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Bracket Symbols 2 July 2024 at 19:00

Bracket Symbols

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2 July 2024 at 19:00

’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"

Received — 2 July 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Alien Theories 30 June 2024 at 19:00

Alien Theories

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30 June 2024 at 19:00

They originally came here to try to investigate our chemtrail technology, and got increasingly frustrated when all their samples turned out to just be water ice with trace amounts of jet exhaust.

Received — 29 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Routine Maintenance 27 June 2024 at 19:00

Routine Maintenance

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27 June 2024 at 19:00

The worst was the time they accidentally held the can upside down and froze all the Earth's magma chambers solid.

Received — 27 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas 25 June 2024 at 19:00

Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas

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25 June 2024 at 19:00

Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.

Received — 25 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Situation 23 June 2024 at 19:00

Situation

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23 June 2024 at 19:00

We're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.

Received — 22 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Network Configuration 20 June 2024 at 19:00

Network Configuration

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20 June 2024 at 19:00

If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

Received — 19 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Electric vs Gas 18 June 2024 at 19:00

Electric vs Gas

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18 June 2024 at 19:00

An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

Received — 18 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Pascal's Wager Triangle 16 June 2024 at 19:00

Pascal's Wager Triangle

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16 June 2024 at 19:00

In contrast to Pascal's Wager Triangle, Pascal's Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.

Received — 15 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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1.2 Kilofives 13 June 2024 at 19:00

1.2 Kilofives

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13 June 2024 at 19:00

'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'

Received — 13 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Broken Model 11 June 2024 at 19:00

Broken Model

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11 June 2024 at 19:00

In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

Received — 10 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Magnet Fishing 9 June 2024 at 19:00

Magnet Fishing

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9 June 2024 at 19:00

The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

Received — 8 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Unsolved Chemistry Problems 6 June 2024 at 19:00

Unsolved Chemistry Problems

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6 June 2024 at 19:00

I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

Received — 6 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Fluid Speech 4 June 2024 at 19:00

Fluid Speech

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4 June 2024 at 19:00

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

Received — 4 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Cell Organelles 2 June 2024 at 19:00

Cell Organelles

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2 June 2024 at 19:00

It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

Received — 1 June 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Modes of Transportation 30 May 2024 at 19:00

Modes of Transportation

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30 May 2024 at 19:00

My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.

Received — 30 May 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Complexity Analysis 28 May 2024 at 19:00

Complexity Analysis

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28 May 2024 at 19:00

PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

Received — 28 May 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Local Group 26 May 2024 at 19:00

Local Group

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26 May 2024 at 19:00

Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

Received — 25 May 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Room Code 23 May 2024 at 19:00

Room Code

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23 May 2024 at 19:00

Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.

Received — 22 May 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Exponential Growth 21 May 2024 at 19:00

Exponential Growth

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21 May 2024 at 19:00

Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

Received — 21 May 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Ocean Loop 19 May 2024 at 19:00

Ocean Loop

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19 May 2024 at 19:00

I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.