wolfjJul 16, 2023
Zach Weinersmith
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/purity-3
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Purity

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Purity

Jul 12, 2023 at 6:35pmWeb
Show threadFeralRobotsJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith You've been re-reading Narbonic?
Show threadLucomoJul 12, 2023

@ZachWeinersmith

Related: https://timharford.com/2022/11/cautionary-tales-the-inventor-who-almost-ended-the-world/

Cautionary Tales – The inventor who almost ended the world

Thomas Midgley’s inventions caused his own death, hastened the deaths of millions of people around the world, and very nearly extinguished all life on land.  Midgley and his employers di…

Tim Harford
Show threadApplemaskJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith Just an excuse to draw a dong
Show threadPseudandry Jul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith I think we're downplaying mad social science's lethality here given that covers both political science AND economics
Show threadJ.Jul 12, 2023
@[email protected] now I'm going to be thinking all afternoon about where geologists should be placed.
Show threadGeoffrey IrvingJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith Isn’t Marx mad social science?
Show threadGeoffrey IrvingJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith But that isn’t the shape of a Gaussian! #comicsarenoexcuse
Show threadkatJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith after the last kurzgesagt in a few years i expect to see a follow up to this with the biologist standing over the chemists body sprouting mushrooms and cackling or something
Show threadSundewJul 12, 2023

@ZachWeinersmith I mean, mad chemistry is bad, but mad physics gave us nukes, and mad social science gave us SO much racism...

However, I think the cake has to go to mad climate science (sponsored by the fossil fuel industry)

Show threadDisco SexualJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith :C
Show threadWes KyleJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith "No, Randall, mine have rectangle bodies!"
Show threadtyxJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith *"Virologists not shown, being way off the scale"
Show threadKlaus PforrJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith Can't help myself but I'm sure I have seen this already by either yourself or by Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/1895/
https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3543
Worrying Scientist Interviews

xkcd
Show threadweakly catlike intelligenceJul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith this is going to make mathematicians mad
Show threadMassimo Artizzu 🇺🇦🔱Jul 12, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith Your attempts at xkcd are the best.
Show threadKent WillardJul 13, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith Shakespeare doesn't reach today's audience that demand every derivative of stories set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Also, too many murders in the tragedies, too many cross-dressers in the comedies.
Show threadBen CurthoysJul 13, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith It's the Mad Engineers you've really got to watch out for.
Show threadBlueJul 13, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith are politicians considered to be humanities? If so this chart shall be exponential
Show threadSkaveRat 🐀 Jul 13, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith c&d by xkcd is on its way
Show threadPeter BindelsJul 13, 2023
@ZachWeinersmith For chemists, usually accidental gas poisoning. Or organic mercury. Or somebody trying to recreate the FOOF experiment.