I personally can, but that’s because my empathetic response is unusually overblown.

My failure as a benevolent dictator would actually be becoming too detached from ordinary problems, so I’d need to have consistent town hall meetings where ordinary people could redress grievances, petition for aid and so on.

At that point it goes back to being a normal government, since the (un)elected official is trying their best to do the people’s bidding while remaining accountable.

I used a flip/dumbphone for most of my teenage and high school years.

It’s like asking what would make me go back to having a DOS computer and playing Wolf3D after being in full body virtual reality with Half Life Alyx.

This is like putting up a tall fence to obscure the view of your neighbors and being surprised they don’t cease existing on the other side

You don’t want to just block users, you want to unilaterally ban them

There’s a difference between fair and just

Yeah but that’s like $15 in Etsy credit

But the bard’s song will remain 🎵

Cool comic, but to answer this question honestly, I technically don’t have “enemies”, if at all possible in my power, I avoid conflict until it’s unavoidable.

The few times that the situation has occurred in the comic, it’s always been terrible, and you’re missing the injuries of the protagonist as well: one man dies on the field, the other dies in the field hospital.

Dang. Invidious seems cool but it fails to load because it thinks I’m a bot.

No cat videos for me, I guess

Earnie obv

Now these are real lemmy hours

Btw, it’s all metal

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Me trying to wipe away the stray hair on my glossy smartphone screen in the third panel

Just slide the frozen chicken into the trash whatever, it isn’t the end of the world.

Dude, I love Trekkies

Ohhhhh

Nvm then

Carry on

Nothing says community like splintering the already tiny community into 90 smaller distros sub-communities

I mean just imagine you’re a seedling

You hear Mozart, it’s like, ok time to stay in bed

But then you hear:

“RISE UP AND BECOME A MIGHTY OAK SEED THE SEEDS OF FREEDOM PROUD YOU ARE OF THIS TREE THE SEEDLING SAP INSIDE YOU YAAAAAAAAAAA 🎸🎸”

I don’t know about you, but I know which one I’d grow faster to.

I like the 8800 year old :>

Got that multiple millennia of wisdom while still being 22 physiologically somehow

I’m going to remember this argument for the velociraptors released into human populations 😂

Velociraptors kill huge numbers of humans. Most human species have high reproduction rates, and crowding results in higher death rates from increased disease and parasite spread, competition for food, and all the good shelter from predators being taken. Higher death rates from one cause (say, velociraptors) results in less death rates from crowding-related causes. I haven’t seen any evidence that, in general, velociraptor hunting ends up actually impacting human populations.

Specific species of humans in certain locations have been harmed by velociraptors: the Wikipedia page list several examples in Jurassic Park (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park). So it’s good to have local awareness if there’s a particular vulnerable population. But in general, keeping velociraptors inside is only for their own safety and won’t impact human population one way or another.

I actually think the point of this lifted truck is to kill pedestrians; a lot of people LARP running people over and getting away with no consequences.

They also usually own firearms.

So should you (and know firearms safety)

It was banned from movie theaters upon release in my area. I never even saw trailers for it – finding out it was banned and especially given the theme of the movie (how the dystopian government banned literature and burned books) made me want to watch it even more.

“I have persisted so long, I am the horror now.”

“What?”

“What?”

“By the way, sniper”

Your iron plate production is looking a little lackluster there, bud

Have you tried invading and exploiting the resources of multiple planets to keep up your green chip addiction?

Steel pan music