Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 29, 2014
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Transcript:
I threw the paper. Paper beats rock. What? But rock beats scissors, which in turn beats paper. It's clear that rock has an equal capacity to beat paper given enough time. If the determiner of victory is not the players but the orders of play, in what sense can we consider the game to have reached a meaningful conclusion? Mom! Susie's using political economy to get out of doing the dishes again! Tell her it's not a real science!
Ida No almost 10 years ago
“Then serve her with her papers!”
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 10 years ago
It has been found that bacteria will play this game, devising new formulae for competitive anti-bacterial poisons to which they also have immunity. They will form such rings of domination, in which there is a circular hierarchy.Those crazy bacteria!
scyphi26 almost 10 years ago
In all honesty, I’ve wondered why paper beats rock too…
bookworm0812 almost 10 years ago
LOL! It was a long time before I learned paper beat rock. That’s why I always played rock. I thought it beat all.