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  • The Ultimate panel of the current penultimate Penny Arcade comic, as of the writing of this comic, has your third way answer.

    Edit 3: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/11/06/musical-scares that is the comic in question.

    Edit: etymologists help me out. Why is it that Prime refers to first in all cases, except mathematics, and ultimate refers to the last thing, except for sometimes in mathematics?

    And yes, I did have this thought because I started thinking about what the antithesis of Optimus Prime (First Best) would be, and was coming up with Pessimus Ultimate (Last Worst.)

    Did mathematics use Greek as a base rather than Latin or something?

    Edit 2: just realized that a prime number might be called that because it’s the first number that is only divisible by itself on an infinite timeline, but that still doesn’t help with ultimate, as some of the time that’s just a best guess.

    Edit 4: wait, does that mean that there’s a possibility that Pessimus Ultimate actually did/does exist? Would they make Megatron look competent or useless?


  • NAFTA was a Reagan project. It was just signed by Clinton who felt it was better to shove what limited worker protections he could into it, rather than torpedo 15+ years of diplomacy just because it was started by the other side, and was objectively a shitty deal for the workers everywhere.

    Not saying that Dems are innocent, just that there are frequently times they get the blame for Repugnicunt fuckery.

    Just like that poison pill they shoved into the Big Bullshit Bill that’s gonna royally screw working class people all over That’s gonna get blamed on the blue wave, despite the fact that most of the people that voted for it got replaced and weren’t Democrats.










  • I hear what you are saying, but legally that isn’t how it works. The previous commenter is correct, legally speaking in the US. A pardon is absolutely an admission of guilt.

    There are ways around this. You can submit an Alford Plea at your original trial, which again would still indicate guilt under the law, but is a way that a defendant can legally enter into the record that they are “innocent of the charges, but due to circumstances beyond their control, one will submit to the punishment.”

    IANYL. I don’t know how this would actually play out inside the bureaucracy.