Nothing of Value Was Lost

The name's Thirteen, the pleasure is mine. Canadian, grumpy.

[sistertaxon]

a verbal description of a far side comic is indistinguishable from a fine shitpost

[gwylock-one-deactivated20170205]

far side comics are just visual shitposts

[celticpunkandcoffee-deactivated]

It’s rare that I come across a post about the Far Side.

[xxxtictacion]

[grannythots-deactivated20190917]

God I love the Far Side. I used to have a calendar of the comics and my dad had a bunch of books. They’re great.

[catbountry]

Often imitated, never replicated.

[thirteenfunbreaker]

What the Hell happened here.

[priestessofthepoeticprophesy-de]

[dashaibo]

So do you have any concrete plans or just nice-sounding slogans?

[rametarin]

We know what their plans are. That’s why they’re vague about not confirming them until everybody is on their ship on the pretense of, “eliminate the concept of poverty,” and there’s no way back.

But it is encouraging that they’ve started to sneer at liberals instead of pretending that they are liberals and what they want is the same thing as liberals want, now. It means they’ve finally hit a wall they can’t doubledown on and deny is in their path, that they can’t subtly manipulate away, that they can’t manipulate others into clearing for them, and have to directly confront, “the problem.” That is, they have to proactively state that they’re different and have different objectives and methods.

And that means soon they’ll be tearing themselves free of the liberal democrats and flailing around like rattigan after that thin veneer of civility and intellectualism does nothing but snag them and hold them back from their true enemy.

They keep the talk flowery and hyperbolic and try not to say anything unambiguous publicly, outside zones or social people of influence that they control. When they start being sassy like this, well..

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[such-justice-wow]

This site has aged right into middle management

[depsidase]

[focsle]

My fav whaling logbook phenomenon is when their keeper opts NOT to use whale stamps and instead hand-draws very ornate whales to indicate when he sees them, but then as time goes on the whales get progressively shittier looking because that’s too much work. I know how it feels to get locked into an artistic bit later regretted, man.

[focsle]

E.g.

[ID: Detailed drawing of a sperm whale with shading, eyes, and a spout]

[ID: Wobblier drawing of a whale with no shading and no detailed features]

[ID: The vague blurry notion of a whale]

[sisterreisaid]

Maybe he kept encountering shittier whales

[forever-memes]

2022 intensifies

[mr-deep-downer]

oh fuck not again

I hope what ever dumbfuck she bit lost his arm

[konigstigerr]

wait a second

what’s going on!?

[mr-deep-downer]

holy shit yo????

[nico-nico-knee]

[brunhiddensmusings]

next year of the dragon might be a problem

[instigmia]

that’s what they said about Avian Flu, Swine Flu, and Dragon Flu

[skiplo-wave]

There was always this weird smell in the part of the house in the hallway. It only happen during the winter when the heat was on. Well, we took out a wall to make my parents room bigger. We found a small bathroom with just a toilet and a sink that was closed off. This bathroom far as we know from the prints we found afterwards was closed off since the 1970s. There was black and blue fuzzy fungus mushroom looking shit in the toilet. The whole room reeked of that smell we get in the winter.

If y’all don’t throw wholeass bathroom away

[lesserknownwaifus]

Numeri, a villain from Tropical Rouge! Pretty Cure.

[skovenshemmeligheder]

the special snowflakes has reached berlin, mein führer

[skincareroutine]

there no sympathy nowadays there’s no girl i forgive u for putting this ugly guy on my dash because ur clearly ovulating and mentally ill. chivalry is dead

[malama-art]

my current impression of reimu

[sparkgore-deactivated20220716]

Haven’t post much since im having a exam next week 😭

[11l7]

(therapist voice) and why are you butthurt about that

[feefal]

Day 7 of Funguary, the Amethyst Deceiver mushroom. Some sort of trickster sorceress I imagine

[feefal]

One of the most magical looking mushrooms out there, and it’s EDIBLE?! w h a t

[kaijuno]

I used to be a grader and an occasional substitute prof for an introductory astronomy lab. That means that the majority of the people in this lab are only taking it because it’s a requirement and about half of them think it’s an astrology class.

I was grading midterms and this one girl. She was so nice and I think she was a business major. Fuck. The question on the midterm was to draw a diagram of the solar system and this poor girl. This fucking girl had drawn a Mars-centric solar system. As in every planet and the sun were orbiting Mars. I now actually have a custom Cards Againsy Humanity card I got at a con that says “A Mars-centric solar system”

I had a boy argue with me that there was liquid water on the moon (this was around when they had found liquid water on Mars in ~2015) and he wouldn’t believe me that he likely meant Mars and not the moon. After I marked his answer to the relevant lab question wrong, he took it to the department head who had promptly laughed him out of the office.

And there was another boy who, during a lab in our observatory where we would look at certain things in the sky, asked where the sun was. At 10pm in November. After some questioning it was revealed that he thought the moon and the sun were the same thing.

[shesaysdisco]

My friend, whom I love dearly, found out that the moon orbits the earth as a 20-year-old in an upper-level political science class, and was utterly and completely flabbergasted. When questioned, her defense was that she doesn’t have anything to do with the moon, so why would she have needed to know?

[toniins]

i was once talking to a friend of mine about how at that point in time you could see mars, jupiter, and venus at the same time, which was pretty cool, and she said “where’s pluto? wait, it was destroyed” and that’s how i found out that my friend, who is in her third year of a medical degree, thought that pluto stopped being a planet because it was eaten by a black hole.

[soaringsearingphoenix]

When i was in physics class my sophomore year of high school, the teacher drew a simplified diagram of a person standing on the planet earth as part of the explanation for how it was initially discovered that the earth was round. And one girl sitting in the class said “wait… we live on the OUTSIDE???” she had spent her whole life thinking that the earth was a hollow sphere and that we lived on the inner walls of it

[roach-works]

i had a coworker in his early twenties who, when i mentioned seeing admiring how bright mars was that morning on the drive to work, laughed and said ‘mars? like the planet?’ and i was like 'yeah mars the planet. it looks like a very bright star, it was supposed to be extra bright and close lately.’ and he got quiet and oddly worried and he said, quietly, carefully, ’…are planets… real?’ like he was checking to see if i was completely insane.

i experienced a brief moment of crisis and said back ’yes. planets are real. did you…. think they weren’t real?’ and he looked even more disturbed and said, 'no. they’re just made up for movies and shit, right?’ and i was totally horrified by this point and said 'planets are real. the solar system has nine of them. the universe has billions of them. we make up fictional planets for movies but there are definitely real planets that actually exist.’

he said, like he sincerely thought i was fucking with him, 'how do you know planets are real?’

i said, 'i’ve seen them. i’ve seen saturn through a telescope. you can go outside right now and see mars and venus in the sky. i swear that planets are a real thing.’

he said, muttering now, 'well, maybe that’s just what you think.’

the conversation did not get any better from there.

[petermorwood]

Is there something in the water that makes people this way, or do they have to take classes…?

[toadsrbutch]

I don’t know what little cat needs to hear this but. it is Not Dinner Time. you are not going to starve and it will be okay.

[priestessofthepoeticprophesy-de]

[dashaibo]

So do you have any concrete plans or just nice-sounding slogans?

[lordascapelion]