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"content": "{'id': '1375', 'title': 'Astronaut Vandalism', 'transcript': 'Space 62Jackson 115Memphis 98 ', 'altTitle': \"That night, retired USAF pilots covertly replaced the '62' with '50'.\", 'publishDateYear': 2014, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 30, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1401388200, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/astronaut_vandalism.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '340', 'title': 'Fight', 'transcript': \"We had a fight last night.I guess she's still mad.I woke up to find she'd written a sappy love noteto my boot sector.Operating system not found \", 'altTitle': \"And she put sweet nothings in all my .conf files. It'll take me forever to get X working again.\", 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 11, 'publishDateDay': 9, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1194546600, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Romance', 'Linux', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fight.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1725', 'title': 'Linear Regression', 'transcript': \" R2=0.06 Rexthor, the Dog-Bearer I don't trust linear regressions when it's harder to guess the direction of the correlation from the scatter plot than to find new constellations on it. \", 'altTitle': \"The 95% confidence interval suggests Rexthor's dog could also be a cat, or possibly a teapot.\", 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 8, 'publishDateDay': 26, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1472149800, 'topics': ['Scatter plots', 'Math', 'Statistics', 'Astronomy', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Comics with red annotations', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/linear_regression.png'}"
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"content": "710"
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"content": "{'id': '710', 'title': 'Collatz Conjecture', 'transcript': \"The Collatz Conjecture states that if you pick a number, and if it's even divide it by two and if it's odd multiply it by three and add one, and you repeat this procedure long enough, eventually your friends will stop calling to see if you want to hang out. \", 'altTitle': 'The Strong Collatz Conjecture states that this holds for any set of obsessively-hand-applied rules.', 'publishDateYear': 2010, 'publishDateMonth': 3, 'publishDateDay': 5, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1267727400, 'topics': ['Math', 'Comics with xkcd store products', 'Number theory', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collatz_conjecture.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2559', 'title': 'December 25th Launch', 'transcript': 'T-minus 10...9...8... Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Oh no. ', 'altTitle': 'Update: Santa has been destroyed by the range safety officer.', 'publishDateYear': 2021, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 24, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1640284200, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Ponytail', 'Telescopes', 'Space probes', 'Rockets', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/december_25th_launch.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2109', 'title': 'Invisible Formatting', 'transcript': \"...ere, but would not have to mo... Select ...ere, but would not have to mo... Click ...Nah, the bold is too much. ...ere, but would not have to mo... ...ere, but would not have to mo... Select ...ere, but would not have to mo... Click ...ere, but would not have to mo... Hidden bold space When editing text, in the back of my mind I always worry that I'm adding invisible formatting that will somehow cause a problem in the distant future. \", 'altTitle': 'To avoid errors like this, we render all text and pipe it through OCR before processing, fixing a handful of irregular bugs by burying them beneath a smooth, uniform layer of bugs.', 'publishDateYear': 2019, 'publishDateMonth': 2, 'publishDateDay': 8, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1549564200, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/invisible_formatting.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '205', 'title': 'Candy Button Paper', 'transcript': 'When it came to eating strips of candy buttons, there were two main strategies. Some kids carefully removed each bead, checking closely for paper residue before eating.Others tore the candy off haphazardly, swallowing large scraps of paper as they ate.\\n\\nThen there were the lonely few of us who moved back and forth on the strip, eating rows of beads here and there, pretending we were Turing machines. ', 'altTitle': 'Nonrewritable tape?', 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 3, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1167762600, 'topics': ['Food', 'Computers', 'children', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/candy_button_paper.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1230', 'title': 'Polar/Cartesian', 'transcript': 'Certainty that this is a clockwise polar plot, not a Cartesian one, as a function of time: ', 'altTitle': \"Protip: Any two-axis graph can be re-labeled 'coordinates of the ants crawling across my screen as a function of time'.\", 'publishDateYear': 2013, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 26, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1372185000, 'topics': ['Math', 'Line graphs', 'Protip', 'Self-reference', 'Ants', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/polar_cartesian.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '655', 'title': 'Climbing', 'transcript': ' Your Facebook rock climbing pictures just got a lot less impressive. ', 'altTitle': 'Where did you even get this wall? Return it there and stand it back up right now.', 'publishDateYear': 2009, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 28, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1256668200, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Social networking', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/climbing.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1660', 'title': 'Captain Speaking', 'transcript': \"This is your captain speaking. Gonna be honest-I just woke up and have no idea where I am. Looks like a Boeing of some kind? Oh, hey, it says the flight number here. Okay, I'm gonna check FlightAware to figure out where we're going. Anyone know how to get on the wifi? \", 'altTitle': 'Oh dang, you have to pay? Hey, has anyone else paid already? If so, can I borrow your phone for a sec?', 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 3, 'publishDateDay': 25, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1458844200, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/captain_speaking.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '985', 'title': 'Percentage Points', 'transcript': \"Senator Grayton's campaign has imploded following the candidate's promise to give tax breaks to drunk drivers and to authorize the use of unmanned Predator drones in the War On Christmas. Grayton had been polling at 20%, but his support has since plunged by 19%. I hate the ambiguity created when people don't distinguish between percentages and percentage points. \", 'altTitle': \"Grayton also proposed making college scholarships available exclusively to sexually active teens, amnesty for illegal immigrants who create room for themselves by killing a citizen, and a graduated income tax based on penis size. He has been endorsed by Tracy Morgan, John Wilkes Booth's ghost, and the Time Cube guy.\", 'publishDateYear': 2011, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 2, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1322764200, 'topics': ['real people', 'Politics', 'Math', 'Penis', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/percentage_points.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2365', 'title': 'Messaging Systems', 'transcript': '', 'altTitle': \"SMS is just the worst, but I'm having trouble convincing people to adopt my preferred system, TLS IRC with a local server and a patched DOSBox gateway running in my mobile browser.\", 'publishDateYear': 2020, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 28, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1601231400, 'topics': ['Phones', 'Social networking', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/messaging_systems.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '74', 'title': 'Su Doku', 'transcript': 'Binary Su Doku ', 'altTitle': \"This one is from the Red Belt collection, of 'medium' difficulty.\", 'publishDateYear': 2006, 'publishDateMonth': 3, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1141929000, 'topics': ['Logic', 'Math', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/su_doku.jpg'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2735', 'title': 'Coordinate Plane Closure', 'transcript': 'â Math Notice â \\nThe coordinate plane will be closed Thursday between (1.5, 1) and (2, 1.5) to repair a hole. 1 2 1 2\\nIf your graph uses this area, please postpone drawing until Friday or transform it to different coordinates. ', 'altTitle': \"3D graphs that don't contact the plane in the closure area may proceed as scheduled, but be alert for possible collisions with 2D graph lines that reach the hole and unexpectedly enter 3D space.\", 'publishDateYear': 2023, 'publishDateMonth': 2, 'publishDateDay': 8, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1675794600, 'topics': ['Math', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/coordinate_plane_closure.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1549', 'title': 'xkcd Phone 3', 'transcript': '2 AA batteries \\n(not included)\\nBoneless\\nEar screen\\nHeartbeat accelerator\\nMobilePay money clip\\nSiri, or whoever it was we put in here\\nInstead of being on surface only, screen goes all the way through Phone licensed to perform wedding ceremonies and does so at random\\nFingerprint randomizer\\nUSB E \\n(hotswappable)\\nWaterproof, but can drown\\nForetold by prophecy\\nRuns natively\\nWristband\\nWireless discharging\\nMagnetic stripe Introducing\\nThe xkcd Phone 3\\nWe made another one®©⢠', 'altTitle': \"If you're not completely satisfied with the phone after 30 days, we will return you to your home at no cost.\", 'publishDateYear': 2015, 'publishDateMonth': 7, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1436466600, 'topics': ['Comics sharing name', 'Virtual Assistants', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/xkcd_phone_3.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1119', 'title': 'Undoing', 'transcript': 'My Hobby: Undoing ', 'altTitle': \"I've been sneaking out at night and installing lamps on the underside of every photovoltaic panel I can find. Sure, there are upwards of 80% losses, but I prefer to think of them as nearly 20% gains.\", 'publishDateYear': 2012, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1349807400, 'topics': ['My Hobby', 'Weather', 'Wind turbine', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/undoing.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '439', 'title': 'Thinking Ahead', 'transcript': \"She's cute. This food is problematic. Oh man, she's quoting Firefly. It's the perfect opening. But wait. I'm moving in the fall. If we hit it off, how will I deal with that? I don't want to ask her to derail her plans. And with things unresolved with Megan, can I really commit enough to make that kind of decision? Oh God. Gotta get out. The window.CRASH \", 'altTitle': 'Did he just go crazy and jump out the window?', 'publishDateYear': 2008, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 20, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1213900200, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Firefly', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/thinking_ahead.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '593', 'title': 'Voynich Manuscript', 'transcript': ' This is the Voynich manuscriptâ a book, allegedly 500 years old, written in an unrecognized script. It\\'s some kind of visual encyclopedia of imaginary plants and undeciphered \"recipes\". It could be a hoax, a lost language, a cipher, an alien text, glossolatia â no one knows. No one? But it\\'s obvious. ... Obvious? Linguists and cryptographers have been stumped for decades. They forget. Human nature doesn\\'t change. Just imagine someone found a book from our time, full of lists, illustrations, tables, and long, dry descriptions of nonexistent worlds written in an invented language. What have they found? ...Dear Lord. It is obvious. ', 'altTitle': 'Wait, is that the ORIGINAL voynich manuscript? Where did you GET that? Wanna try playing a round of Druids and Dicotyledons?', 'publishDateYear': 2009, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 5, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1244140200, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Language', 'Dungeons & Dragons', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voynich_manuscript.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '3061', 'title': 'Water Balloons', 'transcript': \" In the annual interdepartmental water balloon fight, meson particle physicists and planetary scientists are usually evenly matched, since they're both equally far outside their areas of expertise. \", 'altTitle': 'Update: The physics department has recruited an astronomer who studies meteor fireballs.', 'publishDateYear': 2025, 'publishDateMonth': 3, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1741545000, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Megan', 'Ponytail', 'Hairy', 'Extrapolation', 'Astronomy', 'Physics', 'Games', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/water_balloons.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2220', 'title': 'Imagine Going Back in Time', 'transcript': 'Ugh. A player named \"Reelect Trump 2020\" put a frog Pokemon in the gym next to mine. Imagine going back in time and saying that to yourself 20 years ago. Oh, I have a time machine! I\\'ll try that. Bzzzzt 1999 ...next to mine. I see. Pokemon is still popular in 2019? Yeah. And it\\'s cool for people your age to play it? OK, I did not come here to be mocked. This is a sobering cautionary tale. Listen, self... ', 'altTitle': 'I wonder what the trendy adults in 2019 who are too cool for Pokemon will be into. Probably Digimon!', 'publishDateYear': 2019, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 25, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1571941800, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Video games', 'Pokémon', 'Time travel', 'Politics', 'Donald Trump', 'politicians', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/imagine_going_back_in_time.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2670', 'title': 'Interruption', 'transcript': \"...And that's when you knew she had betrayed you? Yeah. She picked up the money and walked out. To this day, I don't know if she planned it all. But there was one moment that makes me think, maybe she did. Ponytail (voice-over): Just before she disappeared, she paused at the door, looked back at me, and said,\\nPonytail (voice-over for the woman): Hey - if I ever see you again, Ponytail (voice-over for the woman): Turn left at the next light. It's so disorienting when a podcaster has a voice that's similar to my navigation app. \", 'altTitle': \"It's been extra bad ever since my GPS got stuck on Phoebe Judge mode.\", 'publishDateYear': 2022, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 9, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1662661800, 'topics': ['Ponytail', 'Comics with inverted brightness', 'Maps', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/interruption.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '747', 'title': 'Geeks and Nerds', 'transcript': 'Geeks Nerds People with strong opinions on the distinction between geeks and nerds ', 'altTitle': 'The definitions I grew up with were that a geek is someone unusually into something (so you could have computer geeks, baseball geeks, theater geeks, etc) and nerds are (often awkward) science, math, or computer geeks. But definitions vary.', 'publishDateYear': 2010, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 31, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1275244200, 'topics': ['Language', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/geeks_and_nerds.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1288', 'title': 'Substitutions', 'transcript': 'Substitutions that make reading the news more fun: Witnesses\\n\\n â\\n\\n These dudes I know\\n\\n\\n Allegedly\\n\\n â\\n\\n Kinda probably\\n\\n\\n New study\\n\\n â\\n\\n Tumblr post\\n\\n\\n Rebuild\\n\\n â\\n\\n Avenge\\n\\n\\n Space\\n\\n â\\n\\n Spaaace\\n\\n\\n Google Glass\\n\\n â\\n\\n Virtual Boy\\n\\n\\n Smartphone\\n\\n â\\n\\n Pokédex\\n\\n\\n Electric\\n\\n â\\n\\n Atomic\\n\\n\\n Senator\\n\\n â\\n\\n Elf-lord\\n\\n\\n Car\\n\\n â\\n\\n Cat\\n\\n\\n Election\\n\\n â\\n\\n Eating contest\\n\\n\\n Congressional leaders\\n\\n â\\n\\n River spirits\\n\\n\\n Homeland security\\n\\n â\\n\\n Homestar Runner\\n\\n\\n Could not be reached for comment\\n\\n â\\n\\n Is guilty and everyone knows it ', 'altTitle': \"INSIDE ELON MUSK'S NEW ATOMIC CAT\", 'publishDateYear': 2013, 'publishDateMonth': 11, 'publishDateDay': 8, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1383849000, 'topics': ['Substitutions', 'Comics sharing name', 'Charts', 'Elon Musk', 'Language', 'Video games', 'Pokémon', 'Politics', 'Cats', 'Google Glass', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/substitutions.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1772', 'title': 'Startup Opportunity', 'transcript': \"We've discovered that your company doesn't do anything. How is that possible?! We have so many chairs! You need to find an industry to disrupt. An...industry? Oh, yeah! The zoning thing from SimCity! No, like, a kind of business. How do I find those? I don't know. What's something you spend a lot of money on? You know those mysterious shops that sell you magical items, and then it turns out they're cursed, but when you go back later there's no sign the shop was ever there? I get most of my stuff from those. Like groceries. We should go. Wait. High-value sales, no regulation, and when customers try to complain, they can't find you... Maybe this is the perfect startup. \", 'altTitle': \"While there's no formal regulation, it turns out their industry group is NOT one you want mad at you.\", 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 14, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1481653800, 'topics': ['White Hat', 'Beret Guy', 'Hairy', 'Hairbun', 'Cueball', \"Beret Guy's Business\", 'Comics with cursed items', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/startup_opportunity.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '317', 'title': \"That Lovin' Feelin'\", 'transcript': \"Cueball: You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips Cueball: And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips. Maybe I should try your sister instead. \", 'altTitle': \"Maybe there's no tenderness in her fingertips either, but at least SHE puts out.\", 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 17, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1189967400, 'topics': ['Songs', 'Romance', 'Your sister', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/that_lovin_feelin.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1322', 'title': 'Winter', 'transcript': 'The sky is cold and the floor water is too hard to drink. But I have my handcoats and the spacelight is warm. Beret Guy: Listenâthe flappy planes are beeping in the stick towers. Those are all the wrong words for those things.Maybeâbut the things themselves are all right. So who cares? ', 'altTitle': 'Stay warm, little flappers, and find lots of plant eggs!', 'publishDateYear': 2014, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 27, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1390761000, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Language', 'Simplified language', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/winter.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1637', 'title': 'Salt Mine', 'transcript': \"So you've built this particle detector in a salt mine to block out cosmic rays? Yes. That is definitely why. Homf nomf nomf \", 'altTitle': 'This one is a little bland. Pass the saltshaker?', 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 2, 'publishDateDay': 1, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1454265000, 'topics': ['Ponytail', 'Megan', 'Cueball', 'Physics', 'Science', 'Food', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/salt_mine.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2918', 'title': 'Tick Marks', 'transcript': 'Activity Deadline If you need to conceal activity, try timing it to hide behind the tick marks on the graph axis. ', 'altTitle': \"If you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.\", 'publishDateYear': 2024, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1712687400, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tick_marks.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '602', 'title': 'Overstimulated', 'transcript': \"Have you seen John lately? Woman #3: He and Claire blew off this party to see Jeff. They do that a lot. Man #1: Yeah; I don't know what his problem is with hanging out lately. He's like Katieâever noticed how she only goes somewhere if Jeff's there? It's so lame how she hangs around him even when he's not single: He likes it. Someone seriously needs to date her. Totally. And honestly I feel like a jerk but I wouldn't mind if she hung around with us a little less. She needs other friends, you know! Have you noticed how every dude she dates is a total druggie? Nope I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was weird. Michelle dates potheads like Elaine but at least they both have real jobs. Michelle does? She designs those book covers, right? And it's not like she smokes a lot. Elaine is one of those girls who 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Somebody: -noticed how - Nope -es is a tota- -t th- -ought 1 4 6 8 9 10 12 14 15\\n2 3 5 7 11 13 Don't you agree? Hey, wake up. Man #1: You zoned out or something. Sorry; I must be... tired. I don't blame you. All day cooped up working on papers. Must be nice to get out and relax, huh? Yeah. \", 'altTitle': \"My favorite thing to do at parties is to talk judgmentally about people who aren't there.\", 'publishDateYear': 2009, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 26, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1245954600, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Ponytail', 'Analysis', 'Number theory', 'Social interactions', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/overstimulated.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1267', 'title': 'Mess', 'transcript': \"Sorry it's such a disaster in here. Whoaâ what's wrong with me? My room never looks as nice as the rooms other people apologize for. \", 'altTitle': \"'Sorry, I left out my glass of water from last night.' OH GOD I APPARENTLY LIVE IN A GARBAGE PIT.\", 'publishDateYear': 2013, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 20, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1379615400, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/mess.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '252', 'title': 'Escalators', 'transcript': ' ', 'altTitle': 'The one time I tried, I got hit by a slinky going down at double speed.', 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 23, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1177266600, 'topics': ['Comics with color', 'Cueball', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/escalators.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '481', 'title': 'Listen to Yourself', 'transcript': \"What are you writing? Virus. What's it do? Danish: When someone tries to post a YouTube comment, it first reads it aloud back to them. Soon, everywhere:type type type Cueball: ...I'm a moron. I... I didn't know. \", 'altTitle': 'Man, I just wanted to know how babby was formed.', 'publishDateYear': 2008, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 26, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1222367400, 'topics': ['Black Hat', 'Danish', 'YouTube', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2762', 'title': 'Diffraction Spikes', 'transcript': ' it turns out those diffraction spikes are real. ', 'altTitle': 'Even if a planet is lucky enough to have a stable orbit that weaves between the spikes, the seasons get weird whenever it passes close to them.', 'publishDateYear': 2023, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 12, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1681237800, 'topics': ['Photography', 'Astronomy', 'Exoplanets', 'Comics with inverted brightness', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/diffraction_spikes.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2298', 'title': 'Coronavirus Genome', 'transcript': 'Cueball (off-screen): So that\\'s the coronavirus genome, huh? It is! <A long string of unintelligible letters, presumably the genome> It\\'s weird that you can just look at it in a text editor. It\\'s essential! We geneticists do most of our work in Notepad. Notepad? Yup! Nicer labs use Word, which lets you change the genome font size and make nucleotides bold or italic. Ah, okay. That extra formatting is called \"epigenetics\". Hey, why does that one have a red underline? When we identify a virus, we add its genome to spellcheck. That\\'s how we spot mutations. Clever! ', 'altTitle': 'Spellcheck has been great, but whoever figures out how to get grammar check to work is guaranteed a Nobel.', 'publishDateYear': 2020, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 24, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1587666600, 'topics': ['COVID-19', 'Cueball', 'Megan', 'Biology', 'Nobel Prize', 'Coronavirus Genome', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/coronavirus_genome.png'}"
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"content": "878"
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"content": "{'id': '878', 'title': 'Model Rail', 'transcript': 'I want to build a perfect HO-scale (~1/87) model train layout of my town. In your basement? Bad idea. Never make a layout of the area you\\'re in. Why not? Because it\\'d include a little 10\" replica of your house. So? That\\'s be cool! I\\'d make tiny replicas of my rooms, my furnitureâ\\nCueball (off-screen): âAnd your train layout? 18 m 21 cm 2.4 mm 28 μm\\nSpider web 320 nm\\nCold virus 37 Ã
It is impossible to nest \\nmore than six HO layouts My God. Yeah. It\\'s the second rule of model train layouts: No nesting. ...What\\'s the first rule? \"Do not talk about model train layouts.\" That rule was actually voted in by our friends and families. Philistines. ', 'altTitle': 'I don\\'t know what\\'s more telling--the number of pages in the Wikipedia talk page argument over whether the 1/87.0857143 scale is called \"HO\" or \"H0\", or the fact that within minutes of first hearing of it I had developed an extremely strong opinion on the issue.', 'publishDateYear': 2011, 'publishDateMonth': 3, 'publishDateDay': 28, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1301250600, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Recursion', 'Fight Club', 'Wikipedia', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/model_rail.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2332', 'title': 'Cursed Chair', 'transcript': 'Remember how I bought my desk chair from that mysterious shop? I think so? Turns out the chair was cursed. So I went back to return it, but the shop was gone! The door was boarded up! I think most of the shops are closed because of coronavirus. Oh no! The curse must have caused the pandemic!\\nCueball (off-panel): What. If I destroy the chair, we can stop the virus! What. Die, plague-bringer! Hee hee I can not die Maybe you should just shop at IKEA. ', 'altTitle': 'The Wirecutter staff called the Herman Miller Siege Perilous \"the most cursed product we\\'ve ever had to fight\" and \"nearly as immortal as it boasts.\"', 'publishDateYear': 2020, 'publishDateMonth': 7, 'publishDateDay': 13, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1594578600, 'topics': ['Beret Guy', 'COVID-19', 'Comics with cursed items', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cursed_chair.png'}"
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"content": "23"
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"content": "{'id': '23', 'title': 'T-shirts', 'transcript': \"I see dumb people\\nAs a matter of fact the world does revolve around me\\nI can only please one person per day / today is not your day.\\nYou know what your problem is? You're stupid.\\nGet a clue\\nDo I look like a people person?\\nYour village called / they want their idiot back\\nGo away\\nI hate you all\\nDie.\\nHelp.\\nMaybe if this T-shirt is witty enough, someone will finally love me.\\nOh God I'm so alone. \", 'altTitle': \"It's depressing how many of these are real shirts\", 'publishDateYear': 2006, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 1, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1136053800, 'topics': ['First day on xkcd.com', 'Checkered paper', 'Sarcasm', 'Comics with xkcd store products', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/t-shirts.jpg'}"
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"content": "1908"
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"content": "{'id': '1908', 'title': 'Credit Card Rewards', 'transcript': \"I'm trying to figure out which of these credit card rewards programs is best given my spending. But at some point, the cost of the time it takes me to understand the options outweighs their difference in value. So I need to figure out where that point is, and stop before I reach it. But... when I factor in the time to calculate THAT, it changes the overall answer. I question the assumption that you'd otherwise be spending your time on something more valuable. Come on, I could be failing to optimize so many better things! \", 'altTitle': \"I should make a list of all the things I could be trying to optimize, prioritized by ... well, I guess there are a few different variables I could use. I'll create a spreadsheet ...\", 'publishDateYear': 2017, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 27, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1509042600, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Time management', 'Spreadsheets', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/credit_card_rewards.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2627', 'title': 'Types of Scopes', 'transcript': ' Regular Microscope\\nLook at small stuff\\nElectron Microscope\\nLook at really small stuff\\nRadio Microscope\\nFigure out why your radio broke\\nRegular Telescope\\nLook at stuff that\\'s far away\\nElectron Telescope\\nDetect cosmic rays\\nRadio Telescope\\nLook at distant high-energy stuff\\nRegular Periscope\\nLook for enemy ships\\nElectron Periscope\\nExamine the hull of an enemy ship for structural flaws\\nRadio Periscope\\nLet the crew of your submarine listen to NPR\\nRegular Stethoscope\\nListen to a patient\\'s chest\\nElectron Stethoscope\\nBurn a patient\\'s skin\\nRadio Stethoscope\\nPlay the noises from a patient\\'s chest on NPR\\nRegular Kaleidoscope\\nSee cool shapes and colors\\nElectron Kaleidoscope\\nSee cool Bremsstrahlung\\nRadio Kaleidoscope\\nAnother word for the \"Scan\" button\\nRegular Gyroscope\\nBalance by spinning\\nElectron Gyroscope\\nAnother word for electromagnet\\nRadio Gyroscope\\nAnother word for turntable\\nRegular Horoscope\\nGet random life advice\\nElectron Horoscope\\nPredict a particle\\'s quantum state\\nRadio Horoscope\\nGet random life advice from exploding galaxies ', 'altTitle': 'An x-ray gyroscope is used to determine exactly which toppings they included in the pita.', 'publishDateYear': 2022, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 1, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1654021800, 'topics': ['Food', 'Science', 'Space', 'Confusion matrices', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/types_of_scopes.png'}"
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"content": "897"
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"content": "{'id': '897', 'title': 'Elevator Inspection', 'transcript': \"It says here that the elevator inspection certificate is on file in the building office. Whoa, cool! Let's go look at it! That sounds fun! Building owners know this never happens. Those signs mark elevators which have never been inspected. \", 'altTitle': 'Even governmental elevator inspectors get bored halfway through asking where the building office is.', 'publishDateYear': 2011, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 11, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1305052200, 'topics': ['Ponytail', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Elevators', 'Sarcasm', 'Tips', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/elevator_inspection.png'}"
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"content": "2277"
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"content": "{'id': '2277', 'title': 'Business Greetings', 'transcript': \"I don't think we should overreact to the coronavirus, But it might be time to put an end to the custom of starting business meetings by everyone licking each others' eyeballs. I'll miss the human contact, but that's fair. Gotta change with the times. \", 'altTitle': \"We have email and social media now, so we probably don't need to keep exchanging business cards by pressing them gently against each others' faces with an open palm and smearing them around.\", 'publishDateYear': 2020, 'publishDateMonth': 3, 'publishDateDay': 6, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1583433000, 'topics': ['Ponytail', 'Hairy', 'Hairbun', \"Beret Guy's Business\", 'Social interactions', 'COVID-19', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/business_greetings.png'}"
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"role": "user",
"content": "3036"
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"content": "{'id': '3036', 'title': 'Chess Zoo', 'transcript': 'Chess Zoo\\nDesigned to give different types of pieces their own enclosures while letting them interact as much as possible without allowing captures Shh! Pawns promoting. Look, mommy! Bishops! ', 'altTitle': 'The zoo takes special care to keep kings separated from opposite-color pieces as part of their conservation program to prevent mating in captivity.', 'publishDateYear': 2025, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1736447400, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Megan', 'Ponytail', 'White Hat', 'Hairy', 'Hairbun', 'Blondie', 'Jill', 'Knit Cap', 'Danish', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chess_zoo.png'}"
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"role": "user",
"content": "194"
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"content": "{'id': '194', 'title': 'Penises', 'transcript': 'PENISES: They are about this big.Now can we PLEASE, as a culture, move on? ', 'altTitle': 'The penis varies in size when flaccid and is pretty consistently about yea big when erect. Anyway, back to the sitcom one-liners and the constant flow of spam.', 'publishDateYear': 2006, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 8, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1165516200, 'topics': ['Penis', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/penises.png'}"
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"content": "1334"
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"content": "{'id': '1334', 'title': 'Second', 'transcript': \"Greetings, stranger. Whatever quest drives you, abandon it. You shall find no answers in these desolate wastes. I knew I wouldn't. I guess I... just had to see. I hate feeling desperate enough to visit the second page of Google results. \", 'altTitle': \"Let me just scroll down and check behind that rock. Annnnd ... nope, page copyright year starts with '19'. Oh God, is this a WEBRING?\", 'publishDateYear': 2014, 'publishDateMonth': 2, 'publishDateDay': 24, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1393180200, 'topics': ['Internet', 'Google Search', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/second.png'}"
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"content": "301"
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"content": "{'id': '301', 'title': 'Limerick', 'transcript': 'Cueball (typing): I used to find slashdot delightful,\\nCueball (typing): but my feelings of late are more spiteful;\\nCueball (typing): my comments sarcastic\\nCueball (typing): the iconoclastic\\nCueball (typing): keep modding to plus five (Insightful). ', 'altTitle': 'Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible)', 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 8, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1186684200, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/limerick.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1764', 'title': 'XKCDE', 'transcript': 'Installing the xkcd development environment 1. Spin up a VM\\n2. Spin up a VM inside that VM\\n3. Continue spinning up nested VMs and containers until you get fired ', 'altTitle': '4. They unplug the root machine but the thousands of leaf VMs scatter in the wind and start spinning up new instances wherever they land', 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 11, 'publishDateDay': 25, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1480012200, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/xkcde.png'}"
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"content": "751"
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"content": "{'id': '751', 'title': 'Swimsuit Issue', 'transcript': \"What's this? Oh! That's daddy's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue! It's not appropriate forâ Wow! They look just like the ladies who get double-penetrated in the popup ads! But with clothes on! Gosh! \", 'altTitle': 'Parents: talk to your kids about popup blockers. Also, at some point, sex. But crucial fundamentals first!', 'publishDateYear': 2010, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 9, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1276021800, 'topics': ['Sex', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'children', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/swimsuit_issue.png'}"
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"content": "2518"
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"content": "{'id': '2518', 'title': 'Lumpers and Splitters', 'transcript': \"Really, we're both just categorization pedants. Lumper Cueball: Ahh, so you're a meta-lumper. Splitter \", 'altTitle': 'Anna Karenina is a happy family lumper and unhappy family splitter.', 'publishDateYear': 2021, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 20, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1632076200, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Language', 'Fiction', 'Pedantic', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lumpers_and_splitters.png'}"
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"content": "2148"
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"content": "{'id': '2148', 'title': 'Cubesat Launch', 'transcript': 'A spot on a CubeSat launch costs a lot, but you can get a drone and a spool of fishing line for cheap. Uh oh. No no, watch. This is gonna go great. Megan (off-panel): Perfect! Foom Should it be tilting already? Hey, move your leg. Ugh, let go, I can get- -No, lift your other arm- Megan and Cueball (screaming): Aaaaaa Launch accident investigation board Listen. Space exploration is never going to be completely safe. ', 'altTitle': 'Luckily, the damages were partly offset by the prize money we got from accidentally winning the nearby water skiing championship tournament.', 'publishDateYear': 2019, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1557426600, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Jill', 'Hairbun', 'Ponytail', 'Hairy', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Drones', 'Space', 'Rockets', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cubesat_launch.png'}"
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"content": "244"
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"content": "{'id': '244', 'title': 'Tabletop Roleplaying', 'transcript': 'Your party enters the tavern. I gather everyone around a table. I have the elves start whittling dice and get out some parchment for character sheets. Hey, no recursing. ', 'altTitle': 'I may have also tossed one of a pair of teleportation rings into the ocean, with interesting results.', 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 4, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1175625000, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Recursion', 'Dungeons & Dragons', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tabletop_roleplaying.png'}"
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"content": "1271"
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"content": "{'id': '1271', 'title': 'Highlighting', 'transcript': '\". Many, many red Xes.]\\nI absentmindedly select random blocks of text as I read, and feel subconsciously satisfied when the highlighted area makes a symmetrical shape. ', 'altTitle': 'And if clicking on any word pops up a site-search for articles about that word, I will close all windows in a panic and never come back.', 'publishDateYear': 2013, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 30, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1380479400, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hilighting.png'}"
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"content": "614"
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"content": "{'id': '614', 'title': 'Woodpecker', 'transcript': \"A Woodpecker!\\npop pop pop Yup.He hatched about this time last year.\\npop pop pop pop...Woodpecker?\\nBeret Guy...It's your Birthday! Did you know? Did... Did nobody tell you? \", 'altTitle': \"If you don't have an extension cord I can get that too. Because we're friends! Right?\", 'publishDateYear': 2009, 'publishDateMonth': 7, 'publishDateDay': 24, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1248373800, 'topics': ['Beret Guy', 'Comics with xkcd store products', 'Animals', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/woodpecker.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1621', 'title': 'Fixion', 'transcript': 'A Christmas gift for physicists:\\nThe Fixion\\nA new particle that explains everything Main component of dark matter Confines quarks and gluons Neutralizes monopoles Suppresses antimatter in early universe Spontaneously emits dark energy Mediates proton decay but then hides it Introduces dispersion in perytons from kitchen microwaves, explaining fast radio bursts Broken symmetry causes Ï´=0, explaining unobserved neutron dipole moment Causes alpha effect Covers naked singularities Intercepts certain gravitational waves before they\\'re observed. Causes coronal heating Higgs-ish Superluminally smooths anisotropies in early universe (but adds faint polarization for BICEP3 to find) Accelerates certain spacecraft during flybys Triggers Siberian sinkholes Melts ice in \"Snowball Earth\" scenario Transports neutrinos faster than light, but only on certain days through one area of France Suppresses sigma in experiments ', 'altTitle': 'My theory predicts that, at high enough energies, FRBs and perytons become indistinguishable because the detector burns out.', 'publishDateYear': 2015, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 25, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1450981800, 'topics': ['Charts', 'Science', 'Cosmology', 'Astronomy', 'Physics', 'Space', 'Space probes', 'Puns', 'Language', 'Portmanteau', 'Singularity', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fixion.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '35', 'title': 'Sheep', 'transcript': 'Another from my high-school notebooks. ', 'altTitle': \"I think it's the sheep zapping the cactus and not vice-versa\", 'publishDateYear': 2006, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 1, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1136053800, 'topics': ['First day on xkcd.com', 'Checkered paper', 'Comics with color', 'Scott', 'Animals', 'Comics with lowercase text', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sheep.jpg'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2324', 'title': 'Old Days 2', 'transcript': 'What was the Internet like in the olden days, for a developer? Oh, things were very different. The cloud was a lot smaller. It was called a \"mainframe\" and it was near Sacramento. It was on the state landline, so the whole industry paused when the governor had to make a phone call. There was no memory protection. If you wanted to write to an address, you would call around to ask whether anyone else was using it. Often Bill Gates would say he was, even when he wasn\\'t. That\\'s how Microsoft got its early foothold. Wow. \"Git\" was originally a van that circled around gathering data tapes to copy and distribute. We all took turns driving it. When you saw it coming you\\'d blow an air horn to request that it pull over. That\\'s where \"pull request\" came from.\\nCueball (off-screen): Oh, neat! Before terminals, we all used punch cards, which were originally developed to control looms. Early mainframes would produce a sweater each time you ran your code. Eventually we got them to stop. We had enough sweaters. ', 'altTitle': \"The git vehicle fleet eventually pivoted to selling ice cream, but some holdovers remain. If you flag down an ice cream truck and hand the driver a floppy disk, a few hours later you'll get an invite to a git repo.\", 'publishDateYear': 2020, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 24, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1592937000, 'topics': ['Hairbun', 'Comics sharing name', 'real people', 'Programming', 'Computers', 'Version Control', 'Old Days', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/old_days_2.png'}"
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"content": "2774"
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"content": "{'id': '2774', 'title': 'Taxiing', 'transcript': \"...Keep going... ...Slightly left... ...Okay, good...you're lined up with the ramp... ...Now pull forward slowly up onto the trailer... I don't understand why anyone would pay full price for an airplane when you can buy those glowing wand things online for like $30. \", 'altTitle': \"I don't understand why anyone would pay full price for a flatbed truck rental when you can buy 'DETOUR' signs online for like $10.\", 'publishDateYear': 2023, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1683657000, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Aviation', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/taxiing.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1508', 'title': 'Operating Systems', 'transcript': 'Operating Systems \\nrunning in my house 1990 2000 2010 Now 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 MS DOSWindowsMac OSLinuxOS XAndroidiOS.jsTinderOSNestElon Musk Project:DOS, but ironicallyBlood DroneGNU/Hurd ', 'altTitle': 'One of the survivors, poking around in the ruins with the point of a spear, uncovers a singed photo of Richard Stallman. They stare in silence. \"This,\" one of them finally says, \"This is a man who BELIEVED in something.\"', 'publishDateYear': 2015, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 6, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1428258600, 'topics': ['Charts', 'Timelines', 'Computers', 'iOS', 'Richard Stallman', 'Elon Musk', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/operating_systems.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1158', 'title': 'Rubber Sheet', 'transcript': \"Imagine a giant bowling ball on a rubber sheet. The ball's weight makes a dent in the sheet. Now imagine a rope that pulls the ball down even further. ...Annnnd... BOOOIING Wheee ...Oh. I thought this was about physics. Imagining is fun! \", 'altTitle': 'It IS about physics. It ALL is.', 'publishDateYear': 2013, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 9, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1357669800, 'topics': ['Beret Guy', 'Strange powers of Beret Guy', 'Physics', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/rubber_sheet.png'}"
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"content": "497"
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"content": "{'id': '497', 'title': 'Secretary', 'transcript': \"Sir! The balloon is hailing us! Ahoy. Doctorow! I won't let you stop this nomination. We bloggers watch out for our own. Ron Paul: Stand aside, Cory. Nay! Very well. Battle stations! Whirrr kachunk Whirrrr kachunk Pew pew pew\\nPew pew\\nBoing! Boing! We're taking damage! Keep firing! No good! We're losing altitude! All engines full! Pull up! Can't, sir! Sir, maybe if we dropped all this gold... Never! We've lost, sir. We have to abort. Not yet, we don't! Open the loading bay doors. You take the blimp and fall back.\\nclick I've got a message to deliver.\\nWhirr RON PAUL evolves into TRON PAUL \", 'altTitle': \"It's time to draw the line.\", 'publishDateYear': 2008, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 30, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1225305000, 'topics': ['Comics sharing name', 'Comics with color', 'Black Hat', 'Cory Doctorow', 'Ron Paul', 'Ponytail', 'Airships', 'Pokémon', 'politicians', 'Movies', 'Disney', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/secretary_part_4.png'}"
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"content": "182"
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"content": "{'id': '3020', 'title': 'Infinite Armada Chess', 'transcript': ' Infinite armada chess ', 'altTitle': 'Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access', 'publishDateYear': 2024, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 4, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1733250600, 'topics': ['All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/infinite_armada_chess.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2261', 'title': 'Worst Thing That Could Happen', 'transcript': \"We should upgrade. What's the worst that could happen? Supervolcano. Robot uprising. Everyone falls down a well at once. Instead of hitting the tallest thing around, lightning starts hitting the nicest. Seagulls all get handguns. A really slow nuclear war. We all have to go on a game show where they show you photos of people you've met once and ask you their names, and if you get one wrong a trapdoor opens and you fall into a garbage disposal. Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah, let's put off the upgrade. \", 'altTitle': \"Before I install any patch, I always open the patch notes and Ctrl-F for 'supervolcano', 'seagull', and 'garbage disposal', just to be safe.\", 'publishDateYear': 2020, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 29, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1580236200, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Hairy', 'Megan', 'Computers', 'Volcanoes', 'Robots', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Weather', 'Animals', 'Nuclear weapons', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/worst_thing_that_could_happen.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '881', 'title': 'Probability', 'transcript': ' 5 years\\n81%\\n10 years\\n77% You know, probability used to be my favorite branch of math Because it had so many real-life applications. ', 'altTitle': 'My normal approach is useless here, too.', 'publishDateYear': 2011, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 4, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1301855400, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Romance', 'Cancer', 'Charts', 'Line graphs', 'Math', 'Statistics', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/probability.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2631', 'title': 'Exercise Progression', 'transcript': 'How much you whine and complain about doing exercise\" Workout difficulty My progression over time Normal progression over time ', 'altTitle': \"They said after I got into a routine, I'd enjoy getting progressively stronger and stop whining so much about how hard exercise was. Well, they were half right!\", 'publishDateYear': 2022, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1654799400, 'topics': ['Randall Munroe', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exercise_progression.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '706', 'title': 'Freedom', 'transcript': \"Sometimes I'm shocked to realize how many options I have. Oh? Like, at any moment in any conversation, I could just punch the person I was talking to, and all these potentially life-changing events would unfold. It's only my mental rules that stop me from punching you, or stripping naked, or getting on a plane to Fiji. Sure, rules have reasons. But shouldn't you exercise that freedom at least once before you die? Hmm. WHAM Okay, I should have seen that coming. But you couldn't! That's the beauty! \", 'altTitle': \"Sometimes I'm terrified to realize how many options other people have.\", 'publishDateYear': 2010, 'publishDateMonth': 2, 'publishDateDay': 24, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1266949800, 'topics': ['Multiple Cueballs', 'Philosophy', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/freedom.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1733', 'title': 'Solar Spectrum', 'transcript': \"The Sun's spectral lines CalciumIronSodiumOxygenHydrogenMagnesiumThose giant sunglasses \", 'altTitle': \"I still don't understand why the Sun paid the extra money for Transitions lenses.\", 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 15, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1473877800, 'topics': ['Charts', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/solar_spectrum.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1699', 'title': 'Local News', 'transcript': 'In local news, city council elections were held today. In nonlocal news, I killed my past self with a tachyon beam. ', 'altTitle': \"Will there ever be a physics term greater than 'tachyonic antitelephone?' According to this message from the future, the answer is 'no.'\", 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 27, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1466965800, 'topics': ['News anchor', 'Politics', 'Physics', 'Time travel', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/local_news.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '356', 'title': 'Nerd Sniping', 'transcript': \"There's a certain type of brain that's easily disabled. If you show it an interesting problem, it involuntarily drops everything else to work on it. This has led me to invent a new sport: Nerd Sniping. See that physicist crossing the road? Hey! On this infinite grid of ideal one-ohm resistors, what's the equivalent resistance between the two marked nodes? It's... Hmm. Interesting. Maybe if you start with... No, wait. Hmm... You couldâ Foooom I will have no part in this. C'mon, make a sign. It's fun! Physicists are two points, mathematicians three. \", 'altTitle': 'I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun.', 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 12, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1197397800, 'topics': ['Comics with lowercase text', 'Black Hat', 'Cueball', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Math', 'Physics', 'Google', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nerd_sniping.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1363', 'title': 'xkcd Phone', 'transcript': 'Runs custom blend of Android and iOS 100 miles per hour) and adjusts clock as phone accelerates\\nWireless\\nAccelerometer detects when phone is in free fall and makes it scream\\nWhen exposed to light, phone says \"Hi!\" Makes airplane noise when flights pass overhead\\nRealistic case\\nClear screen\\nSide-facing camera Introducing\\nThe xkcd Phone\\nYour mobile world just went digital® ', 'altTitle': 'Presented in partnership with Qualcomm, Craigslist, Whirlpool, Hostess, LifeStyles, and the US Chamber of Commerce. Manufactured on equipment which also processes peanuts. Price includes 2-year Knicks contract. Phone may extinguish nearby birthday candles. If phone ships with Siri, return immediately; do not speak to her and ignore any instructions she gives. Do not remove lead casing. Phone may attract/trap insects; this is normal. Volume adjustable (requires root). If you experience sudden tingling, nausea, or vomiting, perform a factory reset immediately. Do not submerge in water; phone will drown. Exterior may be frictionless. Prolonged use can cause mood swings, short-term memory loss, and seizures. Avert eyes while replacing battery. Under certain circumstances, wireless transmitter may control God.', 'publishDateYear': 2014, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 2, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1398969000, 'topics': ['Comics sharing name', 'Religion', 'Virtual Assistants', 'Aviation', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/xkcd_phone.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2959', 'title': 'Beam of Light', 'transcript': \"Einstein (thinking): Nyoooooooooom!\\nEinstein (thinking): I'm so fast!\\nEinstein (thinking): Nyyooooooooom! The first few times Einstein imagined flying alongside a beam of light, he didn't have any particular insights. \", 'altTitle': 'Einstein\\'s theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. \"It\\'s because,\" he pointed out, \"the sun is right there.\"', 'publishDateYear': 2024, 'publishDateMonth': 7, 'publishDateDay': 15, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1720981800, 'topics': ['Albert Einstein', 'Physics', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/beam_of_light.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1676', 'title': 'Full-Width Justification', 'transcript': '', 'altTitle': 'Gonna start bugging the Unicode consortium to add snake segment characters that can be combined into an arbitrary-length non-breaking snake.', 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 4, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1462300200, 'topics': ['Unicode', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/full_width_justification.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '643', 'title': 'Ohm', 'transcript': \"Remember: With great power comes great current squared times resistance. Ohm never forgot his dying uncle's advice. \", 'altTitle': 'More generally, with great power comes great dEnergy/dt.', 'publishDateYear': 2009, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 30, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1254249000, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Physics', 'Math', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ohm.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1226', 'title': 'Balloon Internet', 'transcript': 'Internet. Augh! ', 'altTitle': 'I run a business selling rural internet access. My infrastructure consists of a bunch of Verizon wifi hotspots that I sign up for and then cancel at the end of the 14-day return period.', 'publishDateYear': 2013, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 17, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1371407400, 'topics': ['Internet', 'Google', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/balloon_internet.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '213', 'title': 'Ghostbusters Marathon', 'transcript': \"Okay, that's all the Ghostbusters marathon I can handle. Later! You can't leave! We just started the animated series! Cueball: I've had my fill. I'm going home. I can't let you do that. Click \", 'altTitle': \"If you walk out that door you'll be crossing the Rubicon with me, and that's one stream I'm not ready to cross.\", 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 22, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1169404200, 'topics': ['Multiple Cueballs', 'Ghostbusters', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ghostbusters_marathon.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '3098', 'title': 'Trojan Horse', 'transcript': \"When the Greeks departed, they left behind a horse as a gift. We took it as a gesture of peace, but it carried a secret payload. One night, from within the horse, another, smaller horse emerged! Our guards have been unable to determine the inner horse's objective, but it has begun to show an interest in our oats. An attack on Troy's food supply! How dare they!? \", 'altTitle': 'Ultimately, history would imperfectly record the story of the Foal of Troy.', 'publishDateYear': 2025, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 4, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1748975400, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Hairy', 'Ponytail', 'Hairbun', 'Animals', 'Food', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/trojan_horse.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2723', 'title': 'Outdated Periodic Table', 'transcript': ': Figure 6.14: The periodic table of the elements : H Hydrogen: He Helium: Li Lithium: Be Beryllium :\\nYou can spot an outdated science textbook by checking the bottom of the periodic table for missing elements. For example, mine was published half an hour after the Big Bang. ', 'altTitle': \"Researchers claim to have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' through 'unnilium'.\", 'publishDateYear': 2023, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 11, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1673375400, 'topics': ['Chemistry', 'Cosmology', 'Science', 'Periodic table', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/outdated_periodic_table.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '839', 'title': 'Explorers', 'transcript': \"Mission Control, come in. This is Ba3 on the capsule calling Ke5 on the home board. We're on track and approaching the Coast of Catan. Our ETA isâ Control, this is Nc3. Bishop put all our food in the center so I can't get it. I demandâ Control, knight will get his food back when he stops hopping around bragging about how comfy the black squares are. I swear to God, I'm this close to capturing him and completing the misson alone. \", 'altTitle': \"We're going to have to work together to get over our hangups if we're going to learn to move on Catan's hexagonal grid. It's bad enough that we lost our crew of pawns when we passed within firing range of Battleship.\", 'publishDateYear': 2010, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 27, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1293388200, 'topics': ['Food', 'Board games', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/explorers.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '62', 'title': 'Valentine - Karnaugh', 'transcript': \"(Text on right)\\nYou make me feel so much\\nit all runs together\\nI wish I could tell you(Text on left)\\nSo few words\\nfor so many feelings\\ncrisscrossing my heart(Text on right)\\nA matrix of desire\\nTangled relations\\nI can't simplify(Text on left)\\nI wish I could find\\nthe Karnaugh map\\nfor love. \", 'altTitle': 'Love and circuit analysis, hand in hand at last.', 'publishDateYear': 2006, 'publishDateMonth': 2, 'publishDateDay': 10, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1139509800, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Comics with color', 'Math', 'Romance', 'Valentines', 'Comics with lowercase text', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/karnaugh.jpg'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2373', 'title': 'Chemist Eggs', 'transcript': \"How will I know if the reaction fails? You'll smell the sulfides. What do those smell like? Sulfurous. Rotten eggs. Chemists always compare sulfur to rotten eggs. But why would I know that smell? I dunno, It's a common thing! Is it? My kitchen is messy, but there aren't eggs lying around rotting. You must have smelled one at some point. Are all chemists' houses full of random raw eggs? Do you toss them over your shoulder for good luck? My house is not full of eggs! What do you consider a normal amount of eggs in a house? If kids egg your house this Halloween, how will you know?? \", 'altTitle': 'Chemists actually find it simpler to define a general odor of rotten eggs as a baseline, and the LACK of rotten eggs as a distinct smell.', 'publishDateYear': 2020, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 16, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1602786600, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Ponytail', 'Chemistry', 'Food', 'children', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chemist_eggs.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '993', 'title': 'Brand Identity', 'transcript': \" If I ever sold a line of supermarket goods,\\nthis is how I'd build a brand identity overnight. \", 'altTitle': \"Legally-mandated information would be printed on the back or discreetly along the bottom. In small letters under the nutrition information it would say 'Like our products? Visit our website!' There would be no URL.\", 'publishDateYear': 2011, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 21, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1324405800, 'topics': ['Food', 'Bees', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/brand_identity.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '9', 'title': 'Serenity is coming out tomorrow', 'transcript': ' ', 'altTitle': 'Mal, Simon, Wash, Zoe, River, Kaylee, Jayne, Inara, Book.', 'publishDateYear': 2006, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 1, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1136053800, 'topics': ['First day on LiveJournal', 'First day on xkcd.com', 'Checkered paper', 'Firefly', 'Nathan Fillion', 'Summer Glau', 'Jewel Staite', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/firefly.jpg'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2666', 'title': 'Universe Price Tiers', 'transcript': '', 'altTitle': 'In Universe Pro®⢠the laws of physics remain unchanged under time reversal, to maintain backward compatibility.', 'publishDateYear': 2022, 'publishDateMonth': 8, 'publishDateDay': 31, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1661884200, 'topics': ['Religion', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/universe_price_tiers.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1949', 'title': 'Fruit Collider', 'transcript': 'When two apples collide, they can briefly form exotic new fruit. Pineapples with apple skin. Pomegranates full of grapes. Watermelon-sized peaches. These normally decay into a shower of fruit salad, but by studying the debris, we can learn what was produced. Then, the hunt is on for a stable form. How new types of fruit are developed ', 'altTitle': \"The most delicious exotic fruit discovered this way is the strawberry banana. Sadly, it's only stable in puree form, so it's currently limited to yogurt and smoothies, but they're building a massive collider in Europe to search for a strawberry banana that can be eaten whole.\", 'publishDateYear': 2018, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 31, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1517337000, 'topics': ['Food', 'Physics', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fruit_collider.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2236', 'title': 'Is it Christmas?', 'transcript': 'No*\\n*99.73% accurate xkcd.com presents a new \"Is It Christmas\" service to compete with isitchristmas.com ', 'altTitle': \"We've tested it on 30 different days and it hasn't gotten one wrong yet.\", 'publishDateYear': 2019, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 2, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1575225000, 'topics': ['Statistics', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/is_it_christmas.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '3077', 'title': 'de Sitter', 'transcript': '20th century Dutch physicist Willem de Sitter is not welcome here My house is an anti-de Sitter space. ', 'altTitle': \"Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I've started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.\", 'publishDateYear': 2025, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 16, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1744741800, 'topics': ['real people', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/de_sitter.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '585', 'title': 'Outreach', 'transcript': \"The tracking tag will record the shark's movement and habits. Ponytail (narrating): Then, it will pop free and float to the surface. Ponytail (narrating): We can't afford a recovery program, so the capsules will inflate helium balloons, drift over land, Ponytail (narrating): And hopefully be found and mailed to us. Any questions? If found please call Chunk Sploosh\\nShark:\\xa0!!! Click Hissss Shark:\\xa0?? Aaaaaaaa Chomp chomp Daddy? Yes? I want to be a scientist. \", 'altTitle': 'Completely implausible? Yes. Nevertheless, worth keeping a can of shark repellent next to the bed.', 'publishDateYear': 2009, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 18, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1242585000, 'topics': ['Ponytail', 'Jill', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Biology', 'Science', 'Sharks', 'Comics with xkcd store products', 'children', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/outreach.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2922', 'title': 'Pub Trivia', 'transcript': ': Welcome to pub trivia! Round one is 10 questions:\\n Which member of BTS has a birthday this year?\\n How many sides does a platonic solid have?\\n What is the smallest lake in the world?\\n Which Steven Spielberg movie features more shark attacks - Jaws (1975) or Lincoln (2012)?\\n How many planets were there originally?\\n What NFL player has scored the most points outside of a game?\\n The Wright brothers built the first airplane. Who built the last one?\\n Is every even number greater than 2 the sum of two primes?\\n Not counting Canberra, what city is the capital of Australia?\\n Who played the drums? :\\nA local pub trivia place hired me to run bad quizzes at competing bars. ', 'altTitle': \"Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London\", 'publishDateYear': 2024, 'publishDateMonth': 4, 'publishDateDay': 19, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1713465000, 'topics': ['real people', 'Music', 'Math', 'Geography', 'Fiction', 'Sharks', 'Astronomy', 'American football', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pub_trivia.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '638', 'title': 'The Search', 'transcript': \"We've searched dozens of these floor tiles for several common types of pheromone trails. If there were intelligent life up there, we would have seen its messages by now. The world's first ant colony to achieve sentience calls off the search for us. \", 'altTitle': 'I am so excited about the Kepler mission. This is the second most important thing our species has ever done, right behind inventing the concept of delivery pizza.', 'publishDateYear': 2009, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 18, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1253212200, 'topics': ['Aliens', 'SETI', 'Exoplanets', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_search.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '792', 'title': 'Password Reuse', 'transcript': \"Password entropy is rarely relevant. The real modern danger is password reuse. How so? Password too weak Set up a Web service to do something simple, like image hosting or tweet syndication, so a few million people set up free accounts. Bam, you've got a few million emails, default usernames, and passwords. Tons of people use one password, strong or not, for most accounts. Black Hat (narrating): Use the list and some proxies to try automated logins to the 20 or 30 most popular sites, plus banks and PayPal and such. Email User Pass\\nLabels at arrows:\\nBanks\\nFacebook\\nGmail\\nPayPal\\nTwitter You've now got a few hundred thousand real identities on a few dozen services, and nobody suspects a thing. And then what? Well, that's where I got stuck. You did this? Why do you think I hosted so many unprofitable web services? I could probably net in a lot of money, one way or another, if I did things carefully. But research shows more money doesn't make people happier, once they make enough to avoid day-to-day financial stress. I could mess with people endlessly, but I do that already. I could get a political or religious idea out to most of the world, but since March of 1997 I don't really believe in anything. So, here I sit, a puppetmaster who wants nothing from his puppets. It's the same problem Google has. Oh? Google... Okay, everyone, we control the world's information. Now it's time to turn evil. What's the plan? Make boatloads of money? Google We already do! Modern Warfare tournament each week? That's not evil!\\nExecutive (off-panel): Ooh, Dibs on the lobby TV! Okay, we suck at this. \", 'altTitle': \"It'll be hilarious the first few times this happens.\", 'publishDateYear': 2010, 'publishDateMonth': 9, 'publishDateDay': 13, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1284316200, 'topics': ['Black Hat', 'Hairbun', 'Multiple Cueballs', 'Social networking', 'Video games', 'Computer security', 'Identity Theft', 'Google', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_reuse.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '268', 'title': 'Choices', 'transcript': ' Hi. Uh, hi. Sorry if this is weird, but Do you like flying kites? ', 'altTitle': 'I wonder what percentage of not-obviously-busy people on the street would say yes to kite-flying with a stranger. This looks like a job for Science!', 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 5, 'publishDateDay': 25, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1180031400, 'topics': ['Comics sharing name', 'Megan', 'Cueball', 'Kites', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/choices_part_5.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2888', 'title': 'US Survey Foot', 'transcript': \"We thought it was over. After 60 years of struggle, the US survey foot was dead, deprecated by NIST in 2023. We thought architects and engineers could rest easy, free of the headaches of having two conflicting definitions of the foot that differ by 610 nanometers. 0.304 800 000 m\\nUS survey footR.I.P.: 0.304 800 609... m But I bring dire news: Someone has started using the US survey foot again. Why!? We don't know. Some people just want to drag the world 610nm closer to madness. What can we do!? A NIST team is already in the air. We will capture the scofflaw and end this nightmare. Caption: 8,000 miles awayWe've reached the coordinates of the target's device. There's no one here. How!? Caption: 8,000.016 miles away⫠⪠\", 'altTitle': \"Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it's an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake!\", 'publishDateYear': 2024, 'publishDateMonth': 1, 'publishDateDay': 31, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1706639400, 'topics': ['Ponytail', 'Hairy', 'Megan', 'Black Hat', 'Characters with hats', 'Geography', 'Food', 'Comics edited after their publication', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/us_survey_foot.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2021', 'title': 'Software Development', 'transcript': \"We need to make 500 holes in that wall, so I've built this automatic drill. It uses elegant precision gears to continually adjust its torque and speed as needed. Great, it's the perfect weight! We'll load 500 of them into the cannon we made and shoot them at the wall. How software development works \", 'altTitle': \"Update: It turns out the cannon has a motorized base, and can make holes just fine using the barrel itself as a battering ram. But due to design constraints it won't work without a projectile loaded in, so we still need those drills.\", 'publishDateYear': 2018, 'publishDateMonth': 7, 'publishDateDay': 18, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1531852200, 'topics': ['Hairy', 'Programming', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/software_development.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2471', 'title': 'Hippo Attacks', 'transcript': 'I hate unsourced statistics. This viral post says hippos kill 2,900 people a year, but this random listicle says 500. Makes sense. Publishing the real number would be a HIPPO violation. ', 'altTitle': \"It's cool how, when there's a number lots of people are curious about, but which isn't easy to measure, some random guess will get cited everywhere and become the universally quoted value. Unrelatedly, did you know there are 850 trillion waves in the ocean?\", 'publishDateYear': 2021, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 2, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1622572200, 'topics': ['Megan', 'Animals', 'Statistics', 'Puns', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hippo_attacks.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2164', 'title': 'Glacier', 'transcript': \"Glaciers are so neat. You can't see it, but this ice is slowly advancing. Whirrrr \", 'altTitle': 'The Norwegian adaptation of The Sword in the Stone takes things in a weird direction.', 'publishDateYear': 2019, 'publishDateMonth': 6, 'publishDateDay': 17, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1560709800, 'topics': ['Beret Guy', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/glacier.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2534', 'title': 'Retractable Rocket', 'transcript': \"We're testing our new retractable rocket. You mean reusable? No. Three...Two...One...Liftoff! Hi, welcome to the ISS! Hello! \", 'altTitle': 'Hard to believe that for so many years once they were fully extended we just let them tip over.', 'publishDateYear': 2021, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 27, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1635273000, 'topics': ['Megan', \"Beret Guy's Business\", 'Strange powers of Beret Guy', 'Space', 'Rockets', 'Comics edited after their publication', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/retractable_rocket.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '2867', 'title': 'DateTime', 'transcript': \"Event #1 happened at time T1. Okay. Ponytail: Then event #2 happened at time T2. Mhmm. Ponytail: How would you calculate how much time elapsed between T1 and T2? Normal person: T2 minus T1. Anyone who's worked on datetime systems:It is impossible to know and a sin to ask! \", 'altTitle': \"It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]\", 'publishDateYear': 2023, 'publishDateMonth': 12, 'publishDateDay': 13, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1702405800, 'topics': ['Cueball', 'Time', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/datetime.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '1748', 'title': 'Future Archaeology', 'transcript': \"Since you're from the future, do you know who wins the election? Haven't the faintest idea. Hardly any text has been recovered from your era, so we know little about your history and culture. We're mostly here for the spiders, anyway. There are only two written accounts we've reconstructed. We don't know whether they describe real events or myths. One is a story about a man who built a boat to survive a great flood. Oh yeah. Noah. We do like our flood narratives. The other is an account of how a man named Aaron Carter defeated a god named Shaq. That one may have been mangled a bit by the eons. \", 'altTitle': '\"The only link we\\'ve found between the two documents is that a fragment of the Noah one mentions Aaron\\'s brother Moses parting an ocean. Is that right?\" \"... yes. Yes, exactly.\"', 'publishDateYear': 2016, 'publishDateMonth': 10, 'publishDateDay': 19, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1476815400, 'topics': ['Megan', 'real people', 'Time travel', 'Spiders', 'Politics', 'Religion', 'Basketball', 'Songs', 'Time-Traveling Sphere', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/future_archaeology.png'}"
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"content": "{'id': '287', 'title': 'NP-Complete', 'transcript': \"My Hobby:\\nEmbedding NP-Complete problems in restaurant ordersChotchkies Restaurant\\nAppetizers\\nMixed Fruit 2.15\\nFrench Fries 2.75\\nSide Salad 3.35\\nHot Wings 3.55\\nMozzarella Sticks 4.20\\nSampler Plate 5.80\\nSandwiches\\nBarbecue 6.55We'd like exactly $15.05 worth of appetizers, please. ...Exactly? Uhh... Here, these papers on the knapsack problem might help you out. Listen, I have six other tables to get toâ âAs fast as possible, of course. Want something on traveling salesman? \", 'altTitle': 'General solutions get you a 50% tip.', 'publishDateYear': 2007, 'publishDateMonth': 7, 'publishDateDay': 9, 'publishDateTimestamp': 1183919400, 'topics': ['My Hobby', 'Comics with color', 'Math', 'Programming', 'All comics', 'All pages'], 'imageUrl': 'https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/np_complete.png'}"
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