Plural
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/plural-2 [www.smbc-comics.com]
2025-05-04 20:31
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The plural is gives. It’s like shelves or elves.
tag: comic
Plural
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/plural-2 [www.smbc-comics.com]
2025-05-04 20:31
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The plural is gives. It’s like shelves or elves.
Best Time and Place
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/best-3 [www.smbc-comics.com]
2025-03-14 22:09
If you assume time travel is possible, and you assume that there is one time and place in the entire history of this universe that is the best day ever, you have to believe everyone is going to visit those space-time coordinates.
Omniroll
https://xkcd.com/3060/ [xkcd.com]
2025-03-14 22:06
A wikipedia omniroll is a cylindrical food containing one layer of every item from the wikipedia article “list of rolled foods.”
How to Proceed When a Technology is Not Mature
https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2025/1/6/how-to-proceed-when-a-technology-is-not-mature [www.basicinstructions.net]
2025-01-07 08:16
Do you ever feel like we aren’t getting the future we were promised, but we are getting the one we were threatened with.
Law
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/law-4 [www.smbc-comics.com]
2024-04-13 00:40
If aliens come, [laws] are the first thing we should hide.
On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics
http://wondermark.com/garfield-color/ [wondermark.com]
2020-11-25 01:17
One thing Garfield doesn’t get enough recognition for is truly bonkers, impressionistic color choices. This sidewalk is pink and yellow. Jon wears purple pants. Every panel is like an Easter basket.
Consistently zany. Sometimes.
source: HN
How to Manage Your Time
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2020/4/21/how-to-manage-your-time [www.basicinstructions.net]
2020-04-22 16:12
I’ve often complained that people think the most plentiful resource on the planet is your time. Not their time, your time. People are more than happy to spend your time on the strangest things. Take it from a guy who was once paid to scrape the breading off of the leftover fish filets at night, then re-bread the fish the next morning.
How to Get Someone to Take One for the Team
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2020/1/16/how-to-get-someone-to-take-one-for-the-team [www.basicinstructions.net]
2020-01-17 22:52
Nailed it: “There’s no I in team” says the guy saying someone needs to take one for the team.
How to Explain What Words Mean
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/10/8/how-to-explain-what-words-mean [www.basicinstructions.net]
2019-10-10 19:06
It pains me to admit it, but this one even confuses me.
How to Reassure Someone
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/9/26/how-to-reassure-someone [www.basicinstructions.net]
2019-09-29 01:05
You’re asking me if something I didn’t see looks like something you’ve never seen.
It’s a simple yes or no question.
Also: red light cameras.
Apology
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/apology [www.smbc-comics.com]
2019-09-12 07:25
I would like to apologize.
Some caveats.
Welsh
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/welsh [www.smbc-comics.com]
2019-07-22 01:47
Probably because of something my ancestors did.
How Hacking Works
https://xkcd.com/2176/ [xkcd.com]
2019-07-16 01:17
In which xkcd teaches us about cred stuffing.
Coordinate Precision
https://xkcd.com/2170/ [xkcd.com]
2019-07-02 20:05
You’re pointing to Waldo on a page
How to Share Your Knowledge
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/6/27/how-to-share-your-knowledge [www.basicinstructions.net]
2019-06-29 19:17
The Pepper’s Ghost illusion was originally used by charlatans to make people think they were looking at the dead, brought back as ghosts, which don’t exist. Now charlatans use the Pepper’s Ghost illusion to make people think they’re looking at the dead, brought back as 3D holographic projections, WHICH ALSO DON’T EXIST!
How to Understand Someone's Seemingly Irrational Behavior
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/6/6/how-to-understand-someones-seemingly-irrational-behavior [www.basicinstructions.net]
2019-06-08 01:02
That’s Jenkins’ curse. He only deals with people who are, at that moment, dealing with Jenkins.
Free Hugs
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/free-hugs [www.smbc-comics.com]
2019-05-18 15:59
But what about the opportunity cost?
How to Face the End of Civilization . . . Again
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/4/28/how-to-face-the-end-of-civilization-again [www.basicinstructions.net]
2019-05-02 14:43
Civilized people love predicting the end of civilization as we know it.
How to Maintain a Low Profile
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/4/14/how-to-maintain-a-low-profile [www.basicinstructions.net]
2019-04-17 17:46
I think it’s perfectly obvious that I am skulking!
How to Accept Responsibility
http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/4/2/how-to-accept-responsibility [www.basicinstructions.net]
2019-04-04 02:42
I’m sorry that his lack of consideration made my actions necessary.