Yes, that’s the point (it’s an edit of an image Trump posted to truth social, then deleted after backlash).

Normally I call out AI slop too, but this one has “official” precedence.

The issue I’m raising here is that (again using an example from the newspaper days) you can have a singular strip that’s “complete,” with its own setup and punchline, that’s still part of an overarching story.

Imagine, say, Garfield, where on Monday Jon takes Garfield to the vet, Tuesday through Friday’s strips take place during said vet visit (each strip featuring its own joke that could be understood on its own, but is enhanced by the context provided by the other strips that week), and then on Saturday Jon takes Garfield home, ending the vet visit saga. Posting the “complete story” would require posting all six comic strips together, even though they were published separately and (more often than not) are still understandable (and hopefully funny) even without having read the other five strips that constitute the “complete story.”

I haven’t seen this mentioned (sorry if it was and I missed it), but I want to question rule 2a:

Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.

Even in the newspaper days, it was common for comic strips to have ongoing plots, with each day’s strip presenting the next part in the story (with the plot usually starting on Monday and being resolved by week’s end, although some were ongoing serials, iirc Dick Tracy was like this). So the way this rule reads, it sounds like you would need to publish all strips from the same storyline together.

I think the rule is intended to prevent someone from breaking up comics that were initially presented together and intended to be read in one chunk, or otherwise truncating a comic (e.g. the meme version of “this is fine”). If that’s the case, it’s a reasonable expectation, but the current wording is unclear. It’s hard to recommend alternative text since so many exceptions exist (what if the panels were originally posted one at a time? what about bonus panels? What if the bonus panel was only published to patreons? What if the strip was reformatted from a graphic novel for mobile-friendly re-publication? etc etc.) But maybe something like this would work: comics should be posted in their original format (e.g. multi-panel strips should not be split up). But this is already covered somewhat by rule 4a: “Comics should […] be unmodified.” So maybe rule 2a is unneeded and only causes unnecessary confusion?

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Hmmm, I’ve seen a lot of bad and mid anime movies (and a number that I even regret, yeah I’m talking 'bout you, third Made in Abyss movie!), but not a lot outside of the usual classics that I’d actually recommend. Redline definitely makes the list, probably also Utena: Adolescence because they went there and I applaud them for that. Other decent movies include Koe no Katachi, Ookami Kodomo, Vampire Hunter D, Interstella5555, and of course the Eva movies. Then there are the movies that I watched so long ago that I don’t know if I’d still enjoy them today, like Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo. I used to like Makoto Shinkai’s early movies a lot, but the more of them he released, the more I realized he basically only knows how to make one movie over and over again with aesthetic tweaks, which kinda killed it for me. Also I don’t like Satoshi Kon’s movies very much (unpopular opinion I know).

Sorry for not following the assignment, but nine movies without Ghibli is apparently a tall order for me.

genuinely nothing worse than going bowling with people who are actually good. like why are you doing all that

There are fig wasps, of course. And other species, yes, that aren’t quite as good as bees at pollinating, but neither are butterflies, but no one has a problem with labeling them as pollinators. Plus there are the wasps that eradicate pests. The year I had a paper wasp family move in near my garden was a bumper year for my brassicas, because they absolutely annihilated the cabbage white caterpillar population. Basically, wasps aren’t just useless enemies.

Yes (but maybe you shouldn’t). See: https://lemmy.world/post/45251643/23076623

You can (very, very carefully!) pet the top of their thorax when they’re not flying, such as when preoccupied with feeding at a flower, although as TheTechnician27 outlined, it’s probably not good for them. Better is if you can find one that’s struggling to fly (semi-common this time of year, when things are still warming up) and then you can warm the little guy in your hands if they’re cold or chauffeur them from flower to flower if they’re hungry. Often this will help them regain the strength to keep flying, but sometimes they never do; I assume in these cases they’re dying, but at least I gave them some hospice care. It’s very strange to deposit a struggling bee on a flower, watch it feed, and then see it wiggle its little feet in the air like it’s calling the magic carpet back for another lift.

Asia, where they belong (and stay there!)

Edit: oops, still had wasps on the mind from another comment and was thinking of “killer hornets” (aka the Asian giant hornet), which thankfully has not naturalized in the Americas despite recent attempts. Killer bees, yeah, they here.

Wasps are pollinators too 🥺

Human life spans do increase substantially (although not to 300) in the Star Trek universe. From Memory Alpha:

The average Human life span had gradually increased during their history. The average life spans during the 22nd century was about one hundred years. (ENT: “Observer Effect”) This average age was still roughly the same during the 2250, but had risen to 120 by the mid-24th century. (citation needed • edit) However, at some point in history the average life span for Humans was only 35, and by 1999 it had become higher than a millennium earlier. (ENT: “Similitude”; VOY: “11:59”) Leonard McCoy had by 2364 reached the age of 137. (TNG: “Encounter at Farpoint”)

Nearly every isekai I’ve watched/read has involved a lot of brushes with death and/or having to repeatedly pull yourself out of near-impossible situations. Not sure it’s worth the magic and elf-girl harems…

Conundrum: STNG overlaps in time with DS9 (even if they didn’t, they’re both part of the same “universe” as posed by the question), so by selecting the universe of STNG, does that mean having to live through the Dominion war? Not sure that makes it a deal breaker either way but definitely takes some of the utopian edge off.

Interesting, did not know it was a bank holiday. (Schools and such are still open.)

For as much as the US acts like a Christian theocracy, somehow Easter is just a regular weekend for us.

Obligatory “who remembers the children’s book, Dogzilla (and Kat Kong)?”

I’m curious what about this is “mildly” infuriating to OP?

*Jimmies rustled (not “Jimmy’s”)

There’s actually a Wikipedia page dedicated to the phrase!

Relevant section:

While the earliest documented use of the expression remains somewhat nebulous, it is generally regarded as having been coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Published in 1825, Coleridge’s first verse in the poem “Work Without Hope” refers to both bees and birds in reference to the coming fecundity of spring:

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—
The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—
And Winter, slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!

One scholar notes an earlier reference to “birds and bees” on columns in St. Peter’s Basilica from a 1644 entry in the diary of English writer John Evelyn. By the late 19th century, the phrase was common enough to appear in such works as essays by John Burroughs and publications explaining reproduction to children.

The sources for the entry go into further detail: https://web.archive.org/web/20210510050626/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-04-cl-15141-story.html and https://www.livescience.com/39316-birds-and-the-bees.html