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xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline

PhD Timeline

Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

https://explainxkcd.com/3081/

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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.
  
  There's always the Opportunity rover one.
- And likely one of the most topical, so extra sad.

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.

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.
  
  The alt text: Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.
- Direct link to the video.
- Totally out of the loop. What’s goin on?

I get there s an XKCD for everything but this is next level.

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 removed 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
  
  Those people are strangely quiet when it's a conservative-leaning meme, so I've learned to, as you say, tell them to get bent.
  I can think of no better situation for the phrase "fuck you and the horse you rode in on"
- There might not be. The only people that read xkcd are those that can understand it, so there could be a cutoff where you just arent gonna get the other side of the “politics”
  
  The only people that read xkcd are those that can understand it
  If that was true, there’d be no need for ExplainXKCD.com.
  And even then on some of the more physics-y ones I just give Randall the benefit of the doubt that it’s funny.
  
  Maybe.
  It’s fairly popular in tech circles where there’s a large intersection with MAGA, or at least a more “keep politics out of my programming” attitude predating that.

It's awesome to see people stepping up like this! Our current situation is NOT normal.
- Holy shit this is crazy.
  And major news outlets aren't covering this due to the billionaire class owning mass media.
  
  That and the fear that Trump will disappear them next.
  
  Next step in the playbook is to outlaw all the minor news outlets that do cover this stuff. Is trump already working on that?

Based

Before the Judge has time to intervene is now optional.
- *before the judge is arrested

This might be the most directly political XKCD I've seen. Go Randal!

Related video from Somerville
- 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.
  
  Fascism. I used to think the word was just a silly term the privileged South Park goths accuse everybody of being. Of course I knew it existed in places like Iran, North Korea, and Russia, but not here. Not in the "Land of the Free".
  But that was in the Before Times. Fascism is real, it's terrifying, it's disgusting, and it's here now. So we have to fight it. Together.

I think it can be also seen as a fairly pointed reference to this, which happened only a few days ago. It was a stupid and careless error on the part of the scientist in terms of running afoul of bureaucracy, but the consequences here are WILDLY out of proportion - especially if you take into account the incredible positive effect her research could have.

I hope the authors skin is white
- That Canadian woman was arrested and held for 2 weeks. That won't protect you, and it won't protect me.

Quick! Is there a doctor in the plane?
Sorry, not yet.

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