It was readeable no problem. Only part I had trouble with is the sign at the very bottom.

So, how likely is it that neanderthals and humans just lived in tribes together, and neanderthals just eventually died off within human tribes?

What is p-fracking, and how does it differ from regular fracking? Or is this post just asserting the definition?

As a headsup, pedestrian deaths at crossings is consistently higher in places where right on red is legal. It’s not bad drivers, it’s a bad law enabling bad driving.

You can do the same thing without cops more cheaply in the long run. Just raising the crosswalks to sidewalk height completely changes driver behavior, as it’s both a speed bump, and it’s clearly communicated that the crosswalk is the pedestrians’ territory that the driver is crossing through.

We can deal with most of these issue through design rather than a threat of fines.

You should provide black outlines around the text to improve readability. You could also do what comic artists do professionally and instead change the font and style to differentiate the speakers.

What alternatives are you talking about? I’ve not heard of any.

You should try rock climbing harnesses. They’re somewhat similar. There’s also some techwear that has those straps.

Edit: upon some cursory research, I have found that simply searching ‘suspension harness’ and/or ‘leg harness’ yeilds a high abundance of options. There is clearly a market for this kind of thing, and you’re probably not alone in a want for thigh compression.

“Alright, slow down Pythagoras. Start from the top. What the fuck are you talking about?”

Good question and a great segue into a fun fact: it seems quite possible people waking up in the middle of the night was the norm for centuries, and that the assumption of sleeping the whole night is potentially a more modern idea.

I am having trouble finding a specific article, but a historian recently catalogued a large number of historical entries which note ‘the second sleep’. He basically posited that it’s likely that for ages, people in the pre-industrial world would sleep for about 3-4 hours, wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or two, and would then go back to sleep. Article talking about it.

Articles quite often say that writing as far back as homer talk about an hour which terminates the first sleep like a normal thing everyone knows about. I haven’t read much of homer or Virgil so i can’t personally confirm or deny that.

Top left sounds pretty much how i’d expect death to be like anyways. Whatever emotion you’re feeling as you pass just gets freeze-framed like a tv glitching out, and then you just experience that. Period. Confusion being that emotion doesn’t sound too horrible.

Then again, whatever the VR thing is could be fine. If it’s too small a space, though, then perhaps not. Also, if it’s a bad place then that’s just a form of hell.

In regards to I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, they aren’t in a virtual reality , at least not based on the descriptions given. It seems that the machine is just so powerful that it can keep those it is tormenting alive indefinitely.

Could we do a hostage trade with France to get back the thorn?

I’d agree, I like the idea of the year ending and beginning on the longest night of year more.

That is the apple IIc from 1984. (☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)

I think yes, because saying ‘no’ also throws into question whether present you consenting on future you’s behalf is moral, which can lead down a path of concluding autonomy itself is immoral.

Meanwhile, if we just say ‘yeah, the non-existant future you is allowed to consent to things on past you’s behalf’, we avoid all that mumbo jumbo. Honestly, it’s something people do actually do sometimes, now that I think about it. Forgiveness almost operates in that fashion.

Grape skin.

The revolver looks like one of the various Colt .38 snubnose revolvers used by police prior to the 1990s. They all had a very similar look.

Examples from this article:

Well there’s this case where Monsanto sued a farm for replanting seeds they had a patent on.

And there’s several other cases similar to that where Monsanto has sued farmers. For instance in “David vs Monsanto”, when a farmer found out some canola plants were roundup-resistant and propogated them on his farm. Monsanto sued him for not having them removed, especially since Monsanto had a program where if they were informed, they’d removed them for farmers.

So while it’s not exactly as deceived above, it’s not far off.

Very cool setup. My one gripe is that the carry handle is not captive in the body, so those two screws on the handle’s rear are the only spots it’s fastened to the body. I personally would not trust that.