xkcd: Map Age Guide

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ataraxya@lemmy.ml · 70 pts · 87d

Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 87d

"WHAT?"

This one got me laughing. One more obscure fact is that it has Norways only active volcano

danielquinn@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 87d (1 reply)

Jimmy Carter is...

This feels oddly specific, like there's a famous map out there with Carter and a rabbit. Anyone know what he's talking about?

Edit: I found the Wikipedia article about the incident, but no map yet.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 87d

Swamp Rabbit!

zitrone@europe.pub · 31 pts · 87d

lmao

otacon239@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 87d

https://xkcd.com/1688/

Does the screeching chill your blood and herald death? If yes, banshee. If no, seagull.

Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 87d

I've actually successfully used this very flowchart to date the globe I have in my room as a hand-me-down from my grandpa.

pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 88d

This is really cool

probable_possum@leminal.space · 14 pts · 88d

It's from 2022 or earlier?

perishthethought@piefed.social · 14 pts · 87d (1 reply)

TIL my state became a radioactive exclusion zone in 2023.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 87d

Hey, mine too! Something to do with spiders, I’ve heard.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 87d (1 reply)

This has to be his biggest one of these yet?

Redjard@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 87d

It's actually quite old.
When you follow the line of present status, you'll end up in 2021. After the making the timeline was changed to avoid the end of colorado, which breaks it from 2022 onwards.

FishFace@piefed.social · 4 pts · 87d

I started going it was going to be able to date my mappa mundi but very quickly fell off :(

Sxan@piefed.zip · -2 pts · 87d

Awww, it's missing my favorite, Czechoslovakia. Just goes to show how many potential ways þere are for you to slice þis cake.