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Lol, all of those are philosophies. Philosophy isn't separate to science, or theology, of whatever. It's the bigger group they're all part of.
63 4 ReplyThe meme's accurate in that sense. All the others are also in a dark room looking for a black cat.
30 1 Reply20 0 ReplyYou can put an exclamation point in front of the link to get the image directly
9 0 Reply![](https://xkcd.com/435/)
You can embed the image, but I think you need to use the image link, rather than the comic page link:
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png)
9 0 ReplyHmm. On one hand, the image link properly embeds while the comic link is just a little OBJ square that I can open. On the other hand, the comic link preserves the alt text.
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While true, be advised that some consider it rude to hotlink images without permission
Edit: as pointed out below, Randall gives permission to hotlink/embed on each comic page.
8 0 ReplyHmm, I've never seen that unless it's nsfw
2 0 ReplyIt’s old internet etiquette. I think the point is that hotlinking asks someone else to serve content without giving them traffic, if that makes sense.
7 0 ReplyDoes Randall putting "Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding)" directly below each comic on the xkcd site count as permission?
6 0 Replylol I forgot he does that! And yes definitely.
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It actually gets funnier than etiquette like the old poster mentioned. Some folks got pissed enough from people doing it that they would replace the images with goatse.
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The most useful branches of philosophy are important enough we’ve given them other names like “math” and “science”.
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