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xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline
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This might be the saddest xkcd so far.
I can't think of any other ones that are sad. Maybe I missed them?
The ones about cancer were pretty sad, but some were hopeful too.
Those had me nail biting over the scale of months/years. That first cancer one where they were holding each other with no reference frame was rough. 800 frames of sarcasm and wit and all of a sudden.... BOOM
He explained it like 6 months later, but stayed pretty quiet, then the two years (1141) was kinda optimistic, then 7 (1928) was kinda a breath of relief, 10 years (2386) was refreshing, now I'm quietly waiting to see 15.
The Trump administration just yesterday stopped a long running data gathering effort to study women's medical needs as they age. Decades of valuable information, blood samples interviews etc.
Fuck women right? Grab them by the pussy!
But not my daughter or my sister or my nieces or my mom. My sister in law might be interested though and her friend too, but that's a whole nother story.
Ah, back to the good ol this medication might be more harmful to women and we don't know because we only use middle aged white men for the studies!
Studies? No, we don't do studies here anymore. Now we just declare things. If you just declare something enough then it becomes true.
Especially bankruptcies. He has experience declaring that.
Do you have a link? I heard about this one but haven't found a sharable link yet
This might be the most directly political XKCD I've seen. Go Randal!
Randall's done several about climate change, more back when climate change denial was more widespread
https://xkcd.com/1321/ Cold https://xkcd.com/1379/ 4.5 Degrees https://xkcd.com/1732/ Earth Temperature Timeline https://xkcd.com/2500/ Global Temperature Over My Lifetime
Or just check the tag for "politics" on explainXKCD. Randall's endorsed political candidates before as well as generally shown a general libertarian and later left-leaning bent
Oh also this one relatively recently was pretty fun
https://xkcd.com/2515/ Vaccine Research
Yeah but saying climate change is real and vaccines work should not be a political statement, it's just reality and science.
Making a comic about a person hopes and dreams being truncated by being kidnapped by the government, now that's a statement.
Saying people shouldn't get kidnapped shouldn't be a political statement either but here we are.
If you click on the comic on the site, it goes to the YouTube video of her being grabbed.
I went looking for the alt text because, well, I love the Easter-egg nature of the alt text he provides. Got chills as soon as I realized what he’d done.
So much respect for him.
I did the same, pressed on it for the text, got sent straight to the video, and swore under my breath in admiration. In the current climate what he's done isn't risk free, despite the fact it a) should be, and b) shouldn't be needed in the first place.
Nothing but respect for people calling out the crimes of thus administration, and when it's someone with an unrelated platform and an audience, so much the better.
Totally out of the loop. What’s goin on?
Trump is voiding student visas and illegally arresting and detaining students that speak out against genocide. The video linked is security camera footage of masked gestapo goons disappearing a student off the street.
I get there s an XKCD for everything but this is next level.
Fuck yeah, Randall!
I hope the neo-Schutzstaffel (that is, ICE) doesn’t come for Randall now, but I respect the fuck out of him for using his platform and popularity this way.
Is it the first 'political' one? (Not that this should be!)
I can't remember many that reminded me it was a US based (I assume) comic.
It's awesome to see people stepping up like this! Our current situation is NOT normal.
I imagine there will be fuss over this, “politics” in XKCD, as if (with the author being an academic) a PhD student getting grabbed off the street in your town against the state’s wishes for something she published somehow isn’t relevant.
People bitching about politics are bad faith Nazis trying to appeal to ignorant folk who don't know no better. Belittle them. Bash them. Tell them to go fuck themselves
fuck if I watched this without knowing the context, I would have thought they are kidnapping her. What the fuck is this?
It looks like a kidnapping because that's what it is. They've not charged her with a crime to my knowledge. Demonstrates how easy it is for people to disappear. They had her from all angles, cuffed and gone in under a minute.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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