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It’s a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%?

  • udon
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    2210 months ago

    Not accounting for the Panama disease though

    • @RamblingPanda
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      1810 months ago

      It wasn’t a disease, it was a loose seal that got his hand.

      • udon
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        610 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

        • @[email protected]
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          1010 months ago

          In the show Arrested Development, where the quote referenced in XKCD originated, a character looses their hand to a seal that is set loose (a loose seal).

          It’s tenuous at best.

          • @[email protected]
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            910 months ago

            The name of his mother is Lucille. He loose hand to loose seal. Also his lover is named Lucille later in the show. It’s a whole character thing.

            • @[email protected]
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              310 months ago

              loses. loses his hand.
              to be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something).

              the seal is loose. “look at it go, it’s on the loose!”

              set free; release. “the hounds have been loosed”

              here, he loses his hand to the loose seal.

              super nit pick sorry, I can’t identify why but this homophonic and confusing mistake/typo seems to be growing for some reason, but it sticks out often. english is irritating.

          • udon
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            110 months ago

            ah thanks, I did miss some context there. I think I watched the first 1 or 2 episodes until a banana stand with a lot of money inside burned down or something. Didn’t catch me