![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/network_configuration_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2949
Alt text: > If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/broken_model_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2945
> In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/magnet_fishing_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2944
Alt text: > The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.
Yeah I’ve been seeing this comics for some time here in Lemmy and don’t see the point of these "Heathcliff without Heathcliff"
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unsolved_chemistry_problems_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2943
Alt text: > I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.
You can edit the title by the way. This is not Reddit
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cell_organelles_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2941
Alt text: > It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/complexity_analysis_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2939
Alt text: > PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/local_group_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2938
Alt text: > Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exponential_growth_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2936
Alt text: > Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ocean_loop_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2935
Alt text: > I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.
I've seen this mentioned a few times before but never get how it works. How do you even use TikTok as a search engine?
I hate mamumanunsdays. I want my fucking enchiladas.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bloom_filter_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2934
Alt text: > Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/elementary_physics_paths_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2933
Alt text: >\==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/driving_psa_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2932
Alt text: > This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chasing_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2931
Alt text: > Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/google_solar_cycle_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2930
Alt text: > From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/good_and_bad_ideas_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2929
Alt text: > While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/software_testing_day_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2928
Alt text: > The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/doppler_effect_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2926
Alt text: > The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/earth_formation_site_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2925/
Alt text: > It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pendulum_types_2x.png?thumbnail=1024&format=webp)
https://xkcd.com/2924
Alt text: > The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.