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Interesting. It would appear that this artist, in order to manga-fy their work, flips it horizontally before adding, or perhaps editing, the speech bubbles and other text.

The evidence being that the Earth in the sandwich is flipped horizontally.

I mean, I suppose Mimi’s Earth just looks like that, but their entire reality would have to be flipped for it to be anything like our Earth.

Also, fun fact: The largest thing that has been the content of a sandwich is indeed the Earth itself. Some wags in Spain and New Zealand arranged to put a slice of bread on the ground at antipodal points at the same time. The bread was far too small and the contents huge, but we generally don’t declassify things from being a sandwich if the contents hang outside the bread.

As long as people have cheaply available high-calorie, great tasting food, enormous portions and free will, you will not solve the obesity crisis.

To change any of those, you’ll have to be incredibly patient and do it by tiny, tiny increments or else you’ll create a revolt somewhere in society.

The metaphor’s not that deep. Sometimes people cause actual harm. Sometimes they’re “only” what we colourfully name after the part of the anatomy that’s largely responsible for excrement.

People might disagree on where a particular artist falls, but either way, their work is tainted by it.

An item covered in the blood of the innocent is still an item covered in the blood of the innocent even if the person who smeared the blood of the innocent all over it is now dead.

Even if you substitute the largely victimless “excrement” for “the blood of the innocent”, many, if not most, people are still going to find the stench and the filth impossible to ignore.

You can attempt to reclaim, repurpose, wash or paint over or whatever you like to diminish the effects, but it’ll still be there, lurking, giving off unpleasantness on a hot day, whatever that means in terms of the metaphor. Heated discussion, when people learn about the originator, perhaps.

Probably the time I used a cash machine in a weird place in my home town to draw out the maximum I could for Christmas spending and all I got from it was the receipt saying the money had gone from my account.

The place was weird because, although it was in a very public square, it was kind of high off the ground, like it had been installed for people over 6ft tall. I am not that tall. The novelty appealed to me anyway. Mistake.

I was so ashamed, I never reported it. I didn’t think I’d be believed.

If you want actual things, I own a pre-smartphone electronic personal organiser that I used about five times and about a dozen calculators from when I got really into them for some reason. And at least one of those was “parts only” that I completely missed in the description.

But if I could undo anything, I’d rather have that cash machine money back.

Seriously, at one employer I was once asked to look through someone’s browser history on the computer they’d left unlocked during their lunch break.

It could really be as simple as that if you leave your computer unattended and insecure.

(As it turned out, either they were really good at covering their tracks or they just did a bit of random browsing. Nothing I didn’t do myself, so I said there was nothing really to worry about there.

They later got canned for underperforming, but their browsing habits weren’t really a point against them.)

TL;DR It’s copyright.

Apparently the archive’s crawlers have been able to access material that is paywalled in a regular browser and that’s got copyright holders’ panties in a bunch.

Corporations only have to be motivated by profit due to shareholders. There is no law requiring corporations to put profits first.

The CEO’s yacht fund isn’t a law either, but sure as heck the sort of person who wants a yacht tends to end up in that sort of position.

Whenever I’ve seen a fox it’s always been through a window or, vaguely, possibly, at a significant distance.

Memories are blurry and I’ve been in vehicles and houses in the same places I’ve seen foxes. It’s possible I was outside on foot for at least one of those.

On the other hand, I could bend “wild” the other way and think about the handful of scary dog encounters I’ve had. Never been near enough to a fox to give it the remotest reason to attack. Those dogs were a different matter.

In an ideal world, she’d win every penny and the money would come out of the assets of each and every person involved in her arrest, including their immediate superiors so that lessons would be learned.

She lost her assets through no fault of her own. Seems only fair that they should lose theirs, if not worse, because they actually did something wrong.