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Existential Comics

@existentialcomics.com
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A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 31/08/2026
AI executives are saying we are approaching the singularity, but AI still can not solve the "dumbest boy alive" problem, i.e. knowing that Saturday is next to Sunday, i.e. the dumbest argument in the history of the internet as outlined by @jonbois.bsky.social So yeah I think we are safe for now.
Yes — for most people, a full-body workout every other day is perfectly safe and can be an effective schedule.

That works out to roughly 3–4 workouts per week, for example:

Sunday — Full body
Tuesday — Full body
Thursday — Full body
Saturday — Full body
Sunday — repeat

The ~48 hours between sessions generally gives your muscles enough time to recover, provided the workouts aren't excessively demanding.Yes. A 4-day-per-week full-body workout on an every-other-day schedule is generally fine, assuming you're recovering well.

Your schedule of Sunday → Tuesday → Thursday → Saturday gives you about 48 hours between workouts, which is a reasonable recovery period for most people.

The main caveat is that the amount and intensity of work matters more than the calendar. If you're consistently getting stronger, not excessively sore, and feeling recovered by the next session, there's no inherent problem with doing full-body workouts 4 days a week.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 24/07/2026
The core of existential despair is contained within the fact that we only get to live once. Life comes and goes, each minute never to return. And the worst part is, none of our life gets to be lived in the Sombrero Galaxy.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 15/07/2026
The actual most remarkable thing about the "Hand of God" goal is that Maradona is clearly like two feet shorter than the English goalie and is still out jumping him by a foot. Like, my dude, hand or no hand how is that possible.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 01/07/2026
Ecuador's coach looks like he's from a 90s comedy where Ben Stiller or whoever inadvertently finds themselves coaching a World Cup team.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 09/06/2026
big things happening in the NFL
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 31/05/2026
Not gonna lie I was not expecting them to have a 1500 page book of the works of Aristotle at the Atlanta airport.
The basic works of Aristotle.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 14/05/2026
Ah yes, because if there is one thing humans hate doing, it is choosing who they want to fuck.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 18/04/2026
Look, I'll be the first to admit I'm no marketing wiz, but I feel like drinking and driving just aren't a natural pairing for cross promotion. I've got a gut feeling on that one.
Sign says: save more at the pump, earn fuel points on alcoholic beverages.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/04/2026
I googled how to tell if something is a spider bite and came across this fantastic diagnostic criteria. I've created an illustrated guide in case anyone else needs help.
Spider bite symptoms can sometimes look similar to injuries caused by other biting insects or other skin trauma. But the mark on your skin could be a spider bite if:

    You see a spider on you

    You’ve been in an environment where spiders like to hang out"doctor is it a spider bite?"
Doctor: "it could be" (there is a huge fuckin' spider still on his arm flipping off the doctor.)
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 24/03/2026
Will someone tell this fucking idiot that they already finished making Uber? The app is done my dude. It works. You made $10 billion dollars last year. Time to stop sowing and start reaping, and maybe let your employees take a vacation, or hug their child on the weekend or something once in a while.
Uber CEO says his ‘really demanding’ work culture includes expecting employees to answer his emails over the weekend: ‘Don’t come here if you want to coast
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 18/03/2026
AI actually is causing a lot of unemployment in tech. Not because it has been able to successfully replace anyone's job, but because the big tech companies are all gambling so much on becoming trillionaires that they have to throw tens of thousands of workers into unemployment to pay for it.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 14/03/2026
Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?
Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 11/03/2026
If Iran blows up Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos I promise you here and now that I WILL convert to Islam and join the Butlerian Jihad.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/03/2026
"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we forced employees to pretend to be polite."
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/03/2026
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.
A computer can never be held accountable.

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 20/02/2026
if i were a boxer i would simply spray insulation foam inside my skull, rendering me IMMUNE to all knockouts, and easily become world champion of the world
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 17/02/2026
Vodka Drunkenski, the Soviet boxer in Nintendo's 1984 arcade game "Super Punch-Out!!" was renamed to "Soda Popinski" for the NES release of "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" in 1987, in what many have described as the first instance of "political correctness gone mad".
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 08/02/2026
Remembering the biggest blowout in Superbowl history, when Robert Mueller and the Rule of Law got dismantled by the unhinged mob 54-3 in Superbowl LI.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 24/01/2026
Sit them down and make them watch. Unironic de-nazification of the United States.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 17/01/2026
Found it lol. First of all, "singing in the church" and "admitting mistakes" are NOT manly, so jot that down. "Walk towards people" and "make a decision" are a little mysterious, and no where does he mention punching things??
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 13/01/2026
So much respect for the NFL players that wear those dork ass extra pads on their helmets. Imagine being brave enough to look that stupid just because you "want your brain to still work into your 50s."
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/01/2026
Had to put down my cat last night, but it gives me solace that he died doing what he loves (trying to bite the vet). I do not wish for him to rest in peace, for peace was not in his heart so long as there was injustice (the aforementioned vet, dogs existing, etc) May he battle forever in Valhalla.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 31/12/2025
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 24/12/2025
oh shit you guys oh no
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 20/12/2025
The solution the "male loneliness epidemic" for all the lonely men to get huskies. You cannot be lonely with a husky howling at you because he wants to go for a walk. That's just solid facts and logic.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/12/2025
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 29/11/2025
Fun historical fact: Richard the Lionheart was French and Gay. No joke here, actually, he literally was. He didn't even speak English and only went to England like once, because he was too busy in France having gay sex with French kings.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 15/11/2025
My most conservative opinion? That we should go back to the old name for the common kestrel.
A windfucker, or common kestrel, in flight. 

Etymology

The term is a compound of wind + fucker.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 11/11/2025
Meanwhile, on twitter, did you know that Mary Shelley never could have written Frankenstein (which is about magnets as you know) because her boyfriend was really into magnets? In fact, when you think about it, that's why women in general don't write great literature (chicks aren't into magnets).
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 04/11/2025
New York City, the greatest metropolis in the world, today.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 08/10/2025
The fact that everyone totally ignores C3PO when he says stuff like this makes a lot more sense if you think of him as a ChatGPT type computer who just says plausible sounding sentences without any real analysis behind them.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 18/09/2025
Yes that's right. If you don't also follow me on Mastodon you will be missing out on absolute top shelf linux jokes.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 09/09/2025
Honestly it does kind of suck for everyone whose Wikipedia page doesn't include this.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 02/09/2025
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" indeed.
Suffragette's holding a sign "Women Demand the vote this session"Wikipedia page for Suffragette bombing and arson campaign.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 01/09/2025
The debate is still raging as to whether or not those ninjas made it out alive. Unfortunately we may never know.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 01/09/2025
I've discovered there is a wiki called "List of Deaths" that documents deaths in media, and someone has gone through all my comics and meticulously recorded everyone who died and put it on there. Why...I do not know. listofdeaths.fandom.com/wiki/Existen...
Hegel and the March of History

    None

Escape from Plato's Cave

    Three Unnamed Male Ninjas - Beaten to death by Plato using his karate moves. (Debatable)
    Unnamed Robot - Karate-kicked in the head by Plato.
    Unnamed Robot - Shot to death by Plato with a gun.
    Unnamed Male Ninja - Shot in the chest by Plato with a rifle.
    Unnamed Male Ninja - Shot by Plato with a rifle.
        Total - 7

Socrates 101

    None
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 30/08/2025
Old timey boxing was so funny. For example, the longest boxing match took place in 1893. It was 7 hours and 19 minutes. 110 three minute rounds. In round 108 the ref was like "you's guys got 2 rounds to finish this", but neither could even raise their arms and he called it a no contest. Like...why?
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 27/08/2025
Imagine getting called up for Jury Duty, having to take time off work or get a babysitter or whatever. And then it's just the State wanting to imprison a guy over a turkey sandwich.
Grand jury declines to indict man who threw a sandwich at federal officer in D.C.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 19/08/2025
When Boudica's daughters were raped by Roman officials in AD 61, she gathered the Britains and burned London in such a fiery inferno that a layer of ash can be found still beneath London, known by archeologists as the "Boudican Destruction Horizon". In 1902 London erected a statue in her honor.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 11/08/2025
The legendary debate on the bodybuilding dot com forums on how many days there are in a week has finally been solved, all thanks to the magnificent power of AI.
Breifly, Is it okay to do a full body workout every other day?
ChatGPT said:

Yes — for most people, a full-body workout every other day is safe and effective, as it allows roughly 48 hours for muscle recovery.
You said:
Cool, so my four days a week is enough recover time? Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday?
ChatGPT said:

Yes — that schedule gives you 1–2 days between sessions, which is plenty of recovery time for most people doing full-body workouts.
You said:
To reiterate, working out 4 days a week (every other day) always gives one day break needed for a full body workout?
ChatGPT said:

Yes — a 4-day every-other-day schedule always gives at least one full rest day between sessions, which is generally enough recovery time for full-body training.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 26/07/2025
I think about the egg monopoly tweet like once a week. All time classic of the genre as far as I'm concerned.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 18/06/2025
This is legit one of the crop circles from the 90s that people thought must be aliens. I mean, come on guys.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 17/06/2025
Remember that more or less the reason the people in charge want to kill everyone in Iran is because they won't let us open McDonald's and KFC in their country. In fact, the maps of locations are a pretty good shortcut to geopolitics. Iran and Russia even have the audacity of having kicked them out.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 06/06/2025
So funny how he thinks a party explicitly by and for billionaires would be for the "middle 80%". Especially when Luigi had more cross party support than any recent politician.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 02/06/2025
My dog woke me up at like 5 am crying out dramatically from an apparent nightmare. So I am asking everyone to please take some time out of your busy day to wish for only good dreams for this very good boy.
It is a beautiful dog
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 28/05/2025
Not FREE BEER! Please Mr. Capitalist, I just want to work 16 honest hours a day in a factory.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 28/05/2025
Anti-Georgist propaganda from 1886 that makes Georgism look like the coolest thing ever.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 07/05/2025
Remember that according to the philosophical tenets of utilitarianiam, you MUST at ALL TIMES take your dog to the park.
My dog at the park
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 07/04/2025
Early Modern Brainstorming - existentialcomics.com/comic/597
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 05/04/2025
This is so funny. If they were forced to do this Switch 2 would cost like $1200. We know this empirically because Microsoft set up a factory in Brazil to avoid tariffs, and Xbox was $1000 (which to be fair was cheaper than the $1800 PlayStations and the "we don't even want to bother" Nintendos.
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