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title text: Oh, wait, I might've had it set to kph instead of mph. But that would make the discrepancy even wider!

(https://xkcd.com/2516)
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title text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.

(https://xkcd.com/2515)
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title text: I've been working on chocolate bar annealing techniques to try to produce the perfect laser s'more. Maybe don't mention that on the grant application though.

(https://xkcd.com/2514)
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title text: Sorry, in SI units that's "there's a big football in there."

(https://xkcd.com/2513)
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title text: And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, but then more heaven kept appearing to replace it, as if the scroll was infinite.

(https://xkcd.com/2512)
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title text: We've almost finished constructing the piña collider.

(https://xkcd.com/2511)
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title text: I tried to train an AI to repair my Python environment but it kept giving up and deleting itself.

(https://xkcd.com/2510)
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title text: Geometry textbooks always try to trick you by adding decorative stripes and dotted lines.

(https://xkcd.com/2509)
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title text: Some personal news: After treating my first case a few years ago with antibiotics, I can report that I have now had appendicitis for the second and--unless something extremely unexpected happened with the surgery--final time.

(https://xkcd.com/2508)
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title text: Ultra-Serial Violet C light is unpolarized, so you don't have to flip the polarizing filter over when you get the orientation wrong the first time.

(https://xkcd.com/2507)
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title text: This is something we all need to work on, but especially you all.

(https://xkcd.com/2506)
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title text: Unless the next line is, "After we broke up, she blamed the painting and spent years planning her revenge, so my sorrow is mixed with relief that the dogs at least denied her that triumph."

(https://xkcd.com/2505)
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title text: Grandma's shelf-stable blackberry pie meson recipe was a huge seller until her farm was shut down by a joint FDA/NRC investigation.

(https://xkcd.com/2504)
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title text: Backward-compatible with many existing cables, and can connect directly to phones or tablets if you press them down hard enough.

(https://xkcd.com/2503)
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title text: I'm hoping 2022 is relatively normal because I don't know what symbol comes after the asterisk and the dagger.

(https://xkcd.com/2502)
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title text: How could anyone consider themselves a well-rounded adult without a basic understanding of silicate geochemistry? Silicates are everywhere! It's hard to throw a rock without throwing one!

(https://xkcd.com/2501)
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title text: I was really impressed by the accuracy of some of the report's predictions about fossil fuel consumption. Then I realized, oh, right, of course.

(https://xkcd.com/2500)
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title text: Remember to only adopt domesticated drones that specifically request it. It's illegal to collect wild ones under the Migratory Drone Treaty Act.

(https://xkcd.com/2499)
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title text: The only other person to walk by was a linguist back in the 80s, but she just spent a while dissecting the phrase 'help me down' before getting distracted by a squirrel and wandering off.

(https://xkcd.com/2498)
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title text: In C, the multiocular O represents the bitwise norxondor gorgonax.

(https://xkcd.com/2497)
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