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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yup, no scientist ever has dedicated their lives to fighting climate change.

They're all fucking around doing things they weren't told to do by their obviously even keeled superiors.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago

I think the joke is that he is solving climate change by releasing a monster to kill humanity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is literally the backstory of Blue Submarine No. 6

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I remember watching this when I was 9 years old and feeling vaguely traumatized.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The structure of this feels off, the punchline already happened in panel two and the text in panel three isn't adding anything. A panel 3 without text would be funnier imo because it would let the joke soak, I also think moving the punchline to panel 3 would have worked better.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

Overanalyzing a comic. Why do I even bother reading lemmy comments?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I think the punchline is him opening the vat so it can kill humanz and solve the climate crisis, without the third one it could just be him inventing random stuff/wasting money (I only got the joke on panel 3)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Oh I guess I missed the joke, then. I thought it was a bit of a non-sequitur. I think I still prefer my version

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

I assumed this is the new form of the human race

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Why does he look sad and say "you can go"

Instead of "Precisely! Spring Terror!" Or something like that?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

That is quite funny. Well done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Is he looking sad?

He seems to be looking down und speaking into a microphone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe it eats plastic waste, absorbes three forests worth of carbon, and shits gold?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago

Only one of those features would help with the climate and marginally so.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Or maybe it eats people. Arguably way more effective.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

That's right. "Reduce" is the first priority on "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", after all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe they could have described the assignment better. Like "Solve Climate change without killing the majority of the world population" or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 minutes ago

I understood the paperclips reference! :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Yeah. That's really on the oversight committee.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Basically, FEV.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I like it, he looks like the alien from Pitch Black

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I know Vin Diesel is a unique character but that's harsh.