2169

implying population surveillance on a previously-unimaginable scale isn't the only reason the government allowed Facebook and Google to get this big in the first place

2168

Would it be worse if Randall actually does this, or if he just imagines it?

2167

Is this the smuggest xkcd since the legendary 1357?

2166

is this a cake

2164
Actually the glacier is retreating


2165

lol Randall still thinks "millennial" signifies someone born between roughly 1985 and 1995. The truth is that anyone under thirty is a millennial and anyone over thirty is a boomer.

2163

Man, this one has everything:

• drawings of two people talking about a cool event instead of the event
• Randall's weird fetish for being sneered at by educated women
• inspired by whatever is on HBO this week
• "we" commies

2162

Achewood used to have comics full of character banter all the time. It works because Achewood had 1) art and 2) an incredibly rich cast of characters built up over many years by tremendous effort on the part of Chris Onstad. Here it falls completely flat. We have a vaguely womanish-looking stick figure barging in talking like the killer robot from a BioWare game*, and then a bunch of what Randall thinks dazzlingly witty repartee sounds like. But because we don't have any idea who these people are or how they think about things-- are they the same stick figures we have seen before? if so, which ones?-- we can't tell what the joke is supposed to be. Does Megan believe these ridiculous things? Is the other guy stupid for not believing them? Or are we just supposed to be impressed that Randall knows who E.B. White is?


*As written, the comic says that her opinion is that she firmly believes these authors to be the same person. My opinion is that Randall thinks proofreading is something you do to liquor bottles.

2161

Here's a comic from ten years ago explaining why this is stupid.

2160

The saddest thing here isn't the joke, it's that Randall really is a fan of documentaries.

2159

These are really the same as those vox-pop man-on-the-street soundbites that in almost every local news story since the beginning of TV. The only difference is that these upset other journalists ("journalists").

And anyway, what's more pitiful: getting your news from lists of random Twitter posts, or expecting others to get their news from your low-effort drawings?

2157

Lord have mercy

2158

The necessary counterpart for 2146. Randall's own opinions don't risk causing offensive or even controversy-- they risk not existing at all.