But that inevitably leads to the next question: How did he expect to make this joke in 1949? He should have known that Jimi Hendrix hadn’t even started playing guitar by then.

How did he expect that to work, when it doesn’t even have an amp?

Also, strange to bring up name order at all when it has nothing to do with the joke they presented.

It makes me wonder if they badly retold a joke they heard where the original punchline was that his name was Mario Itsumi.

In Japan, Itsumi is actually a common name, either as a family name or as a girl’s given name.

I didn’t get the joke until it was explained, but I can explain this much.

In the fall, for daylight savings, you set the clock one hour back. Basically, you get an extra hour that is inserted into the night.

In leap years, you get an extra day, so the joke is that this extra day is inserted into the night.

The analogy doesn’t account for the spring part of daylight savings.

It seems like a better joke for a child going to school, then. An adult would have already experienced many leap years.

Spoiler for the movie Gravity:

In Gravity, George Clooney’s character wasn’t her husband and it was he who drifted away. But other than that, it’s a pretty common interpretation that this is the same thing that happened to Sandra Bullock’s character. That she died and the ending on Earth was her already being dead. This comic is basically a summary of the movie.

I forget where I heard it from, but somebody said that it’s strange how we believe that if we go back in time and make a small change, it will have a huge effect on the future, but we also believe that making small changes today won’t make any difference in the future.

If he spawned a new time line then he wouldn’t have to disappear.

If he didn’t exist, then he wouldn’t be able to tell himself anything, which violates causality.

The only thing you can say to your younger self is the same thing that was previously said to your younger self by your older self. Although then you’d have the issue of where did the information come from.

I believe the idea is that, because his reaction to a pumpkin pleading for help was to stab it to death, that either he discovered something about himself and couldn’t handle it, or that he was exposed to be a crazy killer type.

Nothing says there has to be a higher power at each level.

Sounds like you’re just about ready to join /c/atheism

“Oh my God!” - God

I think God is, by definition, an atheist, though, since God must not believe in a higher power.

My first project out of college was canceled after a year of hard work. Nothing to do with me or my team. Just the company decided not to do it anymore.

I’ve found that the solution is just not to think about these sorts of things.

The day-to-day work is often rewarding enough, and you’re getting paid because somebody wants you to do it. Make sure that you raise your concerns occasionally, but the rest of the time, just enjoy the daily grind. If you let this stuff bother you, you’ll burn out.

Ah, yes. Nothing better characterizes “internet disagreements” than two well-informed people who politely disagree with each other while providing all of the necessary background information.

She clearly did it wrong. She’s not Princess Toadkiss. She’s Princess Toadstool. She should have had the toad sit on her face.

That’s a good point. If you just wait a while, then the jack-o-lantern will also become very spooky.

If anything, they feel more confident, unencumbered by experience or the truth.