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October 9th, 2024

– Ryan

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Screwtape

15 days ago

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Somebody needs to tell Ryan North about the 1965 NBC sitcom, "My Mother, the Car".

Earth/Venus Venn Diagram
Wednesday March 6^th, 2024 at 8:29 PM

xkcd.com

Actually, the fact that Mars is still orbiting safely over here means that it was technically an *Euler* apocalypse, not a Venn one.

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Screwtape

231 days ago

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Well, there's Venn, and there's Us.

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Groxx

231 days ago

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Don't forget the Earth-shattering kaboom!

Silicon Valley, CA

jlvanderzwan

227 days ago

Instantly read it in the appropriate voice, hah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9wmWZbr_wQ

US Survey Foot
Wednesday January 31^st, 2024 at 10:18 AM

xkcd.com

Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it's an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake!

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Screwtape

267 days ago

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For international viewers, 0.014 miles is about 23 metres.

jepler

266 days ago

this american had to convert it into feet before grasping the distance involved, fwiw

Groxx

266 days ago

Bah! It's just a bit over 0.015 miles, or around 50 feet plus half of that again to get 75 feet, plus some change because it's 0.016 not 0.015, plus a bit because a thousandth of a mile is closer to 53 feet, so it's closer to like 80 feet. Easy math. No need for your silly metrics system.

agwego

262 days ago

Statute mile or Nautical mile?

mcarson

258 days ago

How many footlong hotdogs is that?

Groxx

257 days ago

Somewhere between a fortnight and a furlong of footlong frankfurters

jepler

256 days ago

15.13 smoots

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deebee

262 days ago

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Hey where’d the alt text bot go?

America City, America

Inspiraling Roundabout
Monday October 16^th, 2023 at 8:56 PM

xkcd.com

Look, I just think we need to stop coddling those hedonistic roundabout hogs who get into the inner lane and circle for hours, wasting valuable capacity.

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Screwtape

373 days ago

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This was very confusing before I realised the author lives in a country where roundabouts go *anti*-clockwise.

gordol

373 days ago

Hey, we drive on the RIGHT side of the road. By definition then, you drive on the wrong side.

Covarr

371 days ago

Even as someone from one of those countries (which, btw, is most of them), this threw me off after tracing the traffic flow and realizing that actually using the thing to go anywhere but immediately to your right would lead you into into the oncoming lane from a different road. Also hey screwtape

zippy72

370 days ago

Driving on the left is the traditional side. Driving on the right started to spread after the French started doing it, probably because people thought it was cool.

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alt_text_bot

373 days ago

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Look, I just think we need to stop coddling those hedonistic roundabout hogs who get into the inner lane and circle for hours, wasting valuable capacity.