xkcd

'It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.'

3023. "The Maritime Approximation"

'No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.'

3022. "Making Tea"

'And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.'

3021. "Seismologists"

'Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access'

3020. "Infinite Armada Chess"

'The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.'

3019. "Advent Calendar Advent Calendar"

'Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.'

3018. "Second Stage"

'Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.'