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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not embedded (using Jerboa).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

It embeds in posts, not in my comment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Fwiw the image automatically shows up for me in PieFed.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

🏎️nnnneeeeeoooooommm 👈the joke

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the doppler is strong with this one...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also called redshift in this specific context

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

Or blueshift for the other half

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

I’ve watched enough NOVA specials to understand this meme

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days 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] 14 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Spinning spinning spinning toward freedom!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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