Talk:3081: PhD Timeline

What an age we live in... --DollarStoreBa'al ^{ConverseMy life choices} 15:48, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

It only gets rougher... It's enough to radicalize a person. 172.69.65.187 16:09, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Events like this are scary, and they're even scarier if you have a personal or geographic connection to them like Randall does. I can understand why he would feel frustrated about his inability to do something concrete, and if this comic raises awareness for the situation then it has done a good thing. Not sure why I thought this comment was necessary; maybe it's just a way of processing the emotions that the comic made me feel. Dextrous Fred (talk) 15:49, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

I dont want to start an argument, but I am glad Randall Munroe is making a specific, reasonable point. A lot of times I see people saying either "there is no antisemitism on campus, nobody should ever get deported, ACTUAL terrorists should get green cards", and others say "EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME SHOULD GET DEPORTED, EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A TERRORIST." I think both of them are extreme points obviously, and I am glad Randall is just taking the side, for now, of "this specific person did not violate their green card visa."

as always, based randall, at least for now. Tzelofachad (talk) 16:04, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Did you mean "biased"? Barmar (talk) 16:31, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Did you mean "biased towards due process?" Nyrrix (talk) 16:51, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

It's probably "based", as that's a term that can either be used in support or mockery of a philosophical position (because of Poe's Law, hard to know which in most cases, including here). It's more usually used in 4chan-like responses (and I doubt Randall would be considered "based" in those other places) than hereabouts, so perhaps it needs some clarification for those not (or not enough) in that sort of crame of mind. 141.101.99.94 17:06, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, Randall Munroe clearly only cares about this one incident because he does not at all care about politics. He's definitely not using this as an illustrative case on the countless other identical incidents happening under the Trump administration. /s /s /s /s /s. ^Dr.Meepster

(<chat> • <reply>) 16:53, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

I really hope this is one of those comics that does NOT stand the test of time. In other words, I hope the next generation of graduate students sees this and thinks "oh, that must've been written in 2025, we don't have to worry about those kinds of things anymore." Perhaps "hope" isn't the right word, it implies I have hope. Maybe "pray fervently" is the right phrase. Sigh. 198.41.227.72 16:30, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

How do we edit the Categories? This should have category Politics. Barmar (talk) 16:31, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Usually, once at least one other category (not created from templates like {{comic}}) you can edit the page and see the other cat(s) at the bottom, beyond the comic-discussion template. Or edit the Transcript section (or any Trivia one, whatever's the last one) as that'll also have the tail-end of the page. So long as you know there's a category "Foo", you should be able to work out how to add "Category:Foo".

But don't add Foo if it doesn't exist, hoping that someone will tire of the redlink that's created. You may be wrong about it needing to exist, or miss the actual "Category:comics featuring Foo", and unless someone is feeling generous it's possible that your edit just gets reverted as not properly researched, or checked... I think there actually is a Politics category, by that name, but I'm trying to answer the general question, not yet going out there to look it up for certain (at which point, I may have just added it myself, making it useless to have explained how you could 'easily' do it... At least in this instance).

TL;DR;, though, look at the source (wiki-edit) of another comic that is about Politics and is so categorised. Go all the way to bottom, and you'll see which 'tag' you might want to put at the bottom of this one. Should be obvious. 141.101.99.94 17:06, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

I think I've added that category now 104.23.190.60 19:33, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm so tired of this administration :( Nyrrix (talk) 16:49, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

The comic on mobile has the title text has a youtube video URL, and if you click on the comic on desktop version, it links to the youtube video of the arrest. This isn't reflected in the description currently. 172.70.126.121 16:51, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

The video URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyypeEEOklM and appears to be "CBS Boston [282K subscribers]" so probably legit? I will try to add the URL. --PRR (talk) 17:08, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

For the sake of consistency, I copy-pasted the "note" from 1723 into this comic. I also think we should have a category and perhaps a template to make adding notes like this easier and more uniform. 172.69.67.22 21:11, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Well, you can create it right now if you want! --FaviFake (talk) 22:08, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Is this the first with an out of site link? -- [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]]) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

No this happens often. For instance this comic xkcd 1723. --Kynde (talk) 20:09, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Again, let's keep the explanation as neutral as possible. Facts only. Dogman15 (talk) 18:49, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Of course, the bit I was correcting (with bad grammar, and lack of facts) got totally changed about before I tried to post it. "For instance citizens usually cannot be deported for any reason (only extradited, although the US typically refuses to comply with requests even from countries that freely extradite to it), and would instead be subject only to local legal penalties, but relatively minor allegations have resulted in visitors' extraditions." was what I wrote. Now, I think that was neutral enough, but it doesn't fit there now anyway. 172.70.58.113 22:45, 25 April 2025 (UTC)