It pains me to have to do this; xkcd is so often a bastion of sense and logic. But I am called upon to root out muddled thinking and superstition wherever I see it and, my friends, I see it on xkcd. If it were a simple mistake, I could forgive it, but Randall has persisted in his misinformation, even revelled in it.

He leaves me no choice.

I give to you, the truth:

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