No. The comic is talking about airspeed: speed relative to the wind.

It records an air speed of 0. Isn’t that working exactly as intended?

Oh he’s no hoser, bud! A hoser’s a good ol’ Canuck! This guy’s no Canuck. Only one word for a separatist:

Traitor

Sure you can. Just need a pitot tube!

S&P 500 index fund.

The issue with prions is they’re not that contagious. An infected person is not a danger to other people. This means you need to contaminate all the meat in the food supply because you can’t rely on transmission.

It’s not a mental illness. It’s just a lack of awareness of the power of confirmation bias. Even just an underestimation of the depth to which people will go to protect their worldview.

I dunno. OP can still answer your original question above!

My implied claim here is that there are more people graduating with degrees in every major than the economy can fill jobs for in any of them. Youth unemployment is rising! Trying to find a job is really difficult and even degrees once thought “safe” (such as CS) have stingy employers who think AI will replace the need for training fresh graduates.

You might think “oh that’s fine, people who studied other subjects won’t care about CS people.” But if those CS grads can’t get CS jobs they’ll look for other jobs, increasing competition in other fields. This can have a domino effect throughout the youth job market.

A fox on chicken island would kill every single chicken and then starve.

Does it matter? The US graduated over 2 million people with bachelor’s degrees in spring of 2025. How are all those people supposed to find jobs?

It wasn’t my argument. You originally replied to someone else. I think the statement is almost a tautology.

The key word here is predator. Not everyone who commits a sex offence is a predator. You can be convicted of a sex crime for public urination.

A sexual predator is pretty much a serial offender by definition. So the claim that these people would have high recidivism rates should not be surprising.

If I buy a bunch of seeds, plant them, grow a bunch of vegetables, and sell the vegetables for more than the price I paid for everything (seeds, fertilizer, tool wear and tear, and any other expenses related to the garden), I have made a profit. It doesn’t come at the expense of anyone.

It wouldn’t be fair to insist I sell the vegetables at exactly the cost of everything I put into them. I put my own labour into growing them and bringing them to market. If I couldn’t profit by selling them then I wouldn’t sell them, I’d just eat them myself or not even bother growing them at all.

Even the lighting on Voyager is dimmer to save power!

I can’t even remember the last time I had fast food. Must have been at least 2-3 years ago.

I have had shawarma though. I tell them to put all the sauce on the side and just add what I want.

Ahhh okay. I live in Canada and I frequently see spiders roaming my house when it’s well below freezing outside. I’m pretty confident they will not survive out in the snow.

It’s David St. Hubbins from Spinal Tap!

House-dwelling spiders are usually adapted to life inside the house (likely cave-dwelling species). Their survival rate outside is not very good.

Conservatives like Star Trek because it promotes the values of meritocracy, hierarchy, authority, and military discipline. None of these are commonly held by people in the American left (especially not the academic left, which tend to be pretty anti-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian).

The people usually referred to as Republicans these days are right-wing populists. They have very little in common with the types of conservatives who loved the franchise in the 20th century. Those older conservatives are almost extinct in the Republican Party today.