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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 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] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yet we're still waiting for cat girls?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I interpreted it a bit differently. He made the sharkpeople so we can inhabit the rising oceans, in a way. Climate change isn't getting solved, so might as well force us to adapt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I like this and you might be right because there is no indication in the last panel that the creature is attacking them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is literally the backstory of Blue Submarine No. 6

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or maybe it eats people. Arguably way more effective.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah sounds like you're straining yourself

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I assumed this is the new form of the human race

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Is he looking sad?

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think you're right. Still not clear to me and that other commenter made a better comic.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

That is quite funny. Well done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Basically, FEV.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks 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] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 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] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

ChatGPT, how can we solve climate change?

Okay! Climate change is the largely man-made phenomenon of the Earth's temperature gradually increasing, leading to more severe weather events and mass species extinctions. To solve climate change, here's what you should do: plan that only vaguely helps on the individual level assuming it's coherent at all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I understood the paperclips reference! :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. That's really on the oversight committee.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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