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alt text: According to Google, "the time for Beeland" is apparently whenever you're looking for delicious honey in Spillimacheen, British Columbia or a hexagonal chalet in the Savinja valley in Slovenia.

(https://xkcd.com/2231)

alt text: Some works didn't make the cut; in "Ecks vs. Sever" vs. the passage of time, the latter seems to have won pretty decisively.

(https://xkcd.com/2230)

alt text: We're like 10+ movies in and the focus has been almost entirely on the WARS half.

(https://xkcd.com/2229)

alt text: More likely: Click on all the pictures of people who appear disloyal to [name of company or government]

(https://xkcd.com/2228)

alt text: For some reason the water in my pool is green and there's a weird film on the surface #nofilter

(https://xkcd.com/2227)

alt text: These signals seem to be pre-star-formation but post-Malone.

(https://xkcd.com/2226)

alt text: The weirdest quirk of the Borda count is that Jean-Charles de Borda automatically gets one point; luckily this has no consequences except in cases of extremely low turnout.

(https://xkcd.com/2225)

alt text: Everything is a cloud application; the ping times just vary a lot.

(https://xkcd.com/2224)

Screen Time

https://xkcd.com/2223/

(Manual entry; emergency procedure)

Imagine Going Back In Time
https://m.xkcd.com/2220/

(Manual entry; emergency state procedure)

alt text: I was fired by the National Weather Service five minutes after they hired me for going into their code base and renaming all the tornado warnings to "tornado spoiler alerts."

(https://xkcd.com/2219)

alt text: If you'd just agree to hold your meetings in here, you'd have PLENTY of time to figure things out before the deadline.

(https://xkcd.com/2218)

alt text: Well, there's one right here at the bottom, where it says "53."

(https://xkcd.com/2217)

alt text: "So what's dark energy?" "Cosmologists and the FDA are both trying very hard to find out."

(https://xkcd.com/2216)

alt text: They managed to briefly hit the top of the rankings when they rejected everyone except one applicant, published 5 billion research papers that just said "Hi," and hired one of their graduates for $50 trillion/year (then fired them after 10 microseconds.)

(https://xkcd.com/2215)

alt text: Most chemists thought the lanthanides and actinides could be inserted in the sixth and seventh rows, but no, they're just floating down at the bottom with lots more undiscovered elements all around them.

(https://xkcd.com/2214)

alt text: We've met! I remember you when you were thiiiis tall! [*holds a hand an inch above their head*]

(https://xkcd.com/2213)

alt text: ... tazer ... fire extinguisher ... bird feeder ... toilet paper ...

(https://xkcd.com/2212)

alt text: They could afford to cut it close because they all had Global Entry.

(https://xkcd.com/2211)

alt text: Their signature play is the three-point combinator, a recursive offense which is guaranteed not to halt and continues accumulating points until the buzzer.

(https://xkcd.com/2210)