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Maybe because the precision/granularity of GPS is only ~5metres (and worse under tree canopy, etc)? So GPS track will assume a local straight line (when device reconnects to satellite), even though you might have walked further

The east coast of Tasmania has at least four similar features, paired north-south landmasses joined by isthmuses

Gondwana broke up after the instructor found it was cheating by looking up previous supercontinents.

I don't get it.

Common author: Sunken continents

In an actual coincidence, the east coast of North America and the west coast of Australia do kinda match up.

complementarily-shaped, surely

Cosine Similarity

A mad geologist must be very happy with this conclusion

People can be so hasty with their accusations

I thought all the ancient weirdness was attributed to aliens

Plagiarism is standing on top of giants' heads without their knowledge.

Geocloning.

I knew it was James Somerton all along.

I like the way that student thinks, though.

@jayforeman.bsky.social Alfred getting no love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlze...

Plaigerism Drift: Yes, i know my term paper looks a LOT like someone else’s term paper but that’s only because we used to sit next to each other in 8th grade.

If they had bothered to pay for the best, I'm sure they would have been better served than the cheapo plagiarist they went with

SNØRT :D

I assumed it was a Harry-potteresque spell name

Same

Any time a party member casts a spell, he gains that spell until the end of the fight

It's crazy how recent it is

AI was used to create these coastlines and they were trained on the same data, so it just did it once and then did the inverse for the other side.

work brain needs switching off, I misread it as cosine similarity

It's the holding a hand to his mouth in horror that really does it for me

TIL xkcd characters other than specific historical figures actually have names 😮