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Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image slightly cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to post something yourself!

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Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick one yourself and post it!

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Printed 107 years ago today in the Grand Forks Herald. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found the the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a comic from there and post it yourself!

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See here for more info: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original. See !truecomics@midwest.social for more about this character.

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Several of E.T.'s comics are about the importance of voting. Early voting wasn't a thing back then, but it is now, and it has started in most states. See here: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original.

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Printed 112 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, especially on the letters, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick something from there and post it yourself!

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Detroit Times. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site; feel free to look there for something to post yourself!

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Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon from there and post!

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Rolando@lemmy.world to c/truecomics@midwest.social

People sometimes ask why these old comics are still relatable, and part of the answer is: selection bias! Namely, those of us who post them tend to select those that we find relatable. To highlight that, here are all the Everett True comics on the Library of Congress site that came out on October 26 (of various years). These are not cleaned up or even cropped from their newspaper:

SO TO SUMMARIZE, out of 20 candidates, only 4 of these are candidates for selection. I'd probably pick the one related to the dangers of speeding, because it might appeal to the !fuckcars@lemmy.world crowd (of which I am one!) Or maybe the one about tipping, since the image is a lot cleaner. But many of the other ones are dated, some don't make sense, and some even present Everett in a very unflattering light.

Another thing to think about is that this may not be a complete selection of the comics that could be available. Some might only be in newspapers that are not in the Library of Congress' archives. Some might not have been selected for publication by the editors of the papers that are (because I think a batch of comics would be sent to the newspapers periodically, and the editors would then fit one in whenever they had room). And some, like that one example from 1917, might be in such poor condition that it couldn't be cleaned up enough. I think this is a type of survivorship bias, but I'm not sure. ~~Anyway, I hope that was interesting! And if it wasn't, then... OUTBURST.jpg.~~

EDIT: I should have ended this by saying: as you can see, there are plenty of comics that aren't chosen, but maybe you see some that you think are worthwhile! If so please feel free to post it! Just take a screencap and crop, look for more comics here:

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Printed 103 years ago today in the East Oregonian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 126 points 2 months ago

Foley was once worth $1.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, but left the company with a net worth of $225 million.

Jeez, the poor guy... only $225 mill... how do you go on living when you've sunk that low? ~/s~

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 156 points 3 months ago

That's exactly why Sarah broke up with him.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 197 points 5 months ago

some people still recommend using a VPN and IP address from a country where YouTube ads are prohibited, such as Myanmar, Albania, or Uzbekistan.

Wait, you can just prohibit YouTube ads at a national level? That's somehow awesome and terrifying at the same time.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 199 points 6 months ago

Egypt is 1,596 km away from Greece in OUR world. But they're in a whole new world.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 123 points 7 months ago

Nebraska Spider-Man needs this:

Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider)

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 116 points 7 months ago

One time I put in my card, but the pump couldn't show me an ad because it crashed. My card was stuck in the pump. The guys inside tried resetting the pump but that didn't work, so they said it'd be a week before someone came around to fix it. I had to cancel the card and get a new number. All because I couldn't watch the ads.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 249 points 7 months ago

Insufficient information. Need to know the physician's gang affiliation.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 164 points 7 months ago

Interesting article.

“For every new plane you put up into the sky there are about 20,000 problems you need to solve, and for a long time we used to say Boeing’s core competency was piling people and money on top of a problem until they crushed it,” says Stan Sorscher, a longtime Boeing physicist and former officer of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), the labor union representing Boeing engineers. But those people are gone.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 113 points 7 months ago

Plot twist: the beacon was the only thing keeping the flesh-eating cave bears dormant.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 140 points 8 months ago

Ask for the gun and the bullets.

Before I'm sent back, shoot the time travel master (nerd!) in the head. Shoot their attendants, too (nerds! nerds!).

Grab all the other options, and load them in the time travel car. VERY IMPORTANT: the Moog will be playing the Knight Rider Theme until further notice.

Time travel back to the Vatican, Apostolic Palace. Driving the motorcycle up to The Pope, I do a jump that involves me turning upside-down OVER the Pope, during which I look down, shove the LSD down the Pope's throat, and then do an Akira-slide right in front of him.

In fluent Latin, I explain to the Pope that I am a messenger from God who has been sent to deliver a Mighty Revelation. For the next several hours I use all the other options I brought back to astound and amuse The Pope during the LSD trip. During this phase of the experience, the Moog will be playing selections from Pink Floyd, focusing on music from Dark Side and before. The key message of The Revelation is that I am an agent of God to be protected and revered.

After the Pope comes down, I scope out the Vatican's Cardinals. (The Moog will be playing Guile's Theme during this phase.) The spices are covertly swapped for hashish and opiates, which I use along with the Warheads candy to bring mini-Revelations to those Cardinals who seem friendly. Those Cardinals who seem hostile to me, are fed bits of the Uranium. I am declared a Cardinal. When the time is right, The Pope is also fed bits of Uranium.

After the Pope dies, a conclave is convened in the Sistine Chapel to select the next Pope. The Moog will be playing Objection from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2001) during this phase. As a Cardinal, I attend, and will use the motorcycle to pop wheelies and do donuts until I am elected.

When I first appear on the Papal balcony, to be revered for the rest of my life as an infallible being whose words must be obeyed without hesitation, the Moog will be playing the instrumental version of We are Number One from Lazy Town, and I will be doing an appropriate dance.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 134 points 9 months ago

This announcement is full of weasely language.

"We understand that you may have concerns about your digital copies from Funimation."

The problem is your concerns. We are being understanding about your problem.

"Please note that Crunchyroll does not currently support Funimation Digital copies, which means that access to previously available digital copies will not be supported."

Crunchyroll does not support this, which means that it will not be supported. Your role here is to note this.

"We appreciate your understanding..."

We are being appreciative. Your are being understanding. That's the way it is, got it?

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