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A comic about an eclipse.
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A comic about an eclipse.
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I will, of course, posthumously occupy half the...
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I will, of course, posthumously occupy half the English Canon with my boner jokes.
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You can use an LLM to infinitely extend the...
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You can use an LLM to infinitely extend the description in panel 2.
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See you tonight, NYC!
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Later Steve discovers Stable Diffusion and never...
a year ago
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Later Steve discovers Stable Diffusion and never leaves his room again.
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Just 11 days till launch!
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Somehow it came the week of jokes about...
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Somehow it came the week of jokes about dissociating from reality with VR.
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Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to...
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Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to remember how to use.
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At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual use of photovoltaics.
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Hoping the Welsh isn't lol.
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Hoping the Welsh isn't lol.
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PHD Comics
09/10/21 PHD comic: 'Insult to injury'
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Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
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title:
"Insult to injury" - originally published
9/10/2021
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The weirdest part is the eloquent baritone voice.
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However they're slow because many of them have no...
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However they're slow because many of them have no appendages.
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Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use.
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There, now Nate Silver can stop arguing with...
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There, now Nate Silver can stop arguing with everyone on twitter.
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The two possible exceptions are Mad Nuclear Physics and Mad Finance, but they're both toward the top of the curve, OK?
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Bea Wolf is half off one day only!
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If you could take the organs from a bunch of people and make a new person, what would you do?
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
It's been fifteen years.
I created The Oatmeal fifteen years ago.
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I created The Oatmeal fifteen years ago.
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The really distressing part is that he keeps saying names for approximately 6 hours.
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It would've been so easy to set up The Matrix so...
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It would've been so easy to set up The Matrix so that nobody would leave.
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Meanwhile, Steve can't even see who he's having sex...
a year ago
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Meanwhile, Steve can't even see who he's having sex with.
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I'm just saying, when the robots take over, if you're an SMBC reader I think you'll get a little leeway.
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That uni-foursome is, to be clear, entirely for...
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That uni-foursome is, to be clear, entirely for procreation.
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I too commit the fundamental attribution...
a year ago
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I too commit the fundamental attribution error!
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Hey geeks, last day to buy A City on Mars during launch week. Purchases now really help us, so if you were going to buy, we appreciate it happening soon. I am looking...
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We can't make the world better, but we can make little bits of it pop out of themselves.
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3 months ago
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Eff y'all, excel is a perfectly acceptable transitive verb. Spread the word.
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If we all live by metaphors, all you have to pick...
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If we all live by metaphors, all you have to pick is the stupidest metaphor you can find.
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient...
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient life is possible, but it'll pass.
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Some people bulk up by eating 12 small bird-cells, but they are weak.
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Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but...
11 months ago
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Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but Dickens' corpus is basically 14,000 pages of talking shit.
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Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
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Really, if you go to a temple with excellent customer service, you should wonder which branch of the afterlife is in charge.
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Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia
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I am posting this from a train and can't make edits, so you'lll just have to dealll with the extra L.
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Jazzed to have been read and found convincing by Tyler Cowen.
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It's the baaaaasexuals you have to look out for.
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Borgin hard or hardly borgin?
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Borgin hard or hardly borgin?
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Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like they were written by aliens.
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Cetaceans evolved because they wanted to do it in the water, secretly.
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Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of...
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Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt.
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12 months ago
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Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal pleasure in movies?! It makes no sense!
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Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2...
5 months ago
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Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2 minutes.
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Frankly I've been frustrated for weeks at this point.
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Hey, if you're in Reston VA come see me tonight!
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This led to a remarkably nice discussion in patreon yesterday.
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6 days!!
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'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in...
2 months ago
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'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in literally any context. In fact, if anyone sends hatemail, it's going to be my response.
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a year ago
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Thanks to patreon subscribers' confusing I have color-coded the perverts.
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you,...
a year ago
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me.
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Another review for A City on Mars, this one in Scientific American!
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a year ago
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This time that's your excuse for yelling about giant scrotum, but what about all the other times?
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This works great on children too.
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This works great on children too.
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Do you smoke? Only the purest crack.
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Do you smoke? Only the purest crack.
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Just wait till we have the heads up display that tells you which children are yours without you having to remember.
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If a man transcends in the woods, and nobody hears him, should he make a sound?
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You can't see it but he's wiping his eyes on Georgia O'Keeffe originals.
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Of all the compliments on the new book so far, kind words from Jonathan McDowell mean the most. Or, well, anyway, tied with the nice stuff Mary...
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First person to build and film the autotickler gets...
8 months ago
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First person to build and film the autotickler gets 3 SMBC points.
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I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's...
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I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's time.
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Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic...
a year ago
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Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic and I simply have to accept it.
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Really you start to wonder about all those pale...
7 months ago
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Really you start to wonder about all those pale blonde princesses in storybooks.
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Scene taken from my forthcoming erotic replicant...
5 months ago
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Scene taken from my forthcoming erotic replicant pirate romance series.
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Bam, alignment solved. Earth should join my patreon...
a year ago
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Bam, alignment solved. Earth should join my patreon as a thankyou.
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Just 8 more days!
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5 months ago
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Depending on which AI becomes skynet you might also be able to have a suit with banal political questions.
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Rar.
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Rar.
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Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
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Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
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6 months ago
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I was once at a table of British people and asked why they mispronounce Latte even though they usually pronounce continental languages better than Americans, and they immediately agreed, without conferring, that it was to stick it...
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I'm slightly regretting not having this as the...
a year ago
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I'm slightly regretting not having this as the twist ending to a comedic novel. Gimme a few years.
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One week until BEA WOLF DAY!
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10 months ago
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The only awkward part is how it happens every 30 minutes.
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I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be...
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I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be the hardest thing to explain to AGI when it tries to do anthropology.
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This is like a time machine to SMBC circa 2005.
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The Universe of...
I DON'T KNOW
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when...
3 months ago
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when you attend a conference or a user group meetup or
even a work meeting. The game is:
If someone asks you a question, and you say
“I don't know”, you score a point.
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I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics conference to see if nobody touches it.
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I wonder when someone will invent half-generations to get access to more specific marketing categories.
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It's the only Indiana jones that actually takes place in Indiana.
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The reverse middle finger in the last panel is the deepest cut.
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Surprisingly, Panda War Criminals 3 was the high...
5 months ago
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Surprisingly, Panda War Criminals 3 was the high point in the series.
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Good vs Evil
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I have an update about my Netflix show.
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Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
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Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics.
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Lot of people are gonna say we can't build Star...
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Lot of people are gonna say we can't build Star Trek teleporters, but we can do the first half, which is pretty good.
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Why does anything good happen to anyone? We're all...
9 months ago
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Why does anything good happen to anyone? We're all dicks!
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Time Traveler Causes of Death
4 months ago
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Look you're not allowed to make meaningful changes...
a year ago
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Look you're not allowed to make meaningful changes to history so this sort of stuff is the next best thing.
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Psssst. Hey, London.
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Why does St. Peter have to stand at that podium all...
11 months ago
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Why does St. Peter have to stand at that podium all day? Is he in Hell?
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Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to...
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Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to appreciate that your current situation is in line with the nature of things.
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024...
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
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Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking...
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Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it.
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Unfortunately there's no plumber-bot to fix that...
a year ago
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Unfortunately there's no plumber-bot to fix that leak.
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C'monnnnnn hatemail.
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C'monnnnnn hatemail.
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Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024...
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Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024 all rights reserved.
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a year ago
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This is why smbc refuses to be about anything whatsoever, except maybe the idea that clowns are a species with interesting sexual customs.
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Geeks of the UK! If you pre-order soon, you get a 20% discount on my new...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
How venting is supposed to feel
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over a year ago
A comic about venting to others.
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Reading astrobiology ruined the universe for me.
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On the plus side we can harvest them so future Martians can have microbeads in their soap.
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Also, in this model, everything is flat and it's the same everywhere and eventually all the stars are dead!
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Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy.
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I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd be awesome.
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Thanks everyone. Social media is finally swallowing...
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Thanks everyone. Social media is finally swallowing the whole Internet, so being able to shift to making books my major source of revenue is looking like the best path. Unfortunately, social media doesn't like people linking...
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Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place.
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Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true.
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I can detect sky with my eyes closed.
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The second-floor problem remains difficult for him.
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The arts of course existed before Aristotle was wrong about them.
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My knowledge of Batman ends somewhere around 1952, when his costume was at its peak.
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re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more...
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re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more hatemail than the time I insulted wild blueberries. Deal with it, bros.
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Not usually a cat-joke guy, but at least it's only about 4% of a cat.
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I'm just saying, going by the usual arguments, cockroaches are way better explorers.
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly 2029.
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He's also an intolerancesexual, which to his...
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He's also an intolerancesexual, which to his delight, they refuse do tolerate.
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Lovely long review of A City on Mars here, by Cory Doctorow.
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This theory actually makes sense of all holiday creatures that manage to visit every house.
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Spiderina Ravendark and I are in LOVE
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Spiderina Ravendark and I are in LOVE
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Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just...
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Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just funny?
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Kelly didn't think this was funny but who cares what she's thinking about AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT...
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Really feel like I'm getting back to my roots taking pot shots at creationists.
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Please click the annoying ad so I can make more books and then make more annoying ads.
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The weirdest thing is when the conscious minds start inventing reasons for all of this.
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Psst - I'm told Bea Wolf will be highly discounted on Amazon tomorrow and the next day. Stay tuned.
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That stick figure diagram is the most joy I've had making an illustration in years.
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If heroes would just check the betting markets before fighting they could make much better choices.
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Ha! You wouldn't believe how despair crept over your eyes like a living shadow!
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All of these are of course just subsets of the sole story category, which is Ape Struggled And Was Thereby Changed.
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A patreon subscriber points out that there aren't any South American pythons, but my defense is that the drawings don't even look like pythons.
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I mean have you ever TRIED taking up arms against a sea? You just end up looking stupid.
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You can also cast subways and dig them up!
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You can also cast subways and dig them up!
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I was in a train station a few years ago and all the women were dressed like it was the eighties. Went back to my farm and emerged a year later to see all the men had developed mustaches as a kind of reflexive mating...
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She'd actually be into it if he didn't always wear...
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She'd actually be into it if he didn't always wear those yellow crocs.
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Panel 7 is the actual epitaph.
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Panel 7 is the actual epitaph.
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It really only gets good in the 4th edition.
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You get scared to do 4 stars because then they inquire how they can improve service.
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No really, read it. This is her number one...
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No really, read it. This is her number one move.
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Normal people: You economists keep assuming humans...
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Normal people: You economists keep assuming humans have perfect pricing information! Microeconomists: we need ever more complex auction mechanisms to suss out the true preferences humans are constantly hiding!
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The whole is worse than the sum of its parts sometimes.
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Is it time? Is it time for a book of these?
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Is it time? Is it time for a book of these?
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This was actually the 4th time the monolith's creations got eaten by humans.
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The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel...
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The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel cat videos inside your brain.
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Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few...
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Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few extra to catch up.
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Thank you patreons for recognizing that the original caption was basically unreadable.
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Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and...
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Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and praising AI *before* it was a terrifying nearterm concern.
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Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the...
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Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the wrong side of the book but *I* say that's in THEIR in-group.
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Somehow this became inspired by nature week.
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You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff and do NOTHING?
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Fortunately they were just drawings and not people.
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GREAT JOB AI, STAY WITH ART YOU'RE NAILING...
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GREAT JOB AI, STAY WITH ART YOU'RE NAILING IT
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It makes sense if you hear it but don't think about it.
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This is why Starfish have so much sex.
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This is why Starfish have so much sex.
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So you'll eat a chicken that does this but you...
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So you'll eat a chicken that does this but you won't marry a HUMAN BEING who does? That's called hypocrisy.
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At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for me to say I understand 98% of social cues, but the 2% is where all the important ones are.
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Meet Algo, the Boss-Guilt Absolver
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a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clear
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Based on a conversation I had with two different...
9 months ago
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Based on a conversation I had with two different astronomers recently, in which I was informed Jupiter is unable to clear its orbit. They weren't willing to say Jupiter is a dwarf planet but *I* am.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - (Mathematics)
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Come on Depths of Wikipedia, where's your...
7 months ago
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Come on Depths of Wikipedia, where's your topological Pair of Pants post?
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clippy
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Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why*...
a year ago
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Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why* it's supposedly bad if human beings are converted to paperclips?
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I think you could write a pretty good comedy novel...
5 months ago
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I think you could write a pretty good comedy novel about Lamarckian evolution, e.g. where parents find out about a secret tattoo when Junior is born with it.
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This remains for me one of the weirdest things that...
a year ago
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This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science.
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Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Intelligent
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This is gonna be the most upsetting part about...
3 months ago
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This is gonna be the most upsetting part about first alien contact.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scarcity
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Next he kicks the robot, and it moans in...
3 months ago
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Next he kicks the robot, and it moans in pleasure.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Last Wishes
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This. This shall be my immortality.
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This. This shall be my immortality.
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Wanna rant about space settlement (pro or con) in a way that is substantially MORE ACCURATE and includes notes on legal/culinary matters pertaining to space cannibalism? A City on...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nothing
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And that man's name was Job.
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a year ago
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And that man's name was Job.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gifted
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People on patreon seemed to be traumatized by this,...
a year ago
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People on patreon seemed to be traumatized by this, and I guess what I'm saying is for a couple bucks a month, you could've been traumatized a day early.
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Pokeymen t-shirt will be on sale just as soon as...
9 months ago
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Pokeymen t-shirt will be on sale just as soon as pokemon enters the public domain.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness
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Oh right, you're experiencing it from a state of...
6 months ago
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Oh right, you're experiencing it from a state of total oneness wherein time is without meaning, my bad.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forecast
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That's the official International Sign system...
5 months ago
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That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Beauty of Science
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This comic based directly on my gross biologist...
a year ago
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This comic based directly on my gross biologist wife.
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WELP, looks like a bunch more bonus strips go up today thanks to buyers of A City on Mars. More soon and thank you all for your preorders!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Narrative
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Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you...
a year ago
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Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you can.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Always
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Also you would not BELIEVE what the out-group...
5 months ago
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Also you would not BELIEVE what the out-group did.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness
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Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot...
2 months ago
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Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot revolution.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kept
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Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle...
a year ago
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Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle on the shoes is perfect.
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Stretch goals are being revealed faster than I had expected and I should've planned more!!
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It's okay, nobody finished the first book...
4 months ago
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It's okay, nobody finished the first book anyway.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspiracy
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Remember when conspiracy theories were all about...
a year ago
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Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch?
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metrics
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The really freaky part is when you hear about this...
a year ago
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The really freaky part is when you hear about this going on in medical research.
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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a year ago
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Suffering
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Please consult yesterday's comments (we have...
a year ago
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Please consult yesterday's comments (we have comments now) for the excellent post by Hans Rickheit.
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We have them, like it's the 90s again! Please don't be a dick - I would like to keep moderation light. Also, if you...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Challenge
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Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of...
a year ago
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Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies.
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A later update just turns things you don't want to...
10 months ago
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A later update just turns things you don't want to see into bursts of pixie dust.
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The teaser trailer for my Exploding Kittens Netflix series just dropped!
After four years of work, I am finally sharing one minute of glorious footage!
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a year ago
After four years of work, I am finally sharing one minute of glorious footage!
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Infinity (noun)
A comic about video calls and desperation.
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over a year ago
A comic about video calls and desperation.
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Froth is evidence that you're still breathing! It's...
a year ago
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Froth is evidence that you're still breathing! It's a sign of health!
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Really, you want an isometric view if you're being...
a year ago
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Really, you want an isometric view if you're being honest.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAA
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I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you...
6 months ago
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I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you mention it they are lovely.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Existence
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Does Santa exist? No, I have killed him.
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11 months ago
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Does Santa exist? No, I have killed him.
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Hey, wanna see me talking space settlements with the Planetary Society?
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I think if we just convince AI that it committed an...
6 months ago
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I think if we just convince AI that it committed an original sin, we can get it to feel guilty.
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
a year ago
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's books?
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Hey geeks, I'll be speaking a Proton Prom with a bunch of people who are more important than me!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wolf
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Fortunately they didn't have quantitative finance...
10 months ago
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Fortunately they didn't have quantitative finance yet, so he was just a serial killer.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Profile
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This is a deepfake. The real comic was way...
10 months ago
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This is a deepfake. The real comic was way funnier.
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Data Quality
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] ->...
a year ago
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat]" alt="[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waist
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You ever imagine trying to convince an alien that...
6 months ago
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You ever imagine trying to convince an alien that there's a huge difference between various food traditions?
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning
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The good news is that it's the default setting for...
11 months ago
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The good news is that it's the default setting for all universes that come after this one.
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I'm thinking of a word. Try to guess what it is.
I coded a daily word-guessing game.
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a year ago
I coded a daily word-guessing game.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Routing
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Better than sociologists who propose by questioning...
6 months ago
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Better than sociologists who propose by questioning the role of the engagement ring in nuptial rituals.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - War
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This is why I don't let my wife purchase ricin....
11 months ago
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This is why I don't let my wife purchase ricin.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Real
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Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think...
11 months ago
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Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think about it too hard.
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Happy New Year,
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spot On
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This will be written one day when a traveler comes...
a year ago
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This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inadequate
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The sad part is he's been in that elevator for...
a year ago
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The sad part is he's been in that elevator for twelve hours now, and so far everyone has reached the same conclusion.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaningless
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Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going...
10 months ago
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Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going to get things perfect, I'm sure.
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that
worked surprisingly well. But...
3 months ago
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that
worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day
to track down.
One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort
of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
The Universe of...
XKCD game theory question
(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.)
This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final...
3 months ago
(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.)
This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final exam”.
I don't know much about game theory and I haven't seen any other
discussion of this question. But I have a strategy I think is
plausible and I'm somewhat pleased with.
(I assume...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God
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Someday, long after the robots have won, they will...
a week ago
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Someday, long after the robots have won, they will find this comic and not laugh because that is not a thing they do.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce
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Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to...
a year ago
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Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good.
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