RoundSparrow @ SJW

I think the joke is how a pest exterminator is being called on an extinct species. Play on the mutual concept of extinction.

It’s already like that here, friend.

Lemmy didn’t take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.

Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.

Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven’t been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.

Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.

my first impression is it’s a play on unity, that they are already going, but he is saying start whenever he wants to? Still, I can’t really tell if they are in motion already… and he is at the front. So I’m confused.

EDIT: 5 months ago on Reddit, someone gave a better answer when I went looking on Google Search: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/124clhy/can_anyone_explain_this_gary_larson_cartoon/

No idea if this story is true: https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-origin-of-the-hotel-pillow-chocolate-3301205

I’ve stayed at chain business hotels that did it in the 1990’s