#10923 ⇧ (+366/-508) ⇩
<Ferris> i got a bunch of letters about how Pete Cowden was going to ruin the planet with his socialist policies if he were elected as indiana state senator
<Ferris> so i went ahead and voted for him
#10693 ⇧ (+186/-290) ⇩
<OracleMobile> So the supplier that sold me off spec materials just got shut down by the DEA
<OracleMobile> Turns out they were smuggling fentanyl in from China
<OracleMobile> I don't think I'm getting a refund
#39 ⇧ (+811/-1059) ⇩
<root> I remember when we didn't have the web. Instead we had gopher.
<SickHippie> you had gopher?
<root> You didn't have any of those damned images. They took too long to load as it was.
<elgreco> instead of tubes, it was tunnels
<SickHippie> we would have DREAMED of having hopher
<SickHippie> *gopher
<SickHippie> all these damn new-fangled letters
<SickHippie> we had BBS
<SickHippie> LONG DISTANCE
<SickHippie> back when you had to pay per minute for long distance
<root> Yeah? Well we used to transmit via kermit at 300 baud
<SickHippie> we had two tin cans and a 200 mile long string
<root> before that it was 120 baud. On an acoustic modem
<SickHippie> used to tap the cans in binary
<root> and if you spoke too loud in the room, it dropped the connection.
<root> Shoot, we used to do it with smoke signals.
<SickHippie> you had fire?
<SickHippie> lucky...
<SickHippie> >:(
<root> We tried semaphore, but we just didn't have the terrain.
* SickHippie hobbles off to take some multi-vitamins
<root> Before that, we used to stand in a line and shout messages at each other
<agilman> yeah, things are getting too complicated, ajax ,web2
<SickHippie> you had a line?
<root> and when you couldn't hear someone over the shout, you'd go run over to the next person over to ask them what they said
<root> and if'n you did that with too many people at a time, you'd stop paying attention and run into the person
<root> and that's why to this day, they call two packets on the same line a collision.
* SickHippie applauds root's incredible buildup for such a lame joke
#11069 ⇧ (+347/-508) ⇩
<tbo> it's Tony Blair, right?
<SpaceHobo> the war crimes guy?
<tbo> the british clinton guy
<@Charlie> so yes
<ArdaXi> "the war crimes guy" does not seem particularly specific
<@Charlie> there are lots of war crimes guys, but there's war crimes tony blair and then there are presumably other, non-war crimesy tonys blair living in random neighbourhoods in various english-speaking countries
<tonyb486> "tonys blair" rofl
<ArdaXi> I just googled quickly and
<ArdaXi> "Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG"
<ArdaXi> I'm not sure it's possible not to do war crimes with a name like that
#11051 ⇧ (+563/-786) ⇩
<tonyb486> apparently i'm not supposed to be bloated and constipated all the time
<Lucent> wow for real?
<Lucent> then yeah I think you should buy some lactase pills
<tonyb486> i suspect the cheese at mcdonalds is so far from actual cheese that it only barely bothers me
<Lucent> horrifying tidbit but I'm glad for you
#10018 ⇧ (+101/-201) ⇩
<CO2_phone> People are weird
<relsqui> when you're a weirder
#10684 ⇧ (+181/-305) ⇩
-!- barometz(...) has quit "Quit: kemel update"
-!- barometz(...) has joined #xkcd-compsci
-!- ChanServ changed mode/#xkcd-compsci -> +h barometz
<multiplexd> barometz: did you update your poorly kerned kernel?
<%barometz> my kemel is in shi pshape
#8262 ⇧ (+261/-414) ⇩
<sile> all i know about america i know from popular media :S
<Palomides> sile: likewise for most americans
#10974 ⇧ (+417/-665) ⇩
<tonyb486> why is it that now i feel like i'm 100% sure clippy porn exists
<tech_exorcist> the answer is one search engine query away
<tech_exorcist> (no, I'm not going to check)
<Lisimba> Yes but I'm afraid to make that query.
<tech_exorcist> understandable
<ArdaXi> I… confirmed that there is clippy porn
#10809 ⇧ (+224/-404) ⇩
<Kalium> bears still mess me up as a concept
<Kalium> we don't have bears here they seem like they're a lot scarier than lions which at least have the decency to not stand up on two legs and tower over you
<Vulpes> Kalium: how are they real
<Vulpes> oh look it's a giant dog
<Vulpes> wait why is it standing
<Vulpes> why is it 2.5m tall
<Kalium> NOT DOG
#10992 ⇧ (+578/-911) ⇩
<Bucket> pansexual is just inclusive of people who aren't completely defined by one gender or sex
<Cortana> <insert sexual attraction to pans joke here>
<Charlie> that community is deeply divided over cast iron vs. stainless steel
<loudaslife> with a splinter group focused on copper
<Agafnd> thats where being bi and pan comes in
<Charlie> using teflon was also controversial in the 1990s
<XanT> Copper pans are bimetallic to stop leeching.
#10993 ⇧ (+595/-937) ⇩
<Bucket> I am the alpha and the gamma. You, uh ... you might want to keep a safe distance.
<nobody> i am the mu and the sigma
<Lisimba> Alpha and gamma are no match for delta, the destroyer of health care systems.
#10845 ⇧ (+323/-551) ⇩
<_qrs> thicctoria: yo you're gay
<+Bucket> "Yo You're Gay" would be a nice name for a band.
<_qrs> It would, Bucket
<+Bucket> Damn straight.
#10880 ⇧ (+360/-609) ⇩
<Bucket> 1d5 is 3
* Cortana rolls Bucket
<Bucket> Cortana got: blue-footed boobies.
<Cortana> ^_^
* multi rolls dice
* dice gets dizzy
* Cortana rolls multi
<multi> wuah!
#10987 ⇧ (+607/-971) ⇩
<Cortana> Charlie: my first job was crematorium
<Cortana> Charlie: human decomp smell is terrible
<Cortana> Charlie: human decomp is a terrible mixture of rotten flesh, rotten cabbage, rotten onion, with a slight hint of both acetone and garlic
<Cortana> so
<Cortana> not something you'd keep around
<nodoby> but the ashes don't smell, do they?
<Cortana> no, but you don't get to ashes without an exam
<Cortana> superficial as it might be, you don't shove a corpse into the oven without an exam
<Peng> So don't swallow an SD card full of porn?
#10985 ⇧ (+569/-928) ⇩
<ditto_irl> I got high
<Bucket> That would be a good name for a band.
#10788 ⇧ (+173/-349) ⇩
* Agafnd has joined
<Lisimba> Columb: tl;dr you can move adult trees and it's commonly done with commodity hardware.
* Agafnd mentally debates whether that's about plants or data structures, settles on plants
<Columb> Agafnd: since the "adult" specifyer, I'd think plants
<Agafnd> Columb: i mean, it could just be NSFW data structures
#10982 ⇧ (+591/-964) ⇩
<Cortana> Tooth fairies are a smaller and friendlier subspecies of the larger and much more hostile bone fairies.
#10991 ⇧ (+583/-962) ⇩
* CO2 (~CO2@cloak-421745AF.connected.by.freedominter.net, ) has joined
<tech_exorcist> hi CO2
<CO2> lo
<CO2> please do not confuse the Salvation Army with the Salivation Army
#10984 ⇧ (+587/-987) ⇩
<@barometz> speaking of horse porn
<@barometz> haven't seen Jax184 in a while
#10981 ⇧ (+570/-962) ⇩
<tonyb486> we should all go into our own private irc channels to prevent the international spread of covid via irc
<tonyb486> don't ya know now that the 5g in the vaccine has connected our immune systems to the internet
* Thedarkb (~beno@32CFDF7B.E247F221.CC1DA792.IP) has left (Social distancing.)
<tonyb486> it can spread over irc and https now
#10832 ⇧ (+287/-535) ⇩
<Vulpes> like, I know that some authors consider some of their published works to be fanfiction, but
<Agafnd> right, is fiction about (greek|roman|norse|egyption|whatever else) gods fan fiction?
<Charlie> Agafnd: not unless you think those gods are real
<Agafnd> Charlie: then it's real-person fanfic, isn't it? :P
<@Kalium> real deity fanfic
<Bucket> http://realdeityfanfic.tumblr.com/
<@Kalium> please be real
#10994 ⇧ (+564/-963) ⇩
<CO2> tonyb486: accept this gift
* Bucket can't find any appropriate gifts, so takes bad karma from CO2 for future gift giving.
<CO2> ...thanks
#11052 ⇧ (+653/-1101) ⇩
<Lisimba> Arm pits are just below where the arms join the body. Ball pits, therefore, are just below where the balls join the body.
<tonyb486> Ball pits are pools filled with balls. Arm pits, therefore, are pools filled with arms.
<Lisimba> It's amazing how far you can get with logic reasoning and science and perhaps a hacksaw.
#10983 ⇧ (+568/-971) ⇩
<tech_exorcist> Bucket: please don't scare the shit out of me
<Bucket> I'm not hungry, thanks.
#10144 ⇧ (+75/-221) ⇩
<rpenguin> I suggest you build a statue of me and surround it with sweet smelling flowers and charge admission to view it.
<Anti_Spiral> I already have.
<@barometz> Anti_Spiral: did you get the rights to rpenguin's likeness?
<Anti_Spiral> I put a fake moustache and claimed it was someone else
<@barometz> Counts as hair use, that.
#33 ⇧ (+709/-1220) ⇩
< Brian> Why did no one tell me relsqui is naked?
<%relsqui> dude, it's IRC. always assume people are naked until you have evidence to the contrary.
< Brian> Dude, it's the internet, given the baseline attractiveness of most people on the internet, it's safer for my visual cortex to assume clothes.
<%relsqui> it's the internet! you can picture them however you want.
< Brian> then to me, all of you look just like Angelina Jolie. This is the best chatroom EVER!
#10813 ⇧ (+240/-486) ⇩
<CO2> funny thing actually
<CO2> when I do a wrong thing in my code where it starts absolutely spamming an API by accident I call it DoS'ing
<CO2> every single time someone else describes it as "DDoS'ing" because, even though that's a way less accurate description, that's the term everyone knows
<loudaslife> CO2: maybe if you accidentally push it to production it'll be accurate
#11054 ⇧ (+594/-1052) ⇩
<tech_exorcist> what's the song's name?
<Agafnd> lost in paradise
<Bucket> "Lost In Paradise" would make a good name for a band.
#10821 ⇧ (+255/-515) ⇩
<sean_> is anubis the egyptian god of death?
<sean_> or is that ra
<sean_> or is it thoth
<sean_> wait, are they ALL gods of death?
<sean_> Which egyptian god isn't a god of death?
#11055 ⇧ (+603/-1087) ⇩
<Lisimba> I can wash up to... 95C I think.
<Lisimba> I've never used that for clothes but it's quite good at cleaning the machine itself once or twice a year.
<Lisimba> Also if I ever need to boil eight kilos of pasta in one go without caring too much about the taste, I suppose I could do that as well.
#11056 ⇧ (+556/-1147) ⇩
< Cortana> bucketsnack
* Bucket gorges facefirst in a bucket of botsnacks
* SpicyLemon gives bucket a purse full of Girl Scout botsnacks.
* Bucket is now carrying a purse full of Girl Scout botsnacks, but dropped a predisposition to hate the French.
< SpicyLemon> dibs!
< SpicyLemon> ... fucking French....
#10808 ⇧ (+216/-575) ⇩
<null> vulpes
<Bucket> vulpes is drunuk
<null> yeah I think Vulpes would like that factoid
<Vulpes> hey I haven't been drunk in hm
<Vulpes> hours actually
<Vulpes> not making an excellent case for myself here
#10798 ⇧ (+277/-753) ⇩
<eezo> how about we just, y'know, engineer people to spontaneously detonate whenever they feel like saying stupid crap ?
<Lisimba> I don't want humans to go extinct.