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The artist has had a string of comics where the joke is pretty much just harassment. It worked out here because of the absurdity:

But mostly it's just been haha harassment:

So this is an iteration on that joke, where the humor is that it's the girl doing the harassment because it inverts expectations or something. TBH I think this artist is the weakest of the C&H artists and one of the reasons I've thought about switching to posting old comics randomly from across all the history instead of sequentially.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

This is one of my personal favorites based mostly on one character's facial expression. The simple "gag" is that Indians and horses are meeting for the first time and handshakes are going all around. But it's the horse gesturing toward the scenery that I felt "made" this cartoon. I can't express it, but there's something captured there that I just like. If I had to draw it over again, the other characters could be drawn a myriad of ways—but I don't think I could ever replicate that one horse's expression.

Also, interesting that they edited it to change the width so much.

To be fair, Python is just glue for code written in lower level languages when it comes to AI

The Vitamin String Quartet does a lot of instrumental covers of heavy music.

You can also try searching streaming services for phrases like " and chill" or "lofi "

For any argument of this nature, you can usually counter it with "ok, you first", like when policymakers talk about drug testing welfare recipients or the like. Let's see people like Trump or Musk livestream themselves 24/7 before pushing this on people with less social power.

At any rate, to answer the question, all of the Sovereign Citizen stuff posted over in !insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world has been super fascinating. Somehow, the government is all-powerful and hostile, but also if you say a few magic incantations they'll throw up their hands let you do whatever you want.

Since the transcriber just wrote "(Math equations on chalkboards)", I figured I'd try transcribing with unicode. This was the best I was able to do. Not quite as good as LaTeX

Left chalkboard

√613 x/y²
x̅-̅9̅5̅
⦵ 4172
π = √674J
(3x⊖²)
⁄
x² − y⁴²

Right chalkboard

x-y
⁄
√x²
61.7

Is it OK in this community to link to very relevant short stories already written? I don't have anything to contribute myself, but the prompt is very close to https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi%27s_Goatman_Story

We know from Scorpions that Love is Blind

Seems like they're not blind though, just don't have great eyes:

Even with all those eyes, scorpions can't see very well! Yet the sensitivity of their eyes is among the highest in all arthropods and dependent on the kinds of habitats in which they live. In general terms, however, their eyes mostly tell movement and light from dark.

Interestingly, they might use their bodies as eyes:

Scorpions don’t need to use their eyes to get a full picture of their surroundings: their body seems to function as a basic eye under ultraviolet light.

To test the idea that the waxy cuticle covering a scorpion’s body can detect light, Doug Gaffin of the University of Oklahoma in Norman exposed 40 of the arachnids to visible or UV light. He studied their behaviour both with and without “eye-blocks” – pieces of foil placed over their eyes to act like opaque glasses.

Wearing their shades, the scorpions did not move around much when illuminated by green light. But under UV light they scuttled around freely with or without the glasses, suggesting they did not rely on their eyes to see. The larva of the fruit fly is thought to be the only other creature whose body can detect light.

Carl Kloock at California State University in Bakersfield says the idea complements his own work. He found that the ability of scorpions’ cuticles to fluoresce in UV light affects their behaviour at night, since moonlight contains a modest amount of UV.

It might also be a reference to Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, but that only has one dancer. My guess is generic "Bees are known to dance" + "What if the beekeepers danced?", or maybe a little bit of all of the above.

Your second link says "They are still sold, and the model has gone surprisingly unchanged for the past 40 years.", but the link is dead 😄

Searching online shows a few books with that title but none of the toys, so probably not?

you'll like today's comic: https://discuss.online/post/19967402

Just about, I wrote up a strip-by-strip guide here which should answer your question:

https://discuss.online/post/19324945