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Election Analyst (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Given the color it's moving mostly backward

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

🏎️nnnneeeeeoooooommm 👈the joke

🤓 👈me referencing a different example of the Doppler effect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

One of the things I loved in NuWho were the red and blue shifts in the opening credits.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Spinning spinning spinning toward freedom!

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you just link directly to XKCD it does embed properly (for posts). I just tested.

https://xkcd.com/1852/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not embedded (using Jerboa).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fwiw the image automatically shows up for me in PieFed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

They mean posting the link instead of uploading a copy of the image.
It's not about the comment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It embeds in posts, not in my comment.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1852:_Election_Map

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

If you get some telescope time, i bet you'll be able to see the precincts are growing too!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

This is partisan hackery of the worst kind!

Clearly we are in orbit of a Kerr black hole, whose axial rotation is causing the light to shift according to frame dragging!

Leave it to the blues to assume everyone is moving towards them!!!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the doppler is strong with this one...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also called redshift in this specific context

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Or blueshift for the other half

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

I’ve watched enough NOVA specials to understand this meme