Lol, he even has a sleeve on one

It's riffing on the common phrase "to have the time", meaning to know what the time is. Specifically, it is highlighting a potential conflation of the verb "to have" as meaning "to possess or own" rather than "to know" - or perhaps our understanding of time as both an abstract concept and a concrete description of the position of the earth's surface as it rotates relative to the sun. In this imaginary scenerio, the ambiguity inherent in the language is represented by a small group of dodos who wish to know who has the time, while being in awe of the implications of such ownership. Thus, an irreverent comic sketch. I hope this helps.

Contrast?

Guilt.

Research fund money.

It's a sliding scale.

Looney tunes needs live ones to train its new AI character

You're unable to think of a reason other than for our own gluttony...? It would be super fucked up to bring them back just for the reason to eat them. Seriously, that's some deeply disturbing horror shit. And somehow that's the only thing you can imagine?

Nah, they'd still be extinct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon#Hunting

After being opened up to the railroads, the town of Plattsburgh, New York, is estimated to have shipped 1.8 million pigeons to larger cities in 1851 alone at a price of 31 to 56 cents a dozen. By the late 19th century, the trade of passenger pigeons had become commercialized

Even if adjusted for inflation, 31 cents a dozen doesn't sound like a lot, but then market saturation happened and your prediction came to pass:

The price of a barrel full of pigeons dropped to below fifty cents, due to overstocked markets. Passenger pigeons were instead kept alive so their meat would be fresh when the birds were killed, and sold once their market value had increased again. Thousands of birds were kept in large pens, though the bad conditions led many to die from lack of food and water, and by fretting (gnawing) themselves; many rotted away before they could be sold.

Those who don't learn from the past are something something

The best thing for a species survival in this world is for it to taste good to us.

Plant, animal, fungi, whatever

I have big feelings about this.

Yes, one of those

I don't bloody— AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA^

The creator is a big fan of absurdism from North America, and he does lots of various creative projects. Other than that I couldn't say.

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