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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

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  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

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  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

DDT is an extreme way to get rid of mosquitos. Seal up the gaps in your window screens. Keep the bedroom door closed. It's working for me during mosquito season on the subtropical island where I live.

I realize I'm giving advice to a comic about a banned chemical.

[–] IMongoose 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably more for bed bugs.

[–] massacre 2 points 1 month ago

Bedbugs have evolved resistance to DDT.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Citronella candles do an all right job too if you don't mind the smell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And if you do mind the smell, you might actually be a mosquito

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 month ago

I have known individuals who, while I cannot prove it, are probably not mosquitos but who also hate the smell of citronella.

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

I mean it's not wrong considering boomers somewhere probably have a lifetime supply of banned chemicals

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

DDT is what killed off Malaria in Europe (and probably in most of the US too, but I don't know as much about that).
It saved a hundred thousand times more lives than it may have cost.

[–] shalafi 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep, same in America. 10-seconds after we wiped out malaria we told the rest of the world to get fucked. "Oh, you can produce DDT, but we won't trade with you if you do."

A decade-long push and we could have eradicated malaria, then banned it. We got ours, fuck the rest of you. Now it's a brown people problem, just as intended.

That foul bitch, Rachael Carlson, and her cute little book Silent Spring, killed far more humans than Hitler and Stalin combined ever dreamed about.

[–] ThePantser 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh think more along the lines of it causing the genocide of bees. Without bees for our food supply, ddt is gonna cost way more lives than it saved.

[–] shalafi 2 points 1 month ago

Bees aren't the only pollinators, by a long shot. And do you have some evidence that DDT was wiping them out in the first place? You A-OK with the pesticides were using now, that are actually killing off honey bees?

LOL, no, you don't. Because Varroa mites, introduced in the 90s, long after DDT, are what are killing our honey bees.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 16 points 1 month ago

You down with DDT?

Yeah you know me.

- Naughty to Nature

[–] Rhynoplaz 9 points 1 month ago

John Doe has a crippling fear of bald eagles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] Thcdenton 2 points 1 month ago