this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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Is this heaven or hell?
Luckily, I've never had that question on any maths test, though I do know how to solve it given enough information.
Do those questions ever tell you how far away each city is from one other, or are you just supposed to know that? Also, do the tracks go in a straight line the whole distance, and do they need to slow down on any stretches of track?
From what I call answering similar test questions in Algebra 1:
The questions assume a straight line, constant velocity, and give you the distance. What’s tested is the ability to make an algebraic equation for each train representing how far each will have traveled over a given time period, and typically find the time that they will intersect.
It's a trick question. You also need to factor in special relativity or you don't get in.
Is the train a wave or a particle?
It's both.
Im an actuarie in an insurance company, and I share the table with the lawyers, everytime they ask me for help on something excel/math related I joke with them about how that's the kind of thing that give flavor to life, seeing lawyers that tough math was useless and never had to used it, came to the realization that mathematics are everywhere and they can't scape of it.
One ship needs 1 week to cross the ocean. How long does it take 2 ships?
If one woman can give birth to a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can do it in one month.
Heard that as an example of tasks that do not work in parallel in project management.
An engineer I worked with once yelled to a manager that "You can't paint a toilet with ten people!". I loved that guy, always had one-liners like these ready.
Reminds me of “when I was 6 my sister was half my age, now I’m 60. How old is my sister?” And the amount of people (myself included) that read it too fast and answered 30 was crazy
Project management sorting hat question.
How many were going to St. Ives?
Much better