Part of the humor in this comic comes from the fact that Death's boss, who would presumably be an extraordinarily powerful entity, appears to be a com
:Death: You know how when someone dies, they can challenge me to a game for their soul?
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People who live in rented properties often face the annoying problem of being unable t
...tatement expresses the fact that he was actually better off having someone who could dictate what could and could not be done with his residence, as then
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...all Greece -- "Athens rules all Greece; I control Athens; my wife controls me; and my infant son controls her." Thus, nowadays the world is controlled by
...that, but the systems administrator is usually responsible for controlling who has access to the information - making them the most powerful person in the
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:Ponytail: My teacher always told me that if I applied myself, I could become the next Marie Curie.
:Zombie Marie Curie (off-panel): You know, I wish they'd get over me.
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Obviously, this would be very annoying, causing the [[Cueball]] in the comic (who works in one such facility) to call him an asshole.
:I worry a lot about what the people at the recycling center think of me.
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...ise that "freedom", hence the title. This is enough to convince his friend who promptly exercises his option to punch Cueball in the face, perfectly in ke
:[The text is written above a half height frame with a zoom in on Cueball who shakes his fist.]
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| titletext = The chemistry experiment had me figuratively -- and then shortly thereafter literally -- glued to my seat.
...riend are walking left together. The friend turns his head towards Cueball who speaks, but is interrupted by voice from behind them off-panel right.]
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...qualifying statement, that he loves Megan the most of the subset of girls who also love Cueball back.
...eople their first choice, just their first choice among potential partners who prefer them to all the alternatives. The algorithms also favor either the m
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...r mom and skinned her. This is a reference to serial killer {{w|Ed Gein}}, who (among other things) made suits out of the skin of some of his victims. To
:Cueball: was before he left, he went and named me "Trig."
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...s. This fits with the theme of the comic, with Cueball being a "superhero" who fights crime using computer skills.
...er I learn a new skill I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me save the day.
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...ash of green light can be seen at the very edge of the sun. [[Black Hat]] (who could potentially be White Hat, but this is more Black Hat behavior) attemp
...k Hat: <small>And feel a sharp blow to the head, and hear the faint hum of me driving away in your new Tesla Roadster?</small>
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...different light. Instead of Alice and Bob being perfectly innocent people who just want to communicate in private, Bob is actually having an affair with
...signature. One downside is that anybody who has the public key can verify who a message is from, so it removes plausible deniability; Bob's partner clear
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...to further mysterious goals. The punchline only makes sense to the viewer, who lives in a reality where "the pen fifteen club" is a middle school prank an
...are not proved to be real. In this context it might mean that the only one who can conspire would be you, hiding the truth from yourself.
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| titletext = I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to mo
...}} geek and asks to talk to her. Hairy transfers him over to the engineer, who immediately recognizes the problem and fixes it. Then she tells him of a se
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...entification from, hacking the operating system itself. Thus, many people who are {{w|Linux}} {{w|Hacker (hobbyist)|enthusiasts}} began by not really kno
...Here, the joke starts to build in that Cueball's cousin, a computer novice who just wanted something to work out of the box, is now having to learn how to
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{{w|Emily Dickinson}} is a famous American poet, who wrote a poem called "[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/
:He kindly stopped for me
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...ges, without profit to the content generators. This infuriated many users, who closed their accounts or stopped uploading images.
...mic [[Cueball]] tells his Cueball-like friend about his problem with Chad, who just sent him a note telling him that he no longer wants to store all this
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...Black Hat]] would rather avoid. Alternately, only people who speak Lojban, who compose an admittedly tiny proportion of the general population, could bene
...It translates roughly as: "That was a joke. Really. Wanna be friends with me?" Since Lojban aims to be completely unambiguous, idiomatic structures like
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{{w|Zeno of Elea}} was an ancient Greek philosopher who devised several apparent paradoxes of motion called {{w|Zeno's paradoxes}}.
...n A and B. Then I must walk half the remaining distance, which would bring me to three-quarters of the original distance; then I must again walk half the
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| titletext = The only blood these contracts are signed in is from me cutting my hand trying to open the goddamn CD case.
A {{w|Faustian deal}} is done by someone who sells his soul to the devil for something desired in this life, a textbook
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