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  • ...ch on the phone hardware, though it seems there would be a lot of possible issues with making that work.--[[Special:Contributions/172.68.59.126|172.68.59.126 ...voice activation on all the time!?! Setting the very real privacy & safety issues aside for a moment... Doesn't it trigger from random conversations on an al
    24 KB (3,834 words) - 01:32, 5 December 2020
  • ...cular can puzzle even seasoned people and sometimes seem to have arbitrary issues causing them. {{w|Network packet|Packets}} are units of data transfer used ...ay be a reference to the intermittent or fluctuating nature of the network issues being caused by mischievous or malevolent spirits. Ghosts generally are not
    6 KB (930 words) - 12:06, 14 June 2023
  • ...misleading lines painted by disgruntled highway workers to trick cars into driving off the road? Misleading lines on the road were also mentioned in [[1958: Self-Driving Issues]].
    22 KB (3,523 words) - 04:13, 14 January 2024
  • ...ell as other animals) and almost certainly contributed to a host of health issues. Some scientists even hypothesise that {{w|Lead–crime hypothesis|crime le ...quirements, weather conditions, shade from roadside features and nighttime driving), adding significant weight. Adding solar panels to a plug-in or hybrid veh
    25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:27, 6 June 2024
  • ...ot anticipate bicycles on the road (or horses, or tractors, or anyone also driving but not actually going at-or-above the posted speed limit, etc) and at best ...s on ''their'' supposedly safer routes (and road crossings), amongst other issues. The number of times I've seen someone progress rapidly down a pavement on
    35 KB (5,551 words) - 20:13, 24 October 2023
  • ...ge-slot. Neither of those caused problems, if you'd accept this just as a self-selecting anecdote, and when I finally ''maybe'' got COVID (or just a flu-l ...e Richard Feynman (no really), "Of course you laugh at this because it’s self-evident to the rational mind, but not to the emotional mind—the emotional
    97 KB (15,288 words) - 00:17, 24 June 2024
  • ...alistic fakes,{{Actual citation needed}} but similarly there are many more self-styled 'experts' willing and able to dedicate themselves to 'proving' one o ...e, but may make certain lies more convincing to some parties, such as self-driving cars in that comic.
    5 KB (693 words) - 00:16, 20 August 2023
  • ...h there is no punchline it is humorous (absurd) because there were no self-driving cars 64 years ago, and I am pretty sure XKCD was not even around in 1958. O ...ight sensor then there's no problem) matte or gloss or silk-finish have no issues. ...nah, that's too horror-geeky a caveat. Scratch that.
    14 KB (2,089 words) - 20:17, 31 July 2022
  • ...ently sat still in his location, but seems to ignore/handwave all kinds of issues of long-term soil accumulation/weathering, tectonics, etc. Or the very basi ...xact word' strictness) in the space-travelling element that can cause plot-driving surprises to the protagonist(s) involved. (Perhaps I'm here at least in par
    7 KB (1,147 words) - 06:15, 21 April 2024
  • ...zed cars and trucks, no matter their power source, would do more of that. Driving while inattentive is unambiguously bad. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.2 ...ost speed limits are assigned by looking at the speeds people are actually driving in good conditions and setting it where 10% of people woulld be speeding (a
    34 KB (5,235 words) - 22:53, 25 June 2024

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