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T. Rex Evolution
Friday January 24th, 2025 at 11:17 AM

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Unfortunately, body size and bite force continue to increase.
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rickhensley
67 days ago
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Now put that on a plane.
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DougK
67 days ago
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Randall needs to make up his mind. https://xkcd.com/1211/
Work in D.C., live in NoVA
astw56
67 days ago
So the future of the T. Rex is... a giant feathered snake?
matthiasgoergens
64 days ago
T-Rex went extinct as did most other dinosaurs. But some (like the birds) survived. Seems perfectly consistent with today's comic.
gordol
67 days ago
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Snakes.
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llucax
67 days ago
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Science!
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alt_text_bot
67 days ago
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Unfortunately, body size and bite force continue to increase.

Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia
Wednesday October 16th, 2024 at 3:06 PM

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This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.
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rickhensley
167 days ago
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At least Orlando seems to be no more.
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mareino
166 days ago
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I've been to Darwin, Minnesota. It's like Darwin, Australia, but colder and with more twine.
Washington, District of Columbia
gordol
166 days ago
The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota. https://youtu.be/Yv_QUiDYTTg?si=oibcLxugRwhm9tiz
denubis
166 days ago
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This is so cursed and I do not like it.

UK Coal
Monday September 30th, 2024 at 4:48 PM

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The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.
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rickhensley
183 days ago
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Now do the math for how much they added in refuse.
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kyb
182 days ago
Well really, you add stuff by stealing it from other countries and bringing it back to yours. Of course, the UK did quite a lot of that during times of Empire...
rickhensley
182 days ago
I was thinking refuse = trash (aka landfills), but that tracks, too.
jlvanderzwan
182 days ago
That's the sign of a good sedimentation joke: it has layers
gordol
182 days ago
I refuse to measure the refuse.
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Spelling
Wednesday January 24th, 2024 at 9:00 AM

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Any time I misspell a word it's just because I have too much integrity to copy answers from the dictionary.
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433 days ago
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Now I want all of my Word documents to be filled with red squiggles.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness by Zach Weinersmith
Tuesday January 23rd, 2024 at 1:06 PM

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Click here to go see the bonus panel!

Hovertext:
Now, realize there is no Self. Only insane monkey who can't reach the breaks.


Today's News:
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rickhensley
434 days ago
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That got dark (and real) right there at the end.
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vhtc
433 days ago
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okay
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Label the States
Friday December 15th, 2023 at 12:05 PM

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Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
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rickhensley
473 days ago
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This is cruel; I’m giving copies to every kid I know.
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EspadaV8
472 days ago
For a non-American, what's cruel about it?
denismm
472 days ago
It looks reasonable at a glance but many nonexistent states have been inserted - see https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2868:_Label_the_States for more details.
EspadaV8
472 days ago
Ah, I never knew about that site. Thanks for the link.
denismm
472 days ago
it's super handy! :)
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gordol
473 days ago
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What's the little one completely surrounded by the great state of Orlando?
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denismm
473 days ago
That’s Lake Okeechobee.
gordol
472 days ago
@denismm, I think you missed the joke.
denismm
472 days ago
Oh sorry, I saw people genuinely confused elsewhere.
alt_text_bot
473 days ago
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Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
Lythimus
473 days ago
The 14 states you missed are: Franklin, Jefferson, Superior, Delmarva, Absaroka, Scott, Transylvania, Deseret, Cascadia, Lincoln, Atlantica, New Amsterdam, Sequoia, and Dixie.
rraszews
473 days ago
Transylvania, Cisylvania, and the Penn Republic.
silberbaer
472 days ago
My favorites are Kentuckessee and Middle Carolina. Not a fan of South Oregon, though.
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