Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

https://explainxkcd.com/3081/

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299 points

This might be the saddest xkcd so far.

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54 points

I can’t think of any other ones that are sad. Maybe I missed them?

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112 points

The ones about cancer were pretty sad, but some were hopeful too.

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66 points

The Trump administration just yesterday stopped a long running data gathering effort to study women’s medical needs as they age. Decades of valuable information, blood samples interviews etc.

Fuck women right? Grab them by the pussy!

But not my daughter or my sister or my nieces or my mom. My sister in law might be interested though and her friend too, but that’s a whole nother story.

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35 points

Those had me nail biting over the scale of months/years. That first cancer one where they were holding each other with no reference frame was rough. 800 frames of sarcasm and wit and all of a sudden… BOOM

He explained it like 6 months later, but stayed pretty quiet, then the two years (1141) was kinda optimistic, then 7 (1928) was kinda a breath of relief, 10 years (2386) was refreshing, now I’m quietly waiting to see 15.

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I went back and reread xkcd somewhat recently, and seeing each of the cancer ones, and how the panels were added as they kept living…

Ugh, I teared up just typing that. Christ.

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24 points

There’s always the Opportunity rover one.

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40 points

And likely one of the most topical, so extra sad.

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