What fabric softener did you use to get those toesies so fluffy?

People use the internet without ad blockers??

Didn’t even link to paheal smh…

Why is the owl stuck in a tube sock?

Edit: vacuum cleaner?

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This one time I got a “test email” but it was sent from a legitimate domain, used our in-house style correctly, didn’t contain any spelling errors, contained personal information about me that a simple leaked email couldn’t reveal, and linked to a document on an internal server. When I opened the link, it said “this was a mock phishing email, your respone has been registered”. Literally the only time I got got, and their supposed “tell” was that the tone was more urgent than you’d expect. I just thought it was written by a stressed intern.

Blue cheese and Dr Pepper. The Dr Pepper brings out the sweetness of the cheese and the tanginess of the cheese complements the sour of the soda.

Dr Pepper is the blue cheese of soda, after all.

You’d think humans don’t need the example of the holocaust to know not to do a holocaust.

Reminds me of Yukio Mishima’s novel Beautiful Star, written in the early Cold War (1962), where the main character bemoans that humans just did a full World War and now, when faced with the horror of nuclear destruction, don’t seem to have learned anything from years of traditional destruction and are ready to do it all over again. “If they could just imagine they’d done it already and say ‘never again’!”

Is Tomo doing her Capirinha pose?

Marcille when she goes to Laois’ funeral after he eats a poisonous lizard

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Nooo, how did I fail?

I think there’s a difference between being able to understand and having all the information to understand. Randall has a very wide range of topics that he makes comics on and most readers won’t know enough about every topic to get every joke, even though he does his best to simplify it for a broad audience. That’s the reason ExplainXKCD exists. But his audience is generally nerds, people who like learning new information, which is also what Explain caters to. So it is both true that his audience can (and are willing to) understand and that Explain helps them understand. (I also think that nerds love explaining stuff, so it makes sense that the main fandom website is ExplainXKCD, even if there were no demand for explanations.)

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At those sums, there’s really no equivalent. That discounted DVD has a real impact on your finances, even though it is a small impact. There’s no purchase that Bill Gates has to forego after spending 16 million on a horse farm, because the money flows in faster than he could ever spend it. He won’t be steaming a ham fewer for it, as we say in upstate New York.

That second picture is peak “men only want one thing and it’s disgusting”

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This is famously an impossible problem to solve. For example, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a Science Saru anime, but MAL sees it primarily as a Netflix production based on a Canadian story. And I have to agree: if the English dub isn’t trash, is it really anime?

I think when you’re studying the contracts between different multinationals to decide whether something is anime or not, it’s better to err on the side of community and friendly discussion, making anything anime-adjacent fair game for this instance.

I mean for them, because this is what they have to live with

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Keep in mind that Frozen came out in 2013, 12 years ago. The children who were in the prime target demographic back then (4-10 years old), are teens/adults now (16-22). Some of those kids will have imprinted on Elsa a little harder than anyone intended. So when they start developing their sexuality, they somehow have a preference for blonde braids and pointy noses. There’s really nothing wrong with that. Just be happy it wasn’t Olaf.