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I don’t know about this one, I think Randall would be a good president. I support his policies.
D’oh! I always get those two mixed up… Too many "Space Shuttle C_____ Disaster"s…
Explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2950:_Situation
These are all infamous disasters now used as case studies for how NOT to do things
More details at the link
Finally, a use for my 1-bit bloom filter!
I mean in fairness to the first one, on most systems it is possible to turn wifi back on without turning off airplane mode (there is in-flight wifi after all)
Wikipedia hasn’t been updated, confirmed definitely not dead
Easier to just round up lol
Well @zuck (and @mosseri) are from Threads and, like @Mastodon, it makes sense a lot of people would first choose to follow the top leaders. I imagine the majority of those are actually legitimate users, though the Threads bubble also very quickly popped, so who knows how many are still active
Yeah my first thought on that was I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), but I decided to look up “1000 Miles” just to be safe and said “oh yeah”
And for the alt text:
And then you get a call from a Swedish Wikipedia editor and they say:
February 30 was a day that happened in Sweden, 1712.[4] This occurred because, instead of changing from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar by omitting a block of consecutive days, as had been done in other countries, the Swedish Empire planned to change gradually by omitting all leap days from 1700 to 1740, inclusive. Although the leap day was omitted in February 1700, the Great Northern War began later that year, diverting the attention of the Swedes from their calendar so that they did not omit leap days on the next two occasions; 1704 and 1708 remained leap years.[5]
To avoid confusion and further mistakes, the Julian calendar was restored in 1712 by adding an extra leap day, thus giving that year the only known actual use of February 30 in a calendar. That day corresponded to February 29 in the Julian calendar and to March 11 in the Gregorian calendar.[5][6] The Swedish conversion to the Gregorian calendar was finally accomplished in 1753, when February 17 was followed by March 1.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#Swedish_calendar
I did not include any //es with the https:, but I put just the one usual pair with the ttps:. Oh. Hmm. Yes, it appears I have indeed Brainfucked the link
(try now)
Brainfuck has entered the chat
There’s always a relevant xkcd:
(actually quite a few in this case…)
That’s been well-documented already
They always have fun with the “attribution” of that incomplete explanation tag for new comics 😄