Honestly, i was just referencing Battlestar Galactica.

All this has happened before and it will happen again

VVVVDC!

Im up for it, if you’re ok with playing bg3 with an old (liberal) dude.

One of them is dead, so his security is perfect. I’m hoping the other one ups his security game real soon now (due to natural causes, obviously).

Most or all of the GMO crops will both pollinate and germinate. The requirement to buy new seed is legally enforced, rather than a biological necessity.

There have been cases already where pollen and/or seeds have blown into neighboring fields and hybridized with non-GMO crops. At least one grower has been sued by Monsanto for harvesting and selling Roundup-ready soybeans that were hybridized that way.

That’s true, as far as it goes, but the amount of phenylalanine created is incredibly minute and is matched by other, “natural” foods. In the vast majority of people, the body quickly metabolizes excess phenylalanine. The only genuinely well-documented danger is for people with phenylketonuria, because they have a genetic variation that breaks that ability to metabolize.

Last I checked, which was admittedly years ago, the studies that showed direct harms were flawed, not statistically significant, or have not been repeatable. The early studies that led to its ban in the EU used absolutely massive doses of aspartame, well beyond what you could possibly ingest in a day.

I’m not saying it’s safe for sure but it’s safer than obesity or massive doses of sugar on a regular basis.

In dietary terms, literally nothing is wrong with it. There are economic concerns because the business model is to patent (copyright?) the GMO stuff and force growers to buy seed every year, instead of saving seed from each harvest. There’s also some concern that really successful GMO crops, such as Roundup-ready corn, will dominate planting and become a monocrop which could lead to massive crop loss if a blight or other disease evolves to target that particular strain.

The other things in the picture vary between probably-but-maybe-not-harmless (aspartame), definitely harmless (MSG), to actually helpful (fluoride and Prozac).

Bottom line: the meme, when interpreted correctly, implies that pop songs are generally good but somewhat artificially manipulated.

Does CustardFist make the smartest dumb comics on the web, or the dumbest smart comics?

Either way… f’kin lol

What platform are you using? I’m on iOS, voyager is up to date, and I can zoom without a problem. I know saying “it works for me” isn’t terribly helpful but it may help to isolate it to one platform.

He has doubled down on being an awful person but has also become (mostly) politically irrelevant.

They were dead to me before. They’re twice as dead to me now.

I very much enjoyed taking Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from SF to LA. If it was a little faster and a lot cheaper it would easily beat cars and airplanes 100% of the time

That’s how I read it, yes.

The words “known” and “target” imply (to me) that you have to be scanning something specific, so it’s not that powerful and doesn’t need to be tied to notice.

You mean today? Today is Wednesday.

Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit

The original version of the show, from France, is much more entertaining.

Dancing baby was way before youtube existed

Overall, not really. For specific things, yes. Coffee and avocados are probably the most common things that might get harder to find and/or much more expensive.