...you find a shelf in the cave wall, with a little ledge jutting out. Black Hat is sitting there head down, arms on his knees, snoring:]
::Black Hat: Zzz
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...3y_Cliff_with_rock_and_cactus.png looking up and reacting] or like [[White Hat]] looking from the tip of the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/2/21/
::Cueball to White Hat at the tip: Look at that- solid aluminum! We're gonna be rich!
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...nged the future and now I'm disappearing! Wait, never mind, it was just my hat slipping down over my eyes.
...same type of failure made by [[Black Hat]] in [[1063: Kill Hitler]]. Black Hat did actually travel 67 years back in time and killed Hitler, sadly it was i
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*[[Black Hat|The person]] who programmed the robot to perform this flowchart
*[[Black Hat|The person]] who allowed this state of affairs to occur
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...drones to animals is also present in [[1881: Drone Training]], when Black Hat Guy asks for a spray bottle for his drone.
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...near the rocks highest point stands a wizard figure (Gandalf) with wizard hat, staff beard and cloak. He is looking left. To the right just on the last r
...edge of the white tip. He is holding on to his rope with both hands. White Hat is a little below the white tip. He is only holding on to the rope with one
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...te the white hat on the bed) on {{w|New Year}}'s morning. This wakes White Hat up, and Cueball then asks him if he "want[s] to feel old". Without waiting
...ady hours old and that time is passing. As it is New Year's morning, White Hat has probably not been in bed too long and may even be drunk/hung-over, so h
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*1608 1073x1074y Ponytail and bird black hat on a stick and Cueball whistling :
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[[White Hat]] tries to make normal conversation with [[Cueball]] about the recent (at t
...h the question asked, or at least not with the expected answer. From White Hat's reply it is obvious that he has had conversations like this with Cueball
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...anged}} into ''RealTimes'' it may not be so cool a gift anyway. Also White Hat might wish to give away the old spy ware version of RealPlayer. But as oppo
:[White Hat holds up a regular glass to the right.]
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...ves up to what he believes to be a garage of this type operated by [[Black Hat]]. However, instead of an elevator carefully moving it into a storage space
...t at the bottom (when it is dumped out with all the other cars). But Black Hat falls back on his excuse "Robots aren't magic," implying that such a feat i
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...llowdog Updater, Modified|yum}} is the package management tool for {{w|Red Hat Enterprise Linux}} and some derivatives
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In this comic [[White Hat]] quotes a famous "definition of {{w|insanity}}" ([https://quoteinvestigato
...ll's]] answer applies the quote to the action of quoting that quote. White Hat seems to have quoted that quote quite a few times already, expecting people
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...ows exactly where he is and where they are going, and is playing a [[Black Hat]]-style prank on his passengers.
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...appear. However, Cueball with a black hat automatically turns into [[Black Hat]], so he can also be said to be in this comic. There is also an unknown cha
..._and_a_black_hat_octopus.png lots of octopuses] that may also wear a black hat. For the most interesting gardens the [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/ima
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...dfig 2.png]], [http://xkcd.com/1663/art/2x-hat-1a.png]: [[File:Garden Hat 1a.png]],
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...perimental gardens]] below). After one light is changed to white, [[Black Hat]] arrives.
...h black hat. Now also Cueball has a black hat without looking like [[Black Hat]] as it is tilted.
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...us:<br> [[File:1663 garden Octopus garden with Cueball hand up and a black hat octopus.png]]<br>
1663 garden Cueball holding grass and Megan with black hat:<br>
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...nt of a long table, where Hairbun, Hairy, and White Hat are sitting. White hat sits at the end of the table in an office chair.]
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[[Cueball]] and a [[:Category:Characters with hats|man with a hat]] are out '''planespotting''', or {{w|Aircraft_spotting|aircraft spotting}}
...o determine whether the character with the hat is [[Black Hat]] or [[White Hat]] or some other character.
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[[Black Hat]], being Black Hat, is deliberately perverting a classic physics demonstration. In the normal
...ning that the ball will strike him at its maximum speed. Presumably, Black Hat is entirely aware of this and is hoping that Cueball's understanding of phy
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Here, [[White Hat]] notices that there are a lot of contrails in the air. [[Cueball]] (falsel
:[Cueball and a White Hat are walking. White Hat is looking up to the sky while Cueball, walking in front holds out one arm
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...to why [[Black Hat]] has a miniature {{w|black hole}} on his table; Black Hat responds that it "really brings the room together", making a pun on both th
...lls,{{Citation needed}} it brings "the boys, and everything else" to Black Hat's yard - and unlike with the milkshake, not by choice. If it wasn't for the
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:[Cueball and a White Hat are walking, Cueball holds both hands in front of him palms up.]
...re the very top of Cueball's text and the half of the last letter in White Hat's reply.]
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...d the shoreline, Gnome Ann, a woman with curly hair and a black triangular hat, stands with her arms outstretched towards the clock and the sea. For each
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...ers' Pokémon. This is also a callback to an earlier strip wherein [[Black Hat]] wishes for a Pokéball that works on strangers' pets (see last entry in [
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...amount of water a person should drink per day. In the first panel [[White Hat]] presents [[Cueball]] with an innocent and sensible suggestion (although c
...first sign of absurdity also arises here in the second panel when [[Black Hat]] posits that we need 5 glasses of water every minute. This equates to 7200
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...used more than once in this comic, so here he will not be listed as White Hat. See also 324. || Comic: [[603: Idiocracy]] || || ||
...]? Seems like this hat is related to the hat on 65. || || || || Locomotive hat
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[[White Hat]] is recording a video while rotating (''panning'') the camera. [[Cueball]]
...ight. Cueball is holding one hand, with a balled up fist, up towards White Hat]
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...Jill often causes consternation, she is not generically evil like [[Black Hat]], and thus in no way would she represent a young version of [[Danish]].
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...comic presents a woman wearing a white hat with a {{w|press pass}} in the hat's band. She is calling herself "PolitiFact" - either pretending to come fro
...nger) wearing a white hat with brim and a small white card attached to the hat's belt (like a press pass) crawls up on the pane of an open window. She beg
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...[[Ponytail]] welcoming [[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] to their house. Black Hat immediately talks to {{w|Amazon Alexa}} to order two tons of {{w|creamed co
...ir consent (at least not without any consequences). However, because Black Hat is the one coming up with this, it's more likely his motives are on the sad
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...to refute them all. She tells Cueball ''Believe it or not'' which [[Black Hat]] hears and he immediately states that he believes her, and is convinced wi
...er end. This expression is also the subject of [[2247: Weird Hill]]. Black Hat asserts that he needs such a cause because the "real" weird hills are too f
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...omic, [[Cueball]] is showing off his new {{w|superzoom}} camera to [[White Hat]]. These are cameras with large zoom lenses, often 25× or higher magnifica
...taking another picture he notices a stain on Kevin's shirt and asks White Hat to tell Kevin about the stain when he goes there to buy a superzoom camera.
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...tigate for a drunk driver and/or avoid obstacles to that of a horse. White Hat has been [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9f/lorenz_-_sale_2.png d
...eld and the right side mirror just inside the panel is parked before White Hat. He is holding his hand, palm up, out to the left towards the car as he bra
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[[Cueball]] is telling [[White Hat]] about his attempt at {{w|debugging}}, i.e. the process of finding out wha
...ey are entirely different.{{Citation needed}} This is pointed out by White Hat who states that at some point in the process he switched from the puzzle of
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...r to be discussing the topics of antimatter and subatomic particles. White Hat makes the assertion that we (referring to people and objects) are made part
When Megan (accurately) doubts his claim, White Hat takes out his smartphone to look it up, in order to show Megan that he is c
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...makes fun of that kind of notion. While [[Cueball]] describes to [[White Hat]] how his metabolism is "special" (the phrase "one of those" implicitly mea
:[Cueball, on the left, and White Hat are sitting on chairs on either side of a table, facing each other. They ea
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...casually responds with equally unlikely (non-)explanations. Knowing Black Hat, his movie folder is deliberately weird just to provoke this kind of reacti
...[493: Actuarial]]. Back then Black Hat was still reading newspapers. Black Hat has previously given similar non-answers to long series of questions from C
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Two small children, one a small [[Black Hat]], sitting among their toys are playing {{w|thumb war}}. This is a common g
The standard concept is subverted here: Young Black Hat interprets the simulation of hand-to-hand combat with thumbs differently, c
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*[[Black Hat]], who was the one introducing Joanna/Ponytail in the mentioned comic
*[[Danish]], Black Hat's girlfriend setting up a kite, although it could be Megan, but she is also
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...and Range Mischief Officer both sound like suitable positions for [[Black Hat]], xkcd's resident [[classhole]].
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While [[Hairbun]] and [[White Hat]] are simply standing in line, [[Megan]] can be seen using a mobile phone.
:[Megan, Ponytail, Cueball, White Hat, and Hairbun are standing in a line with Hairbun in front. All are facing f
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: [Black Hat and Cueball are talking.]
: Black Hat: Starting on November 7th, we're going to blanket the airwaves with attack
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[[Black Hat]] on the other hand, has flipped this on its head by publishing a poster th
...ebris is a house and to the left some trees. The picture below shows Black Hat from the waist and up.]
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...problems with the appliances that he himself caused. [[Megan]] and [[White Hat]] (supposedly) call him over to have him fix a {{w|humidifier}} that isn't
:[Cueball faces Megan and White Hat as he stands in the middle of a mess of a dissasembled machine, holding a s
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...re so much that he is unable to "turn on the news" as requested by [[White Hat]]. Since his computer is not working at all, he is using the next best thin
...een is just the first step of debugging. In the last panel, he tells White Hat that his computer science degree just helps him ''understand'' how he ended
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:[White Hat is holding his phone while walking with Cueball.]
:White Hat: You just posted videos on metal-working, zip lines, and camouflage.
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...ies are known worldwide and are ingrained into American pop culture, White Hat considers seeing ''Star Wars'' a universal experience.
...on to see them. Even without having watched it, it's reasonable that White Hat would expect Cueball to know something about the series. He is right, as it
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[Around a table, sitting in a meeting, are Ponytail, White Hat, Beret Guy, Hairy, Hairbun, and Cueball.]
:White Hat: We've discovered that your company doesn't do anything.
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...ty as soon as they start making money. In [[1971: Personal Data]], [[White Hat]] somehow didn't know about taxes.
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In the [[:Category:Christmas|Christmas comic]] of 2016, [[Black Hat]] is at it again, freaking out a young child, by replacing the eight reinde
...e is. As such, Sleipnir looks majestic and not entirely unnatural. Black Hat's interpretation is to use the {{w|body plan}} of a spider. The result of t
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...needs bank details to give money, when it will in fact be taken. [[Black Hat]] apparently is so used to tricking people that even his own anthropomorphi
...get off some mailing lists, so perhaps it's [[Randall]]'s diary that Black Hat is molesting, and therefore the title-text is Randall expressing a desire t
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...orlds, instead just being annoyed about his broken furniture. (Given Black Hat's personality, this may well be a practical joke meant to mess with Cueball
...and Narnia is a magical world, so Cueball is appalled to learn that Black Hat dumps his trash there.
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..., considering that he is a real [[classhole]], and goes to show that Black Hat is as much part of Randall's personality as [[Cueball]].
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...the caption below the comic, has several phone numbers stored for [[White Hat]] under his contact entry on his phone and asks him which number he should
Cueball has five numbers for White Hat, listed here as #1 to #5 as they are numbered in the comic (and not the ord
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...this effect has also been mentioned in relation to photography by [[Black Hat]] in [[1014: Car Problems]], in a completely different context, but shows t
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The real culprit might have been [[Black Hat]], for this is exactly like most of his destructive, yet clever, actions
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...personally satisfying conclusion to the short conversation, whereas White Hat may instead be stating that (from a low bar) there's no possible way the co
...ed reaction by someone who doesn't know what chess notation is (like White Hat in the comic). This makes it a double entendre, covering both the case when
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[[White Hat]] asks to borrow [[Cueball|Cueball's]] laptop to view something (possibly a
...plication of capslock more likely. And what is worse he doesn't tell White Hat where he has put the space bar function, making it impossible to write a si
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...xt to them in the list. The cowboy is like the original version but with a hat. The Statue of Liberty is blue and bends forward to vomit. The gray dove ha
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This comic is a {{w|meta-joke}} where [[Cueball]] explains to [[White Hat]] which words he often spells or pronounces incorrectly. Ironically, those
:[White Hat and Cueball are walking.]
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[[Black Hat]], on the other hand, goes a step further and says that he has created a dr
...althy population of generalists is almost always beneficial. Now, if Black Hat creates a drone that hunts the most available species, he gets the right id
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...ds to thousands] of views in their first year of publication. The [[Black Hat|fictional journal publisher]] no doubt hopes that an inexperienced scientis
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:[Cueball and White Hat are looking at a world map on the wall showing a Mercator projection, with
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...ball}} teams when he mentions the {{w|Los Angeles Lakers|Lakers}}. [[White Hat]] questions his mentioning of the Lakers, after which Cueball takes another
:[Cueball and White Hat are walking together.]
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...nickname. [[Megan]] tries to correct him, but it becomes clear that Black Hat is making up nicknames. Many of his suggestions are puns for real nicknames
Though Black Hat may have forgotten, it is more likely that he is messing with those around
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:[Cueball is talking to White Hat. He is wearing a large backpack and holding a phone battery.]
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...seem to be in character for [[Cueball]]. Had the character worn a [[Black Hat]] though...
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...ey them or to allow Black Hat's drones to annoy other people without Black Hat having to control them. He also wants a shock collar for his {{w|Roomba}},
This might be playing with the concept of machine learning. Knowing Black Hat, he might be poking fun at people's assumptions that modern robots are more
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In this comic [[Black Hat]] is a {{w|supervillain}}, befitting his {{w|Black hat|character}}. He plans to use {{w|Unmanned aerial vehicle|drones}} and explo
...PST}}, while in summer PDT is at {{w|UTC−07:00|UTC-7}}). But after Black Hat's actions California is at risk of floating West into the next time zone at
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A mirror was previously broken by [[Black Hat]] in [[1136: Broken Mirror]]. However, as of October 2017, there were still
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...about, using his feelings for his case instead of logic and science, White Hat's argument is both fallacious and hypocritical.
...as Cueball's question could be seen as a veiled insult highlighting White Hat's hypocrisy.)
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White Hat is discussing tips for maintaining {{w|Cast-iron cookware}}. Cast-iron cook
[[White Hat]] tells the old myth (debunking articles: [https://lifehacker.com/go-ahead-
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...rther and are blacklisted from major databases. Regardless, it makes White Hat and Hairy wonder why, enough that they decide to post about it on their {{w
:[White Hat and Hairy are standing in front of some buildings. White Hat points to the sky while holding his smartphone in the other hand, while Hai
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:[Cueball is talking to a guy wearing a Santa hat.]
:Santa Hat: I love Christmas!
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In the third panel, [[Black Hat]] describes an avatar of misfortune in the form of a horse appearing on a h
...the direction Clayton takes for the rest of the film, similar to how Black Hat says "[the horses] mean the dream is about to turn bad."
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...child could appear to a human as an obvious fake but fool an AI. A [[Black Hat|creative attacker]] could put up a sign with CAPTCHA-like text that would b
...y tries to fool human drivers as they might try to fool an AI, but [[White Hat]] and [[Megan]] point out that most {{w|Road traffic safety|road safety sys
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...using "cloud" solutions. In [[908: The Cloud]], it turns out that [[Black Hat]] is the "other people" whose computer ''is'' the Cloud.
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...wkward silence where neither knows what to talk about next. Finally, White Hat makes note of the awkwardness and Cueball suggests they stop before it gets
...daily interactions, but also differs greatly from anything "normal." White Hat & Cueball are being really weird here, specifically because their dialogue
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...nd exploited by "{{w|black hat}}" hackers (not to be confused with [[Black Hat]]). At any time, these defenders could step down from their jobs, leaving d
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...romptly advise him to learn about that one soon. The title text has White Hat asking another series of tax-related questions that adults are expected to
The joke is that White Hat has mistakenly associated taxes with the economy and personal data as "grow
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...opinion into any conversation. When he tells [[White Hat]] about it, White Hat's comment, either sarcastic or very naive, interprets this as a benefit as
...ke {{w|4Chan}} or possibly {{w|Discord_(software)|Discord}}. Whether White Hat is again sarcastic or just even more naive, Cueball immediately jumps to th
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...g]] from 2007, where Astley himself was Rickrolled by [[Black Hat]]. Black Hat then later uses Astley to show his girlfriend [[Danish]] how Rick rolls in
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...ting-system-level virtualization}} also known as containerization. [[White Hat]] notices that many people are using Docker for "everything," implying that
White Hat's initial confusion comes from the fact that Cueball did not write any soft
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...r}} just turned 40. Surprisingly, at first, this doesn't really make White Hat feel old, he actually feels this is rather normal (compared to his own age)
So at first it seems that Randall's attempt to make White Hat feel old has failed miserably. However in the caption Randall explains that
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...et Black Hat is happy while Cueball is not. Cueball is upset because Black Hat is purposely misusing the term "ironic", likely after Cueball had previousl
...one who doesn't would be happy is ''not'' an example of irony. Since Black Hat is trying to irritate Cueball, he is intentionally misusing the word "ironi
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...their teenagers were widely into Pokémon. The punchline comes when White Hat mentions that his oil paintings are just paintings of Pokémon characters,
:[White Hat and Cueball are standing together and looking at eleven framed pictures on
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...tegory:How to annoy|How to annoy]] people. Here [[Cueball]] annoys [[White Hat]], a graph theory Ph.D., by calling him an edgelord.
...as an insult by socially aware adults, Cueball is actually provoking White Hat, making ''Cueball'' an edgelord in this interaction. Similar situational h
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...me so disgusting that she now causes other people to feel nausea. As White Hat states, the proper phrasing is that the "the food was nauseous", and it "ma
:[Ponytail and White Hat standing next to each other talking. White Hat has raised his hand while Cueball stands behind him.]
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:[Cueball and White Hat are walking to the right. Cueball has his hands up in an explaining positi
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In the first panel [[Cueball]] shows [[Ponytail]] and [[White Hat]] a Data Pipeline he has constructed that, as he puts it, <nowiki>'collects
In the title text, Ponytail or White Hat proceeds to question how such an important system can run on such a small c
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...mples of how easy it is to use. Cueball is excited about this, until White Hat reveals that he was lying and that Bluetooth is still as hard to use as eve
:[Cueball and White Hat are talking, Cueball is holding a cell phone and wireless headphones.]
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[[White Hat]] suggest to [[Cueball]] that they see a horror movie, and Cueball appears
:[White Hat and Cueball are standing together and talking. White Hat points at Cueball who has raised his arms.]
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The time traveler from 1896, wearing a {{w|top hat}} (the typical hat used at that time), presents [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] a method how the lat
:[A man in a top hat appears on the right side of the panel with a "Poof"]
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In this comic, Black Hat announces that the kilogram has been redefined as equal to one {{w|Pound (m
...joke recreates the comic in the real world, with Randall playing as Black Hat, and the reader responding. Those who fall for the claim will either be exc
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...m)|Titanic}}'' where Jack sacrifices his life in order to save Rose. White Hat does not seem to share Cueball's point of view on successful storytelling a
:[White Hat and Cueball are walking, with Cueball holding his arms out in front of him.
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| titletext = But he has a hat AND a toolbox! Where could someone planning a heist get THOSE?
...calm himself down. He points out to himself that the repairman has both a hat (possibly with a company logo) and a toolbox full of tools, then sarcastica
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[[Cueball]] uses [[White Hat|White Hat's]] mistrust of the Mercator projection to convince him of ridiculous facts
...or Randall) tries to spread misinformation, for instance it also has White Hat as the target in [[1677: Contrails]], but it can also be other people that
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:[Cueball with his arms out is talking with White Hat and Megan. In Cueball's long last remark the letters get smaller from line
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:[White Hat and Cueball are talking to each other. White Hat has a cellphone in his hand, while Cueball is raising his hands in the air
:White Hat: I just read that the Earth's North magnetic pole is drifting rapidly.
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...the {{w|Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party}}). Here [[Black Hat]] is trying to get elected to some sort of federal office in the {{w|2020 U
...ugh crowbar, while Ponytail is referring to a political weakness for Black Hat’s campaign in the Midwest due to the likely-unpopular proposal (different
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Cueball is expounding a theory to White Hat regarding the alternate timeline seen in the movie ''{{w|Back to the Future
...has all merely been Cueball's elaborate setup for a bad pun, causing White Hat to voice his disapproval.
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...heir elders. This could be considered a {{w|Straw man}} argument, as White Hat is lamenting that the younger generation look at the world through their ca
:[White Hat is watching while Jill and Cueball in the background hold their smartphones
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[[White Hat]] is mad at physicists in general and directs his fury at [[Megan]], a phys
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:[The comic depicts Cueball reading from a list to White Hat, standing next to a case filled with collectables including an urn, a model
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* '''Face with cowboy hat'''
* Face with party horn and party hat
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...picted as (ultimately) running on a single desktop-sized server in [[Black Hat]]'s house, by making heavy use of caching.
...r them. Alternatively, perhaps this option is how the aforementioned Black Hat is able to run the cloud on his desktop server.
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...something new to say, and "hi" was the best he could come up with. [[White Hat]] presumably kept listening, although normal people would stop Cueball well
...g to this endless stream of qualifiers, although it actually fits in White Hat's unusual mentality.
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...ws the impact the miniseries had on language, at least at this time. White Hat asks Ponytail for an explanation of how the meltdown occurred, but his unde
...before the disaster, but White Hat interrupts again. Realizing that White Hat does not understand what a reactor is, even though the ''reactor'' is the e
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In this strip, [[White Hat]] expresses a sentiment of prejudice against millennials, claiming they are
...llennials ''are'' the college kids, to which Cueball says that maybe White Hat is the one not growing up and accepting that millennials are, in fact, adul
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...with drones under each foot while Megan, holding a ladder, and White/Black Hat are looking up at him. To the right of the book is a drawing of Ponytail po
...with drones under each foot while Megan, holding a ladder, and White/Black Hat are looking up at him. The partly open book still has this cover partly vis
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Here, [[Cueball]] is telling [[White Hat]] how he trained a neural net to sort photos into categories. The joke in t
...is hand, while he talks to Cueball, who lifts a hand palm up towards White Hat.]
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[[White Hat]] says that his first news memory was about the 2016 election (presumably t
The final memory comes from [[Black Hat]], who says he remembers "when we landed on the moon". This implies that he
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:[Ponytail, wearing a lab coat, and a guy wearing a scrubs hat rush in from the right side of the panel. Ponytail is holding a water bottl
:Hat guy: Hurry, they're right behind us!
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...white drawings, are seen Ponytail with a ladder and either Black or White Hat (hard to say on black background). Both are looking up on Cueball who is fl
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..."e scooter" or "E Scooter" for the comic's title. But in the comic [[White Hat]] does say e-scooter, which is also the way the Wikipedia article on {{w|e-
...t them. However, instead of just waiting to hear Cueball's response, White Hat then goes on to list four opinions he has heard other people say about e-sc
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...Mario Bros. side-scrolling game, the first level World 1-1. Mario with red hat and trousers is standing on the brown blocks beneath the blue sky. Another
...gray and above them is black background. The character Toad with the white hat with red circles is standing in front of a bakery disc with shelves of brea
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...in white drawings, are seen Megan with a ladder and either Black or White Hat (hard to say on black background). Both are looking up on Cueball who is fl
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...the book cover, in white drawings, are seen Megan with a ladder and White Hat. Both are looking up on Cueball who is floating in the air with a quadcopte
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...rovide (e.g., the entire Atlantic Ocean). The items appear to follow Black Hat's stream of consciousness, starting with a boat, then a plane, then a disti
...text reveals that the game show has ultimately acquiesced to one of Black Hat's wishes in a way: the dog leash mentioned would allow him to water-ski hom
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...''Decent'' form (i.e. a normal person). The first on the scale is [[Black Hat]], who thinks moving things is for suckers, thus representing minimal athle
...ht, and general level of athleticism, as measured on a scale from "[[Black Hat]]" to "championship athlete" (a swimmer is pictured). The custom thrower is
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[[Black Hat]] is attending what appears to be a guided tour of a museum with a {{w|Fouc
...londie]] reveals to us that by arresting the motion of the pendulum, Black Hat has somehow stopped the rotation of the Earth. However, it was only briefly
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...h resolution version]) equations and diagrams on a {{w|chalkboard}}. White Hat is neither a physicist nor a {{w|mathematician}}, and seems to glorify thos
:[White Hat is watching Cueball from a couple of meters away. Cueball is contemplating
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...he projectile and the impact with sounds noted at either end. Behind White Hat is a sign.]
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[[White Hat]] thinks this law is a good thing, but then [[Cueball]] claims that his sta
...s only been the setup for his grand joke: Cueball tells Ponytail and White Hat that this process of recursive name usage is known as "currying". In additi
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[[White Hat]] introduces his dad to [[Cueball]], who then expresses a reaction more typ
...pressed and lose height. So apart from saying that he remembers when White Hat's father was ''thiiiis tall'', he also holds his hand an inch (2–3&nb
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...In this comic, [[Cueball]] (together with [[Hairy]], [[Ponytail]], [[White Hat]], [[Megan]], and [[Blondie]]) is misunderstanding cause and effect as he p
:[Hairy, Ponytail, Cueball, White Hat, Megan, and Blondie are standing in a line. Cueball is raising his left han
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...t book, and replace the pages of the book with Randall's book (which Black Hat is shown doing). As the recipient, Cueball, remarks, this is similar to {{w
...curely delivered" without being intercepted by third parties such as Black Hat.
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...of being Rey's father. When Maz gave Rey Luke's lightsaber, she said "[t]hat lightsaber was Luke's, and his father's before him, and now, it calls to yo
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:[Cueball, with his hands raised, is talking to Megan and White Hat.]
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The comic opens with [[Megan]], [[Cueball]], [[White Hat]], and [[Ponytail]] celebrating the new year. Ponytail expresses relief th
White Hat, however, raises a pedantic objection to Ponytail's celebration: he believe
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...s. The final panel suggests that he's teamed up with [[Megan]] and [[White Hat]] to do exactly that, selecting stocks based on absurd reasons, while the o
...camera is pointed at him. Megan and White Hat are viewing him, and White Hat is holding a tablet.]
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...host is now with Hairbun, Ponytail, Cueball, a Megan-like woman, and White Hat. The host is pointing upwards with her left hand.]
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...about it. [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are presenting these things to [[White Hat]], evidently hoping to encourage him to do something about things, but he i
...up of people who will predictably act like White Hat, the fact that White Hat has refused to act itself means that ''will'' become bad, which is bad.
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...ought a bottle of {{w|hand sanitizer}} for the price of one bitcoin. White Hat probably assumes that bitcoin is a widely accepted currency worth a few dol
...erefore, buying a hand sanitizer for one bitcoin is not as normal as White Hat assumes.
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...78: Scientific Briefing]], [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] were briefing [[White Hat]] on things that were getting bad, hoping to convince him to do something a
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...into peril in [[356: Nerd Sniping]], although in that comic strip, [[Black Hat]] was specifically designing his signs with the intent to cause harm.
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...he was replacing the Statue of Liberty with a bronze pangolin in a chef's hat.
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...have COVID-19 but incorrectly attributes this result to wearing a tinfoil hat.
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...comic: 100 Pa x 10^-31 m^2 x 10^-18 m = 10^-47 joules = 10^-40 erg. White Hat dubs this unit "one podcast".
...e of its dimensions lack the Planck yeast that would make them rise. White Hat appears to have managed to have caught onto these puns, much to his (extrem
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...being an observation on mathematics, biology, and human expectation. White Hat starts by sharing various facts about hair with Ponytail; hair count, indiv
We never see what sort of hairstyle White Hat has under his hat, but Ponytail's hair is fairly long. If she had to grow it out by one hair
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...ould be likely to change the world as we know it. However, Megan and Black Hat's machine requires the use of "low-background" metal, which is in short sup
...e only enough for a single trip. The team realizes (apparently at [[Black Hat]]'s suggestion), that a solution is to use their single trip to take modern
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...d presumably using five-words-long technical jargon. In the comic, [[White Hat]] uses a phrases with five such words while talking to Randall (as [[Cuebal
...ord technical phrases (or jargon) as a caption below the panel, with White Hat's phrase as the last, possibly the newest. Maybe it was the one that caused
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...ity to the riddle. [[White Hat]] brings extra wolves and cabbages. [[Black Hat]], in his traditional [[72:_Classhole|classhole]] style, brings {{w|cabbage
...ping the trolley full of wolves with a cushion of cabbages (in which Black Hat's cabbage moths have laid eggs, which he implicitly argues are morally equi
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...its before}}). However, at this point, the other three panelists - [[White Hat]], [[Megan]] and [[Hairy]] - have been swayed by Cueball's unconventional a
:[Blondie, White Hat, Megan and Hairy sit behind a long table. Blondie leans both her arms on th
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In this comic [[Black Hat]] is giving what appears to be a press conference, in which he's offering a
In true Black Hat fashion, he has apparently built laser turrets that automatically shoot at
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The comic strip opens with [[Black Hat]] explaining to [[Cueball]] (who is presumed to be some government official
...were not expecting to "participate" in a hurricane hunting mission. Black Hat replies that, instead of being upset, the passengers should be proud of the
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...the infamous "{{w|Dewey Defeats Truman}}" newspaper headline, and so White Hat is here extolling the virtues of interviewing [https://www.logicallyfallaci
...suggest "candidate X" is more favored, the people on the street that White Hat interviews are more supportive of "candidate Y". He implies that his experi
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...a around the right corner and going off of the cover, in an L-shape. Black Hat stands on it, taking notes on a journal. Twenty-three red spiders lie on th
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...want to, but that he also hasn't come up with an excuse not to yet. White Hat seems as if he couldn't be bothered, and wants to go on with his life.
...roblems|Appeal to Worse Problems}}. In the last panel of this comic, White Hat reveals that he isn't sufficiently devoted to either cause to act on them,
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...Trump had a real chance at winning: if you could put election results in a hat and draw them at random, he would win two out of every seven tries. For ano
:[White Hat and Cueball standing next to each other. Cueball has his palm out.]
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...nerally have malicious intent, but is also not driven by altruism. [[White Hat|Such a character]] tends to define their morality primarily in terms of wha
...ter who enjoys destroying things for the sake of destruction, like [[Black Hat]] or [[Danish]].
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...[[Cueball]] is digging at a site with [[Megan]], [[Ponytail]], and [[White Hat]] visible in the background. He finds and digs up a trilobite fossil and pr
...two halves of a rock in a paleontological site. Megan, Ponytail, and White Hat are working in the background.]
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:[Cueball is sitting behind a desk, pointing at a laptop. White Hat is standing behind him. Crumpled-up papers are strewn across the ground. ]
:White Hat: You should add a tracker for how often you breathe so you don't forget.
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...t. However, when Hairy proves to have no idea about public records, White Hat decides that it will be easier (or at least more fun) to just play along wi
Even though White Hat is correct that there are public databases with lists of legal names and ad
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...a handful of vaccines available. In [[2278: Scientific Briefing]], [[White Hat]] remarked that many scientific briefings use similar or identical charts,
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...he three other people. Two of the other attendees, [[Hairbun]] and [[White Hat]] appear to be anxiously shying away from the inexorably increasing proximi
...ward the other wall with her hands held up to her neck. Then follows White Hat, also with his arms raised towards his neck, he is looking at Megan's wall.
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...between [[White Hat]] and [[Cueball]] as they are walking together. White Hat asks Cueball if he has seen a video of a crow sledding on a roof — pr
...ed into a crab shortly after hearing about carcinization, so perhaps White Hat will likewise be transformed momentarily.
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...ill be literally transported back in time, as she and Cueball (and [[Black Hat]]) were in [[2321: Low-Background Metal]]. The apparent {{w|truthiness}} o
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...panel, Cueball is telling White Hat about his gardening experiences. White Hat tunes out for the middle two panels, and when he starts paying attention ag
...he bottom of the rocket, which is the detail Cueball is sharing when White Hat tunes back in. In {{w|Ad Astra (film)|''Ad Astra''}}, Roy McBride uses a si
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...angerous Death Stars). Hence, when the vaccinated Cueball approaches White Hat, who is maskless, coughing, and presumably sick with COVID-19, Cueball's im
:[Dodonna, Ponytail, and White Hat in frame.]
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:[Caption below the panel]: Hat for post-pandemic socializing
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...aying it is already March. (This comic was posted on March 1, 2021.) Black Hat overhears him and says that it's actually February 29.
...sons over the course of years, needlessly complicating time-keeping. Black Hat is unconcerned with the effect this will have on the "people of the future"
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[[White Hat]] follows up asking whether he can get a horse, and whether it would help f
:[White Hat is in a rectangular box at the bottom of the panel. Megan is replying from
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...ination causes one's inability to raise one's arm high enough to tug one's hat upward.
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...tands in front of a presentation of data with a silhouette of a man with a hat labelled with a white question mark. Above this are three guesses of the "r
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...ession of sympathy for someone who is sick or injured. In this case, White Hat hopes that Cueball will be able to stop talking about masks soon, which in
In the title text, Randall implicitly endorses White Hat's hope, while suggesting that [[2457|the new norm of wearing a mask when yo
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[[Black Hat]] is demonstrating an air-conditioning unit that covers a wide variety of a
Black Hat saying 'A Normal Amount' may be suggesting a 'normal amount.' In chemistry,
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...me after they are fully vaccinated is drawn with a black solid line. Black Hat, Hairbun #2, Blondie, Cueball #2, and Megan have all received their first d
* White Hat receives his first dose;
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...iving humans so that it can spread.) This is not the first time that Black Hat has given advice to natural disasters that can kill humans, see [[1754: Tor
Possibly, with hindsight, this actually suggests that Black Hat's caution (and perhaps subsequent advice) has been taken on board by the re
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:[Ponytail, White Hat, Megan, and Cueball are playing a board game. There are drinks on the table
:White Hat: ''I hate this''.
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...ll with one hand, while Cueball holds his camera in one hand towards White Hat, with the picture shown on the screen, too small to see though.]
:White Hat: What's that fuzzy blob next to your house? It's huge!
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...lled trial to determine results. When [[Cueball]] points this out, [[White Hat]] reacts as though this process is unreasonably complicated, which clearly
Cueball responds to this by asking if White Hat had given the drink to people to see if they got sick less often. While thi
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:[A flying saucer is flying high above Ponytail who is walking towards White Hat, Cueball and Megan. Those three are looking up at the spacecraft. The human
:White Hat: Lead? Isn't that stuff toxic?
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...ture's technology with White Hat, this time in 1991 instead of 2010. White Hat is awed by the advances in technology, but is not expecting that the law co
...en that "a [US] federal law" has been passed to combat such attacks, White Hat may be envisioning a future where US citizens have access to laser guns, an
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...is meeting [[White Hat]], who is probably not in the same household. White Hat asks how Cueball is, which is normal small talk, but Cueball responds by ex
:[White Hat and Cueball are having a conversation.]
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[[Black Hat]] has acquired an {{w|H-alpha}} filter. This is a special kind of optical f
Black Hat points out that the filter can also be used to look at {{w|nebula}}e, but d
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...ll are sitting around a table that is covered with board game boxes. White Hat is pointing at Ponytail. Both Ponytail and Cueball are holding boxes.]
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...dentified difficulty upon his friends: [[Ponytail]], [[Megan]] and [[White Hat]]. Of course, this could also just be a joke made by Cueball, as it is the
:[Ponytail, Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are standing. Cueball is talking, with arms outstretched, palms up, while t
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[[White Hat]] has presumably just asked [[Cueball]] to perform some task involving {{w|
...e Hat's face. Cueball holds his arm out with his palm facing towards White Hat.]
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[[Cueball]] tells [[White Hat]] how he has trained a {{w|artificial neural network|neural net}} to genera
...ball is sitting on an office chair at his desk typing on his laptop. White Hat is standing behind the desk looking at Cueball.]
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...their prior beliefs. However, subverting expectations, it seems that White Hat genuinely had researched the subject deeply, consulting a large number of p
...but simply responds that there's been "some effort", which satisfies White Hat.
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In this strip, [[Megan]] and [[White Hat]] are listening to [[Cueball]] explain his newfound interest in the various
Megan expresses curiosity as well, and White Hat suggests he could get a {{w|DNA sequencer}} to help. By the third and final
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[[Cueball]] is asking [[Ponytail]] and [[White Hat]] to classify different ''{{w|Star Wars}}'' books and movies as fiction or
In the end, White Hat suggests that, since Cueball has so many works featuring Boba Fett, it woul
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...aybe Cueball has picked up the [[156: Commented|"Commented" trick]], White Hat is thrown off by the unusual statement, or it could be that he just naively
...it 'keep working' -- presumably, if Megan speaks up, she might alert White Hat that Cueball is still listening and draw him back into conversation.
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[[Cueball]], by way of questioning, points out to [[White Hat]] that this makes no sense. Contracting the natural disease is the thing pe
...ing that getting infected is the best way to avoid getting infected, White Hat thus realizes the {{w|Circular reasoning|circular logic}} presented by {{w|
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...mention that something is radioactive. So, when Cueball tells Megan, White Hat, and Ponytail that the toy contains radioactive material, they're shocked a
...s three friends. Megan has her arms lifted and bent in front of her, White Hat has his arms raised over his head and Ponytail is pointing at Cueball while
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...future in their personal calendars and, combined with the fact that Black Hat remembers this date without checking (but also without specifying what he'l
:[Cueball, a friend also drawn as Cueball, Danish, and Black Hat are standing together. Danish is looking at her phone.]
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...to some kind of show (a movie or concert, perhaps), and Cueball asks White Hat if he is ready to go, who affirms this but asks for Cueball to email him th
...apparently opts to send them to White Hat's work email address. When White Hat is not at work, he has an {{w|autoresponder}} activated that tells people t
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[[Black Hat]] congratulates [[Cueball]] on his recovery from some type of illness or in
...able amount of exercise, and should not spend excessive time in bed, Black Hat goes to an absurd extreme. He tells Cueball to stop drinking water entirel
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[[White Hat]], [[Megan]], [[Cueball]] and [[Ponytail]] are planning a party. Megan ment
:[White Hat, Megan, Cueball, and Ponytail stand in a row, with White Hat and Megan facing toward the right and Cueball and Ponytail facing toward th
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...o be explaining a gardening-related board game to [[Ponytail]] and [[White Hat]]. As he describes the game mechanics he states that many things have been
...to each side. He has a small object in his right hand. Ponytail and White Hat are sitting on either side of the table. They have a board game between the
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...ll]] has apparently made one such error and is being called out by [[White Hat]] for it. Upon having this pointed out to him, Cueball says that we must ''
:[White Hat and Cueball are talking to each other. White Hat has his arms spread outwards in exasperation, while Cueball gestures assert
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:[Ponytail rides by White Hat on a unicycle.]
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...he key link) - for example, [[Cueball|this Cueball's]] relation to [[White Hat]] is via a great-grandparent, whilst that with [[Hairbun]] is through a gre
...the seat, and a potted plant on a cabinet are "standing" in a line. White Hat is holding a glass and Hairy has his hands to the side in a "shrug" positio
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:[A wizard with with a pointed hat, long hair and a large beard is sitting on a chair at the left side of a ta
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...ssing them as a "dizzying swarm" which few would call "cute"(showing White Hat's signature peculiarity as no one will call a melange of cubes cute).
:[White Hat holding a paintbrush in his left arm standing next to an easel. An abstract
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...y is typically measured in relation to a desired outcome or purpose; Black Hat seems to imply that the obvious purpose for icebergs is to be seen above th
Black Hat's idea is characteristically absurd. Icebergs are naturally formed structur
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...whether these 'facts' were entirely due to false records or, knowing Black Hat's [[498: Secretary: Part 5|other]] [[1094: Interview|interviews]], briefly
...have been falsified. This is essentially a more elaborate version of Black Hat's ploy in another interview [[125: Marketing Interview|17 years prior]].
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...olding his hands up and is staring down at his open palms. Megan and White hat is looking at him.]
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...ones such as {{w|Vantablack}} and {{w|triiodide}}. Here Ponytail and White Hat have given Cueball (a materials scientist) some sort of present. Cueball is
:[Ponytail and White Hat are standing on the left side of a small table looking at Cueball. He stand
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:[Cueball is talking to White Hat, who has his hands balled into fists and has small lines above his head to
:White Hat: '''''No!'''''
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...for a few days after the solstice, despite the days getting shorter. White Hat, a layman not aware of this correction, assumed that the latest sunset woul
...erihelion or aphelion). This "fix" would avoid confusing people like White Hat.
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| Hat || A hat, being a non-living item of clothing, is very quiet. They also come in a ra
...drop, Mouse, Ant, Bun (rabbit or pastry), Snow globe, Newt, Balloon, Book, Hat
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:[Ponytail, Cueball and Hairy are standing in a room, each wearing a party hat. Ponytail is to the left of Cueball and Hairy. Cueball is in the middle, ho
:[Cueball is now alone, sitting at a laptop. He has taken his party hat off and put it onto a book on his desk.]
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[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
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...[[Ponytail]] can be seen having a conversation about relationships. White Hat expresses the opinion that "relationships aren't easy". The others accept t
In the subsequent frames, however, White Hat continues to push the matter, describing relationships in increasingly unpl
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:[Cueball, White Hat and Megan walking]
:[Cueball, White Hat and Megan sitting around the tree]
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...ople look up at him from the bottom left corner, a man with a wide-brimmed hat and a black haired woman with a scarf over her hair, which is hanging down
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In this strip, [[Black Hat]] is a supervillain subjecting '{{w|James Bond}}' (drawn as [[Hairy]]) to a
...while Black Hat to the left is operating a lever. Bond is yelling at Black Hat, indicated by lines emanating from his head. Hairbun is also yelling, but t
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:[White Hat is yelling angrily.]
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...resentation to a bunch of members sitting around a table, that being White Hat, Blondie, another Cueball, Megan and Hairbun, in the order left to right. I
...nd pointing to it with a stick. In front of him is a long table with White Hat, Blondie, another Cueball and Megan sitting on the long side of the table (
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[[Cueball]] is explaining a recipe to [[White Hat]], describing it as {{w|Fusion cuisine}}, typically used to describe a styl
:[White Hat stands behind Cueball, who is cooking on a stove seen from the side. Cuebal
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:[Ponytail enters the panel from the left, and White Hat enters from the right, to come to Cueball’s rescue.]
:White Hat: No! That's because of how you're coiling it!
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...comic draw attention to this, such as how on Earth Ponytail says to White Hat, "I checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it says just me", and he replie
* Ponytail and White Hat making a reference to [https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com downforeveryoneo
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...are annoyed by his undermining of the basic concept of the game, and White Hat offers to switch to playing another game called {{w|Taboo (game)|Taboo}}. T
:[Cueball, Megan, Ponytail, and White Hat sit around a table.]
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Cueball and White Hat talking.
Cueball and White Hat talking.
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...National Institute of Standards and Technology}} (NIST) will capture Black Hat to stop him from using the US survey foot. One joke here is that his coordi
...ake this joke work implies a rather imaginative situation: that both Black Hat and the searchers have set their devices to measure and report location in
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...amp information on the posts, one author (the penultimate, using a [[White Hat]] image) makes the observation that the problem has now been ongoing for fi
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...howing another of his ''[[72: Classhole|classhole]]'' tendencies, as Black Hat is quite often depicted as deliberately inconsiderate and rarely prone to a
...y cell?" he is asking whether Cueball is ''able'' to place a call on Black Hat's cell phone. This would be a variation of a particularly pedantic authorit
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...3 days surrounding the clock change) over the pros and cons of it. [[Black Hat]] is suggesting that everyone should observe or ignore daylight saving time
There are known incidents in which an actual application of Black Hat's proposal
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::"Black Hat picks up and opens the box. A little glowy ball comes out of it."[https://x
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...of the Loch Ness Monster}}) and even more so by people simply lying. White Hat comes around to Cueball's position and says that even the written word is p
:[White Hat and Cueball are walking to the right.]
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[[Ponytail]], [[White Hat]], [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are at a party. The first three are wearing no
...shape of the number 2023. Ponytail holds a glass up in one hand and White Hat a plate with snacks in one hand and a single snack in the other. Megan has
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[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
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===Black Hat===
...people sitting at a desk. One is Black Hat. The other is an analyst. Black Hat has a number of terminals attached to his head.]
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...lled up paper under one arm and, to the right of her, a man with a similar hat as Megan. They are all looking at Cueball.]
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...less, many series ''do'' get further seasons and greatly improve. [[White Hat]] (the optimist, and clearly won over by the production) is on the way to s
:[Two situations are depicted between White Hat and Cueball.]
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...thical and possibly illegal manner which is very much congruent with Black Hat's character of being a '[[classhole]]'.
...more chances to gain their riches. Indeed, there is nothing to stop Black Hat from simply digging the chests back up once the videos have been filmed, so
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...titles of their future albums, thereby letting Cueball, Hairbun, and White Hat write clues about those albums and use those letter sequences as answers.
...her sequence of awkward letters, "eHit". Here, Cueball, Hairbun, and White Hat ask these singers to refer their hits (popular songs) as "eHit"s, adding th
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...ball serves no purpose in this case. Ponytail holds the rope while [[White Hat]] holds the ball from which the pole goes up.
...supported only by its attachment at the other end to the ball, which White Hat looks at as he holds it in both hands to angle it steeply up in Ponytail's
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...Tower was never the tallest. Cueball then realizes he just one-upped White Hat with what ''he'' knows about tall structures in general, which might make h
...s that he is trying to claim not to know. Alternately, this could be White Hat responding to something else Cueball said, as an annoyed way to either get
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**Helplines [[278: Black Hat Support]], [[806: Tech Support]]
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...ng to defend Gen Z with the excuse "that's just how they do things." Black Hat is expressing a notion that sounds a lot like [https://www.youtube.com/wat
:Speaker 1 (white brim hat): Now, it may sound strange, but it's how Gen Z is doing things!
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:[Ponytail, Cueball, White Hat, and Megan standing in a line. Cueball has his hand raised, and Megan has h
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...the scientific community is either complicit or indifferent. Hence, White Hat accuses "you scientists" of refusing to even seriously consider evidence of
:[White Hat, with his finger raised, is talking to Cueball.]
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White Hat, meanwhile, is referencing the fact that the universe has {{w|Scale factor
...she is talking to Cueball to the left of her. To the right of Megan White Hat is holding both arms out and down while he is talking to Ponytail to the ri
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:[Cueball and White Hat]
:White Hat: I bet the voyager spacecraft could teach you a thing or two about speed. O
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[[Black Hat]] has previously severed a space elevator tether using a pair of scissors i
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In this comic [[Black Hat]] has found a lamp with a {{w|Genie (Disney)|magical genie}} inside. This g
...is very little 'good' idea for him to twist into a bad one, and that Black Hat will be peculiarly unreceptive to being 'taught a moral lesson'. Especially
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In this comic, [[White Hat]] is using the {{w|Argument to moderation|middle ground fallacy}} to try to
...ons of the way things are, but the latter is much closer to reality. White Hat, however, considers it {{wiktionary|politic#Adjective|politic}} to 'split t
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