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Talk:3088: Deposition

2025-05-14T08:37:32Z

162.158.216.82:

--[[Special:Contributions/104.23.175.13|104.23.175.13]] 02:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)')DROP TABLE Talk:3088:_Deposition;
:well done. no notes. [[user talk:lett‪herebedarklight|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 03:58, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
:well, at least you tried... [[Special:Contributions/104.23.160.75|104.23.160.75]] 04:35, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

--Stephen Hawking did about the same thing, throwing a party for time travellers. But nobody came. (also yes thats an undertale reference :D )--[[Special:Contributions/104.23.175.41|104.23.175.41]] 06:36, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
: Nobody came ''yet''...[[Special:Contributions/162.158.216.82|162.158.216.82]] 08:37, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Futurama reference? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.54|162.158.91.54]] 03:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
:[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Inspection Lethal Inspection]], a Futurama episoded with Inspector No 5.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.194.187|172.68.194.187]] 07:40, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

This is definitely a comic that ''does'' have "set-in-stone explanations." [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.81|162.158.155.81]] 06:40, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

I genuinely want to do this. Can anyone tell where I could find good locations, ones where rocks are likely to be preserved like in this comic? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.134.184|162.158.134.184]] 07:13, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

"Deposition", as in the title, can mean either taking sworn evidence (in a legal context) or depositing material (in a geologic context). [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.179|172.68.54.179]] 07:49, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
:This would be typical of Randall's propensity for double meanings! I think it needs to be added to the explanation. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 11:10, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
::It doesn't really have anything to do with anything in the comic, though. It would be no more relevant than commenting that e.g. 'margin' can also relate to page layouts, or 'might' can relate to the amount of power someone has. The explanations are going to get very long and confusing if we start calling out all the alternative meanings of every single word used in them.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.229.139|172.68.229.139]] 13:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
:::I understand your point, but in this case I think one could view Ponytail's written message as a sworn statement of sorts, in addition to it also being a "deposition" in the rock substrate. I think Randall intended it as a double-meaning, as he does many times. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 15:26, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

It's really cool that we see these aliens in these crafts. If you look at the other times aliens have shown up in XKCD they appear to be generally the same aliens, or just a UFO, and this is an interesting synthesis of the two. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.27.180|172.68.27.180]] 14:13, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Related to No. 6 in https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1476:_Ceres? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.3.30|172.68.3.30]] 10:18, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

It's also possible that the last panel is underwater, the shale hasn't been raised, and the beings aren't using antigravity. That would make it harder to use the shovel and pick, though. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 14:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Saying that, even with time-travel, "it would be impossible" to find the right party seems wrong to me. With sufficient time-travel ability there's always extensive "trial and error". And, with ''additional'' time-travel 'meta-usage', even that isn't necessarily a long process, as you use TT to report every one of your 'errors' back to yourself before you even try them, narrowing the window down, ultimately making the process a matter of just waiting for you to arrive from your own future to tell you where you had(/are about to have) gone back to in order to find the party, having avoided being all the yous that had found the invitation rock not yet carved (or long-since carved, and discovered already on the way to where it will wait for you to have (already, later) find it) and had to 'start' looking later(/earlier) than you might have initially decided to look before your own bootstrapped guidance. ((Depends on how the Timey-Wimey really works, but I'm hoping the universe likes Stable Time Loops, and not universe-collapsing paradoxes that wipe the whole of spacetime out in retaliation for over-incautious interference in the whole continuum. And, because if the latter could happen then I'm sure it would (it simultanously has, and will do!), I would not be able to still exist to ponder it, so either there's a very good 'STL-finder' or some other more definite Chronology Protection Principle there to filter out potentially problematic disruptions of the timestream.)) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.224.61|172.69.224.61]] 16:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

3074: Push Notifications

2025-05-05T12:36:47Z

162.158.216.82: Nope.

{{comic
| number = 3074
| date = April 9, 2025
| title = Push Notifications
| image = push_notifications_2x.png
| imagesize = 277x347px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = NOTIFICATION: Now dismissing a head of the Notification Hydra… NOTIFICATION: Success! You have dismissed a head of the Notification Hydra! ''[[:Category:Multiple title texts|Different title text]]:'' :3
}}
To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|3074|original comic}}.

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|
*The transcripts for the additional [[#Comic images]] are not detailed enough!

*The current explanation is too messy (unrelated paragraphs and too many bullet points). If needed, reorganise it, use tables, or divide it into subsections. Also, the explanation for the title text is too far down, make it more prominent.

*The gallery is missing many image links! Links to all images are on the index.js at ''https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/index.js?v{{=}}1''. You can easily identify them, they look like this: '''static/xyz.png'''
**Since [https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/index.js?v{{=}}1 that same link] contains all the comic pictures, ''including each notification'', we might as well use them to showcase the normal onboarding flow. Upload the notification pictures in order (take them from [https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/index.js?v{{=}}1 here], by using Ctrl+F to search for "static/" and then pasting into the URL), and create a new section for them! (Make sure to download the bigger version, labelled "4x" instead of "2x"!)}}
[[File:zoom_turtle.png|thumb|500px|When graphing the coordinates from the [[3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications#Zoom notifications|zoom notifications]], a turtle and a squirrel appear.]]This interactive comic is the 15th [[:Category:April fools' comics|April Fools' Day]] comic released by Randall, just over a week late. It uses {{w|push notifications}} to change the comic image over time and make other statements.

Upon viewing the comic for the first time, a sequence of notifications will be rendered over the comic itself. The notifications have a fade-in animation and appear one after another. The sequence is divided into several "groups" of notifications, each containing up to 4 regular notifications and an interactable button, which has a circled arrow icon to the right as well as a different text color. Clicking the arrow removes all notifications on screen and proceeds the sequence to the next group.

At the end of the sequence, a red-background option to sign up for xkcd notifications is presented. This part differs depending on if the user is "playing" from a mobile or desktop browser.

* On desktop, clicking this will result in the browser prompting the user to allow or block xkcd.com's request to send push notifications. By allowing, the game begins. If blocked, the comic shows a message "An actual error occurred {{nowrap|:(}}", and the laptop bursts into flames (see the image in the [[#Comic images|table below]]). It also blows up in response to any other browser error, such as a 500 Internal Server Error, which is reported to happen if you click the pause button too quickly.{{Actual citation needed}}

* On mobile, a new on-screen notification will show up, telling the user to add xkcd.com to their home screen in order for it to send push notifications on mobile. Upon doing so and opening the webpage from the home screen, the system will prompt the user to allow or block push notifications from this webpage. The outcomes of allowing and denying are the same as on desktop.

Once the game begins, you are provided with two buttons: one labeled "Emergency Stop", and one labeled "Silence notifications at a cost". Clicking the "Emergency Stop" button allows you to either restart the full game or to subscribe just to thrice-weekly notifications for new xkcd comics, while the second button will temporarily silence notifications, supposedly at the cost of notifying two random people.

The title text references the {{w|Lernaean Hydra}}, a multi-headed serpent-like monster from Greek mythology; the Greek hero {{w|Heracles}} was tasked with slaying the Hydra as {{w|Labours_of_Hercules#Second:_Lernaean_Hydra|the second of his twelve labours}}. When he cut off one of its heads, however, two heads would grow in its place, resulting in more heads than before; Heracles soon realized he could not kill the Hydra in this fashion. It describes a similar situation with the "Notification Hydra": a push notification "head" of the Notification Hydra was dismissed, which subsequently spawned two more push notification heads providing updates about the status of the dismissal. If one of these new notifications were to be dismissed, it would again spawn another set of the same two push notification heads; thus, the Notification Hydra is unkillable in a manner similar to the original.

The subdirectory where the images and scripts for this comic are stored is titled 'marconi,' which is likely a reference to the Italian engineer and inventor of the same name, {{w|Guglielmo Marconi}}, who is credited with inventing the radio, and did much work in the field of early communication systems.

Up to 7 clickable cats periodically spawn at predetermined positions around the page, including one on the edge of the Emergency Stop button.

For a table of all notification messages, see [[3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications]].

A general list of notification types include:
* A few starter notifications about this comic, the successful sending of a notification of this comic, and the lack of another comic.

* An announcement that an old comic was posted, specifying a (seemingly) random comic and its publication date. The publication date seems to be shown in a random {{w|Calendar date|calendar date format}}.

* A word game where a first notification asks you to type a word, with further notifications apparently to be sent whenever someone chooses the same word as you.
** The word can be chosen by clicking on the first notification, which lands you in the comic page. The comic pane will be changed to a comic-style input dialogue with a space for the word and a submit button. Upon providing a word, a notification informs you that you will then receive notifications (of the form "Someone else has selected the word <Your Word>!"), and that your choice is permanent and cannot be changed. You can also submit a blank text field, thus receiving "Someone else has selected the word !" notifications.

* A "streak" notification counting the number of times you've clicked it. To start with, the message changes every 10 clicks; then every 50 clicks (after 100) and then at increasing intervals. After every 50 clicks there is an offer to make future clicks count twice, making this a simple version of {{w|Cookie Clicker}}. If you choose to accept the offer by clicking on it, it will reset your clicks back to zero but makes all future clicks count double of the current click rate; you can also reject the offer by continuing to click on the click counter message. There are occasionally notifications encouraging you to keep clicking and "extend your streak," tempting you with "a free click to keep you going". After 400 clicks it will reset your clicks back to zero but makes all future clicks count four times.
** Early notifications encourage further clicking.
** Approaching a hundred, the messages grow more concerned and later start warning that the server will crash or has crashed.
** Above 750: "Are you just doing this to annoy me?"
** 1000-2000: "You're just doing this to annoy you?"
** Above 2000: "I guess it worked"
** Above 1000000: "Wow, you're really into this"

* A "have you seen my cat?" notification which causes all the cats to spawn when clicked.

* Cat fact notifications that appear when a cat is clicked, in reference to [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/owx3v/so_my_little_cousin_posted_on_fb_that_he_was/ this exchange].

* Various "Erroneous Alerts" with a warning triangle {{w|emoji}} (⚠ U+26A0), some with just flavor text, some corresponding to changes in the comic image.

* [[3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications#Zoom notifications|Zoom notifications]] only include numeric coordinates, sometimes prefixed with "oh look!". Plotting the normal coordinates creates an image of a turtle, a reference to [[1416: Pixels]], while the [[3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications#Zoom notifications|coordinates prefixed with "oh look"]] create a squirrel behind the turtle. ([[#Explanation|See the image above]].)

* "Constant reminders" with references to mathematical, physical, or some other constants. The constant values are stated to be "at the tone", likely in reference to {{w|Speaking clock|time-of-day phone services}}, which are live or recorded human voice services that tell you the exact time "at the third stroke" over the phone. (In at least some portions of the USA, the wording did use "tone" rather than "strike." For example, "At the tone, the time will be 2:32pm, and 10 seconds ... (beep)")

* A notification that offers to provide weather alerts for your location, which leads into a series of notifications asking whether you live in a named city. If none of the cities that it knows are selected, your location is set to the summit of {{w|Mount Washington}}.

* When the time is near a full hour or half-hour, that the current time is five o'clock.

* An invitation to subscribe to the "What if?" YouTube channel

* A notification with the heading "System Log" that reads (INFO): A user has paused notifications
** This notification presumably appears when a random user has pressed the "Silence notifications at a cost" button.

* A reminder to comment and subscribe. When clicked, they redirect the user to one of various Wikipedia Talk pages:

{{cot|Wikipedia Talk pages}}
<div style="column-width:20em">
* {{w|Talk:Mathematics}}

* {{w|Talk:Romance}}

* {{w|Talk:Language}}

* {{w|Talk:Alarm fatigue}}

* {{w|Talk:Boneless}}

* {{w|Talk:Sitting}}

* {{w|Category talk:Unix text editors}}

* {{w|Talk:Robot}}

* {{w|Talk:Jamming avoidance response}}

* {{w|Talk:Squircle}}

* {{w|Talk:Like}}

* {{w|Talk:Drafting linen}}

* {{w|Talk:Hot dog}}

* {{w|Talk:Goomba}}

* {{w|Talk:Tidal locking}}

* {{w|Talk:Multiple unit}}

* {{w|Talk:Flag semaphore}}

* {{w|Talk:Stoating}}

* {{w|Talk:Roseate spoonbill}}

* {{w|Talk:Teleportation}}

* {{w|Talk:List of dumplings}}

* {{w|Talk:List of hat styles}}

* {{w|Talk:Cats and the Internet}}

* {{w|Talk:Laminar flow}}

* {{w|Talk:Time management}}

* {{w|Talk:Hole}}

* {{w|Talk:Spot welding}}

* {{w|Talk:Myst}}

* {{w|Talk:Agriculture in ants}}

* {{w|Talk:East}}

* {{w|Talk:Smoot}}

* {{w|Talk:Pancake}}

* {{w|Talk:Wedge (symbol)}}

* {{w|Talk:Wedge Antilles}}

* {{w|Talk:Pop-up notification}}
</div>
{{cob}}

* A "{{w|Carriage return|Carriage Return}} Line Feed", referencing the Windows standard of storing line returns as a carriage return character followed by a line feed (newline) character. However, the xkcd Carriage Return Line Feed is instead a news feed concerning the next stop on a supposed "Carriage Return Line" of a train system. The announcements are all related to stations on the {{w|London Underground}}, including the use of the phrase "{{w|Mind the gap}}".

===Comic images===
{|class="wikitable"
!Image
!Transcript and explanation
|-

| [[File:3074_normal.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, with his laptop.

|-
| [[File:3074_big_laptop.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, with a very large laptop.

|-
| [[File:3074_plant_small.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, with a small potted plant.

|-
| [[File:3074_pot_squirrel.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, with a squirrel in the pot.

|-
| [[File:3074_plant_big.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, with a much larger plant that has clearly outgrown the pot, at least vertically.

|-
| [[File:3074_big_plant_cat_A.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk with the larger plant, with a cat on one of the branches.

|-
| [[File:3074_big_plant_cat_B.png|240px]]
| A second image of Cueball sitting at his desk with the larger plant with a cat on one of the branches, but in a different spot.

|-
| [[File:3074 Desk with Cat Foreground.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, with a cat in the foreground near the point of view.

|-
| [[File:3074_cat_chair.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, his chair replaced with a large cat.

|-
| [[File:3074_computer_fire.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting farther back from his desk, with the laptop on the desk on fire. This image also appears if [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] is denied the permission to send notifications (see the [[#Explanation|explanation above]]).

|-
| [[File:3074_float.png|240px]]
| Cueball, the desk, and the laptop floating in the air.

|-
| [[File:3074_spin.png|240px]]
| Cueball spinning in his chair.

|-
| [[File:3074_desk_sit.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting on the desk, facing the laptop on the chair.

|-
| [[File:3074_gameover.png|240px]]
| The desk vacant with "Game Over" displayed if you use the emergency stop.

|-
| [[File:3074_sword.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, with a laptop on the desk, and a sword leaning against the desk on the other side.

|-
| [[File:3074_swordfight.png|240px]]
| Cueball and Ponytail swordfighting while the computer has an hourglass icon, referencing [[303: Compiling]].

|-
| [[File:3074_flooding.png|240px]]
| The room flooded 2/3 of the way up the desk. Cueball is still sitting with his laptop.

|-
| [[File:3074_sailboat.png|240px]]
| The same flooding, with a miniature sailboat behind Cueball.

|-
| [[File:3074_flooding_cat.png|240px]]
| The same flooding, with a cat face behind Cueball.

|-
| [[File:3074_Flooded_Shark_Fin.png|240px]]
| The same flooding, with a shark fin on the far side of the desk, facing toward Cueball.

|-
| [[File:3074_longtable.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at the desk, which has been extended behind his laptop like a long meeting table.

|-
| [[File:3074_nocueball.png|240px]]
| No Cueball, only the chair, desk, and laptop.

|-
| [[File:3074_nodesk.png|240px]]
| Cueball using the laptop on his lap, with no desk.

|-
| [[File:3074_squirrel_on_head.png|240px]]
| Cueball with a squirrel on his head.

|-
| [[File:3074_squirrel.png|240px]]
| A squirrel sitting at the desk, seemingly using the laptop.

|-
| [[File:3074_standing.png|240px]]
| Cueball standing on top of the laptop keyboard.

|-
| [[File:gallery_placeholder.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at the desk, wearing a wizard hat.

|-
| [[File:3074_floor.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting on the floor behind the desk.

|-
| [[File:3074_tentacles.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting in his chair, shielding his face from a tentacle coming from the computer screen.

|-
| [[File:3074_tall_chair.png|240px]]
| Cueball sitting at his desk, typing on his laptop, while in an office chair raised to an excessive height – likely a reference to [[2144: Adjusting a Chair]].

|-
| [[File:3074_cat.png|240px]]
| The cat that appears after returning to the comic window after leaving it idle for long period of time. It has a unique title text of ":3".
|}

[[Category:Math]]

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Need to finish the transcript in the table ABOVE, it's not detailed enough.}}
:[Cueball sits at a desk in an office chair. He is typing on a computer.]
:[Gray message boxes with a small circled “x” at the top right corner are shown:]
:Happy April 1st (observed)!
:To celebrate, we were excited to introduce a new xkcd.com feature: push notifications for new comics!
:Unfortunately, this feature has gone horribly wrong.
:Until further notice, we are asking people ''NOT'' to sign up for new comic notifications.
:Frankly, we recommend not even clicking on any notifications to learn more.
:''Click this notification to learn more!'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:“Push notifications for new comics” sounds like a simple feature, right?
:There’s a nice API for browser notifications. xkcd updates three times a week.
:So you just send a notification for each update, right?
:That’s what we thought, too.
:''Click to continue!'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:[To the side of the comic frame is a big, horizontal hexagonal stop sign]
:Sign: Emergency STOP
:Below the sign: ''Halt ALL notifications and forget everything''
:The good news is that we did build a button to stop xkcd new comic notifications.
:You can press this button at any time and the system will stop sending you notifications.
:The nightmare will be over and the server will forget you ever existed.
:This part definitely works.
:''The rest of the system does NOT work.'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:We’re sorry.
:We don’t know how things went so wrong.
:The system is sending more than three notifications a week. A LOT more.
:We cannot recommend signing up for xkcd new comic notifications at this time.
:''Click here to ignore the warnings.'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:No, really.
:Our notification system may send a large number of very real system notifications.
:These may flood your browser, displace other notifications, and cause problems.
:<big>⚠️DO NOT ENABLE XKCD NEW COMIC NOTIFICATIONS⚠️</big>
:''Yeah, I get it, but I definitely want to enable xkcd new comic notifications.'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:Are you sure?
:''Yes!'' (a circled arrow is shown)
:Absolutely sure?
:''YES!!'' (a circled arrow is shown)
:To enable push notifications on mobile you need to add xkcd.com to your home screen.

:''Click here to subscribe to xkcd notifications''

:[Initial static image shows Cueball sat on an office chair at a desk using a laptop computer. A notification 'window' is speech-bubbled above the computer]
:[Grey notification box, header:] April 1st (Observed)
:[Notification box, further text:] Open xkcd.com to view.
:Laptop: [Warning sign.]

:[When viewed live, various xkcd-style popover notifications appear, each can be dismissed or (usually the last on every page) invited to press an 'onwards'-style button.]

:[First page of messages]
:Happy April 1st! To celebrate, we were excited to introduce a new xkcd.com feature: Push Notifications for new comics!
:Unfortunately, this feature has gone horribly wrong.
:Until further notice, we are asking people NOT to sign up for new comic notifications.
:Frankly, we recommend not even clicking on any notifications to learn more.
:[Notification with 'onwards button':] ''Click on this notification to learn more''

:[Upon choosing to continue, further messages appear, replacing any prior ones left open]
:"Push Notifications for new comics" sounds like a simple feature, right?
:There's a nice API for browser notifications, xkcd updates three times a week.
:So you just send a notification for each upafte, right?
:That's what we thought, too.
:[Notification with 'onwards button':] ''Click on this notification to continue''

:[Next set of popover messages]
:The good news is that we did build a button to STOP xkcd new comic notifications.
:You can press this button at any time and the system will stop sending you notifications.
:The nightmare will be over and the server will forget you ever existed.
:This part definitely works.
:[Notification with 'onwards':] ''The rest of the system does not work.''
:[To the right of the comic frame, a red, octagonal button has white text upon it:]Emergency Stop
:[Below the button is red text:] Halt all notifications and forget everything

:[Next set of popovers, "stop" button remains permanently so long as you continue]
:We're sorry.
:We didn't know how things went so wrong.
:The system is sending more than three notifications at this time.
:['Onwards' notification:] ''Click here to ignore the warnings''

:[Next set.]
:No, really.
:Our notification system may send a large amount of very real system notifications.
:These may flood your browser, displace other notifications, and cause problems.
:[Text bookended by warning triangles:] Do not enable xkcd new comic notifications
:['Onwards':] Yeah, I get it, but I definitely want to enable xkcd new comic notifications

:[Just two popovers, initially]
:Are you sure?
:['Onwards':] Yes
:[On clicking onwards, two more appear below]
:Absolutely sure?
:['Onwards':] Yes!!
:[On clicking, a further popover]
:[Red-tinted 'onwards'-style popover with warnings:] Click here to subscribe to xkcd notifications.

:[...something appeared then dissappeared...]
:[Genuine(?) browser dialogue activated:] xkcd.com wants to send you notifications. Block / Allow

:[If allowed, one more popover in the original style]
:Success!!
:[Below the Emergency Stop button, an oval gray button appears labeled in white:] Silence notifications at a cost
:[Below that, in grey text:]Temporarily pause your notifications at the cost of notifying two random people.

:[Further changes include the contents of the comic. The transcript for these changes is available on the [[#Comic images|Comic images section]].]

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Squirrels]]
[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Cats]]
[[Category:Computers]]
[[Category:Multiple title texts]]

Talk:765: Dilution

2025-04-17T20:01:19Z

162.158.216.82:

Technically, however, homeopathy states that diluted semen should act as a contraceptive. To get pregnant, they would have to dilute a birth-control pill or something.{{unsigned ip|134.94.171.148}}
:I remember someone complaining that homeopathic medicines are labeled similarly to the real thing on drug store shelves. Wouldn't this mean that, at least in some interpretations, it's the medicine which can be diluted into a cure?[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.135|173.245.52.135]] 17:47, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
::No, the previous user is correct. The "theory" of homeopathy is that to cure a symptom you provide something that would cause that symptom diluted into some ridiculously small dose. Any products that are marketed with the label "homeopathy" but are primarily an active ingredient that would have a detectable effect are using the label incorrectly. For example, there are two kinds of zinc in Zicam, both diluted at 2x, which means they're 1% of their original solution strength. The label doesn't indicate the original solution strength and doesn't indicate how much zinc is actually present in the medicine. Zinc is known to improve the immune system, so taking a diluted zinc supplement to stop a cold would, if homeopathy were true, would be the opposite of what you'd want to do. Contrast this with the homeopathic remedy Belladonna, prepared at 30X concentrations (preparation is 1x10^-30 of original concentration) supposedly cures the circulatory system, because in normal concentrations Belladonna causes tachycardia, among other things. [[User:Ioldanach|Ioldanach]] ([[User talk:Ioldanach|talk]]) 14:16, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
:::Any marks for realising why scientists can't replicate homeopathy's results? :)) [[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 21:40, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
::::Maybe Cueball is Sterile?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.89|108.162.215.89]] 00:07, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Can we conclude that the woman is Megan? [[Special:Contributions/67.188.195.182|67.188.195.182]] 21:32, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
:The woman is in fact Megan, I did edit the transcript.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:38, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

I found this explanation of the wording helped: "Traits that cause greater reproductive success of an organism are said to be selected for, whereas those that reduce success are selected against." (From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection) --[[User:Insomniac|Insomniac]] ([[User talk:Insomniac|talk]]) 05:59, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

I find it more likely that the female is [[Danish]], as she has longer hair.--{{User:17jiangz1/signature|09:41, 25 August 2015}}
:Except Danish is actually smart. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.34.106|172.68.34.106]] 20:21, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

I wrote out 1 nonillion, because #1162 also applies to quitters who don't have enough text space to make their point properly. [[User:International Space Station|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station|talk]]) 23:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
:You still used a log scale. That’s approximatwly what place-value system ''is'', as was pointed out in a few What-Ifs. There [[wikipedia:Orders_of_magnitude_(data)|has not been enough hard drive space yet manufactured]] to make your point properly (assuming at least one bit per part water). --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.171|162.158.74.171]] 02:50, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I like homeopathy, and enjoy talking to its proponents. I find it incredibly entertaining.
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.106|108.162.245.106]] 20:51, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

If Semen is mixed long enough with water, especially in lower temperatures (below body heat), sperm will break down and die. So even if cueball got that 1 nonilionth chance of having a sperm cell in there, it would be long dead by now. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.63|162.158.62.63]] 03:30, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

"Homeopathy is the belief that poisons, bacteria, and other harmful substances can actually cure the diseases they normally cause, if they are administered in sufficiently dilute form." Isn't that kind of like a vaccination? (I'm just ragebaiting!)[[Special:Contributions/172.71.164.38|172.71.164.38]]
:From chatgpt:
:Homeopathy is based on two main principles: "like cures like" (substances that cause symptoms in healthy people can treat similar symptoms in sick people) and "law of infinitesimals" (the more diluted a substance is, the more potent it becomes). Homeopathic remedies are typically diluted to such an extreme degree that no molecules of the original substance remain in the final preparation.

:Vaccines, on the other hand, work by exposing the immune system to weakened or inactive parts of a pathogen (or synthetic analogs), triggering the production of antibodies and memory cells. This creates immunity without causing the disease. Importantly:

:Vaccines contain measurable amounts of antigen material that directly stimulate the immune system
:The biological mechanism of vaccines is well-understood and demonstrable
:Vaccines have been rigorously tested in clinical trials showing their effectiveness

:While both approaches might superficially appear to follow a "like treats like" philosophy, vaccines have a clear biological mechanism supported by extensive scientific evidence, whereas homeopathy's proposed mechanisms (like "water memory") contradict established principles of chemistry and physics. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:42, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
::I wasn't going to bother to reply to the ragebaiting, but now I want to say that you don't need to "ask chatgpt" (and, frankly, I still don't trust it to not hallucinate or get the wrong end of the wrong stick) to know that even ''if'' you get any of the "like" (to "cure like"), at the dilution ratios used (which is just part of the problem), vaccinations generally aren't used as direct counter to the thing being vaccinated ("you have dangerous bugs, here have some more dangerous bugs, they'll fight it out, because of... something that's mystical woo-woo") but as a more controlled and controllable 'training scenario'. Ideally ''before'' you catch the bad-bugs, you do the equivalent of throwing a few representative enemies over the city walls (dead, dismembered, tied up or even in the form of a shop manequin dressed in the enemy uniform) with a sign hanging from them saying "Beware, these enemies might be attacking shortly!"⅔...
::Homeopathy is like sending in vague ''rumours'' of what the enemy looks like (maybe "Wanted" posters with questionmarks where a mugshot should be), even while the the real ones are busy rampaging and pillaging through your city. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.216.82|162.158.216.82]] 20:01, 17 April 2025 (UTC)