Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Quorum posted:

A return to form for Stantis, crushing nihilism having gotten so tiresome that he could think to do only one thing, ironically the same thing his hated Trump resorted to doing: attack Hillary Clinton Hunny Bunny.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

D.N. Nation posted:

It just occurred to me that JRROSE! puts two spaces after each sentence and, bafflingly, an extra space before his question marks/exclamation points. Definitely playing to his audience of 80-year-old Ima write a letter to the editor cranks.


(this is not an invitation to debate the merits of double-spacing after full stops, other than to note that old people are more likely to still do this and are also...unique...in some of their other stylistic decisions)

mandatory lesbian posted:

this is secretly the most depressing JRROSE in the world, look at that mom's face

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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mandatory lesbian posted:

this is secretly the most depressing JRROSE in the world, look at that mom's face

SwitchbladeKult posted:

Wait, it is an old people thing? I don't think so. I thought it was just a style thing. When I'm typing on a keyboard I double space. When I'm posting from my phone (like right now) I let the phone handle it. Same goes for most people I know around my age. My parents both single space and so do the older people in my office. Neither is correct but neither is it linked to age.

SwitchbladeKult posted:

Wait, it is an old people thing? I don't think so. I thought it was just a style thing. When I'm typing on a keyboard I double space. When I'm posting from my phone (like right now) I let the phone handle it. Same goes for most people I know around my age. My parents both single space and so do the older people in my office. Neither is correct but neither is it linked to age.

Crazycryodude posted:

Ben posted:

Kim Jong-un is a spoiled, capricious nut. His nuclear war threats may be nothing but continued ego maniacal saber rattling, but once nuclear miniaturization is achieved, he could launch a nuclear attack on our west coast. Many have suggested diplomacy, but that has already been tried for decades. North Korea always furthers their nuclear capabilities regardless. He may be trying to extort us once again for more food and fuel, but again..that tactic simply does not work. It only buys the regime in North Korea more time.

War is not funny. Especially the prospect of WWIII. I was not happy with the Syrian bombing and I caught a lot of flak for my cartoon that criticized the event. As a political cartoonist, I have to call it as I see it—even if it means losing support that I badly need. I drew a great many pro-Trump cartoons to help him get elected. I still back Trump and his intention to make America great again, but one critical cartoon cost me in terms of lost donors. Trump recently said he had no intention of starting another useless war in the Middle East—and that’s reassuring, but now we have North Korea to worry about.

I’ve read two books that I recommend highly: “The Aquariums of Pyongyang” and “Escape from Camp 14.” If you read either book, you’ll get a good idea of the fear and tyranny under which the North Korean people must live. Kim Jong-un grew up as a pampered egomaniac. He is reckless and dangerous. He even wanted all males in the Communist country to wear his own crazy haircut. He needs to be taken out, but that’s a very risky undertaking.

China is key. If they don’t help us take out Un, then we definitely have a chance for WWIII. I’d much rather see Trump concentrate on making America again, but the constant threat of nuclear war from a deranged tyrant could ruin all that.
We live in very dangerous times.
—Ben Garrison

Kirschen posted:

Software engineers often have fun by putting secret surprises into their software. Users who type a secret word will activate these secret surprises. These are called "Easter Eggs". No, I'm not going to give you a list of Easter Eggs hidden in Google or Windows or...
I thought of this while considering the cartoon to do about the Islamist attacks on Christians, such as the bombings of the Copts in Egypt. The idea of worshipers being blown up as they attempt to commune with God is a horror, whether they are Christians, Sunnis, Shias, Sufis, or Jews, but that is the Easter Egg in our current cruel world.

Labels: Christian, Copts, Easter, Easter Egg, Egypt, isis, Islam, Islamism, Middle East, Muslim, terror, Terrorism

Trogdos! posted:

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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:

It's funny to watch Zyklon Ben slowly twist his thinking from "DADDY TRUMP WOULD NEVER START A WAR, AMERICA FIRST!" to "DADDY TRUMP USES WAR TO PROTECT US! AMERICA FIRST!".

His comics are like art therapy, except it makes him more insane as it progresses.

Garrand posted:

I hate to defend him but that's literally the opposite of what he's saying. Like, even in his little blog post he mentions that he didn't like the bombings in Syria and he doesn't want war with Korea, he's just saying that if NK doesn't stop it's attempts to become a nuclear power it may be inevitable.

SwitchbladeKult posted:

Wait, it is an old people thing? I don't think so. I thought it was just a style thing. When I'm typing on a keyboard I double space. When I'm posting from my phone (like right now) I let the phone handle it. Same goes for most people I know around my age. My parents both single space and so do the older people in my office. Neither is correct but neither is it linked to age.

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Actually, double-spacing is flat-out incorrect now. It was a thing with typewriters because of the monospaced font, but with variable-width fonts there's no style guide in use (APA, MLA, Chicago), where double space after punctuation is correct.

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Squashy Nipples posted:

Yeah, I learned to type on an electric typewriter when I was 6, so it was a deeply ingrained habit, but even I've kicked it now.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Even long after computer word processors were a thing, my father was adamant that periods always had to be followed by two spaces. Took a long time to break the habit.

D.N. Nation posted:

It just occurred to me that JRROSE! puts two spaces after each sentence and, bafflingly, an extra space before his question marks/exclamation points. Definitely playing to his audience of 80-year-old Ima write a letter to the editor cranks.

Johnny Walker posted:

This makes me remember when I was a kid and we had a word processor machine. It was like in between a typewriter and a computer with a printer. It was big and heavy but supposedly portable. It had a tiny little screen that showed like part of a line at a time so proofreading before printing was hard, but technically possible.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Yeah, we focus on different things as far as racial caricatures. For us it's the eye shape but for them it's the nose and hair/eye color.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Even long after computer word processors were a thing, my father was adamant that periods always had to be followed by two spaces. Took a long time to break the habit.

Mr. Squishy posted:

I will never risk this av. Anyway, here's the offending nose (belonging to forums user Blood Nose)

e: and Blood Nose's post about it

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Actually, double-spacing is flat-out incorrect now. It was a thing with typewriters because of the monospaced font, but with variable-width fonts there's no style guide in use (APA, MLA, Chicago), where double space after punctuation is correct.

SwitchbladeKult posted:

I had no idea the two spaces after the end of a sentence was not in any of the style guides. I'll have to make an effort to break the habit then.

Sandpuppy posted:

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Quorum posted:

A return to form for Stantis, crushing nihilism having gotten so tiresome that he could think to do only one thing, ironically the same thing his hated Trump resorted to doing: attack Hillary Clinton Hunny Bunny.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Wait, Garrison made a comic criticizing the Syrian strike?

Sandpuppy posted:

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D.N. Nation posted:

He got confirmed, you mewing putz.

Dylan16807 posted:

I have no argument on what is correct (it's just fashion), but that explanation never made sense. Monospaced fonts have much bigger spaces than variable-width fonts. If that explanation was true we would be switching in the opposite direction, to using more spaces on variable-width fonts.

Sandpuppy posted:

I'm one of those annoying nerds that would correct the teacher in class, insist on using full punctuation and spelling in texts (I've only recently let my hair down enough to use LOL and such), and even I don't give a poo poo about double-spacing after a period.

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