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Received — 13 July 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Hatchery 11 July 2024 at 19:00

Hatchery

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11 July 2024 at 19:00

Anadromous fish are more vulnerable in rivers, since the lack of salt means you can quickly crack passwords using rainbow trout tables.

Received — 10 July 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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A Crossword Puzzle 9 July 2024 at 19:00

A Crossword Puzzle

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9 July 2024 at 19:00

Hint: If you ever encounter this puzzle in a crossword app, just [term for someone with a competitive and high-achieving personality].

Received — 9 July 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Number Line Branch 7 July 2024 at 19:00

Number Line Branch

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7 July 2024 at 19:00

Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

Received — 6 July 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Pole Vault 4 July 2024 at 19:00

Pole Vault

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4 July 2024 at 19:00

Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with javelin.

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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"

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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.