Stolen from the interwebz:
I love that soup is the calibration point.
I think that’s an unfair categorization of Project Orion. It was certainly an audacious concept, but not inherently a bad idea depending on what you considered acceptable tradeoffs.
Can’t that be said of all the bad ideas? And good ones as well?
I mean, just because you value life and property more than pyrotechnic laughter, doesn’t mean others will make the same value judgements. /joker
I’m pretty sure that rating is based on a doctrinaire “nuclear explosions are bad mkay?” basis.
You may question Monroe’s lack of vision, but at least this judgement has an understandable (if not entirely rational) basis.
Sorry for the belated response but this gives me an opportunity to raise an issue; is it okay for us to be posting this strips on this board? Are there copyright issues involved in reposting them here?
I don’t believe we are actually posting (or reposting) them here. We are only posting a link to the xkcd website. In Discourse if you parse the link correctly it will show a preview of the link. That is what you are looking at.
We’re not posting his comics, we’re linking directly to them. He provides a direct link you can copy and paste. And his site has the correct metadata to support the “one box”. I think what we’re doing is encouraged.
For example, this is directly under the comic linked to above:
Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/2929/
Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/good_and_bad_ideas.png
My reading of Creative Commons licence says what we are doing is OK.
Brian
So viewing them on this site essentially counts as a hit for his site (with whatever revenue arrangement he has for that)?
I believe so. I don’t know his revenue model, but we’re accessing his site, so it’s increasing his traffic count.
It’s why I strongly dislike linking to websites I dislike. Scrolling past a post here gives traffic to that other site.
That is my understanding. Also note that since we are only posting links, if his website goes down, all of the xkcd images that you see here on the SDMB go away as well.
Note that he has it as a less bad idea thsn it sounds (possibly a pun on “sound” - a Project Orion ship would sound very bad (loud) - see also leaded gas, which sounds like a good idea, possibly because it sounds quiet)
Yes, and it seems clear that we are using his content in a way that he encourages and supports. My xkcd viewer died (probably was written for an older version of Android) and this thread has become my xkcd viewer.
Me too! This way I get reminders when a new comic is posted along with witty and erudite commentary. 
I saw a kid on wheelies in a store just the other day. The first time in a loooong time I’ve seen them.
And I must disagree with diverging diamond interchanges. They are the work of the devil and my own experiences at a seriously congested spot they converted is quite negative.
What is the supposed benefit (other than aesthetics) to cutting sandwiches diagonally?
And putting mold on infections should be in the Actually a Bad Idea half-plane. One very specific variety of one species of mold produces a very useful antibiotic, but most other mold species are neutral at best or actively harmful. If you don’t know what kind of mold you’re dealing with, putting mold on an infection is more likely to make things worse rather than better, and even if it is the right variety of mold and you know it, you’d be much better off refining and purifying the penicillin and putting just that on the infection, rather than the raw mold.
Different crust to interior ratio when taking out bite sized chunks? This article says to cut a peace sign.