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6d ago

xkcd #3073: Tariffs

Tariffs

[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!

https://explainxkcd.com/3073/

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That middle row is perfect - you could easily just have that, and the point he's making would be crystal clear.
Trump's actions don't even make sense, let alone meet any standard of fairness or intelligence.
- Trump’s actions don’t even make sense, let alone meet any standard of fairness or intelligence.
  They do if you look at him like a foreign agent, working to take down the US.
  
  Ah true :-)
  I meant they don't make sense on their own terms (which themselves are deeply questionable)
- Yeah, that middle row works incredibly well on its own, but he needed to add some geek angle or it wouldn't be xkcd. :)
- "Does not meet any standard of fairness or intelligence" was trump's APGAR score

this comic uses big words, maga types won't be able to understand this.
- They probably don't read xkcd to begin with.
- Maga types won't read it. This is just making fun of them, not trying to explain things.
- I didn't think that MAGA is the target audience. And if you were at all familiar with xkcd, you wouldn't either.
- There aren't words small enough to get the deliberately ignorant to understand.

It's a shame the people that need this the most can't read

LIDAR diodes > pineapple
- I imagine all the pineapple on pizza outrage would swiftly quiet down if people learned that the swedes put banana and curry on their pizzas.
  
  That sounds so weird that I want to try it.
- hey now, if those pineapple pizza lovers could read, they'd be very upset with you right now!
  
  It was first done in Canada, so there's probably a tariff on it.
  
  I don’t understand all the pineapple pizza hate. Sweet and savory bro. SWEET AN SAVORY!!!
  
  Pineapple and anchovy is delicious. Sweet and salty flavor explosion.
  
  Fortunately, all 3 of them can't read.
- Corn and mayonaise pizza. Good luck with that information
  
  Lol this is like the Chinese idea of American food.
  They put corn on almost all of the pizzas they fed me there and "American breakfast" was just a hard boiled egg and a cold hot dog.
  
  Wait, elotes on pizza?! Two of my favorite things! Giving this a go next pizza night.
- Someone had to do it lmao
  
  I admit it, that joke was low-hanging fruit.
- Shots fired!

mmmmm lidar diodes.
- Get out of my head!!!

Wait. Avatar 2 exists?
- Yes and it’s the exact same film as Avatar 1, just with water instead of jungle.
  
  Following Legend of Zelda protocol that means the fire/lava world is next
  
  It also has an antifa whale and a girl Jesus
- I think they called it The Legend of Korra.
  
  Steam punk avatar!
- Yup, can't wait for the third one to make a kajillion dollars and have all the cultural influence of a fart in a hurricane.
  
  Best review ever.
- Yes, it exists and it's getting a sequel in December. You'll have to wait until 2029 for Avatar 4 though.
  
  Wasn't it supposed to be a trilogy?
- I saw Avatar 1 in theater, a long time ago, it was ok, never saw it again. I started avatar 2 on Disney+ or something, stopped after less than 10 minutes.
  
  It kind of needs the 3D effect to work. It can't be carried by its story.

It doesn't really explain the part where artificially making the pizza more expensive is somehow a payback.

Someone just wanted to slip "lidar" into the conversation

If pizza cost more, at what point does it start actually being a reward equivalent of a bonus?

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