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I support turning libraries into giant robots to go beat the poo poo out of the bigots who want them gone.
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Mister Olympus posted:could be worse! early vaccines used to involve putting lymphnodes cut out from animals directly under your skin. is that true
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No, but the dude who used cowpox to immunize a kid against smallpox did use matter taken directly from a cowpox sore and inject it into the kid (who was sick for several days but recovered and was in fact immunized to smallpox) so I can see how they made the jump to that.
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Selachian posted:Stephen Collins The song at least is a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_aHCpZl4k
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Vaccines definitely used to be produced inside live animals and then harvested from them—the rabies vaccine was grown in rabbits and the smallpox vaccine was grown in cows. They didn’t start using chicken eggs to make vaccines until the 50s.
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I love Count Weirdly's assortment of little creatures, especially the one that's just staring at the gauge.
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Pressure from gravity depends only on height, not surface area. The liquid inside the straw is pushing just as hard as the liquid outside the straw, so there needs to be a difference in air pressure to break that equilibrium. If it's just vacuum on both sides, there's nothing to disturb the liquid position.
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Tiggum posted:Is this true? Surely the liquid itself would "push down" (ie. be drawn downward by gravity) regardless of whether there was any air in the enclosure or not? Can someone explain this to me? Air pressure pushes the liquid up the straw when your mouth draws in the air inside the straw to create a vacuum. The solution is badly phrased, but the liquid in a straw moves up because the air in the room pushes down on it to cause it to fill the space created by the vacuum inside the straw. If Count Weirdly were in a vacuum, his straw wouldn’t work. I can bullshit on that puzzle though. It just says there’s no air in the bubble. It doesn’t specify whether Count Weirdly created a vacuum, which would technically cause his eyes to burst from the pressure created behind them, or whether he pumped in another gas with a pressure and density similar to air.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:No, but the dude who used cowpox to immunize a kid against smallpox did use matter taken directly from a cowpox sore and inject it into the kid (who was sick for several days but recovered and was in fact immunized to smallpox) so I can see how they made the jump to that. yeah that's what i was thinking of, i knew they used to literally take it from cows and jumped from there
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Plati Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 2/11/04  Brenda Starr 8/14-16/52    Smokey Stover 9/27/59  Everyday Movies 3/27/37  "See if you can't dig up something classy for Easter, Mopey." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 2/11-13/43    Closer Than We Think! 9/27/59 
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth "So... Kitty was unfaithful to me!"
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Scary Go Round (May 17-20, 2005)    Extra comic today for pacing (and because I forgot to post yesterday). Tomorrow starts a new arc about abductions, alien and otherwise!
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Fingerpori An additional layer is that in Finnish, "I understand Russian" and "I understand Russia" are the same. E: clarification after some confusion in the Ukraine thread: Russia = Venäjä Russian (as in Russian person) = venäläinen But mostly in Finnish the names of national languages are the same as the name of nations, except of course spelled with lower case letters. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Feb 12, 2024 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:And people assumed we would get mad about it because daring to criticize anything WAR mom automatically means we hate any and everything that she does, per goon hivemind tradition. You either agree with someone completely and kiss their rear end relentlessly or you will not stop until their head is on a spike over your doorway as a warning to all others who would contemplate doing A Thing I Don't Like, nuance is not to be tolerated. Wow. Can I just say that "nuance is not to be tolerated" pretty much describes exactly what you've written here? I've criticized Uchida myself, and am pretty open about the fact that she's a flawed person. Man, I'm not a hivemind, I'm just a translator occasionally noting that people read a lot into this comic that is not supported by the text of it. I did it passive-aggressively here, and I apologize for that. PetraCore posted:I think it's because some people explicitly were like 'I bet she has interesting opinions about vaccines' to accuse her of having an anti-vax attitude and this comic shows that no she's pretty normal about them. For the record, this was precisely where I was coming from. "She reminds me of antivaxxers I know" was an actual reaction to the first formula thing.
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you are making up a guy to be angry at
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i'd let my baby drink juice Heathcliff  Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (March 11, 2002)  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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I love that episode of TNG! The clip is a callback to this Original Series episode and this particular scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4d7PIFFKM&t=126s
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Tendales posted:Pressure from gravity depends only on height, not surface area. The liquid inside the straw is pushing just as hard as the liquid outside the straw, so there needs to be a difference in air pressure to break that equilibrium. If it's just vacuum on both sides, there's nothing to disturb the liquid position. I AM GRANDO posted:Air pressure pushes the liquid up the straw when your mouth draws in the air inside the straw to create a vacuum. The solution is badly phrased, but the liquid in a straw moves up because the air in the room pushes down on it to cause it to fill the space created by the vacuum inside the straw. If Count Weirdly were in a vacuum, his straw wouldn’t work. 
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No no, Nate's right on this. The cost for cards is loving absurd, I absolutely understand why my mum makes her own.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the mouse talks now?!?!?!
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Krazy Kat(November 3, 1918) No Gasoline Alley For October 5, 1919 Little Nemo(March 29, 1908) 
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Murdstone posted:This is a neat little window into how much things have changed. Stamps went up 3 cents in 1981, so if you wanted to use your old stamps, you had to also use a 3 cent one to meet the price. They didn't introduce forever stamps (stamps that are just good for letters no matter when you bought them) until 2007. People mailed a lot of stuff so it was a big deal back then, and obviously the joke is the rate in the 50s was 3 cents total for a letter. Thanks! I was wondering about that.
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Vintage Valiant (Sep. 17, 1961) I've switched to saving these as JPEGs, since for some reason I was using PNG and switching makes the files a quarter of the size. Please let me know if you notice any degredation of quality.
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I AM GRANDO posted:I can bullshit on that puzzle though. It just says there’s no air in the bubble. It doesn’t specify whether Count Weirdly created a vacuum, which would technically cause his eyes to burst from the pressure created behind them, or whether he pumped in another gas with a pressure and density similar to air.
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Murdstone posted:Andertoons I very much wish I knew how to photoshop Upton Sinclair's head on to the errant Cupid here.
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (January 24, 1936)  Peanuts (February 14, 1977)  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Li'l Abner (October 28-30, 1935)   Thimble Theater (September 16, 1940)  Out Our Way (December 23-25, 1943)    So the OOW Xmas '43 panel is about the quest for an ashtray. Merry Christmas. Light up a Lucky.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Vaccines definitely used to be produced inside live animals and then harvested from them—the rabies vaccine was grown in rabbits and the smallpox vaccine was grown in cows. They didn’t start using chicken eggs to make vaccines until the 50s. I can see the headlines now. BIG GOV FORCING PARENTS TO MAKE THEIR KIDS FURRIES LIBERALS FORCING KIDS TO BECOME SHEEP I love how amused Val looks about such a bad assassination attempt. "Yeah that dude sucked at trying to kill me!"
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THORN, January 18-24, 1984  Don't gently caress with Gran'ma Ben
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Forum accident posted:
I feel like this one would have hit better any other month of the year.
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A+J I'd just like to add that I'm so happy Cul de Sac is back in the rotation.
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Huxley posted:A+J
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