Saturday, January 29, 2022

Thursday, January 27, 2022

 2573


You'll have to pardon Randall for drawing the world's laziest UFOs today, the aliens from Monday left his hands really tired.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

2570 


It's funny because these are all adjectives that normally wouldn't apply to tea, and Captain Picard seems like such a serious guy

Thursday, January 13, 2022

2567 

Give up Randall, that frizzy-haired linguist chick is not going to date you

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

 2566


Today's college students don't read XKCD. The target audience, as this comic demonstrates, is the people who were taking calculus in college in 2007, for whom XKCD remains a mnemonic callback to the last time they were able to believe that their above-average intellects would lead to the fulfillment of their material dreams. Reading it conjures up again the sense of having potential.

Sunday, January 9, 2022

 2565


Every succeeding comic increases my hope that Roko's basilisk is real

Thursday, January 6, 2022

 2564


"OK UNIVERSE-- SMILE!" may be the most Reddit sentence ever imagined

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

 2563

Gosh, if even an intelligent thinker like Randall has been rendered a quivering neurotic by two entire years of this, imagine what it must be doing to people whose natural tendencies were already pointing in that direction

Sunday, January 2, 2022

 2559

The joke is that unlike the JWST Santa Claus actually exists.


2560

This is a common psychological defense mechanism among rationalists, where they acknowledge the fundamental incoherence of their worldview but believe that by hanging a lampshade on it they render it unimportant. No one tell Randall about Godel's incompleteness theorem.


2561

Randall thinks it is very important for science to be accurately portrayed in movies.


2562

Randall used to make fun of the kind of people who learn Lojban.

  2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job