point, it’s mostly practical, and the practicality of the source speaks to the likely authenticity of other texts within the collection.

Congratulations, you’ve just written a quarter of the plot of the Book of Eli with Denzel Washington

You know, people get very particular, saying that you should go all natural and get fresh ingredients, straight out of the ground, and that this gets you more bang for your buck when you follow the recioe but, really, the markup price is worth it to get the pre-packaged uranium that has already been centrifuged. Not everyone has access to a stand mixer, just like not everyone has access to enrichment-capable centrifuges.

The problem is that one stupid tends to take many “unlucky” down with it when it kills itself.

The problem is that the vaccine regimen is very expensive, and the government is run by people who use every single failure of the regimen to push for a less-strict regimen, which causes more failures. They do this because they actively profit from a populace infected with stupidity.

Ah, see, there’s your problem: you’re using a slight mistranslation. A common mistake. They were never the party of “Family Values”. They’re the party of “Family Valuations”. They exist to find a way to put a number on every family, either “amount of money we can squeeze out of them” or “amount of money we can make by destroying them”, and they get bonuses from their corpocratic upstream if they can manage both at the same time.

"Late Thursday night, Officer Alice opened a closet during a warranted search of the home of local drug kingpin Bob Charles, finding fifteen duffle bags full of cash. After calling her partner to confirm the find, the twelve duffle bags were moved to the front lawn, where Sergeant Dinkleberg confirmed that the ten bags of cash would be logged for civil asset forfeiture. While no other evidence of criminal activity was found at the residence, the the five bags were processed into evidence by the duty officer at evidence lockup upon arriving at the station. In a move surprising many familiar with the DA’s track record, local District Attorney Earl Franklin decided to bring charges of money laundering against Bob Charles, giving the following statement:

“In our judgement, we feel that the five duffle bags, each half-full of cash, are sufficient evidence to bring charges of money laundering and racketeering against Mr. Charles”.

During the process of Discovery, bailiffs brought the two bags, each half-full of what appear to be $100 bills, to the courthouse for the confirmation of Mr. Charles’ defense attorney, Gail Hagen. After the bag of $20 bills was replaced in evidence lockup, the amount, totalling just over $10000 (an amount sufficient to trigger structuring flags in banking) was set aside for trial."

Yeah, they are “decapods”. 8 legs and 2 claws.

Technically, 10

That’s a problem with the choice of axis scale, not the response. Octopus is the correct answer, because it is at or near the extreme of all three axes.

Haha, fair enough, Moloch

Oh, sure, but not without making the meat… No longer meat.

Schott’s Original Miscellany. I was a strange third grader, and I’m happy to report that I have grown stranger since.

Untrue! Let me give you some examples of things that are both ambient and pervasive!

Slime Molds!
Entropy!
Capitalist violence by the hoarding of wealth and refusal to engage with other humans with empathy!
Your Mom!

Except for some prions.