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“Years of tectonic plate folding, RUINED! 🙄”
Levers are just as absurd, as Archimedes points out: give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Silicon Valley, CA
That video is great, thanks! Science!
Lexington, KY; Naples, FL
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It's depressing how many people go through life with an "I don't see the problem, *I'm* not a witch" attitude
Thank you, Randall. The state of things is not sane and we all need to be speaking up. Bravo.
Blur Area
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Brilliant alt 😂
tbd
When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.
![[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tariffs.png "[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!")
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Incorrect analogy – More like;
1) You want a pizza made from another region.
2) However, you must sell them some your ingredients before it can be made.
3) They charge a “tariff” to protect the income of their local farmer’s for other ingredients. You’re willing to pay the “tariff” because you like your ingredients better.
4) The pizza maker sells you the final pizza with a standard sales tax but no tariff
5) You paid the higher price and they made money from the tariff.
Trump is charging tariffs to increase the costs from other regions for several reasons. A) To negotiate down tariffs from other regions. B) Lower tariffs mean you pay a lower cost for your special pizza. C) To whittle down our regions deficit. D) and/or To increase local “ingredients” growth at lower cost for you.
1) You want a pizza made from another region.
2) However, you must sell them some your ingredients before it can be made.
3) They charge a “tariff” to protect the income of their local farmer’s for other ingredients. You’re willing to pay the “tariff” because you like your ingredients better.
4) The pizza maker sells you the final pizza with a standard sales tax but no tariff
5) You paid the higher price and they made money from the tariff.
Trump is charging tariffs to increase the costs from other regions for several reasons. A) To negotiate down tariffs from other regions. B) Lower tariffs mean you pay a lower cost for your special pizza. C) To whittle down our regions deficit. D) and/or To increase local “ingredients” growth at lower cost for you.
Explains with stick figures, XKCD goes to the heart of the matter of tariffs and STILL manages to make a joke!
The line break after "The President is mad" is absolutely perfect and frankly the sentence could have ended there just fine.
Columbia, MD
[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!
Hahaha
Atlanta, GA
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Unfortunately, SawStart is one-use-only. Once started, the blade cannot be stopped, and must be replaced with a fresh blade while the running one is carefully disposed of.
shouldn't the sun be included with "lunar"? (alternately: OK smart ass now define "moon"!)
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
Atlanta, GA
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Guess I'm an "Expansive" per this chart. "Planet" is still in the classification of Pluto, it is not a satellite of another planetary body, is spherical by its own gravity, and orbits the star. It's a goddammed PLANET regardless of its size.
Earth
Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.
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