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#1917 How to Make Friends No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!
#1918 NEXUS You also refuse to buy Cisco products because you hate the Thong Song, O. Henry, Deep Space Nine, freshwater whitefish, teenaged Incan emperors, Brak's brother, and vegetable-based shortening.
#1919 Interstellar Asteroid Every time we detect an asteroid from outside the Solar System, we should immediately launch a mission to fling one of our asteroids back in the direction it came from.
#1920 Emoji Sports No horse has yet managed the elusive Quadruple Crown—winning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, and the Missouri Horse Hole.
#1921 The Moon and the Great Wall And arguably sunspots, on rare occasions. But even if they count, it takes ideal conditions and you might hurt your eyes.
#1922 Interferometry It's important to note that while the effective size of the dog can be arbitrarily large, it's not any more of a good dog than the two original dogs.
#1923 Felsius The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epsilon (ϵ).
#1924 Solar Panels This works for a surprising range of sunlit things, including rooftops (sure), highway surfaces (probably not), sailboats (maybe), and jets, cars, and wild deer (haha good luck).
#1925 Self-Driving Car Milestones I'm working on a car capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex boolean expressions on "honk if [...]" bumper stickers and responding accordingly.![I'm working on a car capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex boolean expressions on "honk if [...]" bumper stickers and responding accordingly.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1925/0.png)
#1926 Bad Code "Oh my God, why did you scotch-tape a bunch of hammers together?" "It's ok! Nothing depends on this wall being destroyed efficiently."
#1927 Tinder People keep telling me to use the radio but I really hate making voice calls.
#1928 Seven Years [hair in face] "SEVVVENNN YEEEARRRSSS"![[hair in face] "SEVVVENNN YEEEARRRSSS"](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1928/0.png)
#1929 Argument Timing Of course, everyone has their own profile. There are morning arguers, hangry arguers, meal-time arguers, late-night arguers, and people who get in a meta-argument over what their argument timing is, dredge up examples of past arguments, and end up fighting over THOSE again as well.
#1930 Calendar Facts While it may seem like trivia, it (causes huge headaches for software developers / is taken advantage of by high-speed traders / triggered the 2003 Northeast Blackout / has to be corrected for by GPS satellites / is now recognized as a major cause of World War I).
#1931 Virtual Assistant If you ask it to please turn off that feature, it apologizes a whole bunch and promises to try to be quieter, then switches to a slightly lower-volume version of the clip with "sorry!" after the louder sounds.
#1932 The True Meaning of Christmas They all made fun of Autometalogolex, but someday there will be a problem with Christmas that can only be solved if Santa somehow gets a serious headache, and then they'll see.
#1933 Santa Facts We've gotten him up to 20% milk and cookies through an aggressive public campaign, but that seems to be his dietary limit. Anything above that and he starts developing nutritional deficiencies.
#1934 Phone Security ...wait until they type in payment information, then use it to order yourself a replacement phone.
#1935 2018 We should really start calculating it earlier, but until the end of December we're always too busy trying to figure out which day Christmas will fall on.
#1936 Desert Golfing I just want to stay up long enough to watch the ball drop into the hole number 2018.
#1937 IATA Airport Abbreviations IATA stands for International AirporT Abbreviation.
#1938 Meltdown and Spectre New zero-day vulnerability: In addition to rowhammer, it turns out lots of servers are vulnerable to regular hammers, too.
#1939 2016 Election Map I like the idea of cartograms (distorted population maps), but I feel like in practice they often end up being the worst of both worlds—not great for showing geography OR counting people. And on top of that, they have all the problems of a chloro... chorophl... chloropet... map with areas colored in.
#1940 The Food Size Cycle There's data suggesting that this model may apply to deep-dish/thin-crust pizza. I've designed a thorough multi-year study to investigate this personally, but funding organizations keep denying my grant requests.
#1941 Dying Gift And to you, I leave my life-sized ice sculpture replica of the Pietà which was blessed by the Pope. You must never let it melt! Now, remember, all gifts must be removed from my estate within 24 hours.
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