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		<title>1117: My Sky</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Davidy22 is built for BBC: &lt;/p&gt;
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡿⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣧⢀⣶⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢿⣷⡄⠀⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣇⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠚⠁⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣠⣠⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;{{comic&lt;br /&gt;
| number    = 1117&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = October 5, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = My Sky&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = my_sky.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = According to my mom, my first word was (looking up at the sky) 'Wow!'&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
This comic seems to be a follow up to [[1115: Sky]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last panel refers to {{w|cloud computing}} and specifically {{w|cloud storage}}, and looks like a follow up to [[1032: Networking]]. The obvious joke is that, instead of “cloud” (Internet-based) storage, [[Beret Guy]]'s business is literally storage ''of'' clouds.&lt;br /&gt;
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The title text is a further statement, that his first words came while looking up at the sky. Apparently, [[Randall]] just has a good grasp on what in this universe is awe-inspiring.&lt;br /&gt;
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There are some connections with both [[908: The Cloud]] and the title text of [[1444: Cloud]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[The panel is upside-down. Beret Guy is holding onto the &amp;quot;ceiling&amp;quot;, there is an upside-down cloud at the bottom of the panel.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret guy [to the solitary cumulus cloud.]: Oh—Hello down there! Welcome to My Sky!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:[The panel is now oriented in the conventional sense with the ground at the bottom. Beret Guy is standing on his feet too, and the sky now shows a second cloud.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret guy: It's pretty good. I like it. It's not the same color as ''anything''.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:[The sky is now blanketed by alto-cirrus clouds.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret guy: &amp;quot;Wow! There are a ''lot'' of you! Good thing it's so big.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:[The scene now depicts a party, where Beret Guy is talking to Ponytail.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Ponytail: &amp;quot;And what do ''you'' do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: &amp;quot;I'm in the cloud storage business.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics with color]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Beret Guy's Business]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>2627: Types of Scopes</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Davidy22 is built for BBC: coal revert&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣀⣀⠀⢠⣿⣿⠟⠛⠛⠿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠇⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡿⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣧⢀⣶⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢿⣷⡄⠀⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣾⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣇⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠚⠁⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣠⣠⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡢⡀⢍⡁⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠁⢀⡤⠞⠉⢻⠀⠈⡏⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⠉⠙⡟⠛⡷⢦⣄⠈⢳⠀⠀⠀⠐⠄⡀⠈⠀⠈⣲⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣶⢸⠊⡥⠀⠓⠉⠁⠆⡇⠀⣷⣧⣠⣴⣾⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣧⣀⢠⠀⡎⠀⢀⠉⠡⠄⢡⣂⢀⣾⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣷⣮⣈⡉⢘⠀⠠⢂⠁⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⡜⠁⠀⠈⠐⠦⠂⢸⣷⣿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣶⣧⡄⣶⡉⠄⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠠⢐⠀⣇⣵⣾⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠻⣿⣷⣧⡡⠠⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⣁⠆⣠⣾⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢻⣿⣁⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⣿⠀⠀⢘⣈⢴⣰⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⡈⡵⡀⠀⠻⣿⣧⡈⡿⠛⣻⠋⣉⣠⣿⠃⠀⢄⠰⢀⣿⡿⢩⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⢿⣇⠇⠀⣀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣶⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠆⠀⢨⣿⡿⡁⠇⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣜⢤⣄⣡⢰⣦⣦⣤⣤⠄⢀⠀⣿⣴⡟⠁⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠻⣷⣵⣤⣃⣄⣄⣤⣿⣷⠿⠿⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠙⠋⠉⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣀⣀⠀⢠⣿⣿⠟⠛⠛⠿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠇⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡿⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣧⢀⣶⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢿⣷⡄⠀⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣾⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣇⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠚⠁⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣠⣠⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡢⡀⢍⡁⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠁⢀⡤⠞⠉⢻⠀⠈⡏⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⠉⠙⡟⠛⡷⢦⣄⠈⢳⠀⠀⠀⠐⠄⡀⠈⠀⠈⣲⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣶⢸⠊⡥⠀⠓⠉⠁⠆⡇⠀⣷⣧⣠⣴⣾⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣧⣀⢠⠀⡎⠀⢀⠉⠡⠄⢡⣂⢀⣾⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣷⣮⣈⡉⢘⠀⠠⢂⠁⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⡜⠁⠀⠈⠐⠦⠂⢸⣷⣿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣶⣧⡄⣶⡉⠄⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠠⢐⠀⣇⣵⣾⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠻⣿⣷⣧⡡⠠⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⣁⠆⣠⣾⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢻⣿⣁⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⣿⠀⠀⢘⣈⢴⣰⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⡈⡵⡀⠀⠻⣿⣧⡈⡿⠛⣻⠋⣉⣠⣿⠃⠀⢄⠰⢀⣿⡿⢩⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⢿⣇⠇⠀⣀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣶⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠆⠀⢨⣿⡿⡁⠇⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣜⢤⣄⣡⢰⣦⣦⣤⣤⠄⢀⠀⣿⣴⡟⠁⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠻⣷⣵⣤⣃⣄⣄⣤⣿⣷⠿⠿⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠙⠋⠉⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣀⣀⠀⢠⣿⣿⠟⠛⠛⠿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠇⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡿⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣧⢀⣶⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢿⣷⡄⠀⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣾⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣇⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠚⠁⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣠⣠⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡢⡀⢍⡁⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠁⢀⡤⠞⠉⢻⠀⠈⡏⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⠉⠙⡟⠛⡷⢦⣄⠈⢳⠀⠀⠀⠐⠄⡀⠈⠀⠈⣲⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣶⢸⠊⡥⠀⠓⠉⠁⠆⡇⠀⣷⣧⣠⣴⣾⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣧⣀⢠⠀⡎⠀⢀⠉⠡⠄⢡⣂⢀⣾⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣷⣮⣈⡉⢘⠀⠠⢂⠁⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⡜⠁⠀⠈⠐⠦⠂⢸⣷⣿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣶⣧⡄⣶⡉⠄⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠠⢐⠀⣇⣵⣾⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠻⣿⣷⣧⡡⠠⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⣁⠆⣠⣾⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢻⣿⣁⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⣿⠀⠀⢘⣈⢴⣰⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⡈⡵⡀⠀⠻⣿⣧⡈⡿⠛⣻⠋⣉⣠⣿⠃⠀⢄⠰⢀⣿⡿⢩⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⢿⣇⠇⠀⣀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣶⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠆⠀⢨⣿⡿⡁⠇⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣜⢤⣄⣡⢰⣦⣦⣤⣤⠄⢀⠀⣿⣴⡟⠁⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠻⣷⣵⣤⣃⣄⣄⣤⣿⣷⠿⠿⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠙⠋⠉⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣀⣀⠀⢠⣿⣿⠟⠛⠛⠿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠇⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡿⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣧⢀⣶⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢿⣷⡄⠀⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣾⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣇⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠚⠁⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣠⣠⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡢⡀⢍⡁⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠁⢀⡤⠞⠉⢻⠀⠈⡏⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⠉⠙⡟⠛⡷⢦⣄⠈⢳⠀⠀⠀⠐⠄⡀⠈⠀⠈⣲⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣶⢸⠊⡥⠀⠓⠉⠁⠆⡇⠀⣷⣧⣠⣴⣾⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣧⣀⢠⠀⡎⠀⢀⠉⠡⠄⢡⣂⢀⣾⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣷⣮⣈⡉⢘⠀⠠⢂⠁⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⡜⠁⠀⠈⠐⠦⠂⢸⣷⣿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣶⣧⡄⣶⡉⠄⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠠⢐⠀⣇⣵⣾⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠻⣿⣷⣧⡡⠠⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⣁⠆⣠⣾⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| date      = June 1, 2022&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = arab soyjak&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = Osama bin Laden portrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = :^)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
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-oh my science &amp;quot;examine, inspect, look to or into, consider&amp;quot;. There are many such words in the English language.&lt;br /&gt;
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''Electron microscopes'', ''electron telescopes'' and ''radio telescopes'' are special forms of microscopes and telescopes, respectively. This comic explores what you could do with a hypothetical &amp;quot;electron ___-scope&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;radio ___-scope&amp;quot; for other words also ending in -scope (namely: periscope, stethoscope, kaleidoscope, gyroscope and horoscope). The definition of the word itself (&amp;quot;regular ___-scope&amp;quot;) is also given.&lt;br /&gt;
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The third column often plays on different meanings of the word ''radio:'' 1) related to radiation and 2) a device for receiving radio communication or broadcasts.&lt;br /&gt;
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{| class=&amp;quot;wikitable&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|+ What the words could mean according to the comic&lt;br /&gt;
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! Word !! Regular !! Electron ___ !! Radio ___&lt;br /&gt;
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| Microscope ||  || ''Really exists'' || Simply a microscope for looking at your radio.&lt;br /&gt;
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| Telescope ||  || ''Really exists'' || ''Really exists''&lt;br /&gt;
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| Periscope || Periscopes allow submarine crews to watch what happens above the water surface, without exposing the submarine to enemy observers, or enemy radars. In practice, periscope use is minimized because periscopes are still observable, but to a lesser degree. || An electron microscope seemingly mounted on a periscope. Examining enemy boats like a periscope, with the detail of an electron microsope. This would not be useful in combat. || In principle, the German navy has invented radio periscopes during World War 2. The {{w|Metox radar detector}}'s early antenna had to be built up after surfacing, and dismantled before diving. Later, the fixed ''Bali'' antenna could act like a true periscope, in order to detect aircraft and ships that were using radar to hunt submarines.&lt;br /&gt;
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| Stethoscope&lt;br /&gt;
|| A medical device for listening to sounds made by a patient's body, for example the heart. Has a disc-shaped resonator that is placed against the patient's skin.&lt;br /&gt;
|| If the resonator is emitting electromagnetic radiation, it could burn the skin due to its close proximity.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Normally, the sounds are transmitted to an earpiece that the examiner wears. There are also recording stethoscopes. A radio stethoscope would transmit the sound either directly via radio waves, or send it to a radio station such as NPR where it could then be broadcasted. &lt;br /&gt;
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| Kaleidoscope ||  || Seemingly a pun of electron &amp;quot;collide&amp;quot;-oscope, as electron collisions generate {{w|Bremsstrahlung}}. ||&lt;br /&gt;
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| Gyroscope || Gyroscopes are used for {{w|inertial navigation}}, for example. ||  || In theory, radio waves could be sent around in a triangular pattern, thus replicating the existing {{w|ring laser gyroscope}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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| Horoscope&lt;br /&gt;
|| In common usage, predictions or advice given based on the position of stars and planets. Proven to be unscientific junk.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Predictions based on the position of a particle, such as an electron. In a funny twist, the exact location of an electron cannot be determined, due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.&lt;br /&gt;
|| Predictions or advice given based on the radiation emitted by exploding stars or galaxies. &lt;br /&gt;
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The title text makes a pun on &amp;quot;gyroscope&amp;quot; and the Greek foods {{w|Gyros}} and {{w|Pita}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;{{comic&lt;br /&gt;
| number    = 722&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = April 2, 2010&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Computer Problems&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = computer_problems.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = This is how I explain computer problems to my cat. My cat usually seems happier than me.&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Cueball]] explains to [[Megan]] that he is having computer problems. Normally, he is able to manipulate a &amp;quot;pattern&amp;quot; on his &amp;quot;metal rectangle full of little lights&amp;quot; (a reasonable, if oversimplified description of generated images displayed on a monitor). Today, however, the &amp;quot;pattern&amp;quot; is &amp;quot;all wrong&amp;quot;. Megan suggests that he might be able to fix it by pressing more buttons, but following her advice doesn't seem to have the desired effect.&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the title text, [[Randall]] uses a similar technique to explain his computer problems to his cat. Some cats have the habit to walk over or lay on keyboards (pressing a lot of buttons) or to lie on it (because keyboards of notebooks are designed to dispense heat, which many cats enjoy sleeping on). This is, however, not to fix a &amp;quot;pattern&amp;quot; which they usually don't care about but rather to get the same attention the keyboard receives from the cat's owner. &amp;quot;My cat seems happier than me,&amp;quot; implies that &amp;quot;pressing buttons to make the pattern [of the 'metal rectangle full of lights'] change,&amp;quot; makes a person less happy.&lt;br /&gt;
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As evidenced by both past and future comics, Randall likes to [[1133: Up Goer Five|make an effort]] to explain things for simple minds.&lt;br /&gt;
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Speculatively, Randall may be commenting on the abstract nature of events that effect Cueball's happiness or well being. While the work Cueball does on the computer seems very important to him, the deconstructed version as discussed by Megan and Cueball make his resulting distress seem out of proportion. This interpretation is further supported by the title text in which Randall's cat, unaware of more abstract representations of activity on the computer, enjoys greater happiness overall.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball and Megan are looking at his computer, on the desk.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: You know this metal rectangle full of little lights?&lt;br /&gt;
:Megan: Yeah.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Cueball: I spend most of my life pressing buttons to make the pattern of lights change however I want.&lt;br /&gt;
:Megan: Sounds good.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Cueball: But today, the pattern of lights is ''all wrong''!&lt;br /&gt;
:Megan: Oh god! Try pressing more buttons!&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: ''IT'S NOT HELPING!''&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
*The concept of using simple English to explain complicated problems was first used in [[547: Simple]] &lt;br /&gt;
**and has been revisited in [[1133: Up Goer Five]], [[1322: Winter]], [[1364: Like I'm Five]] [[1436: Orb Hammer]], [[2163: Chernobyl]] and of course [[Thing Explainer]].&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Computers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Simplified language]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Cueball Computer Problems]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>274: With Apologies to The Who</title>
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| number    = 274&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = June 8, 2007&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = With Apologies to The Who&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = with_apologies_to_the_who.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = Trivia: Roger Daltry originally wrote &amp;quot;Don't try an' Digg what we all say&amp;quot; but erased the second &amp;quot;g&amp;quot; when he moved to reddit.&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
This comic refers to the song &amp;quot;{{w|My Generation}}&amp;quot; by the British rock band {{w|The Who}}, which was released in 1965. The song is about {{w|intergenerational conflict}} and has been regarded as a very decided proclamation of youthful rebellion. [[Cueball]] adapts the lyrics to describe his own generation, the {{w|Millennials}}. As people born from the 1980s onwards grew up with the internet, this generation is also nicknamed &amp;quot;{{w|digital natives}}.&amp;quot; It is therefore natural that the updated lyrics should refer to {{w|blogging}} and {{w|internet slang}}. The actions performed by Cueball while typing the text relate to the original [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594WLzzb3JI music video,] in which The Who smash their instruments in true rock star fashion. Cueball wails his keyboard like a guitar and smashes his monitor in the end.&lt;br /&gt;
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The title text jokingly suggests that the band's lead singer {{w|Roger Daltrey}} originally meant the line&lt;br /&gt;
:And don't try and Digg what we all s-s-say&lt;br /&gt;
as a reference to the social news site {{w|Digg}}, but changed it after switching to its competitor {{w|Reddit}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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;Explanation of Terms&lt;br /&gt;
An explanation of the terms in this comic:&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;noobs&amp;quot; is a synonym of &amp;quot;newbie,&amp;quot; which is a person who is new to an online community and is thus often not familiar with the rules and norms of the community. Cueball is suggesting that old people are not competent/familiar with the online realm.&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;the tubes&amp;quot; is likely a reference to the saying {{w|series of tubes}}.&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;grok&amp;quot; is a synonym for &amp;quot;understand.&amp;quot; Cueball is suggesting that people of older generations have difficulty understanding internet slang, which is often true.&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;bloggin'&amp;quot; (blogging) is the act of writing in a {{w|blog}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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;Original Lyrics&lt;br /&gt;
The original lyrics of the song run as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
:People try to put us d-d-down&lt;br /&gt;
:Just because we get around&lt;br /&gt;
:Things they do look awful c-c-cold&lt;br /&gt;
:I hope I die before I get old&lt;br /&gt;
:[...]&lt;br /&gt;
:Why don't you all f-fade away&lt;br /&gt;
:And don't try and dig what we all s-s-say&lt;br /&gt;
:I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation&lt;br /&gt;
:I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation''&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball is sitting at a desk with a computer, typing.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Monitor: People try to shut us d-d-down &lt;br /&gt;
:just 'cause our music gets around&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball is standing on his chair and typing with his keyboard across his hip.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Monitor: Old folks act like total noobs&lt;br /&gt;
:get off our net; &amp;lt;u&amp;gt;you&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt; block the tubes&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball is really wailing on the keyboard.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Monitor: Why don't you all just d-d-disconnect&lt;br /&gt;
:and don't try an' grok our d-d-dialect&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball smashes the keyboard into the monitor.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Monitor: I'm not tryin' to cause a big s-s-sensation &lt;br /&gt;
:I'm just bloggin' 'bout my generation&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
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The song was actually written by guitarist {{w|Pete Townshend}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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Roger Daltrey's name is misspelled as &amp;quot;Daltry&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Internet]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Music]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;| number    = 2498&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = August 4, 2021&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Forest Walk&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = forest_walk.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = 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.&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Megan]] is walking through a wide landscape with [[Beret Guy]] who owns a big part of it. Megan is surprised that he owns such a big property, however, Beret Guy is known for his inexplicable businesses such as in [[1493: Meeting]] and from [[1032: Networking]]; we know he probably has enough resources to be able to buy it. Alternatively, he might have simply inherited it from his mom (see [[502: Dark Flow]]), or may not understand the concept of owning it. Nevertheless, he walks here every day, and from the context of the comic, it seems pretty much no one else comes here.&lt;br /&gt;
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They meet a rather disheveled-looking bearded man hanging from a parachute caught in a tree. The man shakes a stick at them and demands to be helped down to the ground. Beret Guy simply addresses him as &amp;quot;Mister Cooper&amp;quot; and asks if he promises to return the money he took. The man angrily refuses, and Beret Guy casually says he'll see him again tomorrow, suggesting that this conversation has become a daily routine.&lt;br /&gt;
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Megan asks if the man was D. B. Cooper, which Beret Guy immediately confirms. He then comments on an owl nest as another bit of &amp;quot;neat stuff&amp;quot; found on his land, suggesting that he finds Cooper's presence to be just another mildly interesting part of this land.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{w|D. B. Cooper}} is the identity given to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in 1971. He collected a $200,000 ransom (equivalent to $1,250,000 in 2020) and famously donned a parachute and jumped from the plane over the state of Washington. He was never seen or heard from again. Despite lengthy FBI investigations and nationwide publicity, the hijacker was never identified. A few thousand dollars of the ransom money was found in a river, nearly 10 years after the hijacking, but the remainder has never been recovered. The only things known about him are a police composite drawing and the name &amp;quot;Dan Cooper&amp;quot;, under which he had purchased his airline ticket (he was called &amp;quot;D.B.&amp;quot; as a result of a miscommunication with the media, and the name stuck).&lt;br /&gt;
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The high-profile case followed by the never-solved mystery has led to a massive amount of speculation as to his identity, background, and what became of him. Many consider the most likely scenario to be that he didn't survive the parachute jump, and simply crashed somewhere that his body was never found. Others imagine that he escaped with the money and simply managed to evade capture.&lt;br /&gt;
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The comic is insinuating that, after leaping from the plane, he got entangled in a tree in Beret Guy's land, and has been there ever since. &lt;br /&gt;
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Uncanny situations are nothing new to Beret Guy since he possesses [[:Category:Strange_powers_of_Beret_Guy|many strange powers]]. Hence, the concept of a famous criminal hanging from a tree for nearly 50 years doesn't seem any more interesting to him than an owl's nest. In keeping with the typical bizarre-ness of Beret Guy's life, it isn't explained how a man could survive for half a century hanging from a tree, why he'd choose to remain trapped there for his entire life rather than return money that he's in no position to spend, or why Beret Guy wouldn't simply report his whereabouts to the police.  All of these are simply accepted as unremarkable realities of life, for him.  &lt;br /&gt;
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D. B. Cooper was already referenced by Randall in [[1400: D.B. Cooper]], [[1501: Mysteries]] and [[2452: Aviation Firsts]].&lt;br /&gt;
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The title text may refer to the linguist from [[2390: Linguists]] who is more interested in the linguistic nuances that people use than in actually responding to their call for assistance. It is not known how many others have walked through Beret Guy's land, in the interim, or whether it is their nature or the general aura from Beret Guy, but the linguist did not much more than ponder the phrase &amp;quot;help me down&amp;quot;. Megan also seems in no particular hurry to intervene.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[Megan and Beret Guy are walking through a landscape with spread-out trees and grass and puddles on the ground.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Megan: Wow, this is all yours?&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: Yeah! All the way back to the river!&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: I walk here every day.&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Megan still walks towards Beret Guy who has now stopped and is looking up while speaking to a man hanging in a tree in front of them. The man has long wild hair and a large beard. He hangs from his parachute which has been folded around a large branch sticking out from beneath the top of the tree. He is holding a long stick of some sort, seemingly attempting to threaten Beret Guy, as the stick and his legs are vibrating as indicated with small lines.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: Morning, Mister Cooper!&lt;br /&gt;
:Cooper: You help me down '''''this instant!'''''&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Pan down to show only Beret Guy and nothing else. Cooper replies from off-panel from the top corner.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: Do you promise to give back all the money you took?&lt;br /&gt;
:Cooper [off-panel]: '''''Never!'''''&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: Okay! See you tomorrow!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:[Megan and Beret Guy continue walking through the landscape with three small trees behind them, as well as grass, rocks, and a small puddle. Megan looks back over her shoulder towards where Cooper is hanging.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Megan: Was that D.B. Cooper?&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: Yeah, and up ahead there's an owl nest!&lt;br /&gt;
:Beret Guy: There's so much neat stuff here.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring D. B. Cooper]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Animals]] &amp;lt;!-- Owls nest --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Squirrels]] &amp;lt;!-- Title text --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Language]] &amp;lt;!-- Title text --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Strange_powers_of_Beret_Guy]] &amp;lt;!-- Arguable. But indefinitely sustaining the life of a suspended and exposed fugitive from justice could be one. Persuading at least one (or now two) other visitors to be unconcerned, to the extent of probably never speaking of it to anyone else, might be another. --&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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| number    = 2107&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = February 4, 2019&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Launch Risk&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = launch_risk.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = Don't worry--you're less likely to die from a space launch than from a shark attack. The survival rate is pretty high for both!&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
This comic deals with the faulty application of general statistics based on a large population, such as all Americans, to specific situations with vastly different statistics, such as astronauts.&lt;br /&gt;
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A manned rocket ship is about to be launched into space. Mission control counts down from &amp;quot;T-minus 20,&amp;quot; where &amp;quot;T&amp;quot; stands for the time at which the rocket is scheduled to launch. In the capsule, one astronaut asks another how they are feeling. The second admits that they are nervous. The first one offers a supposedly reassuring observation that they are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be selected to become an astronaut.  Such comparisons are commonly used to illustrate that a particular probability is very small, and therefore not worth worrying about.&lt;br /&gt;
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The second astronaut is about to agree that they have a good point, but then realizes the problem with their argument: the likelihood of being ''selected as an astronaut'' is a moot point, because they both ''already'' '''''are''''' astronauts. The comparison ignores the relevant concern, which is the danger involved in ''being'' an astronaut and launching into space. The second astronaut's nervousness is understandable as space missions are historically quite dangerous, and have numerous avenues for potentially fatal failure, certainly far beyond the minuscule risk of being struck by lightning, approximately [https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-odds 1 in 14,600 throughout your entire life].&lt;br /&gt;
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The title text creates additional confusion by referencing another common statistical reference point, the probability of dying in a shark attack. In addition to shark attacks being uncommon, they are also less likely to kill their victim than is commonly assumed. Still, while shark attacks are more frequently fatal than rocket launches, this comparison is once again useless, as the astronaut is not in any danger of sharks, but is literal seconds from launching into space. The astronaut is presumably not especially reassured by the &amp;quot;pretty high&amp;quot; survival rate.&lt;br /&gt;
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Of the 557 people who who have been in Earth orbit, 18 (3%) have died in related accidents, not specifically at launch ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents], [https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/stats.php Astronaut/Cosmonaut Statistics]).  Of the 93 incidents logged for 2018 in the [http://www.sharkattackfile.net/index.htm Global Shark Attack File], 4 (4.3%) were fatal, but the statistic has been higher in the past when there was likely less education against provoking sharks.&lt;br /&gt;
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A large metal rocket, such as depicted would be more likely to be struck by lightning than nearby structures.  However launch controllers generally monitor weather carefully to reduce the chances of attempting to launch when lightning is likely.&lt;br /&gt;
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A spacecraft launch can also trigger lightning, by creating a conductive path through electrically charged clouds.  Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice during the launch phase. Thankfully backup systems allowed the flight to proceed. For more information, see [https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/9-12/features/F_Lightning_and_Launches_9_12.html NASA: Lightning and Launches]&lt;br /&gt;
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The perceived value of risk is a recurring topic and is also featured in [[795: Conditional Risk]] and [[1252: Increased Risk]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[A large spaceship rocket is standing on it's launchpad, just decoupled from the tower that supports it ready for launch. At the very top of the rocket where the astronauts are sitting there are two lines coming out, indicating the speak from the two astronauts inside the rocket. Next to the top of the rocket there is a speech bubble drawn with jagged line indicating sound from a loudspeaker. It is the countdown to the launch.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Astronaut 1: How you feeling?&lt;br /&gt;
:Astronaut 2: Honestly, pretty nervous.&lt;br /&gt;
:Astronaut 1: I know it seems dangerous, but just remember: you're more likely to be struck by ''lightning'' than to be selected to become an astronaut.&lt;br /&gt;
:Astronaut 2: Oh that's a good-&lt;br /&gt;
:Astronaut 2: ...Wait.&lt;br /&gt;
:Countdown: T-Minus 20...19...&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trivia==&lt;br /&gt;
*During the time that this comic was on the front page of xkcd, the [[Design_of_xkcd.com#Header|Header text]] changed to [[Design_of_xkcd.com#2019-02-06|promote]] Randall's new book ''[[How To]]''.&lt;br /&gt;
**As this could also be seen as a launch (a book launch) with certain risks, there could be some relation to putting it up together with this comic.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Statistics]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Space]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Sharks]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;{{comic&lt;br /&gt;
| number    = 1086&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = July 25, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Eyelash Wish Log&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = eyelash wish log.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = Ooh, another one. Uh... the ability to alter any coefficients of friction at will during sporting events.&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
This comic is based on a common {{w|superstition}} that when someone's {{w|eyelash}} falls out, that person can make a wish on it. This comic appears to be a page from the fictitious Wish Bureau in charge of granting said wishes. And of course the wisher is [[Black Hat]] and he has quite a few wishes, most of them based on the previous wish. A common trope in fiction is that wishing for more wishes is prohibited and for many of his wishes Black Hat attempts to circumvent that.&lt;br /&gt;
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;January 9: That wishing on eyelashes worked&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish is pointless. If wishing on eyelashes worked, then this would do absolutely nothing (because it already works) and if it didn't then nothing would happen because wishing on eyelashes wouldn't work.&lt;br /&gt;
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;January 12: A pony&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish functions as a test to see whether or not previous wish worked. It can be assumed that it did, as Black Hat then continued to make additional wishes. Wishing for a pony is a stereotypical wish made by very young girls; since Black Hat is an adult man (with a very dark sense of humor), the contrast is humorous.&lt;br /&gt;
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;January 15: Unlimited wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*This appears to have failed, due to the traditional ban on wishing for additional wishes in conventional folklore.&lt;br /&gt;
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;January 19: Revocation of rules prohibiting unlimited wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*An attempt to circumvent the ban in the previous wish by wishing the ban away.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;January 20: A finite but arbitrarily large number of wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*Another attempt to circumvent the ban on unlimited wishes by asking for a number of wishes that is limited, but as large as he likes (and there are some very large finite numbers out there, such as {{w|Graham's number}}).&lt;br /&gt;
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;January 28: The power to dictate the rules governing wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*Yet another attempt to circumvent the ban on unlimited wishes.&lt;br /&gt;
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;February 5: Unlimited eyelashes&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish likely caused Black Hat to grow unlimited eyelashes, which could be quite inconvenient and painful. And, yes, one more attempt to circumvent the ban on unlimited wishes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;February 6: That wish-granting entities be required to interpret wishes in accordance with the intent of the wisher&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish is likely a response to the previous day's misguided wish. It's actually quite a common problem that people making wishes leave them open for misinterpretation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;February 8: That wish-granting entities be incapable of impatience&lt;br /&gt;
:*An attempt to prevent whatever being is powerful enough to grant wishes from becoming angry with Black Hat while he gives very specific instructions so wish-granting entities cannot misinterpret what he said. (It would appear that the previous wish failed.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;February 12 #1: Unlimited breadsticks&lt;br /&gt;
:*The first wish of this day seems to be a reference to the unlimited {{w|breadsticks}} offered at {{w|Olive Garden}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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;February 12 #2: Veto power over others' wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*A power that could be interesting to have. It also very much fits with Black Hat's character.&lt;br /&gt;
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;February 19: Veto power over others' wishes and all {{w|United States Congress|congressional}} legislation&lt;br /&gt;
:*An improvement of the previous wish. This would be very interesting to have indeed, especially if you are Black Hat, because you could veto any federal law, a power normally entrusted only to the {{w|President of the United States}}.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;February 23: The power to override any veto&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish would allow Black Hat to override vetoes which in addition to the previous wish would effectively make him control the US legislature and, to some extent, also all other governing bodies. (Notably the {{w|United Nations|UN}}, where the veto powers wielded by the five {{w|permanent members of the Security Council}} cannot be overridden and can have large impacts on global politics.) Note that it will not allow him to turn laws off (veto them) and on again (override the veto) at any moment, as once a bill becomes law it cannot be vetoed. Without the ability to propose legislation, Black Hat's powers are still limited. The wish may also refer back to the February 19 wish: by granting himself veto power over wishes, Black Hat just made vetoes more powerful than wishes; now he is trying to control other people's vetoes as well, lest they one-up him.&lt;br /&gt;
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;February 27: The power to see where any {{w|URL shortener|shortened URL}} goes without clicking&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish relates to a common practice especially in tweets or other short length media where full-length meaningful web addresses such as &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;www.somewhere.com/articles/specificdate/title-of-the-page.html&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; would not be feasible. So a more compressed but nonsensical string of seemingly random characters is used which links to a link of the full text address. This creates some problems for people who are security or privacy conscious and prefer to be informed beforehand where they will be traveling on the Internet. The use of shortened URLs is also central to many types of {{w|Rickrolling|trolls or practical jokes}} (see [https://bit.ly/IqT6zt &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;bit.ly/IqT6zt&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;] for an example), by directing someone to a different location than the link would initially suggest. Thus Black Hat might be wishing to be able to tell where the links go for the purpose of avoiding this sort of trolling.&lt;br /&gt;
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;February 29: The power to control the direction news anchors are looking while they talk&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish likely appeals to Black Hat's mischievous side, allowing him to cause news anchors to look at the wrong camera during live broadcast. Repeatedly switching to the incorrect camera would cause havoc in the studio. Additionally, Black Hat may also attempt to get a news anchor fired by having them stare where they should not such as a female anchor's breasts.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;March 7: The power to introduce arbitrary error into Nate Silver's predictions&lt;br /&gt;
:*A reference to {{w|Nate Silver}}, who is a former writer for {{w|Baseball Prospectus}} working on predicting baseball players' stats and now writes for ''{{w|Five Thirty Eight}}'' in which he predicts the outcome of elections based on polling data. Influencing Nate Silver's predictions would allow Black Hat to indirectly influence the result of elections, by adjusting the {{w|Overton window}} of which candidates and policies are considered to have &amp;quot;broad public support&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;electability&amp;quot; or the like. This would tighten the Black Hat's control of the US even more.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;March 15: A house of stairs&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish refers to the {{w|lithograph}} ''{{w|House of Stairs}}'' by {{w|M. C. Escher}}, or perhaps another of his lithographs, ''{{w|Relativity (M. C. Escher)|Relativity}}''.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;March 23: A universe which is a replica of this one sans rules against meta-wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*Another attempt to circumvent the rules against wishing for more wishes by creating a {{w|parallel universe}} without such rules.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;March 29: Free transportation to and from that universe&lt;br /&gt;
:*While the previous wish may have worked, Black Hat notes a problem with it: he is still in our universe with no way to get to his new one.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;April 2: A clear explanation of how wish rules are structured and enforced&lt;br /&gt;
:*It appears that one or both of the previous two wishes failed, so Black Hat tries to discover exactly what is offending the Bureau. Having clear rules and how they work helps anyone finding loopholes in them.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;April 7: The power to banish people into the TV show they are talking about&lt;br /&gt;
:*Black hat is obviously fed up of hearing people talking about certain TV shows, and would like to be able to banish them into the show, thus prevent him having to listen to those people. Depending on the show in question, it could be quite horrifying for the person getting banished.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;April 8: Zero wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*An attempt to hack the wish-granting system by using a quite common vulnerability in input validation: an unexpected value. There may be multiple vectors this can work:&lt;br /&gt;
::* in many computer systems, 0 is reserved for unlimited or undefined&lt;br /&gt;
::* in Assembly languages, do-while loops are more efficient than while loops, but famously do not check their condition on the first iteration. This means that 0 is effectively 256 for 8 bit counters, 65536 for 16 bits, etc. If the wish granter wrote the wish laws in assembly and used this optimization, initializing the wish count to zero would give him a large number of wishes dependent on the size of the counter.&lt;br /&gt;
::* the number may be used as a divisor in some equation and this will make the system {{w|divide by zero}} and probably crash&lt;br /&gt;
::* there also may be an assertion like &amp;quot;&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;number of wishes granted == 1&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;&amp;quot; which would fail, again crashing the system&lt;br /&gt;
::* similarly, if viewed as a computer system, it is possible that the wish decrement (subtracting 1 from the number of remaining wishes) is performed ''after'' the wish is granted, thus resulting in either &amp;amp;minus;1 wishes (another common placeholder for unlimited numbers), or an {{w|integer overflow}} if the wish counter is stored as an unsigned integer; the overflow can result in an exception, otherwise &amp;amp;minus;1 becomes represented as one less than the size of the integer – basically, an extremely large number.&lt;br /&gt;
::However it seems the eyelash wish-granting system does proper input validation on zero because it did not crash or grant unlimited wishes&lt;br /&gt;
:*This wish may also be a reversal of the January 9 wish. Black Hat is attempting to win his game by introducing a {{w|logical contradiction}}: if he gets &amp;quot;zero wishes&amp;quot;, this is one wish granted; however, if it is not granted, then, de facto, he will have been granted zero wishes. This is a common technique used in logical proofs to show that an earlier assumption does not hold (in this case, the possibility of eyelash wishing to work).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;April 15: Veto power over clocks&lt;br /&gt;
:*Midnight, April 15 is the deadline for filing income tax returns in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
:*It may also be that Black Hat, now in control of all human legislation, is attempting to extend this to further control also rules of nature – in this case: time. The strange wording is likely to be due to Black Hat having consulted with the wish-hacking manual he acquired April 2.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
;April 22: A Pokéball that works on strangers' pets&lt;br /&gt;
:*A reference to the {{w|Pokémon}} series of video games. A Pokéball can be thrown at a Pokémon (or in this case, a pet that the Pokéball thrower finds either annoying or cute) to capture it and achieve ownership of it. Unless cheats are used (and in {{w|Pokémon Colosseum}}, in which a criminal organisation uses illegally modified pokeballs), Pokéballs cannot be used on Pokémon owned by other people in the Pokémon games . Many players wish to obtain the often high-level Pokémon of NPCs, and Black Hat may also be interested in pranking other players by stealing their powerful Pokémon. This was later revealed to be one of Randall's wishes in the title text of [[1705|1705: Pokémon Go]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The title text, a wish to have control over coefficients of friction during sporting events, is yet another mischievous wish. The coefficients of friction, though usually not noticed as they are unchanging, are all-important when performing physical activities — imagine trying to play hockey on a field of sandpaper or sprinting over a sheet of ice. In addition to the difficulty going where you want or getting any balls that might be in play where you want them to go in a changing friction environment, angular momentum would also be very difficult to control.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Note that when Black Hat makes meta-wishes no follow-up wishes are logged. Since the meta-wishes failed, no valid eyelash wish condition existed and the illegal test wishes were not logged in the eyelash wish log.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
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! align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot; colspan=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; |&amp;lt;font size=&amp;quot;+1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Eyelash Wish Log&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-style=&amp;quot;color: gray;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;right&amp;quot;|Wish bureau ID#:&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;right&amp;quot;|21118378&lt;br /&gt;
|-style=&amp;quot;color: gray;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;right&amp;quot;|Date range:&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|align=&amp;quot;right&amp;quot;|Jan-Apr 2012&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
:[a picture of Black Hat is above text saying Wisher]&lt;br /&gt;
:{|&lt;br /&gt;
!align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;50px&amp;quot;|Date&lt;br /&gt;
!align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;|Wish&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Jan 09&lt;br /&gt;
|That wishing on eyelashes worked&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Jan 12&lt;br /&gt;
|A pony&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Jan 15&lt;br /&gt;
|Unlimited wishes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Jan 19&lt;br /&gt;
|Revocation of rules prohibiting unlimited wishes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Jan 20&lt;br /&gt;
|A finite but arbitrarily large number of wishes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Jan 28&lt;br /&gt;
|The power to dictate the rules governing wishes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 05&lt;br /&gt;
|Unlimited eyelashes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 06&lt;br /&gt;
|That wish-granting entities be required to interpret wishes in&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;accordance with the intent of the wisher&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 08&lt;br /&gt;
|That wish-granting entities be incapable of impatience&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 12&lt;br /&gt;
|Unlimited breadsticks&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 12&lt;br /&gt;
|Veto power over others' wishes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 19&lt;br /&gt;
|Veto power over others' wishes and all congressional legislation&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 23&lt;br /&gt;
|The power to override any veto&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 27&lt;br /&gt;
|The power to see where any shortened URL goes without clicking&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Feb 29&lt;br /&gt;
|The power to control the direction news anchors are looking while they talk&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Mar 07&lt;br /&gt;
|The power to introduce arbitrary error into Nate Silver's predictions&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Mar 15&lt;br /&gt;
|A house of stairs&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Mar 23&lt;br /&gt;
|A universe which is a replica of this one sans rules against meta-wishes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Mar 29&lt;br /&gt;
|Free transportation to and from that universe&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Apr 02&lt;br /&gt;
|A clear explanation of how wish rules are structured and enforced&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Apr 07&lt;br /&gt;
|The power to banish people into the TV show they're talking about&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Apr 08&lt;br /&gt;
|Zero wishes&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Apr 15&lt;br /&gt;
|Veto power over clocks&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Apr 22&lt;br /&gt;
|A Pokéball that works on strangers' pets&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Comics featuring Nate Silver]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Pokémon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Time]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Animals]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Video games]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>981: Porn Folder</title>
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&lt;div&gt;⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣀⣀⠀⢠⣿⣿⠟⠛⠛⠿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⠇⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡿⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣧⢀⣶⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢿⣷⡄⠀⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣾⡿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠋⠙⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣇⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠚⠁⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣠⣠⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⡢⡀⢍⡁⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⠁⢀⡤⠞⠉⢻⠀⠈⡏⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⠉⠙⡟⠛⡷⢦⣄⠈⢳⠀⠀⠀⠐⠄⡀⠈⠀⠈⣲⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣶⢸⠊⡥⠀⠓⠉⠁⠆⡇⠀⣷⣧⣠⣴⣾⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣧⣀⢠⠀⡎⠀⢀⠉⠡⠄⢡⣂⢀⣾⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣷⣮⣈⡉⢘⠀⠠⢂⠁⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⡜⠁⠀⠈⠐⠦⠂⢸⣷⣿⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣶⣧⡄⣶⡉⠄⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠠⢐⠀⣇⣵⣾⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠻⣿⣷⣧⡡⠠⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⣁⠆⣠⣾⣿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢻⣿⣁⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⣿⠀⠀⢘⣈⢴⣰⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⡈⡵⡀⠀⠻⣿⣧⡈⡿⠛⣻⠋⣉⣠⣿⠃⠀⢄⠰⢀⣿⡿⢩⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⢿⣇⠇⠀⣀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣶⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠆⠀⢨⣿⡿⡁⠇⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣜⢤⣄⣡⢰⣦⣦⣤⣤⠄⢀⠀⣿⣴⡟⠁⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠻⣷⣵⣤⣃⣄⣄⣤⣿⣷⠿⠿⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠙⠋⠉⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;{{comic&lt;br /&gt;
| number    = 981&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = November 23, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Porn Folder&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = porn_folder.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = Eww, gross, you modified link()? How could you enjoy abusing a filesystem like that?&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Cueball]] seems to have found a porn folder. However, it contains a directory loop, set up by a person off-screen. It is possible to actually do this, but it is widely regarded as a very bad idea, as it can break the system in not-so-obvious ways (mostly by causing seemingly-trivial operations to infinite loop). The implication is that the folder does not need to contain pornographic images because the folder ''is'' the porn—its violation of the taboo against looping is something the off-screen character finds erotic.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;link()&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; is the Linux system call to create a hard link. In an unmodified Linux kernel, it will not allow directory hard links for this exact reason; the person who set up the porn folder apparently &amp;quot;forced&amp;quot; Linux to comply, with all of the sexual analogies that suggests.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball sits at a desk, looking at a laptop screen with one hand on his chin.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: So I thought I found your porn folder, in calendar/backup/PORN/&lt;br /&gt;
:Friend (off screen): Don't open that!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:[A wider shot of the person looking at the laptop.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: But it contains a bunch more folders, filled with more folders, and then... after 20 levels, somehow I'm back at the main folder?&lt;br /&gt;
:Friend (off screen): It's, uh, well hidden.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball has turned around in the chair, now with the laptop in his lap.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: I think there's no actual porn here.&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: You're just turned on by filesystems.&lt;br /&gt;
:Friend (off screen): It's a hardlinked directory loop - so taboo!&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: Now I feel dirty sharing a drive with you.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Computers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Recursion]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Linux]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Language]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>928: Mimic Octopus</title>
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| number    = 928&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = July 22, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Mimic Octopus&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = mimic_octopus.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = Even if the dictionaries are starting to give in, I refuse to accept 'octopi' as a word mainly because--I'm not making this up--there's a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel 'Lost Boys' which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralization.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
This comic is a parody of fish and sea-life identification charts, referencing the {{w|mimic octopus}} which, as the name implies, is able to mimic other animals, so all animals and objects found in the sea could actually just be such an animal. &lt;br /&gt;
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The identification chart for South East Asian sea life shows 13 creatures mimicked including eight individual fish (two of which are not yet recognized) and other objects and animals. In order, top-to-bottom, left-to-right: A {{w|Moorish idol}} (Gill, from ''{{w|Finding Nemo}})'', unknown, a {{w|rockfish}}, a {{w|clownfish}}, unknown, a {{w|lionfish}}, a {{w|shark}}, a {{w|crinoid|sea lily}}, an {{w|angler fish}}, an {{w|anchor}}, a {{w|submarine}}, a {{w|scuba diver}} and {{w|Shoaling and schooling|school of 11 fish}}. Finally there is an {{w|octopus}}, but rather than being the mimic octopus in its natural form it's actually two of them each mimicing part of an octupus.&lt;br /&gt;
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The {{w|Orson Scott Card}} novel that the title text refers to is ''{{w|Lost Boys (novel)|Lost Boys}}'': &amp;quot;A withdrawn eight-year-old in a troubled family invents imaginary friends who bear the names of missing children&amp;quot; (Publisher's Weekly). The part of the story that [[Randall]] is referring to (Chapter 7, Crickets) involves a situation where the protagonist, Stevie, is given a C grade for an otherwise impeccable diorama featuring underwater animals involving clay sculptures (when only a poster would have sufficed) and a well-written presentation supposedly because the other children had destroyed the diorama before the end of the day. To make matters worse, his teacher, Ms. Jones, had made fun of his project and given the ribbon for first prize to someone else. &lt;br /&gt;
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On inquiring about, his father, Step, found out that the principal, Dr. Mariner, had already made the decision to hand Stevie the blue ribbon for first prize as she had reviewed the project before it had been destroyed, but Ms. Jones had secretly overruled her behind her back by announcing that another child (JJ) would receive the ribbon. So, the next day he met up with Ms Jones after school to have a word on the grading of his project. Needless to say, they ended up arguing about minor issues, with Mrs. Jones justifying the reason for her decision on, among other things, the definition of a 'depiction', whether or not the amount of content was defined by the word count or the number of pages and of the importance of putting the report in a plastic cover. The argument finally comes to a head when Step points out that there was only one red mark on the project report, and that concerned an 'incorrect' pluralization of the word 'octopus' &lt;br /&gt;
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:“But Mrs. Jones, surely you know that the plural of “octopus” is either ‘octopus’, with nothing added, or ‘octopuses’.”&lt;br /&gt;
:“I think not,” said Mrs. Jones.&lt;br /&gt;
:“Think again, Mrs. Jones.”&lt;br /&gt;
:She must have realized that she was not on firm ground here. “Perhaps ‘octopuses’ is an alternate plural, but I’m sure that ‘octopi’ is the preferred.”&lt;br /&gt;
:“No, Mrs. Jones. If you had looked it up, you would have discovered that ‘octopi’ is not the preferred spelling. It is not a spelling at all. '''The word does not exist, except in the mouths of those who are pretending to be educated but in fact are not.''' This is because the ‘us’ ending of ‘octopus’ is not a Latin nominative singular ending, which would form its plural by changing to the letter ‘i’. Instead, the syllable ‘pus’ in ‘octopus’ is the Greek word for ‘foot.’ And it forms its plural the Greek way. Therefore ‘octopoda’, not ‘octopi’. Never ‘octopi’.”&lt;br /&gt;
:“Well, then, octopoda. Your son’s paper said octopuses.”&lt;br /&gt;
:“I know,” said Step. “When he asked me the correct plural, I told him octopoda. But then he was still uncertain, because my son doesn’t think he knows something until he knows it, and so he looked it up. And to my surprise, octopoda is only used when referring to more than one species of octopus, rather than when referring to more than one actual octopus. What Stevie put in his paper is in fact the preferred dictionary usage. Which you would have known, too, if you had looked it up.”&lt;br /&gt;
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After proving his case that his son did indeed deserve an A grade, he then threatened to bring the matter to the attention of the principal. He then warned Mrs Jones that while he wanted the grade to remain unchanged, he wanted her to inform the class that the ribbon would be awarded to Stevie, before revealing that he had been recording the conversation all along. And, after this, after Mrs Jones came crying for forgiveness before leaving, Step realized how vulnerable she was and how she was channeling her frustration at one particular student in each class to find some relief from that.&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk Merriam-Webster Dictionary], 'octopi', 'octopuses', and 'octopodes' (UK English) are all correct plural versions of &amp;quot;octopus.&amp;quot; Supposedly, Randall would very much like the word 'octopi' to remain unrecognized by major dictionaries as otherwise it would lessen the magnitude of the climactic conclusion of this argument by rendering Step's mockery of Ms. Jones' perceived intellectual superiority factually invalid. This also offers another reason why the octopus in the chart is named ''two mimic octopuses'', so Randall can use the correct pluralization of the word in the comic. This is an example of a comic where the title text seems more important to Randall than the actual comic.&lt;br /&gt;
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It should be noted that, at least according to [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=octopus Etymology Dictonary], Octopi is wrong for exactly the reasons that Step lists and first appears over 60 years later.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Identification Chart&lt;br /&gt;
:[The chart consist of 14 black silhouettes which includes eight individual fish and several other object/animals. From top left: A Moorish idol, unknown fish, a rockfish, a clownfish, unknown fish, a lionfish, a shark, a sea lily, an w|angler fish, an anchor with chain, a submarine, a scuba diver, a school of seven large and four small fish, and and at the bottom right a silhouette of an octopus displaying eight arms and a tilted head with large white eyes. All 14 are labeled the same except the octopus:]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>1505: Ontological Argument</title>
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| number    = 1505&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = March 30, 2015&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Ontological Argument&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = ontological argument.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = A God who holds the world record for eating the most skateboards is greater than a God who does not hold that record.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
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{{w|Ontology}} is the study of {{w|being}}, {{w|reality}}, and {{w|existence}}. “The {{w|ontological argument}}” is an attempt at proving the existence of {{w|God}} through reasoning about the {{w|nature}} of “being”.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Megan]]'s statement in the comic is likely a reference to what is considered the first ontological argument, that of 11th Century philosopher {{w|Anselm of Canterbury}}. His argument starts by defining God as “that than which nothing greater can be {{w|concept|conceive}}d”. Another step in the argument is that you can conceive of such a being even if you don't believe it exists. Yet another step is the statement that a being, of which one can conceive, and which exists, is certainly greater than a being of which one can conceive and which does not exist. Implicit in the argument are two essential premises, both of which are controversial.  These are a) that the existence of such a being is possible, and b) that existence is a great-making quality.&lt;br /&gt;
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The comic makes fun of Anselm's ontological argument by extending to absurdity the claim that a being who exists is greater than one who does not exist, and that therefore God must exist. A God who can disprove the ontological argument must be greater than one who cannot disprove the ontological argument, therefore the ontological argument proves the existence of a God that disproves it. This argument, though a joke, carries some weight. If Anselm's argument is sound, then disproving it is impossible, and God cannot do it.  But if doing things is a great-making quality (a common assumption), then surely doing impossible things would be an even stronger great-making quality. Therefore the argument is able to be disproven, albeit only by God, which contradicts the initial premise that the argument is sound. Therefore, either doing things is not great-making, or the entire ontological argument is invalid reasoning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[title text]] carries the absurdity a step further.&lt;br /&gt;
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The comic also may be drawing an analogy to the {{w|omnipotence paradox}}, as it also refers to the idea that God's power would be greater if He could do the logically impossible. If [[Randall]] believes that Anselm's ontological argument is logically sound and based on true premises, then he should think it is impossible to disprove. Therefore, he references the omnipotence paradox by requiring that God do such an impossible thing in order to have maximally great power.&lt;br /&gt;
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A popular parody of the ontological argument is that of {{w|Richard Dawkins}}, in his best-selling book “{{w|The God Delusion}}”. His parody is a version of the argument which attempts to prove that God does not exist. It is similar in approach to this comic and to the omnipotence paradox, in that it also requires a God that can do the logically impossible. In Dawkins' version—[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontological_argument&amp;amp;oldid=691165762#Douglas_Gasking borrowed from the Australian philosopher Douglas Gasking]—God's greatness is demonstrated by his creation of the world. A being that somehow overcomes the great handicap of not existing and goes on to create the world would certainly be greater than a being that exists and creates the world. Therefore God, who by definition is “that than which nothing greater can be conceived”, must not exist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Another, rather more famous parody, but which is entirely unrelated to the comic in approach, is that of {{w|Gaunilo of Marmoutiers}}, in which he argues for the existence of a maximally great island. This parody, added to the comic, seems to tell us what happened to the legendary {{w|Atlantis}}. It is worth noting that Anselm himself rebutted Gaunilo's argument, claiming that it was based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Anselm's original argument.&lt;br /&gt;
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Not all ontological arguments for the existence of God rely on the notion that a God that exists is greater than one that does not exist. Examples include the modal ontological argument from {{w|Alvin Plantinga}}, and {{w|Gödel's ontological proof}}. {{w|Graham Oppy}}, an authority on ontological arguments, attempts to classify [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/ here] what exactly makes arguments ontological; he concludes that it is that they are a priori in nature. He also classifies them into eight categories: {{w|definitional}}, conceptual, modal, {{w|Meinongian}}, {{w|experiential}}, {{w|mereology|mereological}}, higher order, and {{w|Hegelian}}.&lt;br /&gt;
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This comic, in particular in the way Megan and [[Cueball]] are walking and in its reference to theology, greatly resembles the earlier comic [[1315: Questions for God]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
:[Megan and Cueball are walking side-by-side.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Megan: ...but wouldn't a God who could find a flaw in the ontological argument be even '''''greater?'''''&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
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