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It’s a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%?
Not accounting for the Panama disease though
xkcd #2892: Banana Prices
Submitted 9 months ago by aarmea@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
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udon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
It wasn’t a disease, it was a loose seal that got his hand.
Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 9 months ago
And that's why you always leave a note
udon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
Numhold@feddit.de 9 months ago
How much do you pay for a Gros Michel nowadays?
palordrolap@kbin.social 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.))
Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Federal Reserve yelling hold my beer
homura1650@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That’s not a linear extrapolation…
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
How can one guy be so clever and relevant and hilarious?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
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 9 months ago
Beautiful, an actual answer! Well reasoned!