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I appreciated the convergence of these two cartoons in my feed today.<\/p>\n

$\"Kim$ <\/p>\n

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The first<\/a>\u00a0came to my attention via Ted Herrlich<\/a>. The second is by David Hayward<\/a>, who also made a similar point in an earlier cartoon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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