and apparently makes your eyesight worse on top of that

Tbf, while the comic implies modern day humans it doesn’t outright state it, so it could technically also be future humans visiting aliens that don’t yet have either technology, so long as those future humans still have war.

My dad was always joking to me as a kid that Mr Pibb was just Dr Pepper after somehow losing their credentials, which would incidentally create an association with a gendered name

a snake

Interesting, I didn’t realize there was more than one species, I had always figured that one blackberry population had been domesticated at some point and then bred into the different varieties out there

If I ever did get one, I’d probably want to grow it indoors anyway, if that’s even possible. I’m more a city person and dont especially desire living somewhere with lawn space to maintain

Wait, do blackberries also grow like weeds? I’ve never had much interest in gardening, but like the one plant I’d genuinely like to have, due to loving the fruit, would be blackberry

It also can apply to humans that have something wrong with them, like visible signs of severse contagious illness, or just dead people, where being around can risk disease for oneself

The issue I see with that is that it defines “natural” in a way that is both useless, because it literally applies to anything in existence, and doesn’t fit the way people generally use it, that being something more like “how things are when they have not been significantly altered by people”. Under a more typical usage, human activity isn’t natural by definition, not because humans are special in some way but just because the term natural has been arbitrarily created to describe everything except that activity.

That calcium-loving one that eats your bones if you touch it?

A failed state doesn’t just imply the fall of a government, it refers to a degradation of the conditions of a country such that effective governance by anyone is impossible for a period. Think like has happened in Somalia, or Haiti. I’m not going to claim that the Iranian government is a particularly admirable one, but that kind of condition would be even worse for the people living there, and the chances of that process resting in something significantly better when the country finally recovers again aren’t terribly high.

Some Japanese company apparently suggested doing just that at one point

I have my doubts

The issue with solar for stuff on the moon is that it’s night is very long compared to earth, so anything you power with it needs to be able to shut down (and also get very cold without powered heaters) without harm over that time, or have a comparatively large amount of energy storage. Unless you’re at one of a handful of spots at the poles where the sun almost never fully sets.

We had one of these when I briefly worked at a grocery store. Manager told me that it would detect spills and make a sound to alert staff, to reduce the odds of someone slipping and suing. never saw it do this before a customer would report a spill anyway though. Union did put up a bunch of flyers in the break room warning that if told to do some kind of training lesson related the robot, to refuse and call them to report it, never did see that come up or learn what the deal there was either.

Only 92 antiprotons, antimatter annihilation is famously energetic but that’s still a tiny amount, I don’t think you’d even see anything happen without special equipment to detect it.

Its worked out fine for me thus far, but given that one of the selling points for how expensive it is is reparability, and I’ve only had it a few months, I don’t think I can yet give a useful review beyond that it works as a phone, at least for the hardware.

A handful of quirks from the operating system (most annoying being that the option to paste stuff has a visual bug that makes the little popup button for it not appear, though it still works if I just tap where it should be), but nothing I’ve not been able to figure out with at most a quick internet search. Might not work out for everyone though as some apps (only a small handful of the ones ive tried, but still) dont fully work, so how viable the OS is will depend on if one absolutely needs one of the ones that doesn’t or not.

Not had it for long, but a fairphone 6 (the version thats sold in the US that comes with /e/OS instead of regular android).

Funny thing about crocodilians, they look a bit lizardy, but theyre closer to birds than they are to lizards

Reminds me of a shirt my dad had while I was growing up that said “Meat is murder… Quick, eat the evidence!”.

Presumably because as a cat, he doesn’t have the capacity to communicate this to humans in a way that they’d understand?