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Obligatory XKCD
Turns out Benjamin Franklin had it right, and it was this time traveler that caused him to flip it to the wrong direction.
While funny, this doesn't work because the time traveler told him specifically which one is negative.
"... Well now I'm not going to do it."
Damn time travelers, ~~always~~ ~~never~~ messing things up!
Man, this one is a good one.
IMHO Franklin is one of the few who would go straight to "what is it?" without blinking.
The comic accurately portrays him as nude
Always love their comics but since I don't know crap about this stuff it's amusing to see how this one is relevant to a meme. Wish I knew more but only so much I've learned so far. One day perhaps but not today.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
The contributors on this site do an excellent job explaining the comics. Not really ELI5, but more ELI15.
It's okay to not understand every comic, someone else out there figured it out and explained it to us.
Very much appreciated, thank you I'll never understand everything but I'd at least like to have a bit of an idea.of what I can.
I just want to add you only have to insert the word "explain" into any xkcd URL like this, to get the full explanation from the fan site: https://xkcd.com/567/ https://explainxkcd.com/567/
Just makes it simpler to navigate to an explanation of some random xkcd comic you come across.
Learn a other new thing again appreciated, I don't think I've heard of that one....or did years ago and memory failed hard to tell heh. Always nice to realize new things so thank you.