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Indexed: A Sense of Your Place in the Grand Scheme of Things
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Why do I get the feeling that all the people developing fascinating new technologies read X-Men as children?
Uh, where is the “-or-” part. Otherwise this is meaningless…
I love your Venn diagrams, but this one is wrong. Really.
“What China is trying to control” is a superset of everything you drew, not the intersection.
Talk about a bunch of pedants on this site. What would you prefer? A list titled “What China is Trying To Control” then 1, 2, 3?
It’s a joke. It’s humor. 90% of readers look at this and chuckle, 5% don’t get it, and 5% obsess over the logical correctness of someone else’s sketch on an index card.
BTW love the work Jessica.
That one made me laugh. I agree with GeneralDisarray.
@Jim C
No, its right.
Try it like this:
{something China is trying to control} implies {The World Population}
vs.
{The World Population} implies {something China is trying to control}
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Implies.html
This would be even funnier if you could work in the Chinese attempting to control their image to TV viewers, i.e., the the lip-synching incident at the Olympics opening ceremonies, where they had a cute girl on TV, with the chubby girl singing.
I agree with Jim C.
Yeah, I get that these are jokes, but to me a big part of the fun is the cleverness in making otherwise dull charts and diagrams work correctly. This one misses the mark.