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		<title>2292: Thermometer</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;108.162.237.40: /* Explanation */ Changed &amp;quot;1 Kelvin degree&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;1 Kelvin unit&amp;quot;, since Kelvin is not measured in degrees.&lt;/p&gt;
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| number    = 2292&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = April 10, 2020&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Thermometer&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = thermometer.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = I hate how many times you have to press it to get to the system normal people use, degrees Rømer.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
{{incomplete|Created by a ROGUE RADIAN. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}&lt;br /&gt;
This comic expresses comedic undiscussed frustration at the difference between expected units of {{w|temperature}} in different contexts. [[Randall]], as an engineer, would likely have strong opinions with units, as unit conversion is often a gripe for many engineers. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Cueball]] may be sick or ill, and is trying to check his {{w|Human body temperature|body temperature}}, but he is unclear what the results mean. Cueball's {{w|thermometer}} has several units, of which the four shown grow progressively and humorously less useful:&lt;br /&gt;
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*{{w|Celsius}} units are used in most of the world. They set 0 degrees to water's freezing point and 100 degrees to water's boiling point.  Randall lives in Boston, USA, one of the only countries where Celsius is not used for health measurements.  The health relevent temperatures are discussed only in Fahrenheit in the USA.&lt;br /&gt;
*{{w|Kelvin}} is a unit often used in scientific fields. It is based on Celsius, with 1 Celsius degree equivalent to 1 Kelvin unit, where 0 K is {{w|absolute zero}} or -273 °C.&lt;br /&gt;
*Degrees {{w|Rankine scale|Rankine}} are similar to Kelvin, but far less well known. It is the Fahrenheit equivalent to Kelvin, starting at absolute zero with 0°R equal to -459 °F, and 1 Fahrenheit degree being equivalent to 1 Rankine degree.&lt;br /&gt;
*In a scientific sense, temperature is the average {{w|kinetic energy}} of a group of particles. Using {{w|Boltzmann's Constant}}, one can convert between the kinetic energy and temperature.&lt;br /&gt;
The use of these last three units for home temperature gauging is ridiculous, as Kelvin and Rankine are far too large and uncommon to be practical for the average user, while kinetic energy is scaled so wildly that no user would likely know it; this is why Boltzmann's Constant is printed on the thermometer.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the last frame Cueball calls the thermometer the worst. From a nerd's perspective this would be an extraordinary device, offering even exotic temperature scales. However, a &amp;quot;normal person&amp;quot; would find this thermometer terribly difficult to use for everyday purposes, like checking their body temperature or the temperature of food.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{w|Fahrenheit}} is not shown, though Cueball presumably (until seeing the title text) wants to use it. It is primarily used in the United States and generally appreciated for 0 degrees being &amp;quot;really cold&amp;quot; and 100 degrees being &amp;quot;really hot&amp;quot;, but is defined as 32°F for the freezing point of water and 212°F as the boiling point of water (earlier definitions used a rescaled Rømer scale, the temperature of brine, or the body temperature of a healthy human.)&lt;br /&gt;
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The title text references an archaic temperature unit, {{w|Rømer scale|Rømer}}, which is a scale whose fixed points are 7.5 as water's freezing point and 60 as water's boiling point. A unit on the Rømer scale is about 40/21 of a unit on the Celsius scale.&lt;br /&gt;
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In [[1643: Degrees]], Cueball struggles with which temperature unit to use, and ultimately tells his friend the temperature in {{w|radian}}s, which is not a valid temperature scale. In [[1923: Felsius]], Randall proposes a combined Fahrenheit/Celsius temperature scale called Felsius.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}&lt;br /&gt;
:[Cueball stands in the center of the panel holding a thermometer.]&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: This thermometer is in Celsius. How do you change it?	&lt;br /&gt;
:Off-panel voice: Long press the button.&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Cueball presses the button, and the thermometer beeps]&lt;br /&gt;
:''Press''&lt;br /&gt;
:''Beep''&lt;br /&gt;
:Thermometer: Units: Kelvin	&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: No...	&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Cueball presses the button, and the thermometer beeps]&lt;br /&gt;
:''Press''&lt;br /&gt;
:''Beep''&lt;br /&gt;
:Thermometer: Units: Degrees Rankine	&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: What.	&lt;br /&gt;
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:[Cueball presses the button, and the thermometer beeps]&lt;br /&gt;
:''Press''&lt;br /&gt;
:''Beep''&lt;br /&gt;
:Thermometer: Units: Average Translational Kinetic Energy&lt;br /&gt;
:Cueball: This is the worst thermometer.&lt;br /&gt;
:Off-panel voice: Boltzmann's constant is on the side if you need it.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Science]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Physics]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1950:_Chicken_Pox_and_Name_Statistics&amp;diff=151853</id>
		<title>Talk:1950: Chicken Pox and Name Statistics</title>
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I think Randall missed an opportunity to do another “make you feel old” joke here, perhaps something like “if your age isn’t on the chart, your doctors probably still thought chicken pox was caused by imbalanced humors or angry gods” or something. [[User:PotatoGod|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod|talk]]) 15:24, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Shouldn't the vaccine note have been placed at age 23, not 28, if the vaccine was introduced in 1995? [[User:Rockcell|Rockcell]] ([[User talk:Rockcell|talk]]) 15:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:When do children get their first smallpox vaccine? If that's around three that might be one explanation for the position of the note. Also the vaccine wasn't only used on children born after its introduction, kids that were already a few years old but never had smallpox could still have gotten their shots. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.220|108.162.229.220]] 15:52, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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This isn't *smallpox*. Smallpox was eliminated in the middle of the 20th century, so it's weird if anyone gets it. Also: my understanding is that most people who got smallpox died before they got to be old enough to be on any of those graphs.&lt;br /&gt;
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I found the top graph very hard to interpret, so I've included my interpretation here for posterity: If you are 35 years old, then you were a young child before the vaccine was introduced and probably 100% of the people you knew as a child got chicken pox. If you are 20-25 years old, there's a 50-50 chance that you got the vaccine and, as a result, about 50% of the people you knew as a child got chicken pox. If you are 10 years old, then you more than likely got the vaccine and have a low probably of getting chicken pox. If you are under 5, you probably don't know many other kids. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.39|162.158.62.39]] 17:03, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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: We are so used to reading graphs from left to right that this graph, with the inverse time line (current age) and the introduction of vaccines marked, seems to indicate that everyone had chicken pox after the vaccine was introduced, but that it was fairly rare before that. So this might be a stab at the antivaxx movement as well, and their use of warped statistics. [[User:Torax|Torax]] ([[User talk:Torax|talk]]) 11:36, 3 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Wait, this has nothing to do with confusing correlation with causation, right? The assumption is simply that if most of the kids your age got chicken pox, which is likely if you have certain names, you will consider chicken pox to be normal and common, which seems like a reasonable claim. On the other hand, if the comic hadn't said that, the implication would be that people with certain names cause chicken pox, which would be confusing correlation with causation. -[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.16|108.162.219.16]] 17:17, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I agree, that’s how I interpreted the comic as well [[User:PotatoGod|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod|talk]]) 18:15, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I also agree, if anything this is doing the opposite and assuming no underlying causality between names and chickenpox likelihood, so that the people who get chickenpox at any given time should be distributed randomly amongst all names at prevalent at that time.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.184|162.158.78.184]] 19:06, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Basically, what he's describing is a two-step correlation (of which only the second one seems causal to me, but this is debatable). First, your first name and its popularity in particular eras leads to an estimation of your age/year of birth. Second, your year of birth and the prevalence of chicken pox shortly after this year will influence whether you think chicken pox is normal. --[[User:IByte|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte|talk]]) 23:14, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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People with all six of those names probably think &amp;quot;Why do I have no less than six names?&amp;quot; --[[User:IByte|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte|talk]]) 23:17, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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It would be considerably weirder if we didn't have teeth. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.25.106|172.68.25.106]] 11:39, 3 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I thought the joke was that fewer people who have a rare name get chicken pox than those with a common name, therefore people with said rare name must be resistant. --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.167|172.69.33.167]] 12:41, 3 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm 30 and looking at my high school  yearbook there was 1 Logan, 2 Brians, and 5 Sarahs.  None of the other names appear.  That makes the 2nd graph pretty accurate. However, I managed to avoid the chicken pox, so I got the vaccine when I was 12.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.40|108.162.237.40]] 15:41, 3 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Logan ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Logan becomes less popular at age 30.  Coincidence? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.126.10|162.158.126.10]] 19:09, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: That just means that Logan started getting popular as a name about 30 years ago.  So maybe their parents grew up watching X-Men cartoons on TV in the late 1970's through the 1980's?  [[User:Nutster|Nutster]] ([[User talk:Nutster|talk]]) 20:40, 2 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: I’m pretty sure the above was referencing the “Logan’s Run” and “Logan’s World” TV series and books, not X-men.  It was meant as a joke.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.16|162.158.78.16]] 04:54, 3 February 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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OK.  Grammar check now.  How many people actually have all six of these names?  Can't be too many of them.&lt;br /&gt;
And is it only men who have this issue?&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:1939: 2016 Election Map</title>
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;Why now?&lt;br /&gt;
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So why are we getting this map now instead of a year ago?  Has something significant to this area just happened in the U.S.A.?  (I am a Canadian so might well have missed something.)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.154|108.162.216.154]] 16:42, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm from the midwest in the US and I'm really confused as well... I also don't find anything particularly funny or poignant in this. So yeah, color me confused in the US. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.76|162.158.75.76]] 16:52, 8 January 2018 (UTC) Sam&lt;br /&gt;
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: At a guess, because we're coming up on the anniversary of Trump's inauguration. [[User:Wwoods|Wwoods]] ([[User talk:Wwoods|talk]]) 23:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I think the idea is that this map, while interesting as an object, still sort of fails as a map - it doesn't provide the sort of easily digestible information that a map of this variety is supposed to show. Conceptually, I don't think it's that different than #1138 (Heatmap) - the map more or less shows population density and fails to easily communicate party alignment. As to why it's showing up in the first year of 2018, my best guess is that mid-term elections are this year...? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.238|172.69.69.238]]&lt;br /&gt;
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My friend I showed the comic to thinks it could be a general political commentary on the uselessness of these kinds of maps. 1. the map is a year old: useless. 2. there are no numbers: useless. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.76|162.158.75.76]] 17:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC) Sam.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm wondering if it has to do with the fact that [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-commission.html Trump just disbanded the commission on voter fraud]. I think I heard somewhere that this commission was to &amp;quot;prove why Trump should have won the popular vote&amp;quot;. I think the map relates to the whole popular vote versus electoral college discussion.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.172|108.162.216.172]] 17:17, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I think it might be claiming Trump only won because very many people failed to vote? Either that, or as already mentioned, it's about how useless these maps can be. [[User:Jacky720|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720|contribs]]) 17:20, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The point of the map is that the standard choropleth map for the 2016 election shows the vast majority of us area voting for Donald Trump. (shown on this link http://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/) The comic is criticizing the visual accuracy of chloropleth maps in giving a strong understanding of election results (as the majority of voters voted for Hillary). ---- {{unsigned| Widea}}&lt;br /&gt;
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If this map is really so correct (as stated in the caption) then it has been a huge job to collect the data so precisely and calculate how to split voters across borders when not fitting. This says to me that this is a very big issue for Randall. Of course he has made it clear many times that he is [[1756: I'm With Her|against Trumps election]] and more or less [[1756:_I'm_With_Her#Sad_comics|anything he does]]... I believe there is a lot to learn from this map as opposed to those he mentions in the title text --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:33, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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If this map is correct, then there are 252 Trump guys on it and 263 Clinton guys on it, a difference of 11 guys. I don't know how many &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; guys are on it. Just in case someone would like to know. [[Special:Contributions/198.41.230.4|198.41.230.4]] 20:13, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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One thing that the map does clearly show is that voters of Clinton were clustered in heavily urbanized regions (New England to Delmarva, Miami region, Chicago region, Houston and Austin, and coastal California in particular). Those same Clinton clusters are also home to the most third-party voters. Meanwhile, Trump voters were spread out more evenly and in isolated pockets, and there are very few third-party voters living out in the boonies.&lt;br /&gt;
I think the takeaway is that Democratic voters are underrepresented because they are grouped so closely together, and those same populations are also prone to giving rise to anti-two-party sentiment. These two factors combined work against liberalist movements in the United States. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.225|162.158.74.225]] 20:23, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I never realized until now just how few people live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.46|108.162.241.46]] 20:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I also think Randal needs a lesson in rural/urban voting, as the placement of many of the red figures on this map are, well, a bit off.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 22:46, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Not necessarily. Each figure represents 250,000 votes, and as someone who grew up in a rural area, it takes a lot of land to get that many people. Take those two red figures in northwestern-ish Pennsylvania. Counting only people who are of voting age, assuming about 2% are ineligible to vote, with a state voter turnout of 70%, and the fact that only ~60-70% of the voters in those counties voted for Trump, it takes all '''18 counties''' in that region--every single county north of Pittsburgh and west of State College (the blue figures beside those two red ones)--to come up with about 500,000 Trump voters. That matches up exactly with the map. (The total population of those 18 counties, if you're curious, is a little under 1.5 million, with Erie being the largest at 280k and Cameron the smallest at 5k.) [[User:Eosa|Eosa]] ([[User talk:Eosa|talk]]) 17:19, 9 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The claim about Trump being &amp;quot;obsessed&amp;quot; with how red the map appears seems to just be added to be inflammatory. As far as I know, he just gloated about the map a bit on Twitter on the days following his election. He definitely hasn't kept sharing red maps one year later like Randall, and I think we don't consider Randall obsessed. I'm removing it, and I'd rather this not be added back without a source that clearly shows such an obsession. [01000101] [[Special:Contributions/172.68.25.112|172.68.25.112]] 21:13, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: I'm reinstating it. In April, Trump [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/heres-the-electoral-map-president-trump-gave-reporters.html gave reporters a printout of the counties map], saying at the time, &amp;quot;Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers. It's pretty good, right? The red is obviously us.&amp;quot; He later [https://twitter.com/TreyYingst/status/862669407868391424/photo/1 framed and hung a similar map in the West Wing]. In a speech in June, he said, &amp;quot;And those maps, those electoral maps, they were all red. Beautiful red.&amp;quot; He has mentioned the election—which keep in mind he only won because of the Electoral College, not because of the popular vote—one out of every five days over the last year. He is clearly obsessed. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.70|172.69.69.70]] 22:48, 9 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: I toned down the language a bit, to hopefully address concerns about the potentially controversial use of the word 'obsessed'.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.16|141.101.76.16]] 08:59, 10 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I count 31 &amp;quot;Green&amp;quot; folks, in addition to whoever counted the red and blues. That means our total is 546 little stick figures. I'm not sure why he picked that number, but it could be the correct number of folks to stick one on the small states of Alaska, Hawiaii, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. He also took the unusual step of counting VOTES instead of population. It'd be fun to have a version with non-voters on it. &lt;br /&gt;
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I think Randall has always been a map enthusiast. I read this as an alternative map.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.28|108.162.237.28]] 21:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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;136,669,237 votes in 2016&lt;br /&gt;
To all the guys who are counting the Cueballs in the map: 546 Cueballs multiplied by 250,000 is 136,500,000 votes.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:07, 8 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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My count agrees. Red = 252, Blue = 263, Green = 31 [[User:Ansarya|Ansarya]] ([[User talk:Ansarya|talk]]) 00:48, 9 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The title text is probably referring to this map on wikipedia:[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartlinearlarge.png] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.106|108.162.249.106]] 06:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;the small impact of the low-population states&amp;quot; Shouldn't it be &amp;quot;high impact&amp;quot;? The vote of a person living in a low-density state has a higher weight than the vote of a person living in a high-density state. &lt;br /&gt;
Right? [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 08:21, 9 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Actually, Randall's map doesn't show much of anything as regards the relative influence of the states, because it only shows popular votes, and not Electoral College votes, which give proportionately higher representation to the lower population states. So I'd say that sentence should just be removed, or at least completely rewritten to state this as a deficiency of Randall's map (though criticising it for not showing something that it doesn't purport to show in the first place would be a bit unfair).[[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.16|141.101.76.16]] 09:20, 9 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The table looks weird on a mobile device. The first number column has a way bigger font than the other two. Can be reproduced on a PC by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I (in Chrome), selecting &amp;quot;Nexus 5X&amp;quot; (or similar) at the top and reloading.&lt;br /&gt;
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--- Assuming the text above is correct, the count is as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
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$ for color in red blue green; do ( cat text |  pcregrep -o1 &amp;quot;(\d*) $color&amp;quot; | awk -v c=$color '{s+=$1} END {print c,  s}') ; done&lt;br /&gt;
red 252&lt;br /&gt;
blue 264&lt;br /&gt;
green 30&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/source&amp;gt;[[User:Sysin|Sysin]] ([[User talk:Sysin|talk]]) 12:38, 9 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I think that this comic might have something to do with [[1902: State Borders]].   [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 10:35, 10 January 2018 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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; rounding error&lt;br /&gt;
Randall's political leanings are obvious, but are we to believe that he picked a ceiling rounding just to get one extra blue guy? One figure is not be noticeable on such a large map. Its an effect of about 0.0018%. Its more likely an artifact of trying to distribute figures across states or an honest mistake. I think that paragraph should be reworked.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>1920: Emoji Sports</title>
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&lt;div&gt;{{comic&lt;br /&gt;
| number    = 1920&lt;br /&gt;
| date      = November 24, 2017&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = Emoji Sports&lt;br /&gt;
| image     = emoji_sports.png&lt;br /&gt;
| titletext = No horse has yet managed the elusive Quadruple Crown—winning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, and the Missouri Horse Hole.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Explanation==&lt;br /&gt;
{{incomplete|Created by a BOT - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
|Emoji&lt;br /&gt;
|Sport&lt;br /&gt;
|Description&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🤽🌋&lt;br /&gt;
|Lavaball&lt;br /&gt;
|Throwing a ball into the an active volcano would quickly end the game &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🤾‍♀️🤺&lt;br /&gt;
|Bladeball&lt;br /&gt;
|Would also lead to the quick destruction of the ball &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|💃💃⚽&lt;br /&gt;
|Fancyball&lt;br /&gt;
|It would be difficult to kick a giant football while wearing high heels&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🕳️🏇🏇🏇&lt;br /&gt;
|Horse hole&lt;br /&gt;
|Horses might not cooperate or be serious injured when raced info a large hole&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🔪🏀⛏️&lt;br /&gt;
|Basketball Shredding&lt;br /&gt;
|Another sport which would be destructive on the equipment&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🥚🔭🕵️‍♀️&lt;br /&gt;
|Eggspotting&lt;br /&gt;
|A popular sport on Pinterest &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|⛷️🐊&lt;br /&gt;
|Alligator Jumping&lt;br /&gt;
|Fast paced and popular spectator sport but limited season when both snow and alligators are readily available. This is actually a crocodile emoji.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|👩🎣🧜‍♂️&lt;br /&gt;
|Merfishing&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|👨🏸🧚🏸👩&lt;br /&gt;
|Tinkerball&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🥌🦔🥌&lt;br /&gt;
|Hedgehog Curling&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🗜️🍔&lt;br /&gt;
|Burger Clamping&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|👩‍🚀🏹🛰️&lt;br /&gt;
|Consequence archery&lt;br /&gt;
|Archery on a space station would lead to the decompression of the space station, and necessitate the evacuation of the astronauts aboard.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🦉➡️📬&lt;br /&gt;
|Owlstuffing&lt;br /&gt;
|Although the flag is up, the mailbox seems to be missing mail.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🍴🕯️🍴&lt;br /&gt;
|Candle Eating&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|⛳💣🏌️‍♀️&lt;br /&gt;
|Consequence Golf&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|👉🐍👈&lt;br /&gt;
|Snake Shaming&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🔥🧗‍♀️🔥&lt;br /&gt;
|Hell Escape&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|🎮🥑🎮&lt;br /&gt;
|Multiplayer Avocado&lt;br /&gt;
|May lead to guacamole&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Transcript==&lt;br /&gt;
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{{comic discussion}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:1763: Catcalling</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Wouldn't this very quickly result in the extinction of all cats, as they are forced to rush from one chauvinist to another, unable to escape long enough to eat or sleep?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt;Jesper&lt;br /&gt;
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Is it just me or wouldn't this fail if the misogynists also were cat-lovers? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.224|141.101.98.224]] 15:16, 23 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
* I doubt even cat-lovers would enjoy being swarmed by a hopeless amount of cats for an entire year.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.36|162.158.74.36]] 15:51, 23 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Misogyny&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The way I originally read this, in addition to wanting to stop getting harassed, Megan also just liked cats and wanted an easy way to gather them. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.55.71|172.68.55.71]] 15:56, 23 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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My initial thought: Awww!  Maybe by being confronted to care for neighborhood cats, such &amp;quot;men&amp;quot; might learn how to love and care for creatures who only want to exploit them, like said men do with women.  That could work! ...And then I read the title text.  --BigMal // [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.36|162.158.74.36]] 16:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Catcalling now attracts my friend Catherine. [[User:Int|Int]] ([[User talk:Int|talk]]) 17:00, 23 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Did we know Megan was a lefty? [[User:Jameslucas|jameslucas]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[User talk:Jameslucas|&amp;quot; &amp;quot;]] / [[Special:Contributions/Jameslucas|+]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 18:18, 23 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The big question is... does it attract bobcats? --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.123|172.68.54.123]] 21:30, 23 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The cursor might not be left handed, rather, we might just be on the other side of the screen, eh? [[User:NotLock|NotLock]] ([[User talk:NotLock|talk]]) 07:40, 24 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I was thinking the same thing, but dismissed the idea because the text (&amp;quot;Catcalling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Attracts cats&amp;quot;, etc) isn't similarly mirrored. The drop-down menu itself usually has its arrow-thingy on the right, though... Hmm... [[User:Maplestrip|Maplestrip]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip|talk]]) 11:22, 24 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Maybe comic characters read in mirror-text! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.165.176|162.158.165.176]] 23:23, 24 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm pretty sure the part about the title text being perl is wrong. It's definitely not perl5, because things like [2 miles] are not valid syntax at all. This might be perl6 with syntax I don't know, but I doubt it, since the square brackets would indicate something like an array rather than a single element: [2 miles] would then mean &amp;quot;2&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;miles&amp;quot; separately, which doesn't make much sense. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.49.75|173.245.49.75]] 09:23, 24 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I agree, it looks much more like trying to indicate text fields in a ASCII string. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.69.142|162.158.69.142]] 12:20, 24 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Seems to me those are just freakin' ''arrows'' indicating changing those settings.&lt;br /&gt;
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:::I read each &amp;quot;=&amp;gt;&amp;quot; in the title text as meaning &amp;quot;equal or greater than&amp;quot;. Which is horrifying when you think about it. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 06:23, 27 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::Effect strength is unstoppable OR GREATER.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.40|108.162.237.40]] 16:45, 27 November 2016 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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