this is the first thing that came to my mind too….
there is some medicinal value to it, but usually not what they claim it to be, and usually not in the form that it’s in….

i feel like they should use camouflage colors instead of white

yeah, and that’s not a parody.

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that’s not attribution.

Tell me you don’t know xkcd without saying you don’t know xkcd.

tell me you’re completely uncreative without telling me you’re completely uncreative.

the rest of what i said stands… but whooooa you “got me” i didn’t read the license on xkcd

if they make it almost exactly the same and “credit” it in the smallest font possible and didn’t get permission from the original author… i would say that’s definitely a ripoff

i would bet that the weighted guns don’t fire

of course

what? no it doesn’t, and yeah people need some sort of transportation and the city will have limited space to accommodate all of those.
so in that sense: zero sum.

zero sum in that there is limited amount of space… so space from something but be subtracted in order to add it to the space of something else….
it’s not a metaphor, it’s about the total being the same. it’s mathematical and squarely fits the definition of zero sum.