#2347 DependencySomeday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.
#2348 Boat Puzzle'No, my cabbage moths have already started laying eggs in them! Send the trolley into the river!' 'No, the sailing wolf will steal the boat to rescue them!'
#2349 Rabbit IntroductionWashington state is seeing great success with reintroducing the Columbia River Basin subpopulation. We cannot allow them to further widen the interstate bun gap.
#2350 Deer TurretsWhen my great grandfather designed the Titanic and it hit an iceberg and sank, he didn't sit around moping. He took those lessons to his next job designing airships, and he made the Hindenburg completely iceberg-proof!
#2351 Standard Model ChangesBugs are spin 1/2 particles, unless it's particularly windy.
#2352 Synonym DateWe need some grub to munch--I'll go slouch over to the kitchen.
#2353 Hurricane HuntersOur flight gathered valuable data on whether a commercial airliner in the eye of a hurricane can do a loop.
#2354 Stellar EvolutionIt may remain in equilibrium for some time, slowly growing, and then suddenly become significantly redder.
#2355 University COVID ModelI admit this is an exaggeration, since I can think of at least three parties I attended while doing my degree, and I'm probably forgetting several more.
#2356 Constellation MonstrosityIt's rare to get both astronomers and astrologers equally mad at you, but apparently I've messed up both a bunch of star location databases AND the will of the fates.
#2357 Polls vs the StreetOther pollsters complain about declining response rates, but our poll showed that 96% of respondents would be 'somewhat likely' or 'very likely' to agree to answer a series of questions for a survey.
#2358 Gravitational Wave PulsarsThe most important attributes of a vector in 3-space are {Location, Location, Location}
#2359 Evidence of Alien LifeBoth too cautious AND not cautious enough: "I'm skeptical that those are aliens, so I'm going to try pulling off their masks."
#2360 Common Star TypesThis article is about Eta Carinae, a luminous blue hypergiant with anomalous Fe[ii] emission spectra. For the 1998 Brad Bird film, see The Iron Giant (film).
#2361 Voting'Wait, our state has mail voting. The forms are literally on the kitchen table.' 'Not now, I'm busy researching which channels have sharks in them.'
#2362 Volcano DinosaurPhylogeneticists are working on identifying and notifying its next of kin.
#2363 Message Boards(c) You can have a scooter when you pay for it yourself, and (d) if you can't learn to start a new thread rather than responding to an old one, you'll be banned. [thread locked by moderator]
#2364 Parity ConservationBloody Mary is made of antimatter. It explains so much.
#2365 Messaging SystemsSMS is just the worst, but I'm having trouble convincing people to adopt my preferred system, TLS IRC with a local server and a patched DOSBox gateway running in my mobile browser.
#2366 Amelia's Farm Fresh CookiesI told her I'd take her address off the packaging if she'd stop submitting anonymous food safety complaints about my bakery to the health department, but she sent me a note that said NO DEAL along with an extra large batch of cookies.
#2367 MasksHaunted Halloween masks from a mysterious costume shop that turn you evil and grow into your skin score a surprisingly high 80% filtration efficiency in R. L. Stine-sponsored NIOSH tests.
#2368 Bigger ProblemYour point that the world contains multiple problems is a real slam-dunk argument against fixing any of them.
#2369 All-in-OneChanges with this update: If you use the combined scan-shred function, it now performs them in that order instead of the reverse, saving a HUGE amount of CPU time.
#2370 PredictionYou'd think it'd be easy to just bet money against these people, but you have to consider the probability of them paying up.
#2371 Election Screen TimeFeels like I picked a bad year to try to start having a healthy relationship with political news.
![This article is about Eta Carinae, a luminous blue hypergiant with anomalous Fe[ii] emission spectra. For the 1998 Brad Bird film, see The Iron Giant (film).](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2360/0.png)
![(c) You can have a scooter when you pay for it yourself, and (d) if you can't learn to start a new thread rather than responding to an old one, you'll be banned. [thread locked by moderator]](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2363/0.png)
Commentaires