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Wow, I'm so early, there isn't even a transcript yet. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.139|162.158.74.139]] 04:43, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Me too - neat (I guess this means I refresh xkcd too often) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.23.55|172.69.23.55]] 04:52, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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My Computer Is Not Able To Transmit Any Malware Via PlainText. I Guess I Can Already Type In All Caps. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.80|141.101.76.80]] 07:06, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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I wonder if this comic also plays on the fact that when guidance is issued, people often immediately ask if they can do something not fully covered by it. They are then surprised by speakers response and try again usually resulting in the speaker changing the subject [or ending the chat as in this case]? [[User:Fan2012|Fan2012]] ([[User talk:Fan2012|talk]]) 07:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Shouldn't the second women who speaks be classified as Hairbun and not Ponytail? [[User:Kvarts314|Kvarts314]] ([[User talk:Kvarts314|talk]]) 09:21, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
:The aforementioned reclassification has been achieved. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.128|162.158.159.128]] 10:15, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Is it possible that the title-text is referring to the disease spread via telephones (and their lack of sanitisers) in the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.128|162.158.159.128]] 10:15, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Wasn't there a comic in the same vein of "can't wait to do [ridiculous thing] once vaccinated" a while back? Might be worth a mention. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.239|162.158.74.239]] 10:18, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
:Found it, it's [[2391:_Life_Before_the_Pandemic|2391: Life Before the Pandemic]]. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.239|162.158.74.239]] 10:22, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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I was seriously expecting the title text to be something about riding a horse down the stairs in a family member's house; or possibly about how to get your horse vaccinated -- [[User:Angel|Angel]] ([[User talk:Angel|talk]]) 10:46, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
:Riding a horse down the stairs in another's house ''whilst slurping from a milk carton...'' (This is now safer to do, if the horse is twice vaccinated, I hear.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.21|141.101.99.21]] 14:12, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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To be honest, I wish they had still recommended masks. For most groups, wearing them is no more than an inconvenience and it's always better to be cautious. Also- Where did this habit of linking to other comics come from? I ''like'' it.--[[User:Char Latte49|Char Latte49]] ([[User talk:Char Latte49|talk]]) 16:07, 9 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Do we really need a citation for the fact that riding a bicycle down the stairs is dangerous? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.229|162.158.62.229]] 16:52, 9 March 2021 (UTC) 67.249.27.202<br />
:That's how we use {{Citation needed}} around here. <span style="font-family:serif">[[User:Bubblegum|<span style="color:#00BFFF">bubblegum</span>]]-[[User_talk:Bubblegum|<span style="color:#BF7FFF">talk</span>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Bubblegum|<span style="color:#FF7FFF">contribs</span>]]</span> <span style="font-family:serif">17:06, 9 March 2021 (UTC)</span><br />
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huh! the most recent comic doesn't have an incomplete tag! cool! also the title text is pretty much exactly like that one tumblr prediction of 2021 memes. Poggers [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.121|162.158.62.121]] 18:18, 9 March 2021 (UTC)Bumpf</div>162.158.62.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2429:_Exposure_Models&diff=2067482429: Exposure Models2021-02-25T00:16:23Z<p>162.158.62.121: </p>
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| title = Exposure Models<br />
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| titletext = "Cumulative number of coronavirus spreadsheets created over time" is a spreadsheet I am coming dangerously close to creating.<br />
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The idea is that Cueball is too busy making models in order to figure out how to lower his risk to actually go outside. This is working—but not in the intended way. [[1708: Dehydration]] also features researching something in order to prevent it affecting it—but in the opposite way, i.e. it has a detrimental effect instead of a beneficial effect.<br />
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Can anyone identify the faded background text in the 2016 panel?<br />
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Is there some shadow text behind the main text in the 2016 square? I can barely make it out. <br />
It looks like "No nominee whose first name contains a "k" has lost", which would be the same from the 1122 comic. <br />
[[User:ChunyangD|ChunyangD]] ([[User talk:ChunyangD|talk]]) 00:54, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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It's the alternative text from the 2016 one: "No nominee whose first name contains a "K" has lost." [[Special:Contributions/172.69.235.143|172.69.235.143]] 00:58, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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: I replaced the image in this article. It looks like Randall fixed the image on xkcd.com to get rid of the shadow text. [[User:Natg19|Natg19]] ([[User talk:Natg19|talk]]) 21:53, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I'm quite sure that Obama did in fact have a campaign website in 2008 when he was a challenger. See http://www.4president.us/websites/2008/barackobama2008website.htm [[User:Bobjr|Bobjr]] ([[User talk:Bobjr|talk]]) 01:15, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:I think "challenger" means that they're going against the incumbent. Obama was up against McCain, who wasn't an incumbent. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 01:31, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
Should be added to the original explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.132|162.158.159.132]] 00:16, 12 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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How much do we want the explanation for this one to repeat what is in that of 1122?--[[User:Troy0|Troy0]] ([[User talk:Troy0|talk]]) 01:19, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:We shouldn't. If the explanation of 1122 is missing something it should be added there. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 08:21, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
There is much to do on the original - like where some of the presidents were, how tall were the presidents beofre Lincoln etc. It is eight years old we hould have done this. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.132|162.158.159.132]] 00:16, 12 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Didn't Clinton win after being impeached? [[User:Alcatraz ii|Alcatraz ii]] ([[User talk:Alcatraz ii|talk]]) 01:21, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yes, he was impeached during his first term. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 01:31, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:: No, this is not true, Clinton was impeached during his 2nd term, in 1998, and he was not eligible for a 3rd term. George W. Bush won the following presidential election in 2000. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.42|172.69.34.42]] 01:35, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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You could also say Joe was the first President with a rescue dog [[User:Squire80513|Squire80513]] ([[User talk:Squire80513|talk]]) 01:57, 10 November 2020 (UTC)Squire80513<br />
:Does not Lyndon B Johnson's dog, Yuki, count? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.128|162.158.159.128]] 02:30, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::LBJ's Yuki was a "rescue" (found wandering aimlessly around a gas station) but not a "shelter" dog. Joe's dog is the first first canine from a shelter. It's subtle distinction that many repeating the statistic miss [[User:MAP|MAP]] ([[User talk:MAP|talk]]) 03:08, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Point of order, why is Biden being referred to as president elect? I was under the impression that the term shouldn't be used until the dispute is resolved. With several pending legal cases and the votes uncertified by the states. -172.69.170.142 3:45 11/10/20 {{template:unsigned IP|172.69.170.142|03:45, 10 November 2020}}<br />
: All major media sources have called the race for Biden as of Saturday, November 8th. XKCD, and this wiki, will follow the lead of the Associated Press or New York Times, both of whom say the race has concluded and Joe Biden is the president elect. -162.158.62.93 4:38 11/10/20 {{template:unsigned IP|162.158.62.93|04:38, 10 November 2020}}<br />
:: Except for one of the most trusted- RealClearPolitics.com still has Pennsylvania up for grabs due to lawsuits and is about to move Michigan back into play after a poll worker claimed that a delivery of Biden-only votes came into a Detroit counting room at 3:30 am on November 4.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 14:26, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::: Your assertion of trust without reason comes across as fake news; however, I checked the web.archive.org history for realclearpolitics.com, and it has over a decade of history. I also visited the site and at a cursor glance it might have rational articles from both political sides, which seems commendable. If it is actually trustworthy, why didn't you explain that it is and why it is, given the current news environment? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.77|162.158.62.77]] 14:53, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:::: My bad, I had assumed that the trio of sites covering the electoral college, 270toWin, RealClearPolitics, and 538 were all well known and respected sites by now, after having played a big role in the last 4 elections. [[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 15:25, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:: Not only that, but A) while "the votes uncertified by the states" may influence the exact total, they can't make Trump win, B) a Trump victory would require that ALL legal cases are resolved in Trump's favor (depending on uncertified votes) and C) the Republican party asked to Trump to concede victory, meaning that nobody with political experience believes those legal cases have a chance of success. The only unknown point is the result of the EC election, but it is naturally assumed they will vote for the elected candidate.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.55.104|172.69.55.104]] 08:29, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
: "Presumptive president elect" would be more accurate (and I say this as someone that voted for Biden). --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.72|108.162.219.72]] 10:06, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I don't understand how the statement for 1876 could have been true: if J.Q. Adams won in 1824 without a popular majority, then his opponent won the majority and still lost, so Tilden couldn't have been the first in 1876 to win the majority and lose?[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.38|141.101.98.38]] 08:54, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Simple: there were more than two candidates. In 1824, there were four candidates who each got over 10% of the vote. That's how Adams could win without the majority, without one of his opponents then having the majority. (In fact, Jackson had the plurality of the votes, but not the majority, but Adams was elected by the House.) --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.74|141.101.98.74]] 11:30, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::Thanks![[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.96|162.158.159.96]] 16:57, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:::More details: {{w|1824 United States presidential election}}. Jackson only got about 41% of the popular vote (in states that had one -- not all did back then), and 99 out of 261 electoral votes (~38%). Nobody got enough votes in enough states for an electoral majority, so the election went to Congress. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 00:41, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Bad with formatting here, but I updated the bit about precedent to include that Trump's raw vote total (approx 71.5 million, also not yet certified) is ''also'' breaking the precedent set by Obama in 2008. Love them or hate them, in this high-turnout election, both major party candidates had record numbers for their raw vote totals. Trump doesn't make it to first place above Obama because Biden makes it to first place above Trump. I didn't look into whether the percentage of eligible population numbers are different, but higher turnout combined with higher population makes breaking that barrier a little easier.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.5|108.162.238.5]] 13:02, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Especially since poll workers were caught on camera in Wisconsin putting Trump Votes upside-down into the scanner, but scanning Biden votes correctly.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 14:26, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::How was this discovered? How can we hunt down more occurrences? Did the machine reject the ballots and the people fix the error? (and what are the ramifications of a camera recording vote ballots?) There is no reason to not suspect the opposite happens too: that anybody's votes could be put in upside down. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.77|162.158.62.77]] 14:55, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:::It's part of the lawsuit based on a complaint from an observer. But there is an easy way to track down and correct this problem on both sides- hold a recount.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 15:25, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::::I have not found a reference to any current Wisconsin lawsuit. Seems like you should either document the claims or delete them.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.174.126|172.68.174.126]] 23:13, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::The scanners read both sides of the ballot, and the ballot has markings so it knows which side is the front and which is the back. It doesn't matter which way you feed them into the scanner. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.164|162.158.78.164]] 17:26, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Honestly, the outcome's still not 100%, so, if, by some stroke of (bad?) luck, Trump becomes president again, then the precedents might change.- another user<br />
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Is it just me, or is Randall using this comic as an excuse to throw some shade on Trump? The two squares about Trump are "he has no military experience or political experience" and "he got impeached and then lost." He could've picked more neutral things (his age perhaps, or his appearance on WWE or something) so these choices seem pretty deliberate and, pointed, shall we say? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.63.183|172.69.63.183]] 00:13, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:It's still in keeping with the other 'serious' precedents in prior elections, like not winning without a specific state, or having/not having certain experience. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]]) 00:41, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::By Randall's standards, this "shade" is fairly mild. We already know that Randall is not a fan of Trump. The fact that Trump had no government or military experience, unlike all previous presidents, was well-known. And if Randall ever updates this strip after a future election, the item about Trump having been impeached wouldn't even be mentioned because that precedent ''wasn't'' broken. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.22|172.68.65.22]] 02:40, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::If he wanted to throw shade at trump, it could've been something like "No candidate has been elected after admitting on tape to grabbing womens' crotches without consent", not something mild like not coming from a government or military background (which Trump bragged about). --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.164|162.158.78.164]] 17:44, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Why replace something enormously important with something neutral? Trump was the first person to be elected who had zero prior practical experience related to the office of President, and the results have been painfully obvious. [[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]]) 19:20, 17 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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This could have had a different precedent broken, though obviously not if Randall is an anti-Trumper: "No challenger who was embroiled in graft, extortion of foreign leaders, and abuse of political position while having a fawning media hide it all ever won the election - until Biden did"...<br />
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If you really feel the need to explain every item in a table then please do so in comic 1122 as this is the original. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 18:25, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I removed the redundant options, sorry - user who made table (...Unsigned)<br />
: When I changed the word from "Redundant" (I know what you meant, just that's not quite right) I was hoping to #anchor the link to the prior comic exactly upon the new(?) section someone set up with the previously-relevent lines of table. But it turns out there's only two href="#..."s on that page, and no section titles are given that honour (unlike, say, wikipedia's Table Of Contents entries) I don't want to try to mess with the expkcd wiki at that level of things, but I think it'd be slightly more useful to set that up than it would cost in effort (i.e. a slightly larger version of 'barely'). That's my suggestion, anyway. Just putting it out there. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.216|141.101.98.216]] 23:52, 10 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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== Is there some joke to trump being impeached? ==<br />
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I thought he was acquitted, I checked wikipedia and they say he was acquitted. I'm not American if this is some in joke in America you guys may need to explain it.<br />
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[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.87|108.162.250.87]] 00:30, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
:He was impeached, which is an equivalent to being indicted (i.e. being formally charged with a crime, but in a way necessary to deal with statutory protections and obligations of elected officials), but at the next stage was (almost inevitably) acquitted. Because politics. (For some the impeachment was politics, for some the acquittal was politics. There'll be overlap, but also a very partisan split between those that definitely consider just the one of them to be politics, but not the same one.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.7|162.158.158.7]] 00:57, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::Or to put it another way, "impeached" in U.S. law doesn't mean "removed from office". The House of Representatives impeached Trump, but he was not convicted by the Senate; had he been convicted, he would have been removed from office. In fact, none of the three presidents who were impeached (Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Trump) were convicted by the Senate. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.22|172.68.65.22]] 02:40, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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== What's up with the checkmark and X? ==<br />
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Shouldn't they be reversed? Biden won, so the panel about the website should be added to the comic. Doesn't that mean that panel should have the checkmark on it? <br />
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[[Special:Contributions/172.69.170.56|172.69.170.56]] 04:20, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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:That confused me too for a second, but then I realized what was meant - checkmark is on the claim that is still true after this election ("No president has won after being impeached"), while X is on the one that is no longer true ("No challenger with a website has won"). [[User:BytEfLUSh|BytEfLUSh]] ([[User talk:BytEfLUSh|talk]]) 04:40, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
::Could someone add this into the explanation? I didn't get this either. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.189.245|172.68.189.245]] 16:45, 11 November 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Could also note that Biden is the first Presidential Medal of Freedom holder to be elected to the Presidency. (All other presidents so-honored have been awarded the PMoF after their term in office.)</div>162.158.62.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1027:_Pickup_Artist&diff=2058251027: Pickup Artist2021-02-05T05:38:03Z<p>162.158.62.121: I do want to write about deathsticks</p>
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| titletext = Son, don't try to play 'make you feel bad' with the Michael Jordan of making you feel bad.<br />
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[[Hairy]] and [[Cueball]] are sitting at a table with drinks. Hairy tells Cueball that he's learned some {{w|pickup artist}} tricks. Cueball is appalled, declaring that pickup artists are "dehumanizing creeps". Hairy argues that he's simply learning new tactics such as "[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=negging negging]" (undercutting the target's self-esteem so that she'll feel vulnerable and crave approval), evidently oblivious to the fact that he's proving Cueball's point. Rejecting Cueball's advice to simply talk to women "like a fucking human being", Hairy sets off to try out the technique.<br />
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Hairy makes an attempt at "negging" by suggesting that Danish's fruit plate reflects a need to lose weight. Danish, naturally being a master at psychological manipulation, immediately realizes his game, and crushes him utterly by taking another shot in the psychological dark ([[440: Road Rage]]) — telling him that he's trapped in an endless cycle of failure because he's ultimately a mediocre person and will never do anything of value with his life. Demoralized, Hairy declares that he needs to go home and think about his life; Danish tells him, "It won't help.” (This may be a reference to the "deathsticks" scene in ''Star Wars: Attack of the Clones''.) Of course, once Black Hat discovers his shenanigans, Hairy might not have much more life to rethink.<br />
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The title text refers to {{w|Michael Jordan}}, a very popular and accomplished {{w|basketball}} player who played for the {{w|Chicago Bulls}} and the {{w|Washington Wizards}}. His name is often used as a noun to denote that someone is the best in their field, which is later used in [[1120: Blurring the Line]].<br />
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The pick up subject and Hairy returned in [[1178: Pickup Artists]], where he tries to improve his skills (which he must have felt he needed after this experience), by hanging out with other pickup artists, thus the plural version of the comic title. This comic is one of a small set of comics with the same or almost the same title as another comic (only plural form of artist the difference).<br />
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:[Hairy and Cueball sitting at a table.]<br />
:Hairy: I've been learning tricks from pickup artist forums.<br />
:Cueball: Pickup artists are dehumanizing creeps who see relationships as adversarial and women as sex toys.<br />
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:[Close-up of Hairy's head, with a faint outline of Black hat and Danish sitting at a table in the background.]<br />
:Hairy: No, it's just a bunch of tips! Like ''negging'': you belittle chicks to undermine their self-confidence so they'll be more vulnerable and seek your approval.<br />
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:[Close-up of Cueball's head.]<br />
:Cueball: Just talk to them like a fucking human being.<br />
:Hairy: Nah, that's a sucker's game.<br />
:Hairy: Ok— wish me luck!<br />
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:[Small frame across top of panel reads ''Meanwhile...'' and Danish is sitting at a table with Black hat standing next to the table holding a bowling ball under his arm.]<br />
:Black Hat: I'm going to the bathroom to roll a bowling ball own under the line of stalls.<br />
:Danish: Cool.<br />
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:[Close up of Cueball's head, with Hairy approaching Danish's table in the background.]<br />
:Cueball: Oh no.<br />
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:[Hairy and Danish at a table. Hairy is standing up and leaning on the table.]<br />
:Hairy: You look like you're on a diet. That's great!<br />
:Hairy: How's the fruit plate?<br />
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:[Close-up of Danish's head.]<br />
:Danish: Ooh- are we negging?<br />
:Danish: Let me try!<br />
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:[Close-up of Danish's head, with her hand raised.]<br />
:Danish: You look like you're going to spend your life having one epiphany after another, always thinking you've finally figured out what's holding you back, and how you can finally be productive and creative and turn your life around.<br />
:Danish: But nothing will ever change. That cycle of mediocrity isn't due to some obstacle. It's who you ''are''.<br />
:Danish: The thing standing in the way of your dreams<br />
:Danish: is that the person having them is ''you''.<br />
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:[Hairy and Danish at a table. Hairy is standing up.]<br />
:Danish: Ok, your turn! Ooh, try insulting my hair!<br />
:Hairy: I think I need to go home and think about my life.<br />
:Danish: It won't help.<br />
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I think this link should be referenced (and something added about how the copyright for this particular work is specifically extended), but not sure how to : https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/595567/why-the-great-gatsby-isnt-public-domain#:~:text=Copyright%20laws%20in%20America%20are,domain%20until%20January%201%2C%202021.&text=In%201976%2C%20Congress%20passed%20the,revised%20copyright%20laws%20from%201909. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.121|162.158.62.121]] 02:30, 31 December 2020 (UTC)</div>162.158.62.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2405:_Flash_Gatsby&diff=2038642405: Flash Gatsby2020-12-31T02:29:01Z<p>162.158.62.121: /* Explanation */ Typos</p>
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| date = December 31, 2020<br />
| title = Flash Gatsby<br />
| image = flash_gatsby.png<br />
| titletext = Protip: At midnight your excuse for not having read The Great Gatsby can switch from "I'm worried about violating copyright" to "I think my copy requires Flash."<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Copyright law in the United States of America, where the novel The Great Gatsby was published, extends long enough that it won't expire until 1/1/2021, so at that point it will be legal to post a copy of the novel without violating copyright law.<br />
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However, support for Adobe Flash is being rapidly phased out by most web browsers (and Adobe themselves), so there would be a very short window of time during which posting a Flash version of the novel would be both legal and possible.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.62.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2405:_Flash_Gatsby&diff=2038632405: Flash Gatsby2020-12-31T02:27:05Z<p>162.158.62.121: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2405<br />
| date = December 31, 2020<br />
| title = Flash Gatsby<br />
| image = flash_gatsby.png<br />
| titletext = Protip: At midnight your excuse for not having read The Great Gatsby can switch from "I'm worried about violating copyright" to "I think my copy requires Flash."<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a BOT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
Copyright law in the United States of America, where the novel The Great Gatsby was published, extends long enough that it won't expire until 1/1/2021, so at that point it will be legal to post a copy of the Novel on-line without violating copyright law.<br />
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However, support for Adobe Flash is being rapidly phased out by most web browsers (and Adobe themselvves), so there would be a very short window of time during which posting a Flash version of the novel would be possible.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.62.121https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2304:_Preprint&diff=1917692304: Preprint2020-05-09T02:48:25Z<p>162.158.62.121: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2304<br />
| date = May 9, 2020<br />
| title = Preprint<br />
| image = preprint.png<br />
| titletext = DOWNSIDES: Adobe people may periodically email your newsroom to ask you to call it an 'Adobe® PDF document,' but they'll reverse course once they learn how sarcastically you can pronounce the registered trademark symbol.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic is about how media reports non-{{w|peer-review}}ed research papers. The newscaster depicted is attempting to report breaking news based on information in a study; however, the study in question has not been formally published. This leads to uncertainty on the part of either the newscaster or her scriptwriters as they try to determine how to refer to this study, represented here by alternative introduction lines being scribbled out.<br />
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[[Randall]] suggests that, instead of explaining that the paper was in {{w|preprint}}, or unpublished or submitted to a preprint server and not peer-reviewed, the newscaster could simply say it was a {{w|PDF}}. PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format for documents developed by Adobe to be used independent of application software, hardware and operating systems.<br />
Randall proceeds to lists several benefits of using "PDF": <br />
* The use of terms such as "preprint" makes statement about its publication status, which might be based on inaccurate information or even be in the process of changing as the news goes out; in contrast, proclaiming it to be a PDF is an unambiguously factual statement.<br />
* Referring to the PDF directly also prevents individuals from making assumptions that the one responsible knows and has verified what they're doing - or, in contrast, that the information is automatically false based on the grounds that it hasn't yet been officially published.<br />
* The comic finishes with a jab at the PDF format itself, proclaiming that no ordinary person would ''voluntarily'' choose a PDF file as their medium of communication. Ordinary people use the default file format of whatever word processor or text editor they use, but PDF files are not very convenient to edit, so they're generally only used for final versions of documents that are ready to print or distribute, following a dedicated export or conversion process.<br />
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The title text makes fun of what is incorrectly believed to be the official name of the PDF format; PDF is now an open international standard (ISO 32000-1), and the only PDF files that are "Adobe Acrobat files" or "Adobe PDF" files are those created using Adobe Systems' software. Further, Adobe does not use the ® designation in conjunction with PDF. (See [https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/documents/Adobe_Trademark_Guidelines_11012014.pdf Adobe Trademark Guidelines, 1 Nov. 2014])<br />
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Since so many applications can create and even edit PDF files, implying a connection with Adobe every time someone talks about one is preposterous, and one could sarcastically pronounce the registered trademark symbol to show contempt for the fact that it is a registered trademark.<br />
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If you want to lend extra legitimacy to the "was probably prepared by a professional" point, mention that it was created using {{w|LaTeX}}, the only type of file more trustworthy than PDF (see [[1301: File Extensions]]).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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[A newscaster is sitting at a desk. Several of her opening sentences are scribbled over, indicating revisions to her script.]<br />
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:Newscaster (scribbled out): According to a new preprint…<br />
:Newscaster (scribbled out): …An unpublished study…<br />
:Newscaster (scribbled out): According to a new paper uploaded to a preprint server but which has not undergone peer review...<br />
:Newscaster: According to a new PDF…<br />
:Inset graphic: Breaking ''NEWS''<br />
:Caption: Benefits of just saying "a PDF":<br />
:* Avoids implications about publication status<br />
:* Immediately raises questions about author(s)<br />
:* Still implies "this document was probably prepared by a professional, because no normal human trying to communicate in 2020 would choose this ridiculous format."<br />
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