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[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!

https://explainxkcd.com/3073/

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That middle row is perfect - you could easily just have that, and the point he's making would be crystal clear.

Trump's actions don't even make sense, let alone meet any standard of fairness or intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump’s actions don’t even make sense, let alone meet any standard of fairness or intelligence.

They do if you look at him like a foreign agent, working to take down the US.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Ah true :-)

I meant they don't make sense on their own terms (which themselves are deeply questionable)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that middle row works incredibly well on its own, but he needed to add some geek angle or it wouldn't be xkcd. :)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

"Does not meet any standard of fairness or intelligence" was trump's APGAR score

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I imagine all the pineapple on pizza outrage would swiftly quiet down if people learned that the swedes put banana and curry on their pizzas.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sounds so weird that I want to try it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's better than you'd think (which admittedly doesn't say much).

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

hey now, if those pineapple pizza lovers could read, they'd be very upset with you right now!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

It was first done in Canada, so there's probably a tariff on it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I don’t understand all the pineapple pizza hate. Sweet and savory bro. SWEET AN SAVORY!!!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Corn and mayonaise pizza. Good luck with that information

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol this is like the Chinese idea of American food.

They put corn on almost all of the pizzas they fed me there and "American breakfast" was just a hard boiled egg and a cold hot dog.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like japan as well. Corn and mayo (often with either canned tuna or potato salad), and the coffee shops used to have a "breakfast special" deal with a coffee plus hot dog.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I admit it, that joke was low-hanging fruit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But... pineapples don't hang? Unless you were referring to the diodes. I'm not sure how those grow in the wild.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (4 children)

this comic uses big words, maga types won't be able to understand this.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They probably don't read xkcd to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Maga types won't read it. This is just making fun of them, not trying to explain things.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I didn't think that MAGA is the target audience. And if you were at all familiar with xkcd, you wouldn't either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

There aren't words small enough to get the deliberately ignorant to understand.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

It's a shame the people that need this the most can't read

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes and it’s the exact same film as Avatar 1, just with water instead of jungle.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Following Legend of Zelda protocol that means the fire/lava world is next

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No fucking way, I was joking lmao

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It also has an antifa whale and a girl Jesus

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Joking aside, antifa-whale was a really interesting character in an otherwise predictable film.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they called it The Legend of Korra.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Steam punk avatar!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yup, can't wait for the third one to make a kajillion dollars and have all the cultural influence of a fart in a hurricane.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yes, it exists and it's getting a sequel in December. You'll have to wait until 2029 for Avatar 4 though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw Avatar 1 in theater, a long time ago, it was ok, never saw it again. I started avatar 2 on Disney+ or something, stopped after less than 10 minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Get out of my head!!!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It doesn't really explain the part where artificially making the pizza more expensive is somehow a payback.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Someone just wanted to slip "lidar" into the conversation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If pizza cost more, at what point does it start actually being a reward equivalent of a bonus?

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