This is going to be a two-comic week, so thank you as always for coming back here for updates, and I will see everyone Monday.
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Comic is entering a short hiatus, no more than a week, due to my stylus disappearing again. Comics will resume either when I find it, or the replacement/backup comes in the mail.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Interesting. People that live in a freshwater lake know about salt.
Freshwater? Lake Michigan is actually a saltwater sea. Besides, they look like they’re living in a city on land, to me.
One quick google later: I did not realize the salt content of the Great Lakes was so low they are indeed considered to be freshwater.
That said, the other point still stands that these people are in fact not living in the water at all.
More referencing the Sarnothi culture, which is at the bottom of the freshwater lake, than where they are currently at.
(About the Great lakes in North America: They hold about 90% of the freshwater in the United States and approximately 20% of the world’s freshwater supply. Forty million residents of the United States and Canada depend on this system for clean drinking water.)
Also they lakes are above sea level, and continuously fed and drained, which is why they don’t get salty. If they didn’t have the constant water change, they would probably get salty from buildup.
I’ve theorized that the Sarnothi are amphibious because they have spent time out of water in the course of their normal evolutionary past – why can they live out of water, at all, if not because they did so regularly at some point in recent developmental history. Thinking of fish – because Sarnothi are not mammals – we have mudfish who developed the ability to breathe out of the water because their waterbodies become mud for part of the year. It begs the question: What happened in the Sarnothi last 10,000 years that adapted them for the ability to speak, see, and breathe out of water?
I’d be devistated if I were selkie, to learn my mother tongue and my culture, the only things that were truly mine after being abandoned, were only an insignificant part of a greater whole.
Oh no Selkie, you’ll have to take remedial classes.
More school!
Jellied eel droplets? Tell me more, as I stir the laverbread in some bacon fat…
Poor Selkie! She may already have been self-conscious about the fact that her English has some flaws and may have told herself it was because her first language was tensei and now it turns out her tensei is flawed. Ouch!
RL possibly good news for you: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187545921/student-loan-forgiveness-save-repayment
Congratulations , your bad decision is now being financed by your garbage man, your mail man, and the cashier at Kroger.
“forgiveness” means “someone else is going to pay for it.” In this case, the taxpayers (me.)
They aren’t taking the debt away. They’re making someone else pay for it.
I’m surprised it hadn’t already happened before this.
It did, when the other sarnothi first came to Selkies school and she tried to translate one of their conversations for her dad. She struggled with the word uncle I think?
Is it bad if I read the picture in the voice from the Big Bill Hell’s ad?
I am very pleased to see Te Fahn seems so shy at school but sarcastic and witty at home.
OMG your thieves are too darn cute, instant forgiveness for their shenanigans with your stylus.
Six cats and a dog here… Four styluses, three bluetooth headsets, and enough flash drives to make investing in a NAS the cheaper option. I feel your pain… And they are cute! 🙂
Some SF writer—can’t remember just who, one of the Futurians—had a cat that stole pencils. One day he moved the bed and found a pencil mine.
Treasure trove of pencils XD