Image macros that make you laugh, cry, or both.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:09 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:http://www.okcupid.com/profile/juno

I understand it's auto-generated site content, but the part that made me laugh the most was the "Similar Users" section at the bottom right.

Mistborn · Post by **Mistborn** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:27 pm

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:23 pm

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3622

http://www.halolz.com/2011/11/27/no-one ... grooseton/

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:39 pm

http://www.halolz.com/2012/02/26/never- ... -the-odds/

Essence · Post by **Essence** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:10 pm

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:34 pm

big image big

I really, really, REALLY need to find a place to use this:

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:54 am

http://www.shortpacked.com/2005/comic/b ... na/detail/

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 3:36 am

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:39 pm

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:24 pm

Why is there a clothing store? I don't get art.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:33 pm

Because people frequently browse through and buy things they neither need nor want just because it's put in front of them.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:41 pm

The guy giving a meeting is wearing a tie.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:04 pm

DSMatticus wrote:Why is there a clothing store? I don't get art.

Everyone is actually wearing clothes. The title is "How Superman sees the world"

Essence · Post by **Essence** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:03 am

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:11 am

Someone has to fill the barrel around here...

Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:50 pm

Essence wrote:

VG Cats did it better

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:12 am

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:25 pm

There's more of that here:
http://imgur.com/gallery/w3nA4
HFY

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:26 pm

spoilered because huge

the bong dong.

Mistborn · Post by **Mistborn** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:19 pm

I'm part of way to many communities where this is an appropriate welcome message.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:05 pm

Ahem. That story presents bad math and flawed economics and must be dismissed as dangerous propaganda:

To wit: If A ship costs $10 to build in an earth atmosphere, but only $1 to build in a Venutian atmosphere - then the dragons can safely sell them for up to $9 without being any risk of being undercut. But if such ships only cost $4 space million to produce in an earth atmosphere , then the dragons can only sell them for $3 before they risk losing business to a competitor. In short, that plot point makes no sense at all.

But maybe it's not a math error, maybe it's just vague writing? If instead the "four times more expensive" refers to the original assumption of 10x the cost, and instead a ship which costs $1 to build in a Venutian atmosphere actually costs $40 to build in an earth atmosphere, then the dragons have in fact been getting ripped off and the plot point works. It's a shame the the math still doesn't. You see they had apparently been undercharging by "SIXTY PERCENT", in ALLCAPS in the original text. But if they had been undercharging due to being misinformed about their competitor's cost only being $10, then they were charging $9. And if the cost was actually $40 (or $30 with ore nearby) then they should have been charging $39 (or maybe $29). Now $9 X 160% = $14.4. Which is nowhere close to the low end figure of $29. No, if that was the case, they were undercharging by more than 200%.

Author is so bad at interstellar economics he should go read Some Krugman

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:40 pm

It could be a typo; it works out if they'd been told four times and it was actually ten, assuming they sold at other species' production cost.

Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:54 pm

Josh_Kablack wrote:Author is so bad at interstellar economics he should go read Some Krugman

That Krugman paper is great. Lot's of good word play and dry snark, plus a clear case that someone read them some Asimov during their formative years. Also, I find the juxtaposition of bland economic jargon piled up next to sci-fi terms inordinately funny.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:58 pm

Garbled math/economics or no, that's great, and makes me want to dig up some DragonStar* books and consider running it. But then, the Den knows what my math pedigree is.

*Forgotten Realms IN SPACE

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:29 am

My favorite part of that paper was Figure II.