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<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 3006<br /> | date = November 1, 2024<br /> | title = Demons<br /> | image = demons_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 285x458px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a DEMI-DEMONIC DOORMAN - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> {{w|Maxwell's demon}} is a thought experiment devised by {{w|James Clerk Maxwell}} that appears to refute the {{w|second law of thermodynamics}}, which roughly says that heat always flows from hotter regions to colder. In the thought experiment, two chambers, both containing a gas at the same temperature, have a door between them. A being (later called a demon by {{w|Lord Kelvin}}) lets only fast-moving gas molecules move from the first chamber to the second, and only slow-moving ones move from the second chamber to the first. The second chamber's gas gradually warms as the average speed of its molecules increases, and the first chamber's gas likewise cools, apparently contradicting the second law. However, the actions of such a demon would use up at least the amount of energy that could later be extracted from having a gas separated into hot and cold parts, so such a demon could not gain energy and Maxwell's demon does not break the second law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics is a fairly common theme in xkcd, last being mentioned in [[2848: Breaker Box]].<br /> <br /> This demon behaves very differently from mythological {{w|demons}}, which exist in the afterlife (usually some form of {{w|hell}}) and punish evil humans after death by causing them great suffering, as for example boiling them in oil or casting them into flame pits. In this comic, [[Randall]] jokes that if such a demon were to encounter more stereotypical mythological ones, he would probably not fit in very well, and would inevitably propose treating humans like the particles of the thought experiment. While a few physics-savvy humans might feel offended by such treatment{{Citation needed}}, for most the suffering would stem from the anxiety of knowing that, once they choose to cross the door, they are not allowed to return for all eternity. This modern psychological approach to torture stands out from ancient techniques of physical torture such as being boiled in oil or cast into a flame pit.<br /> <br /> The title text continues the joke by suggesting that while Maxwell's demon's idea for torturing the souls of the damned might seem whimsical to the other demons, it could still be used to heat the flame pits better. The other demons' appreciation of this technical improvement mirrors real-life situations where kids that &quot;have trouble fitting in with the others&quot; due to their unusual ideas for games and atypical interests (e.g., in thermodynamics) occasionally earn some appreciation when their cleverness is found to be useful.<br /> <br /> This comic was published on 1 November, 2024, the day after Halloween, around the time when many contemporary comic strips have demonic, supernatural or other spooky themes.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Three demons, Cueball-like in general appearance but with horns and pointed tails, are standing together while surrounded by flames. The leftmost demon is holding a pitchfork and the next one has his hands down. They are looking at the third to the right standing a bit apart from them. This last demon, Maxwell's demon as given in the caption, holds his palms up while looking at the other two.]<br /> :Demon with pitchfork: What's our plan for the souls today? Boil them in oil? <br /> :Middle demon: We could cast them into the flame pit. <br /> :Maxwell's demon: What if we set up two rooms with a door in between, but– get this– '''''we only let them go through it one way!'''''<br /> <br /> :[Caption below the panel:]<br /> :Maxwell's Demon had trouble fitting in with the others.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Physics]]<br /> [[Category:Religion]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=3006:_Demons&diff=355606 2024-11-03T18:55:33Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 3006<br /> | date = November 1, 2024<br /> | title = Demons<br /> | image = demons_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 285x458px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a DEMI-DEMONIC DOORMAN - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> {{w|Maxwell's demon}} is a thought experiment devised by {{w|James Clerk Maxwell}} that appears to refute the {{w|second law of thermodynamics}}, which roughly says that heat always flows from hotter regions to colder. In the thought experiment, two chambers, both containing a gas at the same temperature, have a door between them. A being (later called a demon by {{w|Lord Kelvin}}) lets only fast-moving gas molecules move from the first chamber to the second, and only slow-moving ones move from the second chamber to the first. The second chamber's gas gradually warms as the average speed of its molecules increases, and the first chamber's gas likewise cools, apparently contradicting the second law. However, the actions of such a demon would use up at least the amount of energy that could later be extracted from having a gas separated into hot and cold parts, so such a demon could not gain energy and Maxwell's demon does not break the second law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics is a fairly common theme in xkcd, last being mentioned in [[2848:Breaker Box]].<br /> <br /> This demon behaves very differently from mythological {{w|demons}}, which exist in the afterlife (usually some form of {{w|hell}}) and punish evil humans after death by causing them great suffering, as for example boiling them in oil or casting them into flame pits. In this comic, [[Randall]] jokes that if such a demon were to encounter more stereotypical mythological ones, he would probably not fit in very well, and would inevitably propose treating humans like the particles of the thought experiment. While a few physics-savvy humans might feel offended by such treatment{{Citation needed}}, for most the suffering would stem from the anxiety of knowing that, once they choose to cross the door, they are not allowed to return for all eternity. This modern psychological approach to torture stands out from ancient techniques of physical torture such as being boiled in oil or cast into a flame pit.<br /> <br /> The title text continues the joke by suggesting that while Maxwell's demon's idea for torturing the souls of the damned might seem whimsical to the other demons, it could still be used to heat the flame pits better. The other demons' appreciation of this technical improvement mirrors real-life situations where kids that &quot;have trouble fitting in with the others&quot; due to their unusual ideas for games and atypical interests (e.g., in thermodynamics) occasionally earn some appreciation when their cleverness is found to be useful.<br /> <br /> This comic was published on 1 November, 2024, the day after Halloween, around the time when many contemporary comic strips have demonic, supernatural or other spooky themes.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Three demons, Cueball-like in general appearance but with horns and pointed tails, are standing together while surrounded by flames. The leftmost demon is holding a pitchfork and the next one has his hands down. They are looking at the third to the right standing a bit apart from them. This last demon, Maxwell's demon as given in the caption, holds his palms up while looking at the other two.]<br /> :Demon with pitchfork: What's our plan for the souls today? Boil them in oil? <br /> :Middle demon: We could cast them into the flame pit. <br /> :Maxwell's demon: What if we set up two rooms with a door in between, but– get this– '''''we only let them go through it one way!'''''<br /> <br /> :[Caption below the panel:]<br /> :Maxwell's Demon had trouble fitting in with the others.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Physics]]<br /> [[Category:Religion]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:SomeoneIGuess&diff=345458 2024-07-03T01:07:50Z

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SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2941:_Cell_Organelles&diff=344054 2024-06-08T20:10:49Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2941<br /> | date = June 3, 2024<br /> | title = Cell Organelles<br /> | image = cell_organelles_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 563x451px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a GOLGI ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> This comic shows a {{w|Cell (biology)|biological cell}} diagram with a mix of real and fictional {{w|organelle}}s, giving both accurate {{w|Cell biology|cell biology}} terms and humorous ones. Actual cell components include the nucleus, mitochondria, and Golgi apparatus, while unrelated concepts come from geology, engineering, anitvirus software, and even Star Wars. Labels like &quot;evil endoplasmic reticulum&quot; and &quot;sticky endoplasmic reticulum&quot; are variations of real cellular organelles. Other labels like &quot;pith,&quot; &quot;mantle,&quot; and &quot;Vitreous humor,&quot; are borrowed from other types of circular cross-sectional diagrams (e.g., of fruit, planets, and eyeballs).<br /> <br /> The title text is a fictional backstory to the {{w|Golgi apparatus}}, an essential cell organelle involved in processing and packaging proteins. It suggests that {{w|Camillo Golgi}}, the scientist who discovered the Golgi apparatus, was originally an independent organism that was supposedly absorbed into our cells, where it then started working on what is now known as the Golgi apparatus. The joke is a satirical take on {{w|Symbiogenesis|endosymbiotic theory}}, which posits that certain organelles within {{w|Eukaryote|eukaryotic}} cells, like {{w|mitochondria}} and {{w|chloroplasts}}, originated from independent symbiotic {{w|Prokaryote|prokaryotic organisms}} that were absorbed by a host {{w|germ cell}}. Golgi is drawn in the comic as a cute little alien.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable sortable&quot;<br /> |-<br /> ! Label<br /> ! Meaning<br /> ! Real?<br /> ! Cell organelle?<br /> ! Explanation<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Smooth endoplasmic reticulum}}<br /> | A network of tubular membranes within the cytoplasm of the cell, involved in the transport of materials.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | A standard term for the smooth (i.e., not ribosome-covered) portion of the {{w|endoplasmic reticulum}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Lithosphere}}<br /> | The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Term from geology; part of the Earth's crust. Labeled cross-sectional diagrams of cells and of the layers of the Earth are commonly found in science textbooks.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|O-ring}}<br /> | A mechanical gasket in the shape of a torus; used to seal connections.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Engineering term. Both the o-ring and pith are drawn connected to the inner cell membrane. Made famous in pop culture for being the root cause of the {{w|Space Shuttle Challenger disaster}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Pith}}<br /> | The central tissue in plants, used for nutrient transport.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Botanical term. Most people think of pith as the layer of soft tissue between the skin and the flesh of citrus fruit, which explains its position in the diagram. Both the pith and o-ring are drawn connected to the inner cell membrane. A layer of pith was recently seen only 101 comics ago, in [[2840: Earth Layers]].<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Cell nucleus|Nucleus}}<br /> | The central and most important part of an object, forming the basis for its activity and growth.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | The cell nucleus is an actual cell organelle which houses {{w|DNA}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Nucleolus}}<br /> | A small dense spherical structure in the nucleus of a cell during {{w|interphase}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelle, involved in {{w|ribosome}} production.<br /> |-<br /> | Nucleoloulous<br /> | Not a real term.<br /> | No<br /> | No<br /> | A humorous continuation of the terms &quot;nucleus&quot; and &quot;nucleolus.&quot;<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Nucleon}}s<br /> | Protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | While cells contain nucleons, the depicted circles are far larger than actual nucleons.<br /> |-<br /> | Drain plug<br /> | A stopper for a drain.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | A plumbing term, which could refer to a {{w|porosome}}. Even small, temporary damage to the integrity of the {{w|cell membrane}} puts the cell at immediate and great risk of death.<br /> |-<br /> | Evil endoplasmic reticulum<br /> | Not a real term.<br /> | No<br /> | No<br /> | The rough endoplasmic reticulum is covered in ribosomes; the &quot;evil&quot; endoplasmic reticulum in the comic is covered in small spikes, making it evil.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Hypoallergenic}} filling<br /> | Materials that cause relatively fewer allergic reactions.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Technically not incorrect<br /> | Consumer product term, used e.g. for pillows and mattresses. If the {{w|cytoplasm}} doesn't cause allergic reactions within the cell, it is hypoallergenic.<br /> |-<br /> | Weak spot<br /> | A vulnerable point.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Conceivably<br /> | {{w|Cell membrane}} surfaces do indeed vary in strength, often due to the presence of organelles such as {{w|ion channel pore}}s or {{w|porosome}}s, both of which can be leveraged by viruses to enter cells.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Mitochondria}}<br /> | Organelles that generate energy for the cell.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelles. Mitochondria are widely known as the &quot;powerhouse of the cell,&quot; a phrase originally coined in 1957 by biologist {{w|Philip Siekevitz}}[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/powerhouse-of-the-cell/] which came to prominence online in the mid-2010s.{{acn}}<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Midichlorians}}<br /> | Fictional microorganisms in the {{w|Star Wars}} universe, which confer Force sensitivity and thereby associated {{w|Jedi}} (and Sith) powers.<br /> | No<br /> | Fictional<br /> | It's unclear whether {{w|George Lucas}} intended for &quot;midi-chlorians&quot; to be {{w|Symbiogenesis|endosymbiotic organelles}} or internal {{w|Symbiosis|symbionts}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Chloroplast}}s if you're lucky<br /> | Organelles in plant cells responsible for {{w|photosynthesis}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes, but in plants and plantlike organisms<br /> | Actual cell organelles, found in plant cells and those of several different lineages of non-plant microorganisms and seaweeds. The phrase &quot;if you're lucky&quot; alludes to the good fortune that an organism, be it plant, animal, or microbe, gains by being able to photosynthesize, getting energy from sunlight, rather than have to run around all the time chasing energy. This benefit makes chloroplasts {{w|Kleptoplasty|worth stealing}}. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05499-y Experiments have been conducted] to transplant components of chloroplasts into mammal cells to slow disease. See also [https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1978/06/26 Zonker Harris].<br /> |-<br /> | Human skin<br /> | The outer covering of the human body.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Skin is a {{w|Tissue_(biology)|tissue}} (multicellular structure). The idea that a complex tissue can be wrapped around a single cell, as if it were a cell wall, or outer {{w|cell membrane}}, or {{w|extracellular matrix}}, is patently, and humorously, absurd. This may be referencing the common factoid that house dust is mostly human skin, implying that the cell is covered in a layer of dust.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Carbonation}}<br /> | {{w|Carbon dioxide}} dissolved in a liquid.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Carbonation causes soda pop and similar liquids to bubble, fizz, foam, and {{w|effervesce}}. The little dots depicted in the comic look like carbonation bubbles.<br /> |-<br /> | Golgi<br /> | {{w|Camillo Golgi}} (1843–1926) was an Italian biologist and {{w|pathologist}} who discovered the Golgi apparatus; known also for his works on the central nervous system.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | The real Golgi was not and is not a tiny alien being who merged with our cells, as the comic and title text imply.{{Citation needed}}<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Golgi apparatus}}<br /> | A complex of {{w|vesicles}} and folded membranes involved in secretion and intracellular transport.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelle, which takes {{w|polypeptide}} chains from the rough endoplasmic reticulum via transport vesicles and processes them into their protein structure before sending them (again via vesicles) to their destination such as an organelle or outside of the cell.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Norton AntiVirus}}<br /> | A software product designed to protect computers from malware.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Viruses do attempt to insert themselves into cells, and many cell types do have antiviral mechanisms (notably the {{w|CRISPR}} (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) DNA sequences in prokaryotes, which resist viral (bacteriophage) infection - however, the cell shown is not prokaryotic, since it contains a nucleus). A system designed to protect against computer viruses is unlikely to be helpful, though, since biological viruses are completely different, and cells have not been architected to support such software. <br /> |-<br /> | Sticky endoplasmic reticulum<br /> | Not a real term, although parts of the reticula have sticky pockets.[https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1156152/full]<br /> | No<br /> | No<br /> | Another humorous twist on the actual types of endoplasmic reticula.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Pleiades}}<br /> | A cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Even a single star is far too big to fit in a cell.{{Citation needed}} The labeled cluster in the comic looks like the actual constellation, as if this were a depiction of the night sky.<br /> |-<br /> | Natural flavor<br /> | Flavoring derived from natural sources.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Conceivably<br /> | A common ingredient on food labels (and sometimes cosmetics, etc.), usually meaning any substance to add flavor, aroma, or both, other than synthetic chemicals which are referred to as artificial flavors.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Cellophane}}<br /> | A thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated {{w|cellulose}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | A type of packaging material. A {{w|cell wall}} is indeed made of cellulose, though not in the form of cellophane. Also, this drawing looks more like an animal cell (albeit a very odd one), which unlike plants and fungi, do not usually have a cell wall.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Rough endoplasmic reticulum}}<br /> | Endoplasmic reticulum with {{w|ribosomes}} attached, involved in protein synthesis.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelle. &quot;Rough&quot; refers to the presence of ribosomes covering its membrane, which translate {{w|messenger RNA}} into polypeptide chains. Normally the endoplasmic reticulum would wrap around the cell nucleus.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Ventricle}}<br /> | A chamber of the heart that pumps blood out.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Ventricles are actually part of the body, and they are composed of many cells. Possibly a pun on {{w|vesicle}} (or {{w|vacuole}}), a small membrane-enclosed vessel, such as the transport vesicles that carry polypeptides from the rough endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus for processing.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Mantle}} &lt;!-- intentionally left linking to disambiguation page --&gt;<br /> | The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Misplaced geological term with many other meanings. Labeled cross-sectional diagrams of the layers of the Earth are commonly found in science textbooks.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Slime}}<br /> | A moist, soft, and slippery substance, or a brand name for a {{w|Slime_(toy)|goopy substance sold as a toy}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Could refer to the slimy texture and appearance of {{w|cytoplasm}}, but not specific to cells. Slime was a frequent appearance on the Nickelodeon TV kids channel during [[Randall]]'s youth in the 90s.{{acn}}<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Vitreous humour}}<br /> | The clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina in the eyeball.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | The vitreous humour is in the eyes' {{w|extracellular matrix}}, not inside cells. Labeled cross-sectional diagrams of eyes are also commonly found in science textbooks.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Seed}}s<br /> | Plant embryos used for reproduction.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Seeds are multicellular, and sometimes contain small proportions of non-cellular tissue. Cells are found in seeds, not the other way around. Seeds would be labeled on a cross-sectional diagram of a fruit, not a cell.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> Cell Organelles<br /> <br /> [A cell is shown with the following structures and areas labeled, counter-clockwise from upper left:]<br /> <br /> * Smooth endoplasmic reticulum<br /> * Lithosphere<br /> * O-Ring<br /> * Pith<br /> * Nucleus<br /> * Nucleolus<br /> * Nucleoloulous<br /> * Nucleons<br /> * Drain plug<br /> * Evil endoplasmic reticulum<br /> * Hypoallergenic filling<br /> * Weak spot<br /> * Mitochondria<br /> * Midichlorians<br /> * Chloroplasts if you're lucky<br /> * Human skin<br /> * Carbonation<br /> * Golgi<br /> * Golgi apparatus<br /> * Norton AntiVirus<br /> * Sticky endoplasmic reticulum<br /> * Pleiades<br /> * Natural flavor<br /> * Cellophane<br /> * Rough endoplasmic reticulum<br /> <br /> [These labels are inside the cell:]<br /> <br /> * Ventricle<br /> * Mantle<br /> * Slime<br /> * Vitreous humour<br /> * Seeds<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2941:_Cell_Organelles&diff=344053 2024-06-08T20:10:22Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2941<br /> | date = June 3, 2024<br /> | title = Cell Organelles<br /> | image = cell_organelles_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 563x451px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a GOLGI ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> This comic shows a {{w|Cell (biology)|biological cell}} diagram with a mix of real and fictional {{w|organelle}}s, giving both accurate {{w|Cell biology|cell biology}} terms and humorous ones. Actual cell components include the nucleus, mitochondria, and Golgi apparatus, while unrelated concepts come from geology, engineering, anitvirus software, and even Star Wars. Labels like &quot;evil endoplasmic reticulum&quot; and &quot;sticky endoplasmic reticulum&quot; are variations of real cellular organelles. Other labels like &quot;pith,&quot; &quot;mantle,&quot; and &quot;Vitreous humor,&quot; are borrowed from other types of circular cross-sectional diagrams (e.g., of fruit, planets, and eyeballs).<br /> <br /> The title text is a fictional backstory to the {{w|Golgi apparatus}}, an essential cell organelle involved in processing and packaging proteins. It suggests that {{w|Camillo Golgi}}, the scientist who discovered the Golgi apparatus, was originally an independent organism that was supposedly absorbed into our cells, where it then started working on what is now known as the Golgi apparatus. The joke is a satirical take on {{w|Symbiogenesis|endosymbiotic theory}}, which posits that certain organelles within {{w|Eukaryote|eukaryotic}} cells, like {{w|mitochondria}} and {{w|chloroplasts}}, originated from independent symbiotic {{w|Prokaryote|prokaryotic organisms}} that were absorbed by a host {{w|germ cell}}. Golgi is drawn in the comic as a cute little alien.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable sortable&quot;<br /> |-<br /> ! Label<br /> ! Meaning<br /> ! Real?<br /> ! Cell organelle?<br /> ! Explanation<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Smooth endoplasmic reticulum}}<br /> | A network of tubular membranes within the cytoplasm of the cell, involved in the transport of materials.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | A standard term for the smooth (i.e., not ribosome-covered) portion of the {{w|endoplasmic reticulum}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Lithosphere}}<br /> | The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Term from geology; part of the Earth's crust. Labeled cross-sectional diagrams of cells and of the layers of the Earth are commonly found in science textbooks.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|O-ring}}<br /> | A mechanical gasket in the shape of a torus; used to seal connections.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Engineering term. Both the o-ring and pith are drawn connected to the inner cell membrane. Made famous in pop culture for being the root cause of the {{w|Space Shuttle Challenger disaster}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Pith}}<br /> | The central tissue in plants, used for nutrient transport.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Botanical term. Most people think of pith as the layer of soft tissue between the skin and the flesh of citrus fruit, which explains its position in the diagram. Both the pith and o-ring are drawn connected to the inner cell membrane. A layer of pith was recently seen in [[2840: Earth Layers]].<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Cell nucleus|Nucleus}}<br /> | The central and most important part of an object, forming the basis for its activity and growth.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | The cell nucleus is an actual cell organelle which houses {{w|DNA}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Nucleolus}}<br /> | A small dense spherical structure in the nucleus of a cell during {{w|interphase}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelle, involved in {{w|ribosome}} production.<br /> |-<br /> | Nucleoloulous<br /> | Not a real term.<br /> | No<br /> | No<br /> | A humorous continuation of the terms &quot;nucleus&quot; and &quot;nucleolus.&quot;<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Nucleon}}s<br /> | Protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | While cells contain nucleons, the depicted circles are far larger than actual nucleons.<br /> |-<br /> | Drain plug<br /> | A stopper for a drain.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | A plumbing term, which could refer to a {{w|porosome}}. Even small, temporary damage to the integrity of the {{w|cell membrane}} puts the cell at immediate and great risk of death.<br /> |-<br /> | Evil endoplasmic reticulum<br /> | Not a real term.<br /> | No<br /> | No<br /> | The rough endoplasmic reticulum is covered in ribosomes; the &quot;evil&quot; endoplasmic reticulum in the comic is covered in small spikes, making it evil.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Hypoallergenic}} filling<br /> | Materials that cause relatively fewer allergic reactions.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Technically not incorrect<br /> | Consumer product term, used e.g. for pillows and mattresses. If the {{w|cytoplasm}} doesn't cause allergic reactions within the cell, it is hypoallergenic.<br /> |-<br /> | Weak spot<br /> | A vulnerable point.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Conceivably<br /> | {{w|Cell membrane}} surfaces do indeed vary in strength, often due to the presence of organelles such as {{w|ion channel pore}}s or {{w|porosome}}s, both of which can be leveraged by viruses to enter cells.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Mitochondria}}<br /> | Organelles that generate energy for the cell.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelles. Mitochondria are widely known as the &quot;powerhouse of the cell,&quot; a phrase originally coined in 1957 by biologist {{w|Philip Siekevitz}}[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/powerhouse-of-the-cell/] which came to prominence online in the mid-2010s.{{acn}}<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Midichlorians}}<br /> | Fictional microorganisms in the {{w|Star Wars}} universe, which confer Force sensitivity and thereby associated {{w|Jedi}} (and Sith) powers.<br /> | No<br /> | Fictional<br /> | It's unclear whether {{w|George Lucas}} intended for &quot;midi-chlorians&quot; to be {{w|Symbiogenesis|endosymbiotic organelles}} or internal {{w|Symbiosis|symbionts}}.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Chloroplast}}s if you're lucky<br /> | Organelles in plant cells responsible for {{w|photosynthesis}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes, but in plants and plantlike organisms<br /> | Actual cell organelles, found in plant cells and those of several different lineages of non-plant microorganisms and seaweeds. The phrase &quot;if you're lucky&quot; alludes to the good fortune that an organism, be it plant, animal, or microbe, gains by being able to photosynthesize, getting energy from sunlight, rather than have to run around all the time chasing energy. This benefit makes chloroplasts {{w|Kleptoplasty|worth stealing}}. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05499-y Experiments have been conducted] to transplant components of chloroplasts into mammal cells to slow disease. See also [https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1978/06/26 Zonker Harris].<br /> |-<br /> | Human skin<br /> | The outer covering of the human body.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Skin is a {{w|Tissue_(biology)|tissue}} (multicellular structure). The idea that a complex tissue can be wrapped around a single cell, as if it were a cell wall, or outer {{w|cell membrane}}, or {{w|extracellular matrix}}, is patently, and humorously, absurd. This may be referencing the common factoid that house dust is mostly human skin, implying that the cell is covered in a layer of dust.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Carbonation}}<br /> | {{w|Carbon dioxide}} dissolved in a liquid.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Carbonation causes soda pop and similar liquids to bubble, fizz, foam, and {{w|effervesce}}. The little dots depicted in the comic look like carbonation bubbles.<br /> |-<br /> | Golgi<br /> | {{w|Camillo Golgi}} (1843–1926) was an Italian biologist and {{w|pathologist}} who discovered the Golgi apparatus; known also for his works on the central nervous system.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | The real Golgi was not and is not a tiny alien being who merged with our cells, as the comic and title text imply.{{Citation needed}}<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Golgi apparatus}}<br /> | A complex of {{w|vesicles}} and folded membranes involved in secretion and intracellular transport.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelle, which takes {{w|polypeptide}} chains from the rough endoplasmic reticulum via transport vesicles and processes them into their protein structure before sending them (again via vesicles) to their destination such as an organelle or outside of the cell.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Norton AntiVirus}}<br /> | A software product designed to protect computers from malware.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Viruses do attempt to insert themselves into cells, and many cell types do have antiviral mechanisms (notably the {{w|CRISPR}} (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) DNA sequences in prokaryotes, which resist viral (bacteriophage) infection - however, the cell shown is not prokaryotic, since it contains a nucleus). A system designed to protect against computer viruses is unlikely to be helpful, though, since biological viruses are completely different, and cells have not been architected to support such software. <br /> |-<br /> | Sticky endoplasmic reticulum<br /> | Not a real term, although parts of the reticula have sticky pockets.[https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1156152/full]<br /> | No<br /> | No<br /> | Another humorous twist on the actual types of endoplasmic reticula.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Pleiades}}<br /> | A cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Even a single star is far too big to fit in a cell.{{Citation needed}} The labeled cluster in the comic looks like the actual constellation, as if this were a depiction of the night sky.<br /> |-<br /> | Natural flavor<br /> | Flavoring derived from natural sources.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Conceivably<br /> | A common ingredient on food labels (and sometimes cosmetics, etc.), usually meaning any substance to add flavor, aroma, or both, other than synthetic chemicals which are referred to as artificial flavors.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Cellophane}}<br /> | A thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated {{w|cellulose}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | A type of packaging material. A {{w|cell wall}} is indeed made of cellulose, though not in the form of cellophane. Also, this drawing looks more like an animal cell (albeit a very odd one), which unlike plants and fungi, do not usually have a cell wall.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Rough endoplasmic reticulum}}<br /> | Endoplasmic reticulum with {{w|ribosomes}} attached, involved in protein synthesis.<br /> | Yes<br /> | Yes<br /> | Actual cell organelle. &quot;Rough&quot; refers to the presence of ribosomes covering its membrane, which translate {{w|messenger RNA}} into polypeptide chains. Normally the endoplasmic reticulum would wrap around the cell nucleus.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Ventricle}}<br /> | A chamber of the heart that pumps blood out.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Ventricles are actually part of the body, and they are composed of many cells. Possibly a pun on {{w|vesicle}} (or {{w|vacuole}}), a small membrane-enclosed vessel, such as the transport vesicles that carry polypeptides from the rough endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus for processing.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Mantle}} &lt;!-- intentionally left linking to disambiguation page --&gt;<br /> | The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Misplaced geological term with many other meanings. Labeled cross-sectional diagrams of the layers of the Earth are commonly found in science textbooks.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Slime}}<br /> | A moist, soft, and slippery substance, or a brand name for a {{w|Slime_(toy)|goopy substance sold as a toy}}.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Could refer to the slimy texture and appearance of {{w|cytoplasm}}, but not specific to cells. Slime was a frequent appearance on the Nickelodeon TV kids channel during [[Randall]]'s youth in the 90s.{{acn}}<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Vitreous humour}}<br /> | The clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina in the eyeball.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | The vitreous humour is in the eyes' {{w|extracellular matrix}}, not inside cells. Labeled cross-sectional diagrams of eyes are also commonly found in science textbooks.<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Seed}}s<br /> | Plant embryos used for reproduction.<br /> | Yes<br /> | No<br /> | Seeds are multicellular, and sometimes contain small proportions of non-cellular tissue. Cells are found in seeds, not the other way around. Seeds would be labeled on a cross-sectional diagram of a fruit, not a cell.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> Cell Organelles<br /> <br /> [A cell is shown with the following structures and areas labeled, counter-clockwise from upper left:]<br /> <br /> * Smooth endoplasmic reticulum<br /> * Lithosphere<br /> * O-Ring<br /> * Pith<br /> * Nucleus<br /> * Nucleolus<br /> * Nucleoloulous<br /> * Nucleons<br /> * Drain plug<br /> * Evil endoplasmic reticulum<br /> * Hypoallergenic filling<br /> * Weak spot<br /> * Mitochondria<br /> * Midichlorians<br /> * Chloroplasts if you're lucky<br /> * Human skin<br /> * Carbonation<br /> * Golgi<br /> * Golgi apparatus<br /> * Norton AntiVirus<br /> * Sticky endoplasmic reticulum<br /> * Pleiades<br /> * Natural flavor<br /> * Cellophane<br /> * Rough endoplasmic reticulum<br /> <br /> [These labels are inside the cell:]<br /> <br /> * Ventricle<br /> * Mantle<br /> * Slime<br /> * Vitreous humour<br /> * Seeds<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2861:_X_Value&diff=341423 2024-05-06T17:46:23Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2861<br /> | date = November 29, 2023<br /> | title = X Value<br /> | image = x_value_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 291x192px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> In algebra, a {{w|Variable (mathematics)|variable}} is any symbol used to represent a number that has not been determined or chosen. The most familiar algebraic variable is ''x'' (the unknown input), with ''y'' often being the yet-to-be-determined output (its value being dependent on ''x''). According to the comic, the value of ''x'' has finally been found, being 4.1083. The joke is that a general-purpose variable, which may take different values in different scenarios, turns out to have a specific value, as though it were a constant. Constants in mathematics and other scientific fields are also often represented by a single symbol - some of the most well-known are {{w|Pi|''π''}} (3.14159...), ''e'' ({{w|E (mathematical constant)|Euler's number}}, 2.71828...), ''i'' (an {{w|Imaginary unit}}, where i&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; = -1), and ''c'' (the {{w|speed of light}} in a vacuum, 299,792,458 m/s (670,616,629 mph, 1,079,252,848.8 km/h, 1.8026x10&lt;sup&gt;12&lt;/sup&gt; {{w|FFF system|fur/ftn}})).<br /> <br /> The specific number 4.1083 does not have any notable significance or special role in the contexts of physics, chemistry, finance, astronomy or cryptography. This number to 3 decimal places, 4.108, was referenced previously in comic [[899: Number Line]]. <br /> <br /> The '''title text''' declares the value of ''n'' is unknown. ''n'' is often used as an unknown/undetermined ''integer'' value. In {{w|Sampling (statistics)|statistics}}, it might be used to specify the size of a sample. For example, a list where ''n = 50'' would mean the list contains 50 data points, for which that number of iterations or a larger number of cross-comparisons might be expected.<br /> <br /> According to the title text, however, the value of ''n'' ''has'' been narrowed down to somewhere between 8 and 10&lt;sup&gt;500&lt;/sup&gt;, or one hundred quinsexagintacentillion. This narrowing-down isn't particularly narrow, although it is perhaps quite specific compared to the 'pre-narrowing' possibilities of being absolutely any finite value at all.<br /> <br /> The title text also says that this narrowing has ruled out the (usually) simplest values of 1 or 2. Saying &quot;n=1&quot; or &quot;n=2&quot; is a popular way to disclaim or discredit a story implying causality. An anecdote followed by the disclaimer &quot;n=1&quot; typically involves a personal experience or observation that someone shares as a point of reference or evidence, but then acknowledges that it's just a single instance and may not be representative of a broader trend or truth. <br /> <br /> For example, someone might say, &quot;I started eating a spoonful of honey every morning, and ever since then, I haven't caught a cold. It must be boosting my immune system.&quot; Then, realizing that this is just their personal experience, they add, &quot;But of course, that's just my experience - n=1. It's not scientific evidence that honey prevents colds.&quot;<br /> <br /> In this example, &quot;n=1&quot; is used to acknowledge that the claim is based on a single instance (n refers to the sample size in a study, with 1 indicating only one subject or data point) and may not be a reliable or generalizable conclusion.<br /> <br /> If values of 1 or 2 have been ruled out, that implies that all causality claims based on observations technically have at least 8 observations (whether known or unknown). In the honey-cold example, that means at least 7 other people have had the same experience.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[A math formula is circled.]<br /> :&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;x = 4.1083&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;<br /> <br /> :[Caption below the panel:]<br /> : Big math news: They finally figured out the value of x.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Math]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=168:_Reverse_Euphemisms&diff=340746 2024-04-27T13:46:44Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 168<br /> | date = October 9, 2006<br /> | title = Reverse Euphemisms<br /> | image = reverse euphemisms.png<br /> | titletext = I'm still waiting for a chance to use 'I have to see a man about a horse'.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{w|Euphemisms}} are figures of speech used in place of more offensive terms. In this comic, [[Cueball]] uses swear words in the place of benign terms, inverting the typical usage of euphemisms. To &quot;drop the kids off at the pool&quot; is a euphemism meaning to &quot;go take a shit.&quot; In this case, however, Cueball actually has to drop kids off at the pool but instead uses &quot;go take a shit.&quot; Cueball is {{tvtropes|UnusualEuphemism|using the euphemism in reverse}}, hence the title. <br /> <br /> In the title text, the figure is waiting for a situation in which he has to see a man concerning a horse, as this relates to another euphemism meaning to urinate. It can be assumed that, when telling someone about seeing the man about the horse, he would say &quot;...then I had to go take a piss.&quot;<br /> <br /> This is not to be confused with the opposite of a euphemism called a {{w|dysphemism}}, despite this comic being the image used for {{tvtropes|UnusualDysphemism|Unusual Dysphemism}} on TV Tropes.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :My Hobby: Reverse Euphemisms<br /> :[Two people talking.]<br /> :Cueball: Oh, hey, school just let out and it's YMCA night, so I've gotta go take a shit.<br /> :Friend: What?<br /> :Cueball: I mean I actually have to drop the kids off at the pool.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Language]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:My Hobby]]<br /> [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]<br /> [[Category:Kids]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=168:_Reverse_Euphemisms&diff=340745 2024-04-27T13:46:29Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 168<br /> | date = October 9, 2006<br /> | title = Reverse Euphemisms<br /> | image = reverse euphemisms.png<br /> | titletext = I'm still waiting for a chance to use 'I have to see a man about a horse'.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{w|Euphemisms}} are figures of speech used in place of more offensive terms. In this comic, [[Cueball]] uses swear words in the place of benign terms, inverting the typical usage of euphemisms. To &quot;drop the kids off at the pool&quot; is a euphemism meaning to &quot;go take a shit.&quot; In this case, however, Cueball actually has to drop kids off at the pool but instead uses &quot;go take a shit.&quot; Cueball is {{tvtropes|UnusualEuphemism|using the euphemism in reverse}}, hence the title. <br /> <br /> In the title text, the figure is waiting for a situation in which he has to see a man concerning a horse, as this relates to another euphemism meaning to urinate. It can be assumed that, when telling someone about seeing the man about the horse, he would say &quot;...then I had to go take a piss.&quot;<br /> <br /> This is not to be confused with the opposite of a euphemism called a {{w|dysphemism}}, despite this comic being the image used for {{tvtropes|UnusualDysphemism|Unusual Dysphemism}}.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :My Hobby: Reverse Euphemisms<br /> :[Two people talking.]<br /> :Cueball: Oh, hey, school just let out and it's YMCA night, so I've gotta go take a shit.<br /> :Friend: What?<br /> :Cueball: I mean I actually have to drop the kids off at the pool.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Language]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:My Hobby]]<br /> [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]<br /> [[Category:Kids]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=168:_Reverse_Euphemisms&diff=340744 2024-04-27T13:45:32Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 168<br /> | date = October 9, 2006<br /> | title = Reverse Euphemisms<br /> | image = reverse euphemisms.png<br /> | titletext = I'm still waiting for a chance to use 'I have to see a man about a horse'.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{w|Euphemisms}} are figures of speech used in place of more offensive terms. In this comic, [[Cueball]] uses swear words in the place of benign terms, inverting the typical usage of euphemisms. To &quot;drop the kids off at the pool&quot; is a euphemism meaning to &quot;go take a shit.&quot; In this case, however, Cueball actually has to drop kids off at the pool but instead uses &quot;go take a shit.&quot; Cueball is {{tvtropes|UnusualEuphemism|using the euphemism in reverse}}, hence the title. <br /> <br /> In the title text, the figure is waiting for a situation in which he has to see a man concerning a horse, as this relates to another euphemism meaning to urinate. It can be assumed that, when telling someone about seeing the man about the horse, he would say &quot;...then I had to go take a piss.&quot;<br /> <br /> This is not to be confused with the opposite of a euphemism called a {{w|dysphemism}}.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :My Hobby: Reverse Euphemisms<br /> :[Two people talking.]<br /> :Cueball: Oh, hey, school just let out and it's YMCA night, so I've gotta go take a shit.<br /> :Friend: What?<br /> :Cueball: I mean I actually have to drop the kids off at the pool.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Language]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:My Hobby]]<br /> [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]<br /> [[Category:Kids]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=168:_Reverse_Euphemisms&diff=340743 2024-04-27T13:45:07Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 168<br /> | date = October 9, 2006<br /> | title = Reverse Euphemisms<br /> | image = reverse euphemisms.png<br /> | titletext = I'm still waiting for a chance to use 'I have to see a man about a horse'.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{w|Euphemisms}} are figures of speech used in place of more offensive terms. In this comic, [[Cueball]] uses swear words in the place of benign terms, inverting the typical usage of euphemisms. To &quot;drop the kids off at the pool&quot; is a euphemism meaning to &quot;go take a shit.&quot; In this case, however, Cueball actually has to drop kids off at the pool but instead uses &quot;go take a shit.&quot; Cueball is {{tvtropes|ReverseEuphemism|using the euphemism in reverse}}, hence the title. <br /> <br /> In the title text, the figure is waiting for a situation in which he has to see a man concerning a horse, as this relates to another euphemism meaning to urinate. It can be assumed that, when telling someone about seeing the man about the horse, he would say &quot;...then I had to go take a piss.&quot;<br /> <br /> This is not to be confused with the opposite of a euphemism called a {{w|dysphemism}}.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :My Hobby: Reverse Euphemisms<br /> :[Two people talking.]<br /> :Cueball: Oh, hey, school just let out and it's YMCA night, so I've gotta go take a shit.<br /> :Friend: What?<br /> :Cueball: I mean I actually have to drop the kids off at the pool.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Language]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:My Hobby]]<br /> [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]<br /> [[Category:Kids]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2925:_Earth_Formation_Site&diff=340741 2024-04-27T13:25:04Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> The title text is only true for geocentric latitude and longitude, not geodetic (which is what is commonly used). [[Special:Contributions/172.69.58.125|172.69.58.125]] 18:32, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I'm impressed that whatever distant body that sign is placed upon, has actually developed plant life. Especially since it would need to be parked in place relative to the rest of the observable cosmos, &amp; thus seems unlikely to have a suitably close star making regular appearance overhead... <br /> [[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 19:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> : Hi Proph! I just wanted to say that I enjoy reading your comments here and in the SMBC comment page, if you are in fact ProphetZarquon in both places. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.175.28|172.70.175.28]] 21:46, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> ::If there's another Prophet Zarquon out there - wait, nope, looks like that's me, too...<br /> ::[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 03:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> The ridiculously specific date may be a reference to how real historical markers frequently get dates incorrect [[Special:Contributions/172.70.127.135|172.70.127.135]] 23:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> The other side of the sign says, &quot;At this exact point in space, 13.7878693 billion years ago, the Big Bang took place.&quot; That's true of every point in space, according to the current model. The Big Bang implies that all of space was a single point, and space itself expanded outward from that point. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:07, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> The explanation needs to be rewritten. It is missing the point and far to detailed for just saying: The marker could be standing at any point of earth's surface, as reinforced by the title text. The whole discussion about galaxies and solar systems moving is just a matter of the reference system and does not contribute to the understanding of the comic.--[[Special:Contributions/172.70.243.32|172.70.243.32]] 07:28, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> * I disagree. The section is saying that it could not have reasonably happened on Earth itself due to the fact the Earth and the Solar System itself move around through space. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 13:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Can the Earth's core even have a latitude and a longitude? Aren't those all referring to the surface? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.198|162.158.90.198]] 11:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC)</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2925:_Earth_Formation_Site&diff=340740 2024-04-27T13:21:28Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2925<br /> | date = April 26, 2024<br /> | title = Earth Formation Site<br /> | image = earth_formation_site_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 478x521px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by A 4,450,002,024 YEAR OLD BALL OF DUST AND GAS - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> In this comic, [[Cueball]] stands in front of a sign that declares itself to be an historical location. Typically, these signs are placed at precise locations where historical, religious and even mythological events happened (such as where battles have been fought, or where people of note were born, or resided, or accomplished something, or died, or where something ''supposedly'' happened). In some cases, multiple locations lay &quot;claim&quot; to events whose true locations are uncertain (or, of course, when events span multiple locations, such as where people resided). However, the event in question on the sign is the formation of the {{w|Earth}} which, due to the {{w|Sun#Motion|Sun's 225-million year long orbit around the center of the}} {{w|Milky Way galaxy}} and the movement of the galaxy itself through space relative to other objects, would not have occurred anywhere ''on'' Earth. The sign could maybe be referring to where the place of the formation of the Earth would be placed if it corresponded to current Earth coordinates, which would also be strange as the Earth formed in the center of the current Earth, so the sign could not be anywhere in the surface of Earth. The sign could also represent the Earth as a whole, indicating that Earth ''formed on'' Earth.<br /> <br /> The date on the sign is also ridiculously precise, in keeping with the information usually found on historical markers but absurd in the context of the [https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/how-do-planets-form/ tens or hundreds of millions of years] thought to be required for planet formation. It would require some specific definition of when the gradually-coalescing mass could be considered a planet, as well as the ability to determine when that mass met the definition. The date shown for the formation of the Earth, 4.45 billion years, also differs from the commonly accepted date, [https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html 4.54 (±0.05) billion years].<br /> <br /> The title text refers to the 'coordinates of the Earth's core'. This is similar to signs marking {{w|File:Equator sign kenya.jpg|specific}} {{w|File:Arctic Circle sign.jpg|latitudes}}, {{w|File:Prime meridian.jpg|longitudes}} or other {{w|File:2022-06-06 18 39 21 Sign reading &quot;Highest Point on Interstate 80 East of the Mississippi River&quot; along eastbound Interstate 80 (Keystone Shortway) just east of Exit 111 in Pine Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.jpg|notable}} {{w|File:World's lowest point (1971).jpg|locations}}. But, since all coordinates, when superimposed on a globe, theoretically converge at the Earth's core, this reinforces the idea that no singular location can be picked as the exact location where the Earth formed.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Generated by EARTH — Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Cueball is standing in front of a sign in a field of grass. Rocks and plants are scattered across the ground. The sign reads:] <br /> :HISTORICAL MARKER<br /> :&lt;big&gt;EARTH&lt;/big&gt;<br /> :FORMATION SITE<br /> :--- 4,450,000,000 BCE ---<br /> :At this location in the year 4,450,000,000 BCE, a cloud of dust and gas gravitationally collapsed to form the Earth.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Geology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2862:_Typical_Seating_Chart&diff=340655 2024-04-26T00:35:03Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2862<br /> | date = December 1, 2023<br /> | title = Typical Seating Chart<br /> | image = typical_seating_chart_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x943px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> This comic shows a seating chart for a 182-seat airplane (and its fighter escort) with several unusual features.<br /> <br /> {|class = &quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> ! Label !! Location !! Notes<br /> |-<br /> |{{w|Cowcatcher}}<br /> |Front of plane<br /> |This looks like a {{w|Cowcatcher|train cowcatcher}}, a metal grate on the front of some trains, which is intended to ''deflect'' obstacles (including animals) rather than actually capture them. This one could help deflect livestock both on the ground (while taxiing) and perhaps also in the air (to &quot;catch&quot; flying cows, such as any that have decided to jump over the Moon).<br /> <br /> A bit of trivia: in railroad parlance, the cowcatcher is known as a ''Pilot''.<br /> |-<br /> |Please only pick these seats if you're a pilot<br /> |Cockpit<br /> |These are the cockpit seats, typically saved for the airline's employee pilots. However it's possible the airline might have a system like in [[726: Seat Selection]], where a passenger can pick this seat. <br /> |-<br /> |Main stage<br /> |rowspan=&quot;3&quot;|{{w|First class (aviation)|First Class}}<br /> |This plane is set up to hold a concert or other performance in flight. <br /> |-<br /> |Mosh pit<br /> |A {{w|mosh pit}} is common in punk and heavy metal concert performances. Moshing during take-off, landing and (potentially) during periods of in-flight turbulence would not be very safe, but moshers (and any performers) would presumably also have a booked seat.<br /> |-<br /> |Various fancy classes<br /> |Airlines make a point of distinguishing between their &quot;fancy classes&quot;, such as First Class and Business Class, but this one humorously buckets them together. (This is the first actual seating type.)<br /> |-<br /> |Some airplane companies waste this space<br /> |Wings<br /> |Randall is making a joke about how an airplane’s wings could hypothetically be used as extra seating space, and how he is surprised that not many airlines are taking advantage of this. In reality the space inside the wings is minimal. It may hold fuel but there would be not the vertical room available, in most airframes, compared to the fuselage which can hold at least one floor of passengers as well as cargo/functional space below. The {{w|Junkers G.38}} was one airplane that had seating in the wing (and forward facing windows).<br /> If the seating was on the surface of the wing, passengers would constantly feel the effects of wind. Additionally, airplane wings are designed to allow more air to flow over the top in order for the plane to stay up. If airline companies actually utilized this idea, the plane could not be able to fly so well due to the air-resistance (and resulting turbulance) from the seating and the passengers would be having a ''really'' inconvenient time.<br /> |-<br /> |Lookout<br /> |End of wings<br /> |A &quot;lookout&quot; is more common at the edges of things like army encampments or pirate ships, not planes. These passengers seem to look for any dangers – perhaps the pursuers mentioned in the description of the tail gunners.<br /> |-<br /> |Passenger has to pedal<br /> |Propellers<br /> |Exit row seats come with additional responsibilities to help in the case of an emergency. These passengers' responsibility is to pedal, turning the propellers. It is not feasible for two passengers to contribute sufficient power to make a significant difference to that already supplied by the two equipped jet engines. {{w|Human-powered aircraft|Pedal-powered planes}} do exist, although not in combination with jet engines. <br /> |-<br /> |Hole for trash<br /> |Middle of plane, just behind wings<br /> |In reality, a big hole here would reduce cabin pressure and be a danger to people or things falling through the hole (such as drink carts as mentioned in the title text). Planes try to keep all trash on board until they land.<br /> <br /> There have been reported incidents of waste (from bathrooms) falling from airplanes in the form of &quot;{{w|Blue_ice_(aviation)|Blue Ice}}&quot;, though these are by accidental leaks rather than by design.<br /> |-<br /> |Sidecar<br /> |Attached to left side of plane, behind wings<br /> |Some vehicles like motorbikes have a sidecar, a small device attached to the main vehicle. An airplane sidecar would make it less stable unless accounted for in the initial design. The {{w|Rutan Boomerang}} and {{w|Blohm &amp; Voss BV 141}} are notable exceptions, but their sidecars are not for passengers.<br /> |-<br /> |Extra middle seats<br /> |Back of plane<br /> |Here instead of having an aisle between three seats on the left and three on the right, the aisle separates one seat on the left and five on the right. Those five seats are an aisle seat, three middle seats and a window seat. This setup could actually exist, although it would be inconvenient to traverse. Middle seats are considered less desirable than aisle or window seats, so intentionally adding more is unusual. Those who might actually like this arrangement include larger families with small kids who wish to sit together, as well as solitary travelers who want a seat that's both an aisle and a window, with no one next to them.<br /> |-<br /> |Bumper car seating<br /> |Just in front of tail<br /> |These seats are presumably not attached to anything, instead able to move freely like bumper cars – not exactly a safe way to fly.{{citation needed}} Alternatively, the seats could simply be {{w|Bumper cars}}. <br /> |-<br /> |Penthouse<br /> |Tail (rudder)<br /> |A seat located in (or upon the front slope of) the vertical stabiliser, presumably higher than the rest of the seats. The tail of a plane does not usually have any seating, and airlines do not generally appreciate having passengers &quot;higher than the pilot&quot;.<br /> <br /> Some Etihad Airways planes actually have an apartment like cabin class called &quot;the residence&quot; that is sometimes called a penthouse by the media. That is located at the front of the plane, though, and it is unclear if this a reference to that. <br /> |-<br /> |Extra legroom<br /> |Hanging off of front-left surface of the horizontal stabiliser<br /> |A common complaint with airplane seating is the lack of legroom. These seats do not have this problem – in fact, they have the entire atmosphere as legroom. Loss of shoes and/or glasses or other loose clothing could be an issue, as these seats appear to be outside the protection of the pressure-controlled main cabin, so passengers would bear the brunt of the wind.<br /> |-<br /> |Fighter escort<br /> |Separate, smaller plane<br /> |A smaller fighter jet flying alongside the main plane, apparently with seating options for 14 passengers. A few seats are at the front of the fighter, which means that those passengers may have to operate the jet if it's not autonomous. <br /> <br /> A fighter escort would more normally be deployed to escort a plane that was considered a potential target, but not usually as a simple extension of the main flight.<br /> |-<br /> |Tail gunners (Must protect plane from pursuers but earn extra miles)<br /> |Tail (riding above the stabiliser)<br /> |People in these seats must protect the plane from any pursuers. The fact that these people are passengers is clear from the incentive of extra air miles. {{w|Frequent-flyer program|Frequent-flyer programs}} are a common system that airlines implement where passengers can receive special awards for flying often. It's not uncommon for different fare classes to earn different amounts of miles, but the difference is traditionally due to price or class, not because of in-flight services rendered.<br /> |}<br /> <br /> The total of 182 seats on the plane is a similar amount to a typically equipped Boeing 737-800, a very popular passenger plane. Up to 7,000 are in use around the world for short-range and mid-range flights. A typical Boeing 737-800 with 189 seats has a one-class layout in the configuration of two blocks (left and right) with each row of each block having three seats (left/middle/right). A bit simpler than what's seen here.<br /> <br /> The presence of lookouts, tail gunners and a fighter escort suggests that this plane expects to be a target of air-to-air attacks, which suggests it may be carrying VIPs and flying over uncontrolled airspace with the possibility of attack.<br /> <br /> The title text expands on the hole, suggesting that it was a common occurrence for drink carts to fall down the hole until they implemented wheel locks. The lack of wheel locks would make it easier for a cart to slide towards the hole.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :Typical Airliner Seating Chart<br /> <br /> :[Labeled items of a plane from front to back:]<br /> :[Front of plane:]<br /> :Cowcatcher<br /> :[Cockpit (2 seats):]<br /> :Please only pick these seats if you're a pilot<br /> :[First Class section (22 seats):]<br /> :Main stage<br /> :Mosh pit<br /> :Various fancy classes<br /> :[Wings (2 x 55 seats):]<br /> :Some airplane companies waste this space <br /> :[Ends of wings (2 x 1 seat):]<br /> :Lookout<br /> :[Propellers (2 x 1 seat):]<br /> :Passenger has to pedal<br /> :[Middle of plane, just behind wings:]<br /> :Hole for trash<br /> :[Left side of plane, behind wings (7 seats):]<br /> :Sidecar<br /> :[Back of plane (24 seats):]<br /> :Extra middle seats<br /> :[Just in front of tail (4 seats):]<br /> :Bumper car seating<br /> :[Tail (1 seat):]<br /> :Penthouse<br /> :[Hanging off of left side of tail (3 seats):]<br /> :Extra legroom <br /> :[Tail (4 seats):]<br /> :Tail gunners (Must protect plane from pursuers but earn extra miles)<br /> <br /> :[Separate, smaller plane to the right (14 seats):]<br /> :Fighter escort <br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Aviation]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2890:_Relationship_Advice&diff=334267 2024-02-05T18:08:55Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2890<br /> | date = February 5, 2024<br /> | title = Relationship Advice<br /> | image = relationship_advice_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x241px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = Good to be a little wary of advice that sounds too much like a self pep talk.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a RELATIONSHIP WITH A JOB IN FINE ARTS - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In this comic, [[White Hat]], [[Cueball]], and [[Ponytail]] can be seen having a conversation about relationships. White Hat appears to be giving Cueball and Ponytail relationship advice, but the advice becomes steadily more ridiculous, much to the discomfort of Cueball and Ponytail, who eventually ask if White Hat is okay. White Hat dismisses these questions by saying he's fine, and that it's normal.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[White Hat, Cueball and Ponytail are walking]<br /> :White Hat: What you have to remember is, relationships aren't easy.<br /> :Ponytail: Yeah, fair.<br /> <br /> :[Close-up of White Hat who has his finger raised] <br /> :White Hat: They're hard. They require constant work.<br /> :White Hat: A relationship is a job.<br /> :Off-panel voice: I guess...<br /> <br /> :[White Hat has stopped walking and is facing Cueball and Ponytail standing a bit further away]<br /> :White Hat: It's a challenge that feels overwhelming. It's a crushing burden.<br /> :Cueball: Umm.<br /> <br /> :[White Hat has his arms spread out]<br /> :White Hat: A relationship is a grueling ordeal.<br /> :Cueball: ...Who are you trying to convince, exactly?<br /> :Ponytail: Yeah, are '''''you''''' okay?<br /> :White Hat: I'm '''''fine!''''' This is '''''normal!'''''<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Romance]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2312:_mbmbam&diff=334262 2024-02-05T17:56:37Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2312<br /> | date = May 27, 2020<br /> | title = mbmbam<br /> | image = mbmbam.png<br /> | titletext = Hello and welcome to Millibar Millibarn Attometer, an advice show for the Planck era.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> <br /> In part, this comic is an homage to the referenced podcast, ''{{w|My Brother, My Brother, and Me}}'', which often features rapid garden-path conversations and puns and double entendres that are at once groan-worthy and delightfully witty. &quot;MBMBAM&quot; is an acryonym of &quot;'''M'''y '''B'''rother, '''M'''y '''B'''rother, '''A'''nd '''M'''e&quot;. <br /> <br /> The millibar is a metric unit of pressure (force per unit area), equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Bar (unit)|bar}}, or 100 {{w|Pascal_(unit)|Pa}}. It is slightly less than one-thousandth of sea-level atmospheric pressure on Earth (a standard atmosphere is 1013.25 millibar).<br /> <br /> The millibarn is a metric unit of area, equal to a thousandth of a {{w|Barn (unit)|barn}} (a humorously-named unit approximately equal to the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus), or 10^-31 m^2 or 10^-27 cm^2. Both units would theoretically have the symbol '''mb'''. Hence '''mbmb''' (the pressure unit multiplied by the area unit) would be a unit of force. This can be seen by applying dimensional analysis; pressure x area = (force/area) x area = force. Nobody in the comic strip discusses the magnitude of this force, but it would be 100 Pa x 10^-31 m^2 = 10^-29 newtons = 10^-24 dynes, or about the weight of an electron under Earth's gravity.<br /> <br /> '''am''' would be the symbol of an {{w|Atto-|atto}}meter, or 10^-18 meters. Multiply that to create the unit '''mbmbam''', which would be a unit of energy. Specifically, it would be a unit of work: the energy expended to move an object. More dimensional analysis: force x distance = (work/distance) x distance = work. The actual value of 1 mbmbam is correctly calculated in the comic: 100 Pa x 10^-31 m^2 x 10^-18 m = 10^-47 joules = 10^-40 erg. White Hat dubs this unit &quot;one podcast&quot;.<br /> <br /> The final panel is an extended series of puns: 'rise' referring to physically moving upward as well as biologically growing (expanding and becoming lighter and softer) as yeasts do; 'foam' referring to both {{w|quantum foam}} (the fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics) as well as the foam generated by yeast fermenting; 'unleavened dimensions' punning on the eleven dimensions of spacetime in {{w|string theory}} (actually, ten—{{w|M theory}} says eleven), while continuing to play on the theme of yeast--in this case, the universe is presumably flat because some of its dimensions lack the Planck yeast that would make them rise. White Hat appears to have managed to caught onto these puns, much to his (extreme) dissatisfaction.<br /> <br /> The example used in the comic of lifting a yeast cell 1 Planck length is one of many possible examples of 1 mbmbam of work. (The {{w|Planck length}}, approximately 1.6×10^−35 m or 1.6×10^−33 cm, is how far light travels in one unit of {{w|Planck time}}.) Another interpretation of 1 mbmbam would be the work necessary to pull two socially distancing (6 ft) SARS-CoV-2 {{w|Virus|virions}} apart by the thickness of a single strand of hair against the gravity they exert on each other.<br /> <br /> The Planck Era (or {{w|Planck_units#Cosmology|Planck Epoch}}) referenced in the title text is the near infinitesimally short period covering the first 10^-43 s after the Big Bang, when energies were so high that the four fundamental forces were combined into one and ordinary subatomic particles didn't yet exist. It is unlikely there were advice shows during this era{{Citation needed}}, so this would likely be a modern nostalgia show for physicists. The title text is also a play on My Brother, My Brother and Me's tagline: ''An advice show for the modren [sic] era.''<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> <br /> :[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are standing next to each other, talking. Megan has her hands raised to the side, in a shrugging gesture.]<br /> :Megan: Odd how in physics &quot;'''mb'''&quot; is both millibars (pressure) and millibar'''n'''s (area).<br /> :Megan: '''mbmb''' could mean millibar-millibarn, which is a unit of force, strangely.<br /> :White Hat: Units are weird.<br /> <br /> :[Same scene - Megan is now checking her phone. White Hat is raising his right index finger.]<br /> :Cueball: So what's '''mbmbam''', the My-Brother-My-Brother-And Me unit?<br /> :Megan: Millibar-milliibarn-attometer, I guess? That'd be a unit of energy. 10&lt;sup&gt;-47&lt;/sup&gt; Joules.<br /> :White Hat: &quot;One podcast&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Same scene in a frameless panel. Megan holds her phone to her side. White Hat has his arms raised to the side, excited.]<br /> :Cueball: 10&lt;sup&gt;-47&lt;/sup&gt; sounds small.<br /> :Megan: Yeah, it's roughly the energy you'd need to lift one yeast cell by one Planck length in Earth's gravity. <br /> :White Hat: Planck yeast!<br /> <br /> :[Same scene in a regular panel. Megan has put away her phone, and has her right index finger raised. White Hat has his hands balled into fists, frustrated.]<br /> :Cueball: Doesn't Planck yeast rise on its own?<br /> :Megan: Yeah, that's what makes quantum foam. But data suggests our universe is flat.<br /> :Megan: String theory says it's because spacetime has unleavened dimensions.<br /> :White Hat: ''...I hate you.''<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Physics]]<br /> [[Category:Cosmology]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br /> [[Category: Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category: Comics featuring White Hat]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2890:_Relationship_Advice&diff=334261 2024-02-05T17:54:25Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2890<br /> | date = February 5, 2024<br /> | title = Relationship Advice<br /> | image = relationship_advice_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x241px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = Good to be a little wary of advice that sounds too much like a self pep talk.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a A RELATIONSHIP WITH A JOB IN FINE ARTS - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In this comic, [[White Hat]], [[Cueball]], and [[Ponytail]] can be seen having a conversation about relationships.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :White Hat: What you have to remember is, relationships aren't easy.<br /> :Ponytail: Yeah, fair.<br /> <br /> :White Hat: They're hard. They require constant work.<br /> :White Hat: A relationship is a job.<br /> :Off-panel voice: I guess...<br /> <br /> :White Hat: It's a challenge that feels overwhelming. It's a crushing burden.<br /> :Cueball: Umm.<br /> <br /> :White Hat: A relationship is a grueling ordeal.<br /> :Cueball: ...Who are you trying to convince, exactly?<br /> :Ponytail: Yeah, are '''''you''''' okay?<br /> :White Hat: I'm '''''fine!''''' This is '''''normal!'''''<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2890:_Relationship_Advice&diff=334259 2024-02-05T17:51:44Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2890<br /> | date = February 5, 2024<br /> | title = Relationship Advice<br /> | image = relationship_advice_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x241px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = Good to be a little wary of advice that sounds too much like a self pep talk.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by a A RELATIONSHIP WITH A JOB IN FINE ARTS - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In this comic, [[White Hat]], [[Cueball]], and [[Ponytail]] can be seen having a conversation about relationships.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :White Hat: What you have to remember is, relationships aren't easy.<br /> :Ponytail: Yeah, fair.<br /> <br /> :White Hat: They're hard. They require constant work.<br /> :White Hat: A relationship is a job.<br /> :Off-panel voice: I guess...<br /> <br /> :White Hat: It's a challenge that feels overwhelming. It's a crushing burden.<br /> :Cueball: Umm.<br /> <br /> :White Hat: A relationship is a grueling ordeal.<br /> :Cueball: ...Who are you trying to convince, exactly?<br /> :Ponytail: Yeah, are '''''you''''' okay?<br /> :White Hat: I'm '''''fine!''''' This is '''''normal!'''''<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Certified_nqh&diff=334111 2024-02-03T00:07:58Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: /* there's already an actual citation needed template */ new section</p> <hr /> <div>first [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 16:24, 5 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> last [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 16:56, 3 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Re: ''Let me make my signature bounce.'' ==<br /> <br /> There ...are ways. A couple of which I've just tried over in an unrelated sandbox Preview (not saved), with varying degrees of usefulness for here. But might I highly suggest you consider not doing it, because if humanity hasn't even learnt from the whole {{w|Blink element|&lt;BLINK&gt;}} thing then I really have no hope for the world... Don't let me stop you learning, just don't go all [https://websitesfromhell.net/view/yvettesbridalformal.com-10/ Yvette's Bridal Formal]! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.162|172.71.242.162]] 17:36, 12 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == meow ==<br /> <br /> yore mothre [[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]] ([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk]]) 23:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> : right back at ya buckaroo [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 03:39, 19 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == hi henlo hi nqh hai ==<br /> <br /> could you check out my silly dark mode and tell me if there's anything (not main page/bullet points they're broken i cant change them) and tell me if i can improv e anything okai bai &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 15:53, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> : please use * to set text color i promise you everything will not explode<br /> : you can target redlinks using &lt;nowiki&gt;a[href$=&quot;redlink=1&quot;]&lt;/nowiki&gt; <br /> : i'll think of better criticism probably in about 9 hours or so [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 16:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> :: I did test * after seeing your theme but it ended up breaking links half the time so i decided against it lol. Was fairly early on so i could try it again i suppose &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 16:25, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::: you just need to use !important again in the link styles and it should work [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 16:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::: also add &lt;nowiki&gt;a[href$=&quot;/wiki/index.php/User:Certified_nqh&quot;]::after { content: &quot; (very important)&quot;;}&lt;/nowiki&gt; :trollface: [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 16:52, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::::I'll give it a shot on the extension i use before throwing it on the page. Also, nice try, you silly goose! &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 17:06, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::::It appears i solved it by literally just replacing all the text classes with &quot;body&quot; &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 17:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::::::TUrns out in reality that code never went into effect and it absolutely did not work. Oops &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 22:03, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::::::: * [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 00:09, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> &gt;&gt;&gt; Just for context, the following comment was made on a page for cataloging all of the various edits people have made on [[2852:_Parameterball/Incomplete_Archive|this page]], which I had edited after making an edit to the incomplete thingy on [[2852:_Parameterball|this page]]. - [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt;<br /> <br /> '''This is, of course, just 'editing for the sake of editing'. In leiu of anyone having created the relevent Talk page, I am forced to comment here that these are not good faith contributions and diluting the quality of both humour and informativeness in the pursuit of ego. Given the express wish of a certain contributor to be in the 'top 50 all time contributors', I am of course not surprised it has happened on top of all the other micro-edits that they (and another suspiciously similarly-behaving account, who I actually think is the same individual) have been making. Please can we just have less ego and more actual xkcd appreciation? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.53|172.70.85.53]] 20:16, 9 November 2023 (UTC)'''<br /> : mobile device, not logged in - While I understand your concerns, while I cannot speak for others, I have never expressed interest in becoming a top editor, and the other account is unrelated to me. My micro-edits are not for a goal, but simply because I make a lot of mistakes that I fail to notice before shortly after publishing edits. There is no goal to become a top editor. [[User:SomeoneIGuess]] &lt;small&gt;mobile device&lt;/small&gt;<br /> : :( [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 20:33, 9 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> : while i do agree, yes, &quot;editing for the sake of editing&quot; so i could get to the top 50 is something i did, i still put time and effort into most of them. for the ones that i barely changed, i could either not find anything else wrong with it or was just really tired. sorry if i came off as someone who just wants to be on The Scoreboard instead of enjoying the actual comic. and if you have an issue with something i do, i'd prefer if you didn't put it on a page i've edited once and moved it somewhere you can guarantee i'd see it [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]&lt;sup&gt;&amp;#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&amp;#93;[[Category:Pages using the &quot;citation needed&quot; template]]&lt;/sup&gt; 20:54, 9 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> : moved to your Talk page [[User:SomeoneIGuess]] &lt;small&gt;mobile device&lt;/small&gt;<br /> <br /> test [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]{{citation needed}} 17:08, 10 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Well, ==<br /> <br /> &lt;big&gt;[https://i.imgur.com/MhzwmF5.png fuck]&lt;/big&gt;<br /> <br /> --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:22, 13 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> : lol [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]{{citation needed}} 17:45, 13 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == there's already an actual citation needed template ==<br /> <br /> [[Template:actual citation needed]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:SomeoneIGuess&diff=333830 2024-01-30T02:46:05Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic|2848: Breaker Box}}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = [[File:visited.png|visited.png|45px]] | info = [[1051|This user has seen every xkcd comic ever made.]] | float = left }}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = :3 | info = This user knows how to make Userboxes from scratch. Start running. | float = left }}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i uhh. i do things.{{citation needed}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my alt: [[User:SomethingIGuess]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> there's some more info about me on my {{w|User:SomeoneIguess|my wikipedia}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i've seen all the xkcd comics yayy&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i click the random button so much that i've seen almost every xkcd comic ever.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> self-taught in &lt;font color=&quot;#f0f&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/font&gt; and WikiText, okay with python and javascript&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> currently a high school senior with an interest in computer science and game design, but at the same time a [[272|pre-built computer user]] and an avid windows user.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i use opera gx.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> if you ''really'', '''''really''''' need to contact me urgently, you can do so on discord (@someoneiguess23)&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my favorite character is probably [[Black Hat]]... maybe [[455|Two Black Hats]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> now fully responsible for the creation of {{tvtropes|Literature/WhatIf2|What If? 2's TV Tropes page}} {{tvtropes|Literature/HowTo|(and How To, too)}}<br /> <br /> [[File:verymuchtephra.png]]<br /> <br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (VECTOR)]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;!--[[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (MODERN)]]--&gt;<br /> <br /> ([[Code Quality|WARNING: VERY BAD CODE]]) &lt;code&gt;CURRENT VERSION: THE FINAL VERSION, REVISION 5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> TEST ALTERED CODE HERE: [[User:SomeoneIGuess/DARKPLAYGROUND]]<br /> <br /> just dont check the main page.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> this is my signature. i like my signature so much i stole it from my wikipedia. you dont touch my signature. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> userboxes:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic]]<br /> {{User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> cool people:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:Certified nqh|NQH]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:theusaf|theusaf]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> i dont know what else to put here<br /> <br /> You can edit in whatever you want below here. Be warned that i '''will''' run it through 100 different google translate languages if i feel like it. &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> == 19 days until Yellowstone erupts. ==<br /> <br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;div&gt; Thank you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;Enter the command: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;Nowwiki&gt;Mobile Number&lt;/Nowwiki&gt;<br /> <br /> Jimmy Fallon appears on the afternoon show. <br /> <br /> Spirit is different from spirit.<br /> <br /> Happy birthday! Debate between famous scientists!<br /> <br /> Pi~3<br /> <br /> Whatever you want below here<br /> &lt;!--do not edit after this line--&gt;</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:SomeoneIGuess&diff=333829 2024-01-30T02:46:00Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic|2848: Breaker Box}}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = [[File:visited.png|visited.png|45px]] | info = [[1051|This user has seen every xkcd comic ever made.]] | float = left }}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = :3 | info = This user knows how to make Userboxes from scratch. Start running. | float = left }}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i uhh. i do things.{{citation needed}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my alt: [[User:SomethingIGuess]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> there's some more info about me on my {{w|User:SomeoneIguess|my wikipedia}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i've seen all the xkcd comics yayy&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i click the random button so much that i've seen almost every xkcd comic ever.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> self-taught in &lt;font color=&quot;#f0f&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/font&gt; and WikiText, okay with python and javascript&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> currently a high school senior with an interest in computer science and game design, but at the same time a [[272|pre-built computer user]] and an avid windows user.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i use opera gx.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> if you ''really'', '''''really''''' need to contact me urgently, you can do so on discord (@someoneiguess23)&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my favorite character is probably [[Black Hat]]... maybe [[455|Two Black Hats]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> now fully responsible for the creation of {{tvtropes|Literature/WhatIf2|What If? 2's TV Tropes page}}{{tvtropes|Literature/HowTo|(and How To, too)}}<br /> <br /> [[File:verymuchtephra.png]]<br /> <br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (VECTOR)]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;!--[[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (MODERN)]]--&gt;<br /> <br /> ([[Code Quality|WARNING: VERY BAD CODE]]) &lt;code&gt;CURRENT VERSION: THE FINAL VERSION, REVISION 5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> TEST ALTERED CODE HERE: [[User:SomeoneIGuess/DARKPLAYGROUND]]<br /> <br /> just dont check the main page.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> this is my signature. i like my signature so much i stole it from my wikipedia. you dont touch my signature. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> userboxes:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic]]<br /> {{User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> cool people:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:Certified nqh|NQH]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:theusaf|theusaf]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> i dont know what else to put here<br /> <br /> You can edit in whatever you want below here. Be warned that i '''will''' run it through 100 different google translate languages if i feel like it. &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> == 19 days until Yellowstone erupts. ==<br /> <br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;div&gt; Thank you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;Enter the command: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;Nowwiki&gt;Mobile Number&lt;/Nowwiki&gt;<br /> <br /> Jimmy Fallon appears on the afternoon show. <br /> <br /> Spirit is different from spirit.<br /> <br /> Happy birthday! Debate between famous scientists!<br /> <br /> Pi~3<br /> <br /> Whatever you want below here<br /> &lt;!--do not edit after this line--&gt;</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:SomeoneIGuess&diff=333828 2024-01-30T02:44:08Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic|2848: Breaker Box}}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = [[File:visited.png|visited.png|45px]] | info = [[1051|This user has seen every xkcd comic ever made.]] | float = left }}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = :3 | info = This user knows how to make Userboxes from scratch. Start running. | float = left }}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i uhh. i do things.{{citation needed}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my alt: [[User:SomethingIGuess]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> there's some more info about me on my {{w|User:SomeoneIguess|my wikipedia}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i've seen all the xkcd comics yayy&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i click the random button so much that i've seen almost every xkcd comic ever.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> self-taught in &lt;font color=&quot;#f0f&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/font&gt; and WikiText, okay with python and javascript&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> currently a high school senior with an interest in computer science and game design, but at the same time a [[272|pre-built computer user]] and an avid windows user.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i use opera gx.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> if you ''really'', '''''really''''' need to contact me urgently, you can do so on discord (@someoneiguess23)&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my favorite character is probably [[Black Hat]]... maybe [[455|Two Black Hats]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> now fully responsible for the creation of {{tvtropes|Literature/WhatIf2|What If? 2's TV Tropes page}} ({{tvtropes|Literature/HowTo|(and How To, too)}}<br /> <br /> [[File:verymuchtephra.png]]<br /> <br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (VECTOR)]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;!--[[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (MODERN)]]--&gt;<br /> <br /> ([[Code Quality|WARNING: VERY BAD CODE]]) &lt;code&gt;CURRENT VERSION: THE FINAL VERSION, REVISION 5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> TEST ALTERED CODE HERE: [[User:SomeoneIGuess/DARKPLAYGROUND]]<br /> <br /> just dont check the main page.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> this is my signature. i like my signature so much i stole it from my wikipedia. you dont touch my signature. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> userboxes:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic]]<br /> {{User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> cool people:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:Certified nqh|NQH]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:theusaf|theusaf]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> i dont know what else to put here<br /> <br /> You can edit in whatever you want below here. Be warned that i '''will''' run it through 100 different google translate languages if i feel like it. &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> == 19 days until Yellowstone erupts. ==<br /> <br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;div&gt; Thank you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;Enter the command: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;Nowwiki&gt;Mobile Number&lt;/Nowwiki&gt;<br /> <br /> Jimmy Fallon appears on the afternoon show. <br /> <br /> Spirit is different from spirit.<br /> <br /> Happy birthday! Debate between famous scientists!<br /> <br /> Pi~3<br /> <br /> Whatever you want below here<br /> &lt;!--do not edit after this line--&gt;</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2887:_Minnesota&diff=333826 2024-01-30T01:43:15Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2887<br /> | date = January 29, 2024<br /> | title = Minnesota<br /> | image = minnesota_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 673x260px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = In addition to 'squishy', after reviewing my submitted intraplate ground motion data, the National Geodetic Survey has politely asked me to stop using the word 'supple' so often when describing Midwestern states.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by A SLOWLY EXPANDING CANADA - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> [[Hairy]], [[Ponytail]], and [[Cueball]] are in a business meeting of an unknown nature, but one which (it transpires) is unrelated to either geography, geology or geopolitical boundaries. Hairy asks if anyone has any other concerns, a common enough question to ask when trying to ensure that nobody at the meeting has still something to say that had not already been covered directly by the agenda or the resulting discussions.<br /> <br /> Cueball voices an opinion on Minnesota. Due to the {{w|post-glacial rebound}} present in Minnesota, this US state is apparently slowly decreasing in size. The humor comes from the fact that this may be a genuine concern by Cueball, but is completely unrelated to the topic of the meeting nor even a very significant problem even in more relevant circles.{{cn}} And yet Cueball clearly finds it important enough that &quot;all meetings should be about Minnesota&quot; until the problem is solved.<br /> <br /> The title text implies that Cueball has also brought this issue up to the {{w|National Geodetic Survey}}; rather than commenting on his data or findings, they have simply requested that he stop using suggestive language in his papers (&quot;supple&quot; is sometimes used, especially in erotic literature, to describe certain body parts).<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Hairy standing in front of Ponytail and Cueball, who are sitting behind a desk]<br /> :Hairy: Does anyone have any other concerns?<br /> :Cueball: I'm concerned that Minnesota is getting shorter.<br /> <br /> :[A map of Minnesota beside Cueball, with arrows pointing from the northern and southern borders towards the middle]<br /> :Cueball: Because of post-glacial crust rebound, the northern border is moving toward the southern border. It's less than an inch a decade, but I still don't like it.<br /> :Cueball: Minnesota shouldn't be squishy.<br /> <br /> :[Hairy again standing in front of Ponytail and Cueball at the desk. Ponytail is looking at Cueball, whose finger is now raised in the air, gesturing]<br /> :Hairy: Okay. Does anyone have any concerns related to the topic of this meeting?<br /> :Cueball: All meetings should be about Minnesota until we resolve this.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Geology]]<br /> [[Category:Geography]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2883:_Astronaut_Guests&diff=333230 2024-01-20T03:50:34Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2883<br /> | date = January 19, 2024<br /> | title = Astronaut Guests<br /> | image = astronaut_guests.png<br /> | imagesize = 331x391px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = They didn't bring us a gift, but considering the kinetic energy of a bottle of wine at orbital speed, that's probably for the best.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by SIX ASTRONAUTS OVER YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> In this comic, [[Cueball]], [[Megan]], [[Ponytail]], and [[Hairbun]] can all be seen eating dinner together. Presumably, Ponytail and Hairbun were invited over for dinner, as, to impress them, [[Cueball]] misleadingly claims that they previously &quot;had six {{w|astronauts}} over for dinner.&quot; Normally, this would be interpreted as the astronauts being friends with the hosts (which confers social prestige), going inside their house, and eating. As it turns out, the astronauts actually only briefly passed over the {{w|property line}}s while in {{w|orbit}}, and, by chance, this happened during dinnertime. Cueball is considering the property lines to extend up indefinitely, causing the astronauts to technically be at their house despite being hundreds of miles away, vertically.<br /> <br /> This is also a pun on the word &quot;over&quot;, as the personnel of the International Space Station are overhead when it passes above you&amp;mdash;yet they did not go &quot;over ''to'' someone's house&quot; in the sense that English speakers would usually assume.<br /> <br /> The caption makes Cueball's statement even less impressive, alleging that statements like it are correct in a lot of places. This would make it not even interesting as a {{w|coincidence}}.<br /> <br /> This comic was posted the same day as the American release of a film set on the ISS (conveniently named ''{{w|I.S.S. (film)|I.S.S.}}'').<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}<br /> [Cueball and three others are eating around a table.]<br /> <br /> Cueball: We don't have houseguests often, but we once had six astronauts over for dinner.<br /> <br /> Guest: Oh, wow!<br /> <br /> Cueball (muttering): ''…for 7½ milliseconds in mid-August 2012.''<br /> <br /> [Caption:]&lt;br /&gt;If you spend enough time looking at orbital records and property lines, you can make this claim in a lot of places.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2883:_Astronaut_Guests&diff=333228 2024-01-20T03:47:46Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> <br /> Bot's down so i took the liberty of making the page myself &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 03:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :The bot isn't actually down. I think you just saw the comic before it did! —[[User:Theusaf|theusaf]] ([[User talk:Theusaf|talk]]) 03:37, 20 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :: If that's the case i find it really weird that Randall posted at *checks time* 10:40 PM... uncharacteristically late upload from my experience, assumed bot was down &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 03:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2883:_Astronaut_Guests&diff=333223 2024-01-20T03:15:07Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> <br /> Bot's down so i took the liberty of making the page myself &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 03:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Astronaut_Guests&diff=333222 2024-01-20T03:14:45Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Redirected page to 2883: Astronaut Guests</p> <hr /> <div>#REDIRECT [[2883: Astronaut Guests]].</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_all_comics_(3000-3500)&diff=333221 2024-01-20T03:14:17Z

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SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2883:_Astronaut_Guests&diff=333220 2024-01-20T03:12:42Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Created page with &quot;Bot's down so i took the liberty of making the page myself ~~~~&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>Bot's down so i took the liberty of making the page myself &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 03:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2883:_Astronaut_Guests&diff=333219 2024-01-20T03:11:19Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2883<br /> | date = January 19, 2024<br /> | title = Astronaut Guests<br /> | image = astronaut_guests.png<br /> | imagesize = 331x391px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = They didn't bring us a gift, but considering the kinetic energy of a bottle of wine at orbital speed, that's probably for the best.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by SIX ASTRONAUTS OVER YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2883:_Astronaut_Guests&diff=333218 2024-01-20T03:10:13Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2883<br /> | date = January 19, 2024<br /> | title = Astronaut Guests<br /> | image = astronaut_guests.png<br /> | imagesize = 331x391px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = They didn't bring us a gift, but considering the kinetic energy of a bottle of wine at orbital speed, that's probably for the best.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by an editor - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2883&diff=333217 2024-01-20T03:09:50Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Redirected page to 2883: Astronaut Guests</p> <hr /> <div>#REDIRECT [[2883: Astronaut Guests]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:LATESTCOMIC&diff=333216 2024-01-20T03:09:27Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;noinclude&gt;The latest [[xkcd]] comic is number: &lt;/noinclude&gt;2883</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2883:_Astronaut_Guests&diff=333215 2024-01-20T03:09:13Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Created page with &quot;{{comic | number = 2883 | date = January 19, 2024 | title = Astronaut Guests | image = astronaut_guests.png | imagesize = 331x391px | noexpand = true | titlet...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2883<br /> | date = January 19, 2024<br /> | title = Astronaut Guests<br /> | image = astronaut_guests.png<br /> | imagesize = 331x391px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = They didn't bring us a gift, but considering the kinetic energy of a bottle of wine at orbital speed, that's probably for the best.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by an editor - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript}}</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:astronaut_guests.png&diff=333214 2024-01-20T03:08:37Z

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SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2882:_Net_Rotations&diff=333213 2024-01-20T03:05:01Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> Wait, so I'm not the only one who thinks about this? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.167.177|172.71.167.177]] 23:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :No, I also do it, just I do it right after I do the turns so I don't have to remember them all. [[User:B_for_brain|B for brain]] ([[User_talk:B_for_brain|talk]]) ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4bo-hj-mDyOOUp_Yp0pug youtube channel] [https://bforbrain.weebly.com/ wobsite (supposed to be a blag)] 17:24, 19 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Second! Still, I'm surprised that there are no edits yet. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.160|172.70.210.160]] 23:58, 17 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> This sounds like the premise of the 1966 sci-fi story The Revolving Boy by Gertrude Friedberg. I recall reading it sometime in the 1960s or ’70s. I wonder whether Randall has read the book too — https://solarbridge.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/the-revolving-boy-gertrude-friedberg/<br /> I'm drawing a blank. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.68|162.158.158.68]] 01:05, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I feel like the &quot;worldline torsion&quot; line needs to be explained moreso than the OCD thing, since &quot;worldline&quot; is a word people might not know and it's the crux of the joke. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.50|162.158.62.50]] 02:47, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :A worldline is a relativistic concept, the track of a particle (or anything, by extension) through 4D spacetime. Randall is imagining it as a physical object (not a mathematical abstraction) and thus whenever the actual object rotates, its worldline is twisted. Presumably these physical worldlines would build up torsional potential energy as they twisted, and could eventually be damaged if too many twists/year were present.[[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:57, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :: Yeah - something like that needs to go in the explanation.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.47|172.70.85.47]] 09:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I would love to know what my net rotations is. Not enough to actually keep track, mind you. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.126|172.70.178.126]] 02:53, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :I had a season pass to an amusement park a few years ago, and the time I spent on the Scrambler would probably make mine quite difficult to calculate, even if I knew how many times I rode it. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.57|172.69.247.57]] 04:41, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> : Probably depends a lot on whether you suffer from Zoolander's Syndrome. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.62|172.70.91.62]] 09:48, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> isn't this a refernce to spacetime torsion and the einstien-cartan theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Cartan_theory<br /> <br /> When I used to do plasma donations (they draw blood, centrifuge it, extract the plasma/platelet fraction and return the red and white cells) I would, when telling someone about it, jokingly say that the only side effect was, then I would jump and spin. [[User:RIIW - Ponder it|RIIW - Ponder it]] ([[User talk:RIIW - Ponder it|talk]]) 08:17, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> This comic makes sense in 2D because the space of rotations has fundamental group ℤ, but in 3D wouldn't you have at most ℤ/2ℤ corrections to make, since SU(2) double-covers SO(3)? cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_trick [[User:Ncf|Ncf]] ([[User talk:Ncf|talk]]) 09:27, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Considering the plane in which you are doing your rotation changes during the day due to Earth rotation, I think that it doesn't make sense in 3D at all. But thanks for {{w|Plate trick|link}}. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 21:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Is it worth mentioning the real medical conditions of torsion, e. . a torsion fracture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_fracture)? [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 12:43, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :I immediately thought of medical conditions, too, in my case a torsion of the spine https://www.osmosis.org/answers/sacral-torsion . But the exercises that are supposed to alleviate back pain &amp; torsions caused by one-sided movements (like always twisting/bending left when carrying a load, and twisting/bending right without a load) usually don't involve full rotations. [[User:Transgalactic|Transgalactic]] ([[User talk:Transgalactic|talk]]) 00:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Remember that, to do it properly, any turns made in your car also have to be reversed in your car, to account for the rotation of the car's atoms. Go do a full loop through a counterclockwise cloverleaf! (Finding one is left as an exercise to the reader.) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.82|108.162.238.82]] 13:05, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Don't think it’s worth adding to the article but thought I would mention it here, anyone who has experience spending a long time in a VR headset will almost certainly have had to do this at some point to untwist the tether. To the point that there are apps you can run that show you how much your rotation has changed from the set 0 orientation. [[User:TomW1605|TomW1605]] ([[User talk:TomW1605|talk]]) 13:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :Actually I think it's worth mentioning that the line to your virtual world (not quite a worldline, but close enough to make a pun?) will indeed suffer torsions unless you cancel out your net rotations. :-D [[User:Transgalactic|Transgalactic]] ([[User talk:Transgalactic|talk]]) 00:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC) <br /> <br /> The CPSC recommends merry-go-rounds be limited to 13 ft/sec. https://www.sportsplayinc.com/images/cpsc.pdf For a 10 ft radius, that would be one rotation every 4.8 sec. Over &quot;one long afternoon&quot; (which I'll take as 6 hours) that would amount to 4,469 rotations. If you compensated for this with a mere one rotation per day, the excess rotation would be completely offset in 12 years and 3 months, so &quot;decades&quot; is quite an exageration. [[User:Loeb]]<br /> : If your merry-go-round had a 20 inch diameter, though (the minimum at which those recommendations apply), at one a day it would take you nearly 147 years.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.195.60|172.69.195.60]] 09:42, 19 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> It makes me think a lot about [[162: Angular Momentum]] [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.34|141.101.98.34]] 19:45, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> 2883 is out, bot's down... &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 03:05, 20 January 2024 (UTC)</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2882:_Net_Rotations&diff=333212 2024-01-20T03:04:53Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> Wait, so I'm not the only one who thinks about this? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.167.177|172.71.167.177]] 23:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :No, I also do it, just I do it right after I do the turns so I don't have to remember them all. [[User:B_for_brain|B for brain]] ([[User_talk:B_for_brain|talk]]) ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4bo-hj-mDyOOUp_Yp0pug youtube channel] [https://bforbrain.weebly.com/ wobsite (supposed to be a blag)] 17:24, 19 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Second! Still, I'm surprised that there are no edits yet. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.160|172.70.210.160]] 23:58, 17 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> This sounds like the premise of the 1966 sci-fi story The Revolving Boy by Gertrude Friedberg. I recall reading it sometime in the 1960s or ’70s. I wonder whether Randall has read the book too — https://solarbridge.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/the-revolving-boy-gertrude-friedberg/<br /> I'm drawing a blank. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.68|162.158.158.68]] 01:05, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I feel like the &quot;worldline torsion&quot; line needs to be explained moreso than the OCD thing, since &quot;worldline&quot; is a word people might not know and it's the crux of the joke. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.50|162.158.62.50]] 02:47, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :A worldline is a relativistic concept, the track of a particle (or anything, by extension) through 4D spacetime. Randall is imagining it as a physical object (not a mathematical abstraction) and thus whenever the actual object rotates, its worldline is twisted. Presumably these physical worldlines would build up torsional potential energy as they twisted, and could eventually be damaged if too many twists/year were present.[[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:57, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :: Yeah - something like that needs to go in the explanation.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.47|172.70.85.47]] 09:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I would love to know what my net rotations is. Not enough to actually keep track, mind you. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.126|172.70.178.126]] 02:53, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :I had a season pass to an amusement park a few years ago, and the time I spent on the Scrambler would probably make mine quite difficult to calculate, even if I knew how many times I rode it. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.57|172.69.247.57]] 04:41, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> : Probably depends a lot on whether you suffer from Zoolander's Syndrome. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.62|172.70.91.62]] 09:48, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> isn't this a refernce to spacetime torsion and the einstien-cartan theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Cartan_theory<br /> <br /> When I used to do plasma donations (they draw blood, centrifuge it, extract the plasma/platelet fraction and return the red and white cells) I would, when telling someone about it, jokingly say that the only side effect was, then I would jump and spin. [[User:RIIW - Ponder it|RIIW - Ponder it]] ([[User talk:RIIW - Ponder it|talk]]) 08:17, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> This comic makes sense in 2D because the space of rotations has fundamental group ℤ, but in 3D wouldn't you have at most ℤ/2ℤ corrections to make, since SU(2) double-covers SO(3)? cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_trick [[User:Ncf|Ncf]] ([[User talk:Ncf|talk]]) 09:27, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Considering the plane in which you are doing your rotation changes during the day due to Earth rotation, I think that it doesn't make sense in 3D at all. But thanks for {{w|Plate trick|link}}. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 21:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Is it worth mentioning the real medical conditions of torsion, e. . a torsion fracture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_fracture)? [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 12:43, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :I immediately thought of medical conditions, too, in my case a torsion of the spine https://www.osmosis.org/answers/sacral-torsion . But the exercises that are supposed to alleviate back pain &amp; torsions caused by one-sided movements (like always twisting/bending left when carrying a load, and twisting/bending right without a load) usually don't involve full rotations. [[User:Transgalactic|Transgalactic]] ([[User talk:Transgalactic|talk]]) 00:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Remember that, to do it properly, any turns made in your car also have to be reversed in your car, to account for the rotation of the car's atoms. Go do a full loop through a counterclockwise cloverleaf! (Finding one is left as an exercise to the reader.) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.82|108.162.238.82]] 13:05, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Don't think it’s worth adding to the article but thought I would mention it here, anyone who has experience spending a long time in a VR headset will almost certainly have had to do this at some point to untwist the tether. To the point that there are apps you can run that show you how much your rotation has changed from the set 0 orientation. [[User:TomW1605|TomW1605]] ([[User talk:TomW1605|talk]]) 13:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :Actually I think it's worth mentioning that the line to your virtual world (not quite a worldline, but close enough to make a pun?) will indeed suffer torsions unless you cancel out your net rotations. :-D [[User:Transgalactic|Transgalactic]] ([[User talk:Transgalactic|talk]]) 00:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC) <br /> <br /> The CPSC recommends merry-go-rounds be limited to 13 ft/sec. https://www.sportsplayinc.com/images/cpsc.pdf For a 10 ft radius, that would be one rotation every 4.8 sec. Over &quot;one long afternoon&quot; (which I'll take as 6 hours) that would amount to 4,469 rotations. If you compensated for this with a mere one rotation per day, the excess rotation would be completely offset in 12 years and 3 months, so &quot;decades&quot; is quite an exageration. [[User:Loeb]]<br /> : If your merry-go-round had a 20 inch diameter, though (the minimum at which those recommendations apply), at one a day it would take you nearly 147 years.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.195.60|172.69.195.60]] 09:42, 19 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> It makes me think a lot about [[162: Angular Momentum]] [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.34|141.101.98.34]] 19:45, 18 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> 2883 is out, bot's down...</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2873:_Supersymmetry&diff=333164 2024-01-18T18:11:09Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2873<br /> | date = December 27, 2023 <br /> | title = Supersymmetry<br /> | image = supersymmetry 2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 313x375px<br /> | noexpand = true <br /> | titletext = High-speed collisions at the Baby Park track may support the hypothesis that Daisy is her own evil twin, a theory first suggested by Nintendo in the game Majorana's Mask.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> <br /> This comic imagines a &quot;theory of supersymmetric Mario Bros.&quot; that merges the theoretical physics concept of {{w|supersymmetry}} (explained [[#Background on subatomic particles|below]]) with another &quot;super&quot; thing, {{w|Super Mario Bros.}}, originally developed for the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System}} and later the ''Super'' Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), two home game consoles popular during Randall's childhood. Mario game characters are equated with certain subatomic particles, with the central protagonists Mario and Luigi (his brother) comprising the center of an atom (proton and neutron).<br /> <br /> The &quot;Free Luigi Decay&quot; diagram is a {{w|Feynman diagram}}, a {{w|particle physics}} depiction of interactions between particles. This diagram reinterprets the process of {{w|free neutron decay}}, in which a neutron that is left alone &amp;mdash; not part of a nucleus with a proton &amp;mdash; is unstable, such that one of its constituent quarks will transform, making a more stable proton, by emitting a W&lt;sup&gt;-&lt;/sup&gt; boson (not shown, or renamed), after around 10 to 30 minutes. The boson will then almost immediately decay into a suitable electron and neutrino. In Free Luigi Decay, the Luigi particle decay leads into there being a Mario, a Peach, and a notably right-handed Daisy, which would imply that this particular Daisy represents a {{w|sterile neutrino}}. The instability of a Luigi particle could be a reference to the fact that Luigi is almost never seen without Mario; decades of Mario games and spinoffs have produced just a few Luigi-only video games, such as ''{{w|Mario Is Missing!}}'' and the ''{{w|Luigi's Mansion (franchise)|Luigi's Mansion}}'' series. <br /> <br /> The Mario characters and their subatomic particle equivalents:<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot; style=&quot;margin:auto&quot;<br /> |-<br /> ! Particle !! Symbol !! Type !! Charge !! Mass !! Mario Character !! Notes<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Proton}}<br /> | p / p&lt;sup&gt;+&lt;/sup&gt;<br /> | Baryon&lt;br/&gt;('uud' quarks)<br /> | +1<br /> | ≲1 {{w|Dalton (unit)|m&lt;sub&gt;u&lt;/sub&gt;}}<br /> | Mario<br /> | The hero-protagonist of a large majority of the series<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Neutron}}<br /> | n / n⁰<br /> | Baryon&lt;br/&gt;('udd' quarks)<br /> | +0<br /> | ≳1 m&lt;sub&gt;u&lt;/sub&gt;<br /> | Luigi<br /> | Mario's younger brother and deuteragonist of many of the games, as well as the unwilling protagonist of a few games<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Antiproton}}&lt;br/&gt;(not involved in the diagram)<br /> | &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: overline&quot;&gt;p&lt;/span&gt; / p&lt;sup&gt;-&lt;/sup&gt;<br /> | Antibaryon&lt;br/&gt;('&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: overline&quot;&gt;uud&lt;/span&gt;' quarks)<br /> | -1<br /> | as proton*<br /> | Wario<br /> | Mario's arch-rival, occasional antagonist/anti-hero, protagonist of the ''Wario Land'' series, and major character in the ''WarioWare'' series &lt;!-- NOTE: WARIO IS THE ARCH-RIVAL; BOWSER IS THE ARCH-NEMESIS --&gt;<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Antineutron}}&lt;br/&gt;(not involved in the diagram)<br /> | &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: overline&quot;&gt;n&lt;/span&gt; / n&lt;sup&gt;-0&lt;/sup&gt;<br /> | Antibaryon&lt;br/&gt;('&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: overline&quot;&gt;udd&lt;/span&gt;' quarks)<br /> | -0<br /> | as neutron*<br /> | Waluigi<br /> | Luigi's rival and Wario's partner, exclusively appearing in spin-off games such as ''Mario Tennis'', ''Mario &amp; Sonic'', ''Mario Kart'', and ''Mario Party'' &lt;!-- Note: Wario and Waluigi are stated to not be related in any capacity, most explicitly in the Mario &amp; Sonic series --&gt;<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Electron}}<br /> | e&lt;sup&gt;-&lt;/sup&gt;<br /> | Lepton&lt;br/&gt;(charged)<br /> | -1<br /> | 5.5x10&lt;sup&gt;-4&lt;/sup&gt; m&lt;sub&gt;u&lt;/sub&gt;<br /> | (Princess) Peach<br /> | Mario's love interest, as well as the &quot;damsel in distress&quot; and/or reward-giver when not a character in her own right<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Positron}} / Antielectron&lt;br/&gt;(not depicted/involved)<br /> | e&lt;sup&gt;+&lt;/sup&gt;<br /> | Antilepton&lt;br/&gt;(charged)<br /> | +1<br /> | as electron*<br /> &lt;!-- | Wapeach? --&gt;<br /> |-<br /> | {{w|Electron Neutrino}}<br /> | ν&lt;sub&gt;e&lt;/sub&gt;<br /> | Lepton&lt;br/&gt;(uncharged)<br /> | 0<br /> | Assumed &gt;0&lt;br/&gt;(very small*)<br /> | (Princess) Daisy<br /> | Luigi's (rumored) love interest, as well as another &quot;damsel in distress&quot; and/or reward-giver when not a character in her own right<br /> |-<br /> | Electron {{w|Neutrino#Antineutrinos|Antineutrino}}&lt;br/&gt;(not depicted, hypothetical)<br /> | &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: overline&quot;&gt;ν&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sub&gt;e&lt;/sub&gt;<br /> | Antilepton&lt;br/&gt;(uncharged)<br /> | 0<br /> | as electron neutrino*<br /> &lt;!-- Wadaisy? --&gt;<br /> |}<br /> &lt;nowiki/&gt;* - to within experimental uncertainty<br /> <br /> The Mario-Peach particle relationship is appropriate. Just as Mario is attracted to Princess Peach in the first generation of Mario games, so is the Mario particle (proton) attracted to the Peach particle (electron).<br /> <br /> The particle assignments for Peach and Daisy are also appropriate. Just as Princess Peach is often the central character (e.g., needing rescue) with Princess Daisy usually playing a supporting or secondary role, so too is the electron a well-known particle with a significant role in forming atoms and determining chemical properties, while the neutrino is more elusive, playing a less obvious role in the universe.<br /> <br /> The title text is a pun on the title of the Nintendo 64 game ''{{w|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask}}'' and the concept of {{w|Majorana fermion}}, which attempts to reconcile how, while many particles have separate antiparticle counterparts, certain ones do not. Until this is resolved, scientists may depict a theoretical antiparticle in place of a neutrino in order to preserve various total values across the diagram. But scientists do wonder if a neutrino is its own antiparticle, much as they have also previously wondered if {{w|Neutrino oscillation|they also flip their 'flavor'}} as a way to explain certain experimental results.<br /> <br /> Baby Park is an oval-shaped race track in the ''{{w|Mario Kart}}'' series and used as a particle collider in the title text, first featured in ''{{w|Mario Kart: Double Dash|Mario Kart: Double Dash!!}}'' on the Nintendo GameCube, and most recently appearing in ''{{w|Mario Kart 8 Deluxe}}'' for the Nintendo Switch. The Baby Park track is unusually short by the series' standards, making collisions between racers more likely than on the other, longer tracks.<br /> <br /> This comic was posted shortly after the release of [https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/wapeach-princess-peach-waluigi-creator-2634191/ concept art] from ''Mario Tennis'' (the game where Waluigi debuted) of Wapeach, an &quot;evil&quot; counterpart to Peach which was ultimately scrapped. Under the model depicted in the comic, Wapeach would serve as a positron analogue.<br /> <br /> ===Background on subatomic particles===<br /> At the atomic level, particle interactions may involve the bulky nucleons (protons and neutrons, these being each a particular triumvirate of quark 'flavors'), electrons (smaller, charged fermions) and various others (such as neutrinos, also fermions, chargeless and often ''nearly'' massless). Sometimes other more exotic/fundamental particles (force-mediating or otherwise transient) are included.<br /> <br /> Added within the {{w|standard model}} are the &quot;{{w|antiparticle}}s&quot; that are oppositely charged (or built up of more fundamental antiparticles), and further issues have required extending this further through theories of supersymmetry which further adds counterparts that have alternate '{{w|Spin (physics)|spin}}'s.<br /> <br /> The right-handed Daisy (Electron Neutrino) means that Daisy’s direction of spin (in subatomic terms, a measurement which does not now match that of the angular momentum in classical physics which inspired its naming) is the same as the direction of motion. A left-handed Daisy (Electron Neutrino) would have the opposite value. <br /> <br /> Certain current understandings of the process require that the electron neutrino be an ''anti''neutrino, but antineutrinos have not so far been sufficiently confirmed to exist, with some theorising that a neutrino can be its own anti-particle (unlike the neutral neutron, composed of charged quarks, which has the similarly neutral antineutron, composed of oppositely charged antiquarks).<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[List of characters with their heads on the left side and particles with their depictions on the right side.]<br /> :Mario : Proton<br /> :Luigi : Neutron<br /> <br /> :Wario : Antiproton<br /> :Waluigi : Antineutron<br /> <br /> :Peach : Electron<br /> :Daisy : Electron neutrino<br /> <br /> :Free Luigi decay:<br /> :[An illustration of Luigi → Mario + Peach + Daisy (shown with the characters' heads).]<br /> :[Label below Daisy:] (Right-handed)<br /> <br /> :[Caption below the panel:]<br /> :The theory of Supersymmetric Mario Bros suggests that each fundamental particle has a Super Nintendo partner.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Video games]]<br /> [[Category:Mario Kart]]<br /> [[Category:Physics]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:SomeoneIGuess&diff=333162 2024-01-18T18:03:58Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>{{SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic|2848: Breaker Box}}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = [[File:visited.png|visited.png|45px]] | info = [[1051|This user has seen every xkcd comic ever made.]] | float = left }}<br /> {{Userbox | border-c = #255 | border-s = 1 | info-s = 9 | id = :3 | info = This user knows how to make Userboxes from scratch. Start running. | float = left }}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i uhh. i do things.{{citation needed}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my alt: [[User:SomethingIGuess]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> there's some more info about me on my {{w|User:SomeoneIguess|my wikipedia}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i've seen all the xkcd comics yayy&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i click the random button so much that i've seen almost every xkcd comic ever.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> self-taught in &lt;font color=&quot;#f0f&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/font&gt; and WikiText, okay with python and javascript&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> currently a high school senior with an interest in computer science and game design, but at the same time a [[272|pre-built computer user]] and an avid windows user.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> i use opera gx.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> if you ''really'', '''''really''''' need to contact me urgently, you can do so on discord (@someoneiguess23)&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> my favorite character is probably [[Black Hat]]... maybe [[455|Two Black Hats]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> now fully responsible for the creation of {{tvtropes|Literature/WhatIf2|What If? 2's TV Tropes page}}&lt;br&gt; (and soon, [[How To]] as well &gt;:3)<br /> <br /> [[File:verymuchtephra.png]]<br /> <br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (VECTOR)]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;!--[[User:SomeoneIGuess/UNOFFICIALDARK|Dark Mode for Explain XKCD (MODERN)]]--&gt;<br /> <br /> ([[Code Quality|WARNING: VERY BAD CODE]]) &lt;code&gt;CURRENT VERSION: THE FINAL VERSION, REVISION 5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> TEST ALTERED CODE HERE: [[User:SomeoneIGuess/DARKPLAYGROUND]]<br /> <br /> just dont check the main page.&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> this is my signature. i like my signature so much i stole it from my wikipedia. you dont touch my signature. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> userboxes:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic]]<br /> {{User:SomeoneIGuess/FavoriteComic}}&lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> cool people:&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:Certified nqh|NQH]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> [[User:theusaf|theusaf]]&lt;br/&gt;<br /> i dont know what else to put here<br /> <br /> You can edit in whatever you want below here. Be warned that i '''will''' run it through 100 different google translate languages if i feel like it. &lt;br/&gt;<br /> <br /> == 19 days until Yellowstone erupts. ==<br /> <br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;div&gt; Thank you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;Enter the command: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;Nowwiki&gt;Mobile Number&lt;/Nowwiki&gt;<br /> <br /> Jimmy Fallon appears on the afternoon show. <br /> <br /> Spirit is different from spirit.<br /> <br /> Happy birthday! Debate between famous scientists!<br /> <br /> Pi~3<br /> <br /> Whatever you want below here<br /> &lt;!--do not edit after this line--&gt;</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:verymuchtephra.png&diff=333161 2024-01-18T18:03:48Z

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SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2875:_2024&diff=331919 2024-01-02T17:25:11Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--&gt;<br /> It [[wikipedia:List of presidents of the United States by age|appears]] that only three US presidents so far have lived for over 30 years since their last election: Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and (technically) George H.W. Bush. One other (John Adams) had made it to 29. In addition, Gerald Ford had lived for over 29 years after the end of his presidency (and over 30 years after its start) but had technically never been elected.&lt;br/&gt;Of course none of those five were two-term presidents so they in any case would not have been restricted from further election by the 22nd amendment (and John Adams additionally wasn't affected by it due to having died prior to its ratification). --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.200.134|172.70.200.134]] 22:42, 1 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :I don't think he's suggesting that 30 years is enough -- that's only when half the tooth cells have been replaced. So we have to resort to dentistry and replace all the teeth. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 00:10, 2 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I've just made some &quot;content and flow&quot; edits to bring the Explanation up to a reasonable spec of explanatoriaciousness (which I fully expect to be buffed up and/or trimmed by others). I didn't ''directly'' explain that SCOTUS has nine (or more!) voting members, but there's the link(s) I added where this gets fairly well qualified for the person who might need to know this, and I refrained from suggestion reasons why one or both of the more recent Presidents might be best 'forgotten' (depending upon a person's own considerations on each matter), etc... I actually think that if all nine SCOTUSii all decided in one direction on the issues of Obama's teeth then it would be because of ideologically opposing views lining up by pure accident (e.g. some see/do not see pulling teeth as a valid way of becoming President for a third term, the rest see/do not see the pulling of teeth from Obama as laudible but would expect the next step to fail to happen for entirely separate reasons). And if someone definitely knows if FDR wore dentures (or not), particularly in his last five or so years, then that can surely be inserted as a valid (counter-)justifying fact. Anyway, probably done with my own polishing. For the moment, certainly. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.243|172.69.194.243]] 03:34, 2 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :According to the book [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Party_Politics_in_the_Age_of_Roosevelt/NttsEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%22franklin+d+roosevelt%22+dentures&amp;pg=PA148&amp;printsec=frontcover Party Politics in the Age of Roosevelt] by Michael P. Riccards and Cheryl A. Flagg, FDR did have a ''partial'' denture to replace two of his front teeth, but that wouldn't satisfy Ponytail's plan. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.127.40|172.70.127.40]] 04:13, 2 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I don't understand the reference to there being only 8 justices on the Supreme Court ... As far as I can tell, on January 1 2024 there are 9, unless I'm missing something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States [[User:ModelD|ModelD]] ([[User talk:ModelD|talk]]) 11:00, 2 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Is it worth mentioning that Ponytail is being inconsistent? She wants Obama to be considered a new person due to cellular replacement, so he can be elected ... because she likes him, and recognizes the &quot;new&quot; Obama as still being the President she liked. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]])<br /> :Tell you what it also blows out of the water, though..? Any hint of 'birther' complaints. (Also might well be how Arnie had become a POTUS, in the future-history of Demolition Man!) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.226|172.69.194.226]] 15:18, 2 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Wow! a vandal! fun! &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 16:45, 2 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> :Persistent. I just reverted again. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 17:17, 2 January 2024 (UTC)<br /> ::who on earth vandalizes a comic wiki &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 17:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331909 2024-01-02T17:12:03Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331908 by 172.70.90.28 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331901 2024-01-02T17:01:16Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331900 by 172.70.91.166 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331899 2024-01-02T16:59:42Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331898 by 172.70.86.5 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331895 2024-01-02T16:57:30Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331894 by 172.69.194.224 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331893 2024-01-02T16:55:43Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331892 by 172.69.194.225 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331891 2024-01-02T16:54:58Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331890 by 172.69.194.227 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331889 2024-01-02T16:54:13Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331888 by 172.70.91.212 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331887 2024-01-02T16:52:23Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331886 by 172.71.178.55 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2875:_2024&diff=331885 2024-01-02T16:50:56Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: Undo revision 331884 by 172.71.178.54 (talk)</p> <hr /> <div><br /> == Headline text ==<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;:''This page refers to the comic named &quot;2024&quot;. For comic #2024, see [[2024: Light Hacks]].''&lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> {{comic<br /> | number = 2875<br /> | date = January 1, 2024<br /> | title = 2024<br /> | image = 2024_2x.png<br /> | imagesize = 740x553px<br /> | noexpand = true<br /> | titletext = It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by OBAMA'S TEETH - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> In what starts off almost like a &quot;[[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|doesn't time fly?]]&quot; scene, the unstoppable progression of the calendar is observed, as [[Ponytail]] points out that it's now 2024. [[Cueball]], in response, notes that it is an election year, in this context a {{w|President of the United States#Election|US ''Presidential'' election}} year, which occurs every four years and has (in one form or other) since 1788. Ponytail then replies in some form of exasperated tone that they &quot;keep on happening&quot;, which is true but (normally) unsurprising, even/especially with other major elections happening every two years, presumably not compared to how [https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/youre-joking-not-another-one/ some other democracies] might be less predictable/more frequent.<br /> <br /> On top of this, Ponytail seems to have not been aware (or maybe has chosen to forget) the passing of two whole election cycles (and two newer incumbents) as the discussion focuses upon {{w|Barack Obama}}, the ''former'' US President. Ponytail seems to be quite behind the times as she asks if Obama is still president (he left office January 20th, 2017, which was 7 (!) years ago, a fact that Cueball cannot quite believe Ponytail is ignorant of). Ponytail states that she liked him, and wonders if he'll be up for taking on the position again. But Cueball states that he ''can't'' be made President again, having already served two terms, which Ponytail confirms by checking for herself the details of the {{w|Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution}}.<br /> <br /> The humor in the comic comes in the second half; Cueball and Ponytail discuss whether Obama is the same person (like the mythical {{w|Ship of Theseus}}, most of his constituent cells are frequently replaced), with Ponytail looking into the possibility of Obama's re-election based upon philosophical/biological technicalities (as applied to the Constitution's words), rather than as legal/political convention might normally suggest. But when even that approach is seen to be wanting, requiring a wait significantly exceeding 30 years, Ponytail suggests negating that issue by having all of Obama's teeth removed and replaced with false teeth.<br /> <br /> In order to facilitate the latter goal, Ponytail announces her intention to consult a dentist and (for exact reasons that can only be guessed at) a lawyer. Seeing where her current misplaced, and {{w|Dunning–Kruger effect|less than informed}}, zeal might be leading her, Cueball gives his prediction that the probable {{w|Supreme Court of the United States|ultimate legal arbiters}} of her plan might be unanimous in rejecting its validity (if not dissuading its attempt). SCOTUS being unanimous on an issue is now a [https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-unanimity-declines-conservative-majoritys-power-runs-deeper-than-the-blockbuster-cases/ comparatively rare event&lt;!-- I looked for a decent post-2021 summary, but could not find one, perhaps someone else could check and replace/rephrase if they can establish better search engine skills--&gt;].<br /> <br /> The title text references {{w|George Washington's teeth|George Washington's (in)famous 'false teeth'}}. Washington's dentures are often falsely claimed to be made of wood; in truth they were ''real'' teeth procured from other sources. Regardless, this would have likely resolved the rather specific problems established in the philosophical conundrum, and the title text claims that other presidents used this plan to get around the Constitutional limitations concerned in case they wanted to serve more than two terms.<br /> <br /> However, no one has yet even ''needed'' to carry out this plan. Only one President has exceeded the limit; {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} died in office during his ''fourth'' term, but he served prior to the 22nd Amendment and was thus unaffected by the rule, which was enacted six years after his death. (FDR did have a partial denture, but given that he retained some of his natural teeth, he did not engage in Ponytail's proposed scheme.) Presidents since then have definitely tried various schemes aimed at securing a second term, with both successes and failures, but nobody has yet planned ''this particular plan'' to achieve a third or beyond. Or at least one can assume that those that perhaps did (including, as noted, all those who were not yet 'required' to go to these lengths) failed to attain their goals for entirely different reasons.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball are walking.]<br /> :Ponytail: So this is 2024.<br /> :Cueball: Yup. Guess it's an election year now.<br /> :Ponytail: Again? Man, those just keep happening, huh?<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball now standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Who's the president these days, anyway? Is it still Obama?<br /> :Cueball: What? No? He hasn't been... How do you not...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail and Cueball still standing.]<br /> :Ponytail: Darn, I liked him. Is he running this time?<br /> :Cueball: No, he's not allowed to.<br /> :Ponytail: He's not? Why?<br /> :Cueball: Constitution.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail checks her smartphone.]<br /> :Phone: ''Amendment 22''<br /> :Phone: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice<br /> :Ponytail: What?? C'mon...<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail talking to Cueball.]<br /> :Ponytail: Don't all your cells get replaced every seven years, Ship of Theseus-style? Is he even the same person?<br /> :Ponytail: Maybe &quot;no person shall be elected more than twice&quot; isn't a prohibition, it's more of an observation, like &quot;you can't step in the same river twice.&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Zoom in on Cueball.]<br /> :Cueball: Isn't the cell thing a myth?<br /> :Cueball: I think tooth enamel has a turnover half-life of 30+ years. His teeth molecules are probably the same.<br /> <br /> :[Ponytail heads off with a finger raised.]<br /> :Ponytail: So if Obama just gets false teeth, he can run again! I need to talk to a dentist and a lawyer!<br /> :Cueball: The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Elections]]<br /> [[Category:Politics]]<br /> [[Category:Biology]]</div>

SomeoneIGuess https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests&diff=331883 2024-01-02T16:50:39Z

<p>SomeoneIGuess: /* Vandal Issue */ new section</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;noinclude&gt;{{Community links}}<br /> <br /> __NEWSECTIONLINK__<br /> <br /> {|-<br /> |valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;|[[File:Mop.svg|left|120px]] &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;b&gt;Admin requests&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;i&gt; Welcome to your mother's basement! Problems requiring assistance from an [[explain xkcd:Administrators|admin]]. User problems, changes to protected pages, more user rights etc.&lt;/i&gt; {{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Admin requests|Text=&lt;small&gt;(+post)&lt;/small&gt;}}<br /> |}<br /> '''List of Admins:'''&lt;br/&gt;<br /> &lt;div class=&quot;mw-collapsible mw-collapsed&quot;&gt;<br /> {{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}<br /> &lt;/div&gt;<br /> <br /> = Discussion Area =<br /> &lt;/noinclude&gt;<br /> <br /> == Convert to real X-Forwarded-For IP addresses? ==<br /> <br /> Can you admins do the https://serverfault.com/a/526551 thing so you can block by real IP addresses and ranges? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.134|172.70.211.134]] 15:45, 22 July 2022 (UTC)<br /> :That is out of my league. But maybe some of the other clever admins may know what if that can be used? [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 17:07, 22 July 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ==Install anti-spam programs==<br /> I think it’s time to install some sort of automated anti-spam programs that can catch these spammers fast.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.91|172.70.130.91]] 06:30, 24 July 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I don't want to be disrespectful, but it seems that the current set of admins lacks the collective time or ability to upgrade Mediawiki/MySQL and install widely available anti-vandalism and anti-spam measures. But you have perhaps the most technically inclined, supportive, and motivated audience you could hope for here. Why not use the main page top banner to ask for expert Mediawiki volunteers or if that doesn't work, funds to hire such a consultant to upgrade blocking and filtering tools or a new hosting solution if needed? I believe you'd be surprised with the extent of community support you can muster, and manually chasing vandalism is becoming tiresome. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.90|172.70.211.90]] 07:28, 24 July 2022 (UTC)<br /> :I've been chasing jeff for months now because he's the only one with access to the server. I know he's alive and still active online, but he clammed up partway through the previous wave of heavy spam and the email chain is just 20 of my own emails, I'll get through eventually. '''[[User:Davidy22|&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color=#070 size=3&gt;y&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;font color=#508 size=4&gt;²²&lt;/font&gt;]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|&lt;tt&gt;[talk]&lt;/tt&gt;]] 18:10, 24 July 2022 (UTC)<br /> ::[https://twitter.com/jeff_underscore @jeff_underscore] tweeted four days ago. Would it help if we launched a Twitter campaign to get him on board with a server update fundraiser, or something? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.43|172.70.214.43]] 03:36, 25 July 2022 (UTC)<br /> ::: Anyone with the skills and experience should tweet him to take him up on [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Jeff&amp;diff=211706&amp;oldid=211700 his offer,] IMHO. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.118.39|162.158.118.39]] 04:12, 25 July 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> == Basic punctuation standards ==<br /> Can we please have some agreement that &lt;code&gt;.&quot;&lt;/code&gt; is better than &lt;code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/code&gt;? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.29|172.71.150.29]] 07:08, 24 August 2022 (UTC)<br /> :That would depend.<br /> When asked &quot;How do you deal with endquote punctuation in quoted speech?&quot; he answered &quot;Yes,&quot; with a definite nod of his head, &quot;I would always try to put the punctuation before the quote.&quot;<br /> :...that is how I was taught to do it, &lt;mumble&gt;fumphty-fumph&lt;/mumble&gt; years ago, and when it is clear quoted speech (with 66s, 99s) then that's probably best. Except when it might confuse, but then a rewrite (or clearly indicated paraphrase/part-quote) might be useful. You'll note I example-quote 'wrongly' in some places below, to accomodate other factors. Like an exclamation point as a feature of the holding sentence that makes no sense at all to be translated to within the quoted sentence(-fragmant).<br /> On the other hand providing &quot;a set of words&quot;, with no clear quotation to them, ellicits no such compunction.<br /> :...it gets a bit hazy, because a partial quote of a real full sentence (or an incomplete/incompleted quote) could go either way. But I would not consider &quot;a set of words,&quot; to be sensible.<br /> If you give a &quot;list&quot;, &quot;spread&quot; or &quot;set&quot; of singular terms then no, or even compounded ones if they are ultimately the &quot;be-all&quot; and &quot;end-all&quot;.<br /> :...noting that I might personally single-quote in this case (I know not why I have adopted this principle, exactly), though I've often seen such things changed by others and it may be more contested than even the terminator punctuation. I might say that the 'true' difference is whether it is a definite &quot;literal&quot;, insofar as meaning, or somewhat 'ad hoc', 'foreignish' or just plain constructed.<br /> :But this is just my opinion. And, regardless of my preference to quote-punctuation ordering, I've seen several recent occasions where paren-punctuation ordering was totally off (IMO). Either &quot;...at the end of a sentence (an aside.)&quot;, which should have been &quot;... (an aside).&quot; instead, or &quot;(As a whole aside of its own).&quot; for which it ''must'' surely be &quot;(As ... of its own.)&quot;<br /> :Now, obviously too much ()ing is awkward, especially if nested, but I prefer the clearer in/out indication than other methods — like the mdash — which seem to be the favoured method by some editors — and, even more confusingly, often without spacing both sides. (Like &quot;...by some editors—and, even more confusingly...&quot;! Looks more like a hyphen, despite &quot;—” and &quot;–”-users changing hyphens-used-as-dashes to one or other of the dashes to try to differentiate them.)<br /> :Ultimately, though, the people here will have learnt (or redeveloped) their own typographical standards over a wide range of educational eras (or under teachers/mentors whose own learnt-preferences might themselves be several decades passed into history) and with additional localisation/localization complications as well. I tend to agree with you (with caveats as mentioned) but it won't be universally acceptable. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.13|172.70.85.13]] 21:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)<br /> : Better? No. Correct (at least in American English)? Yes. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 13:25, 28 September 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Propose block of (an?) IP user(s?) and suppression of their edits ==<br /> <br /> I don't mind being insulted but I think it's clear they're bad for the community:<br /> <br /> * https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:NotaBene&amp;diff=296485&amp;oldid=203158<br /> * https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:NotaBene&amp;diff=296486&amp;oldid=296485<br /> <br /> --[[User:NotaBene|NotaBene]] ([[User talk:NotaBene|talk]]) 14:15, 12 October 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : As the IP who subsequently reverted those back out of existence (wasn't sure you'd seen it, but was clear to me it wasn't a useful/good-faith commentary, and now I find that you had and had certainly ignored it in-situ) I have mixed opinions. I could not have done my (good faith) edit if somehow restricted, in a way someone had previously gotten around. Bearing in mind the idiotic vandal(s) we have had before, and always ended up dealing with through sheer force of the more righteous and honest userbase, I think that drastic actions aren't necessary. But I can think of a few minor tweaks that maybe the current adminship can still hold in reserve and occasionally employ, without preventing the likes of me (long time contributor, but not yet decided to make it 'official') occasionally poking registered users' Talk pages with genuine queries or comments under most circumstances that may actually warrant it.<br /> : That said, we have indeed had a spate of vandalism, recently, which I'm inclined to believe is 'our old friend' who probably decided he(?) was bored again. A few novel tricks (nonsense 'cat on keyboard' edits with no clear pattern to the nonsense or what it replaces) but in association with some of the old ones (global word replacements throughout an article). Quickly recorrected in all cases, SFAICT, so not a big problem.<br /> : The above insertion (...insertions... seeming to care about punctuation typos!) I might have left for you to blue-pen out of your own Talk page (whatever the intent behind it) except for my spidey-sense saying it really was ''just'' trolling and that you had no reason to even consider a dismissive reply, never mind argue your defence against such an accusation. (But could always restore and reply to it if you really wanted to!) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.137|172.71.178.137]] 17:57, 12 October 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :: To be clear, I'm not proposing a site-wide restriction of all IP users, just those specific addresses. --[[User:NotaBene|NotaBene]] ([[User talk:NotaBene|talk]]) 18:41, 12 October 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ::: Understood, but that'd mean inconveniencing even legitimate readers routing through the same Cloudflare gateways. Which are in bunches, such that any given region of the world is served by not necessarily contiguous IP ranges, thus false-positives and false-negatives. Until you blanket-ban enough to just make for a whole lotta false-positive blocking for a segment of real users once the instigator of the mess just moves on (or enjoys the mess he made, if self-aware enough of it).<br /> ::: I won't even know, until I submit this, if I'm this time listed even in the same IP/8-block as the above (172.71.178.137), but if it turns out that I'm a 141.* this time (or maybe 142.*, I forget what I occasionally show up as) then obviously had you reason to IP-block me because of my own actions then you'd have accomplished little by even banning the whole 16-/24-block of my original. And that's without any conscious intent to bypass the default allocation system...<br /> ::: So, not that you should take my own opinion as gospel, just thought I'd mention this. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.3|172.70.90.3]] 20:23, 12 October 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Hey ==<br /> <br /> I cleaned everything up. You should probably restore the newest 3 topics.<br /> <br /> :It could definitely do with a cleanup (not the only page like this!), but in a positive and considered manner, not just wiping and expecting unwarrented deletions to be restored after your removal. Archival sub-pages (restricted/fully-protected) should be involved, perhaps, for reference/history (on top of the History view itself).<br /> :Not just wiping by an unisigned contributor, as you did. I'm a hairbreadth from just reverting it all back again, on principle, and maybe someone else will do that anyway.<br /> :But defering to known named users (esp. the admins) and their decision on how to procede. (Please do delete this contribution if you see fit to do any restoration and make my opinions moot.) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.138.79|172.68.138.79]] 20:26, 23 October 2022 (UTC)<br /> ::I agree that it needed cleanup, and also agree that wiping everything was not the best way to go about doing it. I've moved most of the deleted content to the &quot;talk&quot;/archive page, and put back some discussions. [[User:Theusaf|theusaf]] ([[User talk:Theusaf|talk]]) 23:22, 23 October 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Complaint transcluded from [[user:ArthurGreenham]] ==<br /> :(Ok, so, the above transclusion is subject to change at any time, as proven by While False going in there and 'wikilinking' everything since I first saw the transclusion inserted here, so perhaps a little less ephemeral explanation is needed..?)<br /> :Point the first: I have no issues with While False, in general. Seems to be a good editor in general. As I recall, did a lot to counter that particularly recurring bad-faith editor who the current expanded admin set will recall. And regular editing from you, mate..? As good as anyone else, I would say. No bad-faith detected in you at all.<br /> :Point the second: You do seem to be a bit too gung-ho with new pages, and similar experiments with markup. Just because you can, it seems. If those with the power to remove pages choose not to, then I'm not complaining, but I still think it's a bit... self-indulgant. Not that a mere IP like me can rightfully complain.<br /> :Point the third: Clearly, among the mass of newly registered users (who never then contribute) there is a large cohort generated by some external script(s) for the intention of SEO/propogation of linky-links. I suspect that they're set to do this on any wiki that they can create accounts upon, mindlessly and with the initiating 'intelligence' not bothered how well they do it (economies of scale, as per spamming/etc) because some will do it and fulfil whatever purpose.<br /> :Point the fourth: But, back a long time ago, our chief admin here (and his then current peers/etc?) set it up so that new users just did not so easily create brand new pages. Without overly restricting the spamming of user-registration (or, more importantly, legitimately interested actual contributors) it stymied the scripts that were creating users that then could not create (and write their spam upon) the pages they were programmed to create.<br /> :Point the fifth: But if someone who is an autoconfirmed user looks at the accounts created (I'm guessing here, so corrects me if I'm wrong) and decides to make the pages that new and heretofor uncontriutive users ''cannot'' create for themselves, there are times (at least two, that I know of) that the mindless spam-script has not given up and moved on from putting their random link-spam upon RandomNewname's user page. And as RandomNewname ''has'' a page, it does its preprogrammed stuff.<br /> :...and the world does not stop turning, if that happens. But it does just marginally increase the benefits vs costs of the spam-engine technique (which are probably already breaking even and more, across all speculative spam-destinationa) and I'd suggest we shouldn't be helping with that any more than we already have to.<br /> :Maybe theusaf could add to their own bot some sort of detection of a suspicious level of linkspamming upon a user's own pages (to neuter these that leak through, like the ones that it deals with in other circumstances), but that'd be difficult without having false-positives upon genuine new users with (once they can) a genuine reason to populate their userspace with various external links.<br /> :Instead, perhaps hold back upon feeding the spambots the fresh ground that they seem to like to make use of. Perhaps a page for &quot;please create my userspace!&quot; if we want genuine users (or at least ones that can find and read instructions) to get a userspace more quickly than the normal limits apply, so any established (named) editor can give them their Welcome-templated editspace.<br /> :We can't so easily protect against conscious bad-faith editors (we will just have to deal with them, as we have done), but we seem to have sufficient anti-bot defences. If misguided editing doesn't open up cracks in the walls.<br /> :...Ok, that looks like a rant, but was just intended to cover (much of) the issue as I saw it in a way that explained my accumulated thinking on the matter. And I clearly think too much. This is not a diatribe against anybody (except the spambot originators), just a plea for action (or, rather, inaction) in a key way. And perhaps some moderator-level cleanup, so that the above transclusion is now effectively red-linked (then delete/archive this horribly overblown entry). Leaving it up to you lot. Have fun! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.3|172.70.90.3]] 10:34, 1 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ==2696: Accuracy and precision==<br /> This is my first edit/post here. Could someone please include the Wikipedia link to &quot;Accuracy and precision&quot; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision], which is a separate article from 'accuracy' and 'precision'? Thanks! unsigned ip|172.71.98.97|16:04, 9 November 2022}}<br /> :If someone else hasn't done already, it's trivial enough to do yourself in a similar way to how you edited here, in any one of a number of ways.<br /> :*By bare URL (shows the URL, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision but not really suitable here)<br /> :*As you did it above, with [] around the URL, giving a 'reference'-like link. Occaisionally useful, but a little impersonal in most cases.<br /> :**Or use URL and alternate text in the []s (space-separated) &lt;nowiki&gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision like this]&lt;/nowiki&gt;, which looks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision like this] and is most useful for non-wiki links that you can describe well, or associate into the flow of text.<br /> :*An internal wiki link is defined like &lt;nowiki&gt;[[2696: Precision vs Accuracy]]&lt;/nowiki&gt; and renders as [[2696: Precision vs Accuracy]], which is common site practice (you could alse link to [[2696]] or [[Precision vs Accuracy]], in most cases, which are redirects) but doesn't help in the above link's case.<br /> :**If you wanted to internally link with [[2696: Precision vs Accuracy|other text]] then using &lt;nowiki&gt;[[2696: Accuracy and precision|other text]]&lt;/nowiki&gt; is the way to do it (use the pipe delimiter).<br /> :*When it comes to wikipedia links, though, we have a nice template for it. By using &lt;nowiki&gt;Accuracy and precision}}&lt;/nowiki&gt; (or with the underscored version of the title, if you wish) you get a link to {Accuracy and precision}}, with the nicer aesthetic. '''Probably what you wanted.''' You can lowercase the &quot;A&quot; and it will still link (usually... always good to check) and linking to something like a w|noun}} can generally be written as &lt;nowiki&gt;|noun}}s&lt;/nowiki&gt; should you wish the flow of text to seemlessly render the link as being for multiple noun}}s, thanks to a little more background trickery.<br /> :**If you want to use more &lt;nowiki&gt;Accuracy_and_precision|replaced text}}&lt;/nowiki&gt; then you get aAccuracy_and_precision|replaced text}} rendering. '''Another possibility for what you'd wish to use, here.'''<br /> :**Similar templates exist for linking the likes of emplate|wiktionary}} and evenemplate|tvtropes}}, should you need them.<br /> :**...noting that the latter needs the NoSpacesVersion of the title and because tropes|TVTropesWillRuinYourLife|TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life}}, it has a slightly more forboding format, even though it isn't really ''that'' much worse than [[214: The Problem with Wikipedia]]. ;)<br /> :In case that's of any use to you, or anybody else. There are a few more tips and tricks, but this covers a lot of the usage-cases.<br /> :Also, in discussion pages and ones like this, it's useful to sign your contribution with the four tildes. But it's easy to forget and there are templates to mark unsigned contribution. As I did above. Don't worry about it. It just lets you datestamp and demarkate elements of conversation in a useful manner. As a first edit, you can be forgiven, but just so you know for future! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.57|172.70.91.57]] 18:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ** &quot;'it's trivial enough to do yourself in a similar way to how you edited here'&quot; Those options do not seem to be open to me if I do not set up an account; I'm not ready to take that step, so it looks like I can only edit behind-the-scenes pages, not comic pages. Thanks for the advice! I do enjoy the site when I check in! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.182.17|172.71.182.17]] 18:35, 9 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> ** Never mind. I found the option. I didn't realize the new comic page was separate from the main page. I was trying to edit the main page. Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/172.71.182.17|172.71.182.17]] 18:39, 9 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> :...I must say, I never thought about that, or I might have not concentrated on the link-formatting stuff (which I hope was just as useful, in its own way).<br /> :As you see, I'm also not 'ready' to set up an account. But I rarely go via the main page, which is locked against trivial vandalism, plus know that the useful editing occurs only in the transcluded source page anyway. And now so do you, happily.<br /> :I don't know if that confusion catches out many potential editors, but at least now you know yourself. And, from one IP to another, Welcome! I hope you now find yourself productively editing away in the future, if you have anything else useful to include. No obligation, of course, except to play nice if you do. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.11|172.70.86.11]] 19:20, 9 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ==There's a lot of vandalism going on==<br /> <br /> See the page history of any recent comic page. Not sure what to do about it. [[User:Equites|Equites]] ([[User talk:Equites|talk]]) 00:57, 19 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Ban 162.158.107.56 and 172.71.150.83, they seem to be the perpetuators. [[User:Starstar|Starstar]] ([[User talk:Starstar|talk]]) 02:15, 19 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> As of the 22nd, the users ChuddyCobson and CobsonTheGemson are responsible for a large amount of attacks and image vandalism, most of them NSFW (inappropiate and/or gore). Can something be done about them? [[User:Gyozaplanet|Gyozaplanet]]<br /> <br /> I noticed the image for 1460 has been vandalized. But, in looking at the history it shows an old vandalism that was fixed. But following the link in the alleged fix gets the vandalized image. I'm out of my depth for fixing this, but couldn't find a better place to report it. It's getting too late and I'm far too tired to do more... (As an aside to what I came here for, are the above two things vandalism here? That's a rathole I'm not continuing down.) [[User:MAP|MAP]] ([[User talk:MAP|talk]]) 09:37, 22 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> A few hours ago I decided to visit this wiki, and got quite the surprise on the front page, in that it was heavily vandalized. Decided to make an account after looking at recent changes and saw how much there was.<br /> <br /> The accounts involved seem to be these;<br /> * CobsonTheGemson<br /> * ChuddyCobson<br /> * Cobson<br /> * Stinkycobbypoopoo<br /> * Chud<br /> * GotTheJakkyDoe<br /> <br /> Kinda confused since they don't seem to be bots but I assume they're using a script or something to automate their vandalism. As far as I know, A few other people and I reverted more or less everything those accounts have done but it's possible some stuff fell through the cracks.<br /> <br /> Also some of the gifs I reverted (most notably the gif for 381) seem to still have the same image so I'm hoping that's just a cache thing that'll sort itself out in time.<br /> <br /> I left the above weirdness since I don't know the etiquette for deleting stuff in this section and it would remove some context to the above person's post. Hope I didn't break anything while cleaning up. [[User:Neerti|Neerti]] ([[User talk:Neerti|talk]]) 10:24, 22 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Cleaned up some accounts '''[[User:Davidy22|&lt;u&gt;Color|#707|David}}&lt;font color=#070 size=3&gt;y&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;font color=#508 size=4&gt;²²&lt;/font&gt;]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|&lt;tt&gt;[talk]&lt;/tt&gt;]] 16:38, 22 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Opening Certain Pages causes mediawiki errors ==<br /> <br /> For example [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals Proposals] and [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User:Dgbrt this user page] [[User:Starstar|Starstar]] ([[User talk:Starstar|talk]]) 02:10, 19 November 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Apparent abuse of multiple accounts ==<br /> For a few weeks (mostly the last few days) 51 accounts with the same soon-current name [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&amp;type=newusers&amp;user=&amp;page=User%3ASadSanta&amp;pattern=1&amp;year=&amp;month=-1&amp;tagfilter=&amp;subtype= have been created]. To me it looks like preparation for abuse of multiple accounts. —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&amp;printable=yes printable version] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&amp;action=info page information] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:While_False what links there] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&amp;days=30&amp;from=&amp;target=User%3AWhile_False related changes] | [https://www.google.com Google search] | current time: CURRENTTIME}}) 11:44, 16 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> :Now, they’re 195. —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&amp;printable=yes printable version] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&amp;action=info page information] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:While_False what links there] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&amp;days=30&amp;from=&amp;target=User%3AWhile_False related changes] | a late contribution | current time: CURRENTTIME}}) 17:24, 19 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> ::With the exception of being 'topical', these are quite typical of numerous other &quot;&lt;commonroot&gt;&lt;randomchars&gt;&quot; sets of never-ever-used usernames. It is good to be aware of them, but I think this 'common root' was just randomly grabbed by the algorithm (or its master) without any particular view to be used any more effectively than before.<br /> ::I leave it to those who can actually do something to decide ''whether'' to actually do something, but I'm currently not so concerned. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.127|172.70.91.127]] 01:06, 20 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> ::Addendum - alongside &quot;SadSanta...&quot;, we're getting a lot of [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&amp;type=newusers&amp;user=&amp;page=User%3ANatasha&amp;pattern=1&amp;year=&amp;month=-1&amp;tagfilter=&amp;subtype= &quot;Natasha&quot;s], while around this time last year (as the first time glanced back at) we had [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&amp;type=newusers&amp;user=&amp;page=User%3APellGync&amp;pattern=1&amp;year=&amp;month=-1&amp;tagfilter=&amp;subtype= &quot;PellGync&quot;] and [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&amp;type=newusers&amp;user=&amp;page=User%3ASnawlrab&amp;pattern=1&amp;year=&amp;month=-1&amp;tagfilter=&amp;subtype= &quot;Snawlrab&quot;] as the common roots concerned. Which ultimately came of nought.<br /> ::I get the impression that the limited-success script (as being used to create spam-accounts, but overwhelmingly failing to then exploit them) is set up to randomly apply two such common roots at a time (or else there's two copies of the code running, wherever, each switching out 'exhausted' roots for the next enqueued one in their own list ...as and when necessary). A quick poke into other 'recent' historic points in the Account Creation log highly supports this, but it could do with a far more rigorous analysis to be more definite. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.118|172.71.242.118]] 01:31, 20 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> There also used to be a lot of eight-letter usernames. Too many usernames are being created every day. --[[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 22:03, 2 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Current troll(s) ==<br /> There's trolls posting extremely obscene stuff on the homepage, and frankly I'm appalled. The Admins need to take several steps to lock down the main page so that it's not possible for readers to view such obscene content (for example, why are arbitrary images that don't come from xkcd.com allowed???) Why are random users allowed to post arbitrary images that are not filtered/scanned in any way? ([[User:bkayes|bkayes]])<br /> : It's been like this forever. It's rare enough that the admins leave things fairly open, but lengthy stretches lead to the lockdowns you're asking for, usually for about a week which is usually sufficient. Mixed feelings. There are a lot of tools that could help a lot, but we can't get [[User:Jeff]] to upgrade because his hosting deal depends on some ad stuff that won't port to newer versions. :( [[User:Liv2splain|Liv2splain]] ([[User talk:Liv2splain|talk]]) 04:45, 22 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> :: Image uploads being open is usually nicer for everyone, except in the scenario while children decide to use it as an avenue for vandalism. I got enough on my hands already to be dealing with but this probably demands some attention '''[[User:Davidy22|&lt;u&gt;Color|#707|David}}&lt;font color=#070 size=3&gt;y&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;font color=#508 size=4&gt;²²&lt;/font&gt;]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|&lt;tt&gt;[talk]&lt;/tt&gt;]] 16:38, 22 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> ::: (Rerationalised under a new header, as a different issue, though also related to a prior section's 'insertion/revival' in response to the idiot concerned, too.) Appreciated, David. Noting that the inability for me to correct the account-led vandalism, last night, is the one factor that might eventually push me to establish a non-IP presence. But we had other volunteer accounts reacting fairly well to the trouble, and I knew we'd settle down soon enough. Anyhoo, Merry Christmas to you and the others on the side of stability, while I'm here and chatting away. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.136|172.71.178.136]] 17:00, 22 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ::: I find it unfortunate that &quot;rarity&quot; is any sort of excuse for allowing this to happen. XKCD is a fantastic source of quality STEM entertainment, and thus is a great resource to get younger audiences interested in such fields through humor. Many high school age and younger people regularly view xkcd content. However, some of the comics are quite obscure or contain a lot of depth, which is why explainxkcd has been such a great resource for everyone to learn things that are outside of their depth (including younger audiences). The knowledge that someone can open explainxkcd and have the slightest chance that they see extreme gore/porn is absolutely absurd and unacceptable for a wiki that is serving solely family friendly science content. I can no longer recommend explainxkcd to people I know (and especially not younger people) because of the lack of modern anti-trolling tooling, and that really sucks. I understand the issues surrounding locking down the text explanations, but the images should be a trivially solvable problem. Compare a checksum between the image found at *.xkcd.com and the image uploaded and reject an image that doesn't match, or better yet *use the official xkcd RSS feed* (https://xkcd.com/rss.xml) to download the images directly, and don't allow any user edits of the images. Then you can deal with vandalization of the text some other time, locking down the images is really the highest priority here I think. ([[User:bkayes|bkayes]]) 04:17, 23 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == [[2659: Unreliable Connection]] ==<br /> <br /> Could probably do with some page protection here. Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.231|162.158.34.231]] 23:41, 29 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> :If you mean for the thing that [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2659:_Unreliable_Connection&amp;diff=prev&amp;oldid=303665 gets reverted very quickly], I think that's already dealt with quite nicely. And it isn't the only page that is targetted, so where do you stop? Whole-site lockdown, when the occasonal automated spam is equally automatically reverted? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.21|162.158.74.21]] 00:05, 30 December 2022 (UTC)<br /> ::Over the past couple of weeks, the edit history of this particular page has consisted of nothing but vandalism and it's subsequent reversion. The vandal doesn't seem to be targeting (m)any other pages, so protection should make them go away. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.158|172.69.79.158]] 21:43, 14 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::Nonetheless, the same tactic has been seen (and reverted, promptly) on other comics, like #976. ''edit: ...and #2503 suffered this vandalism/reversion, again, on 15 Jan 2023.'' Block 2659 and 976 from editing and someone may easily change the config for the script and hit any othe page they please, not really reducing the ultimate change/revert frequency, just where it is happening.<br /> :::I'll accept gradual locking down of progressively more and more of the site, if it happens, but I'm not sure it'd be of any real benefit to do so. Not my call, so just giving my POV... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.74|162.158.34.74]] 23:47, 14 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> Someone pointed out that the spams are more likely to occur on pages with &quot;Connect&quot; in their titles. [[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 10:49, 31 March 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> The user talk page with the same name got spammed. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.242|172.69.134.242]] 06:18, 28 April 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Announcement: online chat with Randall January 31 ==<br /> <br /> Admins: would you please consider adding this blurb to the end of the [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] just for this month?<br /> <br /> : [https://libraryc.org/mountainviewlibrary/22032 Register to attend an online chat] with [[Randall Munroe]] January 31 at 11am Pacific.<br /> <br /> Thank you for your consideration. [[User:Liv2splain|Liv2splain]] ([[User talk:Liv2splain|talk]]) 06:23, 2 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> :Done —[[User:Theusaf|theusaf]] ([[User talk:Theusaf|talk]]) 23:29, 4 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::Thank you! I'm very much looking forward to the well-attended zoom chat, let alone what should come from the large pool of questions from international fans. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.16|172.69.134.16]] 14:04, 5 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Archive of livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAEutGwIQ9c [[Special:Contributions/162.158.166.173|162.158.166.173]] 19:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> ==All community portal==<br /> Would you mind semi-protecting [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/All|this]] and [[explain_xkcd_talk:Community_portal/All|that]] page? They don't seem to need edits. --[[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 17:55, 12 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Brief(?) and limited spate of vandalism. ==<br /> <br /> It may be a flash in a pan, but there's some [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2293:_RIP_John_Conway&amp;action=history misuse of multiple accounts] going on here as of this timestamp (with ColourfulGalaxy having mostly had to correct matters on their own, so far). FYI, on their behalf. With any luck the idiot involved will get bored soon, if not already, but making a note anyway. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.124|162.158.159.124]] 20:15, 12 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : He edited my user page just now. --[[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 20:17, 12 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : I tried to help them, but failed. I had to turn to you for help. [[User:ChristmasGospel|ChristmasGospel]] ([[User talk:ChristmasGospel|talk]]) 20:24, 12 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : EDIT: By the way, don't call him &quot;idiot&quot;, or he may be angry.<br /> <br /> ::Given that someone [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:ColorfulGalaxy&amp;curid=25508&amp;diff=304689&amp;oldid=303399 seems to be stalking you], and even snuck in some activity before ''my'' post, above, I'm starting to suspect something more. I leave it to those who can do things to sort it out. As an IP, I don't think I have any say in the matter, but I'll let others consider the possibilities. (You've got to be an idiot to clearly log in with the wrong account, though, and then fail to pick up the changes with the 'right' one. And I knew While False wasn't truly finished trying to do stupid things to the site... You're not impressing anybody, WF.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.201|172.70.85.201]] 20:28, 12 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::That’s not typical WF behaviour at all. —[[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.198|162.158.222.198]] 19:38, 27 January 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == The online chat s over ==<br /> <br /> Please revert https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&amp;diff=304122&amp;oldid=239894 [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.92|172.70.211.92]] 18:45, 1 February 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Users involved in spamming. ==<br /> <br /> There are at least three 'people' involved here, using trivial character differences/substitutions:<br /> * https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/ElisabethPacheco<br /> * https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/EIisabethPacheco<br /> * https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/EIizabethPacheco<br /> (...in case not obvious, especially in sans-serif, the second two use capital-I (i) instead of small-l (L), and the s/z difference should be obvious. No obvious signs of anything like using cyrillic look-alike characters, yet.)<br /> <br /> There may be others, or will be, but these ones have just recently popped up in spamming (and then obfuscating? ...hoping to be reverted back into the spam version?) the redirect pages [[Drama‎‎]] and [[Google Maps]] (see [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Drama&amp;action=history here] and [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Google_Maps&amp;action=history here]), though they are currently fully reverted. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.35|172.70.90.35]] 04:33, 28 February 2023 (UTC)<br /> :One of these also interacted with a differently named suspicious-looking/acting account:<br /> :* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/CipherGuide<br /> :Could be a coincidence, but... For reference. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.190|172.71.242.190]] 13:18, 28 February 2023 (UTC)<br /> :And now [[User:ElisabethPacheco (do not ban me)]]. [[User:AndroidTheLucario|AndroidTheLucario]] ([[User talk:AndroidTheLucario|talk]]) 03:54, 19 March 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Can someone block [[User:Email Trial 1]]? They're repeatedly adding comments on spamming other people's emails. Thanks! ~ [[user:megan|Megan]] &lt;sup&gt;she&lt;/sup&gt;/&lt;sub&gt;her&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[[user talk:megan|talk]]&lt;/sup&gt;/&lt;sub&gt;[[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]&lt;/sub&gt; 16:25, 24 March 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> == Ongoing image vandalism ==<br /> <br /> by [[User:Troonjak|this user]] ([[Special:Contributions/Troonjak|contributions]]). ~ [[user:megan|Megan]] &lt;sup&gt;she&lt;/sup&gt;/&lt;sub&gt;her&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[[user talk:megan|talk]]&lt;/sup&gt;/&lt;sub&gt;[[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]&lt;/sub&gt; 02:50, 11 March 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I suggest we raise the threshold for image uploads. After all, there's no reason for most editors to upload images. ~ [[user:megan|Megan]] &lt;sup&gt;she&lt;/sup&gt;/&lt;sub&gt;her&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[[user talk:megan|talk]]&lt;/sup&gt;/&lt;sub&gt;[[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]&lt;/sub&gt; 03:13, 11 March 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Fix obnoxious typo on the Editor FAQ ==<br /> <br /> This page contains a typo and I can't edit it out: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ<br /> <br /> It's highlighted in this sentence:<br /> <br /> &quot;You can use the Math markup &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;math&gt;...&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;. The other known code from Wikipedia &lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;chem&gt;...&lt;/chem&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt; is not supported yet. It's based on LaTeX syntax and a general overview can be found at '''''it's''''' Wikipedia help page. Don't use it unless you actually understand what you are doing.&quot; Edit: Whoops, forgot to sign: [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 09:04, 1 May 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Update MediaWiki ==<br /> <br /> The current MediaWiki version is 1.30.0 which ended support mid-2019, please upgrade to 1.39.x or something due to security concerns. Instructions here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading [[User:Cam1170|Cam1170]] ([[User talk:Cam1170|talk]]) 20:55, 29 March 2023 (UTC)<br /> Make sure to upgrade to 1.35 first, from the Check Requirements section.<br /> Actually, 1.31 then 1.35 then 1.39 for the smoothest transition. [[User:Cam1170|Cam1170]] ([[User talk:Cam1170|talk]]) 15:15, 5 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> I would like to add that this is still an issue. I don't know a better way to bring this to admin attention. [[User:Cam1170|Cam1170]] ([[User talk:Cam1170|talk]]) 21:28, 9 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == user edits someone else's comment ==<br /> <br /> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2760:_Paleontology_Museum&amp;diff=309970&amp;oldid=309964 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.87.65|162.158.87.65]] 09:51, 8 April 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::That word is not spelled &quot;Ye&quot;. It's &quot;&amp;#222;e&quot;. [[User:Omg Oriental Music Group|Omg Oriental Music Group]] ([[User talk:Omg Oriental Music Group|talk]]) 00:49, 9 April 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::That would depend. We all (FCVO 'all') get your point, but is spelt (or, if you wish, &quot;spelled&quot;, but I would like to use the other form) that way by the original commentator. And it was a signed Talk post, not an Explanation page that needs to be standardised(/standardized) by success revisions.<br /> :::Can you also say for definite that it was not intended by the original author to be the second-person plural personal pronoun (nominative), correctly or otherwise, rather than the definite article (under a standard reduced typeset)? No reason to change it, not even if an actual tyop&lt;!-- in case you have any doubts, that's entirely deliberate... --&gt;. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207|172.71.178.207]] 11:56, 9 April 2023 (UTC)<br /> :Yeah, bad practice, except where correcting clear mistakes or otherwise sanitising something best not left up in the open (for whatever good reason). Like if I'd misapplied a style &quot;colour&quot; tag, by accident, but not if I'd openly written &quot;colour&quot; in a Talk entry.<br /> :But not necessary in this case of language-geek hyperconnection. I think a revert/re-edit to restore the original would be not an issue, but I won't do it myself.<br /> :The best way to look smart with the &quot;thorn&quot; character would have been to say &quot;You have 'Ye Olde blah-de-blah', but I hink you meant... [etc]&quot; and own the joke and the smugness rather than try to 'improve' on the original in-situ. As one who has made typos (but also said exactly what I wanted to, perhaps deciding not to over-egg the pudding) I would prefer even a snarky &quot;did you mean..&quot; reply over an invisible 'improvement' that may not even be properly focused any more. Each to their own, but my suggestion, if the editor wants to revise their edit. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.65|172.71.178.65]] 15:54, 8 April 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Deletion of wrongly-titled pages ==<br /> Could you please delete [[:Category:Comics with small caps|this redirect]]? [[User:Memo Spike Connector|2503: Memo Spike Connector]] ([[User talk:Memo Spike Connector|talk]]) 06:18, 17 April 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Could you delete [[:Category;Comics featuring real people|this page]]? [[User:ClassicalGames|ClassicalGames]] ([[User talk:ClassicalGames|talk]]) 03:29, 15 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> [[Usertalk:Billstz]] turned into a redirect. It should have been deleted. [[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 21:10, 25 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Repeated spam in user talk page ==<br /> The page [[User talk:ClassicalGames]] got repeatedly spammed. Could you semiprotect it? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.242|172.69.134.242]] 02:07, 12 May 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Hmmmmm, I think he really deserves the spam. He spammed in [[User:ColorfulGalaxy/Sandbox|someone else's user page]] without permission. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.228|172.71.154.228]] 03:56, 15 May 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Easily reverted, to restore legitimate conversation. (Perhaps more such attention should go to where some people are [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2293:_RIP_John_Conway&amp;curid=22901&amp;diff=312913&amp;oldid=312626 repeatedly making entirely useless and gratuitous edits]...) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.86|172.71.242.86]] 08:59, 12 May 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::Those spammers probably knew the CG rules, and appeared to have welcomed every CG group member with a spam. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.33|172.69.23.33]] 09:57, 12 May 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == The relevant xkcd comic from not xkcd ==<br /> <br /> https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/ This comic. A reference to xkcd, in the style of xkcd, about xkcd.<br /> <br /> Can I make a page about it? Please? :)<br /> <br /> == What's a &quot;comic incarnate&quot;? ==<br /> <br /> [[User:Memo Spike Connector]] seems to have a friend group of users with the names of various comics. E's been changing their user pages ''and signatures'' to match the comic pages and titles. Is this some sort of cult? It sounds fun! Where do I sign up? --[[User:AndroidTheLucario|Your favorite aura doggo]] ([[User talk:AndroidTheLucario|talk]]) 03:18, 10 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> :To answer the title, &quot;incarnate&quot;==&quot;made flesh&quot;. Reincarnation is when you're given a new body, again, incarnation can therefore be taken as when the 'spirit' first assumes a tangible (or visible) form.<br /> :To ponder on this fad of creating comic-related user accounts... pretty much unnecessary and has no reason to be encouraged, I suppose. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.62|172.70.162.62]] 03:52, 10 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::How do I join? I wanna be cool like them! --[[User:AndroidTheLucario|Your favorite aura doggo]] ([[User talk:AndroidTheLucario|talk]]) 03:59, 10 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> :I think this needs to be taken more seriously now. [[User:Memo Spike Connector]] has had their page added to the *category* of Cursed Connectors, despite not being an official comic. It's starting to feel like a very unusual case of vandalism, but I'm not sure. [[User:Tsumikiminiwa|Tsumikiminiwa]] ([[User talk:Tsumikiminiwa|talk]]) 19:37, 14 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> :: Addendum, [[User:Unreliable Connection]] has their page added to the Internet and Social Interactions categories. Everything else I said before still stands. [[User:Tsumikiminiwa|Tsumikiminiwa]] ([[User talk:Tsumikiminiwa|talk]]) 19:41, 14 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Main page in phones category ==<br /> <br /> The [[Main Page]] is now in the [[:Category:Phones]] category. [[User:ClassicalGames|ClassicalGames]] ([[User talk:ClassicalGames|talk]]) 03:25, 15 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> :Surely because [[2789: Making Plans]], currently transcluded there, is legitimately given that category. I'd be more surprised if it wasn't. (Until Wednesday's new comic release changes this, if it does.) What's the problem, and how is it related to 'your' issue, above? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.146|172.71.178.146]] 10:04, 15 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::I moved this to its own section, but you can change the section title if you want. --[[User:AndroidTheLucario|Your favorite aura doggo]] ([[User talk:AndroidTheLucario|talk]]) 19:43, 15 June 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == please block u|Vandal (and many more)==<br /> <br /> cf. [[Special:Contributions/Vandal]] 11 page blankings today. Thanks. [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 21:24, 4 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Actually, looking at [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Log/newusers&amp;limit=500&amp;type=newusers&amp;user= Special:Log/newusers] is pretty ominous. Nearly all of the last 500 (within the past 4 days), and also the next few thousand, are suspicious. The CAPTCHA probably needs to be replaced with something more difficult that is perhaps not as trivially automatable? And all those users blocked? Not sure. [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 22:05, 4 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> :As a regular checker of such things, I know for a fact that you get hundreds of 'suspicious' accounts created every day, and most of them 'go nowhere'. The account creation speedblocks may not be very good. Or, possibly, tens of thousands of accounts are ''tried'' to be created, with 'just' a small percentage of them getting past the CAPTCHA/etc to get noticed by us - the actual top-level site admins will have access to the 'failed to register fully' logs. ''But'', the actual page vandalism is very rarely any of these 'mechanised spam accounts'. I presume because the CAPTCHAs throttle down the 'lucky' accounts' abilities to do anything they were programmed to do ''once'' registered. And, no, the accounts aren't blocked (i.e. disabled accounts, except on very ''rare'' occasions when an Admin gets annoyed with a conspicuously used spam-login), if the actual Block Log is to be believed, but so many get created and ''never'' used so it looks like the &quot;new user early posts&quot; precautionary checks do a very good job.<br /> :We're also getting that idiot (I presume the same idiot as we've had for a year or two now) who manually creates accounts, such as you have been dealing with (and me, and others) over the last 24 hours or so. As a stupid human rather than a 'smart' bot, the CAPTCHA is no block to him/her/them. And the occasional IP gets used in that way, too (and I mostly successfully revert vandalism as only an IP; usefully, I hope) which might just be lazy vandalism, on top of the baseline stupidity. But the precautions against them are different. As with the 'Eric's (&quot;Hi, I see your website needs improving - Eric&quot;-types of message), which also seem to be handled by the community (and/or our automated blocking/reverting).<br /> :I don't see increasing the severity of the CAPTCHA to be a solution to much, honestly. Not from my perspective, certainly, though I know there's no reason to take my own unattributable word on that.<br /> :Instead, we should keep on keeping on. The community handles these things as they need to be. The admins know the 'hidden fight' going on in the background, but won't (and shouldn't) reveal too much about the extent of the first-line defences against bad faith 'automated' edits and the rest. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.140|172.70.90.140]] 08:13, 5 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> Vandalism appeared again in [[2800]]. [[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 20:07, 11 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Ban fake IP ==<br /> <br /> Could you ban [[User:172.68.102.XXX]]? His edits sound suspicious, and he seems to be fighting against us. [[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 19:41, 11 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Vandalism by 172.69.214.158 ==<br /> <br /> Large number of extreme vandalism, which ThatoneU is valiantly yet inefficaciously fighting:<br /> <br /> example from https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1193:_Externalities&amp;action=history<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> (cur | prev) 01:04, 24 July 2023‎ 172.69.214.158 (talk)‎ . . (6,765 bytes) (-15,000)‎ . . (Undo revision 318344 by ThatoneU (talk)) (undo)<br /> (cur | prev) 00:47, 24 July 2023‎ ThatoneU (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (21,765 bytes) (+15,000)‎ . . (undo)<br /> (cur | prev) 00:46, 24 July 2023‎ 172.69.214.158 (talk)‎ . . (6,765 bytes) (-15,000)‎ . . (undo)<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> == Vandalism on page 2805 ==<br /> <br /> The latest comic page (2805) is currently being vandalized. Can an admin please look into it?<br /> <br /> == Problem with new accounts and IPs ==<br /> <br /> So I'm sure many of you are well aware of the vandalism happening recently. But what concerns me the most is that all the edits were done by many, many different IPs, meaning that we can't just block one, and this site could get overrun by systematic IP vandalism. Also, the new accounts being created seem very suspicious. For such a small community, there's no way that there can be around 100 new users each day. The actual usernames of the users seem to follow a very repetitive pattern (generic first name + generic last name + random number). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.209|172.70.42.209]] 18:44, 24 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> :As a fellow IP (and not a vandal myself, at least by intent) I find that the advantages of being able to leap in and correct (often 'named') damage outweigh the relatively small amount of IP-led vandalism. And the details of how the IPs represent the (limited, but geographically distributed) Cloudflare gateways has been noted before a number of times, together with what can be done about/with them.<br /> :About the new accounts... Look back for ''years'', and you'll see the same (or similar) patterns. Almost all the truly rogue (presumably automated generation/'registering') then do nothing else as the site blocks the (still automated) attempts to do something with them.<br /> :The worst danger this site is threatened by is the actual manually-posting individuals who (IPed or named) can do what they like so long as (like us legitimate editors) they are prepared to be sat at the keyboard and spend/waste the time in navigating the initial CAPTCHAs/etc to set down their changes. And there's not much more anybody can do about them without ruining everyone else's experience to a similar degree. Perhaps there's some adjustments possible, but none seem necesary to address the account-spam and other precautions are intercepting/reverting the lion's share of the edit-spam (with or without accounts).<br /> :Not up to me, but I trust in those who it is up to. To continue with what is happening right now or to respond in new ways to anything that needs a new approach. Not saying that I don't have ideas of my own, for if I were able to intervene, but I doubt it'd be useful to voice them. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.158|172.70.162.158]] 21:12, 24 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Large amounts of vandalism involving disturbing imagery. ==<br /> <br /> Page 2805 has a huge vandalism problem. Vandals (it seems to be the same few people over and over, or maybe one person with multiple addresses) keep covering the page with weird, disturbing photos and way-too-bright colors.<br /> A few people have been valiantly fighting back but that doesn't mean this isn't a problem.<br /> I would like to please request that the page be locked to prevent further vandalism, and that you please ban all the people that have vandalized it in this way before (and/or take some other action to prevent future vandals) . Thank you very much! [[User:(insert name here)|(insert name here)]] ([[User talk:(insert name here)|talk]]) 01:20, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> There also seems to be a parser problem where instead of vandals replacing the page source, the vandalism is appended to the end, even though it isn't in the source. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.174.230|172.71.174.230]] 03:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> The optimal way to go would be to add bots that automatically replace questionable content like divs and detect image/word spam (like the one in Wikipedia). They would always be on so the vandals would get overwhelmed. Similarly I'd suggest monitoring the constant stream of IP addresses and created accounts. Most editors are IP addresses though, so you might want to watch out for that. Does ExplainXKCD have semiprotection capabilities? You would definitely want to do that, especially the important articles like [[xkcd]], [[Randall Munroe]], [[Cueball]], [[1:_Barrel_-_Part_1]], and ALL of the templates (the vandals were targeting those the most). [[User:84596Gamma|84596Gamma]] ([[User talk:84596Gamma|talk]]) 11:53, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : I agree that the important pages (primary pages, plus all templates) need to be protected somehow so that this can't happen again. It's nice to have a low threshold to editing; it's nicer having a resource that can be depended on and doesn't require random volunteers jumping in to save. (Let's be honest; the images the vandal posted could have been much, much worse.) -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 12:28, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :: What the heck is 'Explain XKCD Administrator' doing? He seems to also be doing some weird div BS, making it so that it's impossible to scroll or click on templates or some comics. Blocking would be heavily advised. [[User:84596Gamma|84596Gamma]] ([[User talk:84596Gamma|talk]]) 12:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Becoming an admin? ==<br /> <br /> Hi. I've been contributing occasionally for eight years now, and I think I've been helpful. But, almost half of the edits were last night in that wave of vandalism. It was very frustrating knowing that I had the same tools as the (14-year-old?) vandal, and the only end-point to the fun would be one of us throwing in the towel, and it was probably going to me (bedtime).<br /> <br /> I don't have the time and/or commitment to do regular moderation work, but I (think I) am a reasonable person, who deals with conflicts rationally and could help out in a pinch. Is there a chance I could be given some more powers to help out if (when) such a crap-storm happens again? Thanks for your consideration... -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 11:14, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :I saw your efforts, early on in my own day, definitely looked to be amongst the helpful editors. I later picked up several cases (might have missed a couple, that others IDed before me) after I got online, and undid that latest form of vandalism in both templates (agree with above, they probably should be semi-protected) and pages. A simple Undo even at my level was sufficient to revert practically everything. What might have been handy was one of the top-moderators being around to use the mass-revert tools to streamline that, and keep on top of the account (or account''s'', as the problematic one would definitely open new accounts - we've seen them do this before) deserving to be blocked and banished. Unfortunately, the freedom of a wiki (which I value) doesn't really work well with over-administration. But that's a discussion to be had by those already at the top levels. I don't envy them. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.164|172.70.90.164]] 18:08, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :: Well, the 14-year-old is back. I'm losing interest in fighting this mud-fest without real admin tools. -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 20:11, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::: We really need to stop this wave of persistent vandalism with protection. When will the admins notice our suffering? [[User:84596Gamma|84596Gamma]] ([[User talk:84596Gamma|talk]]) 20:23, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::: I feel your pain. I caught (and had to recatch) a few of them as he turned up whilst I was browsing/considering proper edits. nd then I noticed you had appeared and were also retroing them, just as I thought I was barely keeping pace. But he's slackened off, so maybe you arriving here has made the difference. (And I'm fed up with pictures of fire hydrants!) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.214|172.70.91.214]] 20:20, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::::Me too... I'm coming to help. Hopefully we can fight that manchild off. Also I call death and destruction to Captcha. [[User:84596Gamma|84596Gamma]] ([[User talk:84596Gamma|talk]]) 20:22, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::: It's frustrating to watch the same few IP addresses wreak all this havoc. Being able to ban them would be a joy; why can't we have that power? -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 20:31, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::::: OK: 2/3 of my contributions have been in the last 24 hours fighting Bozo-Man in all his flamboyant IP addresses. Without further powers, I'm done, because (unlike Bozo-Man) I have better things to do. Sorry... -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 22:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::::: What powers do you need? --[[User:Jeff|&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;orange&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]])<br /> ::::::: I'm not looking for Super Duper Guru™ powers, just something that would even the battle a bit. No, that's not true: I'm looking for something that would make the battle ''unfair'' by making it easier to clean things up than it is to vandalize them. For instance, of the 123 vandalisms I reverted over the pat 24 hours, a third of them were from the top four IP addresses, and two thirds were from the top ten. If you only look at the first three quads of the IP addresses, half came from just two subnets. Block a few IP addresses, and the moderation load would go way down. (And that ignores the work the other users did.)<br /> ::::::: It makes sense that you wouldn't want to be handing out Thor's Hammer indiscriminately, but (IMO) something needs to change. If MediaWiki's moderation permissions aren't selective enough for your tastes, I'd be happy to follow your guidance (e.g. no blocking people for more than 24 hours). -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 01:16, 26 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::::::: Congrats, you are promoted, thanks for helping out. See me in a week if you still want the powers. --[[User:Jeff|&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;orange&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]])<br /> ::::::::: Thank you. Any guidance for the newbie admin? Or should I just &quot;moderate moderately&quot;? -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 01:33, 26 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::::::::: Block and move... block and move. Great power / great responsibility and all that. --[[User:Jeff|&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;orange&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]])<br /> <br /> == Preventation of vandalism ==<br /> <br /> I'll bet the entire budget of the Death Star II that the vandalizer is going to strike again in a few hours. We should be more prepared - I've already cut links to templates, and we should be vigilant about the pages they are going to attack: the current comic, templates, important pages. [[User:84596Gamma|84596Gamma]] ([[User talk:84596Gamma|talk]]) 00:06, 26 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> : What do you need to help? Let me know. --[[User:Jeff|&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;orange&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]])<br /> :: Semiprotect all the templates. [[User:84596Gamma|84596Gamma]] ([[User talk:84596Gamma|talk]]) 00:52, 26 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Username request ==<br /> <br /> It looks like an impersonator registered an account under my name. Is it possible for me to get that username? [[User:Randall Munroe 2|Randall Munroe 2]] ([[User talk:Randall Munroe 2|talk]]) 04:41, 30 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> :: To ask an obvious question: who are you? And, if you say you are the Randall Munroe of XKCD fame, how can we be sure? -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 12:41, 30 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> ::''May I have your attention, please?''<br /> ::''May I have your attention, please?''<br /> ::''Will the real Randall Munroe please stand up?''<br /> ::''I repeat''<br /> ::''Will the real Randall Munroe please stand up?''<br /> ::''We're gonna have a problem here...''<br /> ::(...but, in my assessmemt, Randall would have actual more direct ways of introducing himself to; if he suddenly decided to muddy the water by descending to our level when his interactions even with the forum were minimal; if he hasn't already been here/there/wherever all along, incognito and with/without the administrators knowing this. But Randall's technical and connected enough to not need to ask the above the way it was asked.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.181|172.70.162.181]] 15:36, 30 July 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == user page ==<br /> <br /> how do i put stuff in my profile? others have done it but for mine it says that i don't have permission to create that page [[User:An user who has no account yet|An user who has no account yet]] ([[User talk:An user who has no account yet|talk]]) 16:01, 5 September 2023 (UTC)<br /> : Don't know why you couldn't, but I now have created your user and talk pages; let us know if you now can't edit them. [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 16:08, 5 September 2023 (UTC)<br /> :: There appears to be a rather restrictive page creation policy (it may be dialled up fairly high to age of account, possibly more so than any mere contributions-count), at least in regard to User-typed namespaces. Many account-creators have noted this, and had to be helped out. I suspect it's just their making that An User was ever prevented from. After all, even I can add things to User (and, more correctly and politely, User Talk) pages. And I'm not even a usernamed person. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.230|172.70.85.230]] 20:28, 5 September 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Unable to edit ==<br /> For the last two months, I was unable to make any edits. Is my account secretly locked? Also, I couldn't even post tweets. Did I offend you? [[User:ConlangGuide|ConlangGuide]] ([[User talk:ConlangGuide|talk]]) 23:38, 27 September 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Also, I tried to post on ClassicalGames's talk page but it was messy. [[User:ConlangGuide|ConlangGuide]] ([[User talk:ConlangGuide|talk]]) 23:43, 27 September 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> <br /> == cannot create user page ==<br /> <br /> Like all the other instances of this, it just says &quot;There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page.&quot; At least it isn't just me [[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]] ([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk]]) 16:43, 17 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : Created your user and talk page with placeholder text (&quot;.&quot;) -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 19:20, 17 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :: much thanks! now to wait until i can make my own custom css page [[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]] ([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk]]) 19:38, 17 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Small css-related changes to two templates ==<br /> <br /> I've explained what changes I want made in the talk pages for [[Template:Comic]] and [[Template:Comic discussion]] already, but I think I might need to mention them here too. Changing the templates shouldn't cause any adverse effects, and allow for more versatility for users who create their own CSS. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; <br /> <br /> : You should sign your comments with &quot;-- ~~&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;~~&quot;, which will insert your username. And, there's a very low chance that anyone with the power to change the CSS to wander by; we've been on our own for a while. -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 22:01, 20 October 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : Added the class names. —[[User:Theusaf|theusaf]] ([[User talk:Theusaf|talk]]) 15:39, 1 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :: THANK YOU!!! The face of pure shock and excitement i felt when seeing this was beyond my wildest dreams ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 15:46, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Math Module breaks all pages with it ==<br /> <br /> [[2070]] and [[2034]] appear to be broken for some reason. They wont load at all with the following reason:<br /> <br /> &lt;code&gt;<br /> MediaWiki internal error.<br /> <br /> Original exception: [ZUPRak3GkbeSokPCcKIp8AAAAJI] 2023-11-02 16:42:18: Fatal exception of type &quot;MWException&quot;<br /> <br /> Exception caught inside exception handler.<br /> <br /> Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 16:42, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> :: [[2295]] also broken. Must be related to the Math module. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 16:44, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> :: Full list of broken pages:<br /> ::* [[128: dPain over dt]]<br /> ::* [[687: Dimensional Analysis]]<br /> ::* [[849: Complex Conjugate]]<br /> ::* [[899: Number Line]]<br /> ::* [[969: Delta-P]]<br /> ::* [[1047: Approximations]]<br /> ::* [[2028: Complex Numbers]]<br /> ::* [[2034: Equations]]<br /> ::* [[2048: Curve-Fitting]]<br /> ::* [[2059: Modified Bayes' Theorem]]<br /> ::* [[2070: Trig Identities]]<br /> ::* [[2117: Differentiation and Integration]]<br /> ::* [[2295: Garbage Math]]<br /> ::* Possibly more &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 00:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> :::On further analysis, it seems to be related to the MathML setting. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 19:23, 9 November 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Way to contact the site hosters? ==<br /> <br /> I have tried posting at Jeff's talk page to no avail. Maybe yáll admins have a red phone hotline to Jeff? See reasons at [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Way to contact the site hosters?]]. [[User:Aaron Liu|Aaron Liu]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu|talk]]) 01:34, 9 December 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Escape speed is no longer incomplete ==<br /> <br /> Can you delete the text at the top that says ''&quot;We still need to complete some explanations like this one: 2765: Escape Speed. All incomplete explanations are here.&quot;''? Escape speed is no longer incomplete, so that is wrong.[[User:B_for_brain|B for brain]] ([[User_talk:B_for_brain|talk]]) ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4bo-hj-mDyOOUp_Yp0pug youtube channel] [https://bforbrain.weebly.com/ wobsite (supposed to be a blag)] 14:03, 27 December 2023 (UTC)<br /> <br /> == Vandal Issue ==<br /> <br /> we've got vandals all over [[2875: 2024]], and they're getting persistent &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'&quot;&gt;[[User:SomeoneIGuess|someone, i guess]]&lt;sup&gt;([[User talk:SomeoneIGuess|talk i guess]]&amp;#124;[[Special:Contributions/SomeoneIGuess|le edit list]])&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 16:50, 2 January 2024 (UTC)</div>

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