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xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance

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A lot of the highway department's budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That truck tipping over could wipe out every lifeform on the planet with nut allergies.

The sheer mass of Skippy would become a fully functional ecological system of its own before cleanup was finished.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, it has the potential to wipe out all life even without nut allergies. I for one have an allergy to things falling from the sky at c fractional speeds.

Take a Claritin, you'll get over it