#2219: Earthquake Early Warnings
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[Megan is looking at her phone while standing next to Cueball]
Megan: Ooh, California has a new earthquake early warning app.
Cueball: Yeah, I'm so mad about it.
[Megan puts her phone down and looks at Cueball who throws his arms up in the air.]
Megan: What, why?
Cueball: It ruins the experience of trying to recognize the p-waves before the obvious main waves hit.
[Megan still looks at Cueball who has taken his arms down.]
Megan: So you're mad about earthquake spoilers?
Cueball: I just want to experience the shaking the way the tectonic plate intended!
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:I was fired by the National Weather Service five minutes after they hired me for going into their code base and renaming all the tornado warnings to "tornado spoiler alerts."