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Candy

Posted on October 30, 2021 by tabulacandida
A: The trouble with being an adult is you know where you hid the Halloween candy.
B: Are you sure that's the real problem here?
A: I'd say that covers about 90% of it.

If you don’t parent yourself, who will?

| Tagged food, Halloween | Leave a comment

Capital

Posted on October 20, 2021 by tabulacandida
A: No one wants to work any more! I can't find anyone to hire for my company!
B: Labor is a market, and the supply is finite. If you want to compete, you'll have to pay more.
A: What are you, some kind of communist?
Caption: Why is it that the people who talk the loudest about loving capitalism are the ones who understand it the least?

The law of supply and demand is not “If I demand something, other people have to supply it.”

| Tagged economics | 1 Comment

Round

Posted on October 13, 2021 by tabulacandida
Venn diagram
Left: People who think Columbus proved the world is round
Right: People who think the world is actually flat
Arrow pointing to the overlap: It's bad enough that there's anyone on either side, but what the hell is going on with these folks?

I’m still looking for the “Columbus faked the Hispaniola landing” conspiracy theory folks.

| Tagged Christopher Colombus, geography, history | 2 Comments

Trip

Posted on October 2, 2021 by tabulacandida
Trip planning then
A: Hey, I feel like climbing a mountain. Want to go do that?
B: You start the car, I'll grab some snacks!
Trip planning now
A: Hey, should we go--
B: Where are the bathrooms?
A: You don't even know where we're going.
B: Priorities!

I don’t want to have to boldly go where no one has gone before.

| Tagged life | Leave a comment

Box

Posted on September 29, 2021 by tabulacandida
A: We have a really important decision to make.
B: Well, we could let people decide, but you know what people are like: biased, irrational, ignorant, totally unreliable and illogical. So instead of people, we could let the Mystery Box decide!
A: Huh. What's in the Mystery Box?
B: People.
Caption: I will never understand why anyone thinks algorithms can solve social problems

“Well, our algorithm is perfectly rational and unbiased–why, the suburban middle-class white male engineers from southern California who designed it told me so themselves!”

SARCASM
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