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xkcd #2892: Banana Prices (xkcd.com)

submitted 9 months ago by aarmea@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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It's a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%?

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How can one guy be so clever and relevant and hilarious?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's definitely talented and intelligent but as always people vastly underestimate skill. Humour is a skill that you can learn and he's been doing this comic for ages now. When you've been doing something almost every other day nonstop for years, your brain allocates a ton of cycles to that skill. You start applying that skill all the time, sort of like the Tetris Effect. I bet he gets multiple comic ideas daily reading all sorts of research and memes.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Beautiful, an actual answer! Well reasoned!

[–] udon@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not accounting for the Panama disease though

[–] Numhold@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

How much do you pay for a Gros Michel nowadays?

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Federal Reserve yelling hold my beer

[–] homura1650@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

That's not a linear extrapolation...