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[#] Mon May 13 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Driving PSA

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

https://xkcd.com/2932/

[#] Wed May 15 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Elementary Physics Paths

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==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

https://xkcd.com/2933/

[#] Thu May 16 2024 04:58:46 UTC from TheColourOfFear

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Ooh, the feed shows alt text now?

[#] Fri May 17 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Bloom Filter

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Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

https://xkcd.com/2934/

[#] Mon May 20 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Ocean Loop

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

https://xkcd.com/2935/

[#] Wed May 22 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Exponential Growth

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

https://xkcd.com/2936/

[#] Thu May 23 2024 13:19:19 UTC from TheColourOfFear

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Or it, doesn't again?
Ah well, 1 alt is better than none alt


[#] Fri May 24 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Room Code

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2937/

[#] Mon May 27 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Local Group

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

https://xkcd.com/2938/

[#] Wed May 29 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Complexity Analysis

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

https://xkcd.com/2939/

[#] Fri May 31 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Modes of Transportation

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2940/

[#] Mon Jun 03 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Cell Organelles

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

https://xkcd.com/2941/

[#] Wed Jun 05 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Fluid Speech

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2942/

[#] Fri Jun 07 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Unsolved Chemistry Problems

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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'.

https://xkcd.com/2943/

[#] Mon Jun 10 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Magnet Fishing

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

https://xkcd.com/2944/

[#] Wed Jun 12 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Broken Model

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

https://xkcd.com/2945/

[#] Fri Jun 14 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: 1.2 Kilofives

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

https://xkcd.com/2946/

[#] Mon Jun 17 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Pascal's Wager Triangle

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2947/

[#] Wed Jun 19 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Electric vs Gas

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

https://xkcd.com/2948/

[#] Fri Jun 21 2024 04:00:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Network Configuration

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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.

https://xkcd.com/2949/

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