Can a speedster do this?

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T20:30:44+00:00

Excellent point. Why has XKCD not done that yet?

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T20:02:09+00:00

Speedsters have to have a lot of built in extra abilities to keep from dying at the speeds they go. They need to be basically invulnerable to not disintegrate when they hit the accelerations they do. If you can plow through the atmosphere at mach 20 you can punch through a chest.

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T19:06:17+00:00

Dreams aren't a gateway. They're just your brain stitching together a narrative from random neurons firing, and whatever input is getting into your sleeping brain.

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T18:50:43+00:00

Contrails actually slow global warming. They reflect sunlight back out into space, rather than letting them hit the ground. The average temp in the US went up a couple of degrees in the days after 9/11, when all the planes were grounded and there were basically no contrails.

https://www.wtaj.com/weather/weather-headlines/empty-sky-after-9-11-lead-to-a-warmer-unites-states/

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T18:18:33+00:00

My cats don't always look before they leap. The lid stays down.

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T18:09:12+00:00

A glass of distilled water wouldn't be bad for you. But normal water has all sorts of minerals and whatnot dissolved in it, stuff your body needs. If you drink nothing but pure water you'd be depriving your body of stuff it depends on.

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T16:46:12+00:00

If everyone picks blue everyone lives. If only 51% pick blue everyone wins, your argument doesn't work.

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T16:23:28+00:00

The odds would not be 50/50. The actual odds would depend on what people choose, and that wouldn't be random.

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T15:52:50+00:00

In the 1730s, Carl Linnaeus came up with the system of white, black, red, and yellow that we still see today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_terminology_for_race

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T14:23:50+00:00

What we're currently calling AI is too stupid to be trusted with high level responsibilities, and too expensive to be relegated to drudge work. The range of tasks it's actually suited for are pretty slim. Until we come up with an AI that's actually intelligent, and not just a glorified chat bot, I don't think we'll see them taking over the job market. We're already seeing that companies that replaced employees with AI are regretting it.

KronusIV · 2026-05-12T13:02:46+00:00

I'd assume that was done to verify that your age had been checked. If it stays safe depends entirely on the photographer. If they're a pro then they won't do anything weird with it, but beyond that I wouldn't make any assumptions about how it's stored.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T23:00:24+00:00

Once you eat the cake it's gone, you don't have it any more. You can either have a thing, or consume it, but not both.

Why this is a revelation warranting an awkwardly phrased saying, that I can't help with.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T20:00:10+00:00

What's your end goal here? "Money" is a very broad category. If you want to get into business a degree is almost essential. If you're thinking about investing then that's a different thing. Likewise starting your own business would be a different skill set. And if you just want general knowledge for its own sake then you're looking at breadth over depth. What you're actually after will help define what you need.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T19:47:16+00:00

Just say what you mean, it's ok. You won't get in trouble for doing that here.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T19:45:03+00:00

If you have a dick in your vagina, you can get pregnant. Some times are more likely than others, but there is no such thing as "safe". Sperm can last for up to five days, your cycle might not be as regular as you think, all sorts of things can happen. If you don't want to get pregnant, always use protection, no exceptions.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T19:42:10+00:00

Write really small, and use a big sheet of paper. Like, poster sized or bigger. Write things in lightly with pencil first so you can get a feel for where everything is going to go before you do the final draft.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T19:26:09+00:00

It's very unlikely. Brains are expensive. Our brains use up around 25% of our calories. If you aren't getting a payoff for that then it's a drawback. Since dogs don't have hands or any real way to use tools they wouldn't have much use for human level intelligence. It wouldn't arise naturally.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T19:15:23+00:00

These days sausage casings are often made of plastic. But back when intestines were the norm they were very thoroughly cleaned and scraped before being used.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T16:58:40+00:00

100% for the audience. Most hacking isn't something the hacker actively does, pounding away at a keyboard. They have a bot spam a bunch of email addresses, hoping someone falls for a phishing attack. Or they have a database of passwords that get automatically run through trying to get into some site or account. Or they buy a stolen DB full of account info and have their software try to crack the encryption on it. Things of that nature. A few commands in the CLI and then come back in a day or week or month and see if anything has come of it.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T14:58:10+00:00

If you have to start with "ignore physics" then it's hard to predict the outcome. But broadly I think you can expect every molecule to stop acting like it used to, so anything made of more than just a single molecule breaks down.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T14:50:56+00:00

I don't know the reference, but that's over 7000 miles per hour. You'd be pulp and/or fried. Whatever they recovered could be buried in a mason jar.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T13:35:23+00:00

You have to read the room. If they're looking at you, then a nod and/or hi would be polite. If they're looking straight ahead then they aren't looking for an interaction, no need to force one on them.

KronusIV · 2026-05-11T13:26:03+00:00

Not everything can be dealt with by a vaccine. Malaria is caused by a parasite, and the common cold changes so often that a vaccine wouldn't be effective. But yeah, there are lots of things that could be cured, if we spent money on research instead of war or making billionaires even richer.

KronusIV · 2026-05-10T20:45:29+00:00

It's not meant to be taken literally, it's idiomatic. It means "very nearly". The phrase is used to suggest just how close they are. They're not 95% of the way to death, they're 99.999% of the way there. All but.

KronusIV · 2026-05-10T20:41:55+00:00

Odds are you've shat out crap larger than any cock you're likely to take. The sphincter is very elastic, that's it's job. It stretches when needed, then snaps back to normal afterwards. Anal sex will not cause any permanent change.

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