[–] 1 point 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The Ultimate panel of the current penultimate Penny Arcade comic, as of the writing of this comic, has your third way answer.

Edit 3: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/11/06/musical-scares that is the comic in question.

Edit: etymologists help me out. Why is it that Prime refers to first in all cases, except mathematics, and ultimate refers to the last thing, except for sometimes in mathematics?

And yes, I did have this thought because I started thinking about what the antithesis of Optimus Prime (First Best) would be, and was coming up with Pessimus Ultimate (Last Worst.)

Did mathematics use Greek as a base rather than Latin or something?

Edit 2: just realized that a prime number might be called that because it's the first number that is only divisible by itself on an infinite timeline, but that still doesn't help with ultimate, as some of the time that's just a best guess.

Edit 4: wait, does that mean that there's a possibility that Pessimus Ultimate actually did/does exist? Would they make Megatron look competent or useless?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago*

    NAFTA was a Reagan project. It was just signed by Clinton who felt it was better to shove what limited worker protections he could into it, rather than torpedo 15+ years of diplomacy just because it was started by the other side, and was objectively a shitty deal for the workers everywhere.

    Not saying that Dems are innocent, just that there are frequently times they get the blame for Repugnicunt fuckery.

    Just like that poison pill they shoved into the Big Bullshit Bill that's gonna royally screw working class people all over That's gonna get blamed on the blue water, despite the fact that most of the people that voted for it got replaced and weren't Democrats.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    I've said for years that if I had a time machine, I'd stop Hitler and the Nazis, as well as Stalin from gaining power, by going to the 1970's and picking up as much of the hideously unhealthy fast food that Taft never got to eat, take it back to 1910 and 1911 and feed his fat ass till he has a heart attack and doesn't screw up the 1912 election.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago* (6 children)

    Jackson and Wilson were much worse than, and set the stage for, Nixon.

    Jackson caused the single deepest, (by percentages, not dollar value because there were a lot fewer dollars back then,) longest, and worst depression in US history, while also overseeing multiple genocides. (Trail of Tears, The Long Walk, etc.)

    Wilson on the other hand increased the power of the presidency to a tryannical degree, passed the Insurrection and Sedition Act of 1913, authored and pushed Southern Revisionism, segregated the Federal Government for the first time in history, and that's just some of the stuff he did here at home, much less instituting Wilsonian Doctrine, which is what changed the US into "The Defenders of Democracy™."

    That being said, I don't think Trump was worse than Jackson or Wilson, but damn is he trying.

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