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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 5 days 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 5 days 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 4 days ago

Ah true :-)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They probably don't read xkcd to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That sounds so weird that I want to try it.

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days 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 5 days ago (3 children)

Corn and mayonaise pizza. Good luck with that information

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days 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] 3 points 4 days ago

Shots fired!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Get out of my head!!!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No fucking way, I was joking lmao

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It also has an antifa whale and a girl Jesus

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think they called it The Legend of Korra.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Steam punk avatar!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 5 days 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] 21 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Someone just wanted to slip "lidar" into the conversation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

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

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