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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 53 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 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not accounting for the Panama disease though

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't a disease, it was a loose seal that got his hand.

[–] udon@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Missing some context here (?)

I was just saying that banana monoculture combined with specialized fungi could mean that we don't have bananas for much longer, at least not for as cheap as they are now

[–] Lemmygizer@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In the show Arrested Development, where the quote referenced in XKCD originated, a character looses their hand to a seal that is set loose (a loose seal).

It's tenuous at best.

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

The name of his mother is Lucille. He loose hand to loose seal. Also his lover is named Lucille later in the show. It’s a whole character thing.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

loses. loses his hand.
to be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something).

the seal is loose. "look at it go, it's on the loose!"

set free; release. "the hounds have been loosed"

here, he loses his hand to the loose seal.

super nit pick sorry, I can't identify why but this homophonic and confusing mistake/typo seems to be growing for some reason, but it sticks out often. english is irritating.

[–] udon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

ah thanks, I did miss some context there. I think I watched the first 1 or 2 episodes until a banana stand with a lot of money inside burned down or something. Didn't catch me

[–] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

And that's why you always leave a note

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

How much do you pay for a Gros Michel nowadays?

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

There's no need to worry. There will always be someone around to point out that prices were cheaper back in the olden days, whether that pointing out is needed or not.

And yes I appreciate the subtle(?) irony in this comment.

(I am pointing something out. (Which these parentheticals are also doing.))

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

That's not a linear extrapolation...