Great work, without reading what it was I thought it may be a still from a Ninjago movie/series at first.

Its not real so empathy is irrelevant?

Its not a joke about wordplay because if you take away the dark humour context - the loss, the reaction of the mother - it’s got nothing other than ‘lol a word has two meanings’.

If the mum was cut out of the last panel - then yep you could pass it off as absurdist humour, but as it is I don’t think thats fair, an easy out - the humour relies on her reaction. I appreciate you engaging as I thought it was an interesting conversation, but most have really taken it to heart it and attacked me for finding a comic distasteful. Counter opinions are very unwelcome here like most comms on Lemmy. My last reply about it but I did want to thank you if but to disagree politely. 👌

Many of the funniest comedians are deeply in touch with their empathy - George Carlin, Robin Williams, Bo Burham, Bill Burr has had a famous turn from grievance comic to empathetic philosopher comic and it’s improved his popularity and humour. Meanwhile many of the crappiest ones - Joe Rogan, Andrew Dice Clay, Ellen Degeneres - lack empathy in their lives and performances. Having empathy doesn’t mean you can’t be fun or funny, often the opposite.

A mother’s grief as a dark punchline, hilarious. This artist should share notes with Stonetoss, equal damage to the areas of their brains that experience empathy.

Epic false equivalence.

Reason is not justification, I excuse nothing - just pointing our it’s much wider than the US.

What you’re failing to include in your calculations is how cheap political sway is to buy worldwide. You don’t need to be the wealthiest nation in the world to place several $50k political donations per year to the two major parties and some of their key politicians, and keep a lobbying firm in the nation’s capital well-funded to wines and dines key politicians and journalists.

Manufacturing consent is financially trivial for Israel, they’ve been practicing it for 50 years and the machine is institutionalized.

" B-b-but we don’t want the arrests to appear politically motivated. That could damage trust in our democracy "

Cowards, every one.

Myopic US take. The Israel lobby is all through the western world and has pushed almost every government into the corner of accepting this racist genocidal war lest they be labelled anti-Semitic.

I’ve seen almost all of them and can confirm that if you enjoyed one of the shows here you will probably enjoy each of them.

Today, you learned that not everyone on the Internet is from the USA or Canada.

Ive not heard of this - were you on the standard Google OS? I wonder if that makes any difference.

I’ve been on custom ROM (CalyxOS) for most of the phone’s life.

Texas Trumpers/Republicans strongly voted for a president & governor they knew would:

• defund climate research
• slash FEMA budgets
• slash NOAA budgets & weather funding, including early warning systems.
• go on an general anti-science, politically-motivated defunding spree Texas Trumpers/Republicans:
• cheered it all on, especially when it upset scientific groups, researchers, liberals, greenies
• watched with glee through 2016-2020 as it the de-funding caused or heavily exacerbated many disasters
• voted it back in for 2024, knowing full-well that even stronger defunding anf political zealotry was planned this time round.

Homosexuals:

• were gay

That person: the Trump voters involved got what they voted for, I feel sorry for everyone else.

You: you sound like those preachers that say gays cause earthquakes.

What a terrible analogy. People are allowed to vent frustrations, especially when ‘taking the high road’ has proven to be completely ineffective in changing the opinions of conservatives, and especially ineffective against fascists.

And their streets are narrow, especially in the French quarter of Hanoi and other older areas. The vehicles in use currently are often very small to make it easier to navigate the narrow roads (and street/laneway parking) and like you mention - the scooters, which are like 90% of vehicle traffic.

Before anyone rushes to replace their phones my Pixel 5 is nearly 5 years old, still on original battery (would be on at least 1200 cycles) and is presently sitting at 92% and claiming 1 day 11hrs remaining. Off the charger since 9:45 this morning and used for streaming music to my car while I was driving earlier. It still easily holds over 24 hours charge in my usage, so if I forget to charge it at night it’s usually around 40% in the morning and I can plug it in sometime in the morning to top up. Perfectly useable after almost 5 years, and this is pretty normal for Pixels in my experience.

Love the new EU measurement standards but per other people’s comments above they do not seem to mandate strict third-party testing, but rather rely on manufacturers submitting their results and adhering to the set test standards. This has not worked out well in the past, it should be mandatory third-party.

Cannot wait to see the return of user-replaceable batteries (thank you again, EU).

No I’m saying you’re not allowed to be drinking alcohol while you drive. Which you are in Mississippi.

USA freedom warriors ™ on Reddit say ‘that’s fine because they still have to be under the legal limit’. Unable to fathom that the idea of normalizing drinking alcohol while you drive encourages irresponsible behaviour amongst other negatives, beyond just staying under the BAC limit.

Ah yes, a piece of tape. Tape can definitely not be lifted and replaced, right?

I took a quick looks and seems like Mississippi has many drive through daiquiris bars also.

https://m.yelp.com/search?cflt=drivethrubars&find_loc=Gulfport%2C+MS

I remember reading years back that Mississippi is the only state where it’s legal for the driver to drink while driving (as long as they keep it below 0.08). Multiple defenders on Reddit said its safe because its still below the legal limit.

Couldnt be related, could it? Nahhh

https://dui.drivinglaws.org/resources/can-a-passenger-drink-alcohol.htm

USA is definitely the most car-brained nation, but I don’t think that miles-travelled alone stacks up when comparing states.

As an example for 2022 data from FHWA it shows that Mississippians drove 17,699 miles average, while Minnesotans drove more, at 17,887 miles. Yet Mississippi has more than triple the road fatalities.

Even if you take Mississippi as an outlier, many other states are well over double Minnesota, with similar miles-driven: South Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma.

Mississippi has drive-through combo shops: liquor store / DMV / KFC.

Saves time on your way to and home from church.