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Black and white stick figure comic. A figure with scribbled dark hair asks, "WHATCHYA DOING?" A bald stick figure replies, "ECONOMICS." On the floor beside them is a pentagram drawn in a ring with a lit candle at each point.

Stick Figure Casually Summons Economics via Pentagram

A webcomic-style gag where "doing economics" is literally a occult ritual: a pentagram and candles. A jab at voodoo economics, the 1980s Reagan-era phrase.

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Black and white stick figure comic. A figure with scribbled dark hair asks, "WHATCHYA DOING?" A bald stick figure replies, "ECONOMICS." On the floor beside them is a pentagram drawn in a ring with a lit candle at each point.

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Black-and-white stick figure comic. A voice from off-panel says, "ARE YOU COMING TO BED?" and a second line says, "WHAT?" A stick figure sits hunched at a desk typing on a computer with a tall monitor and says, "I CAN'T. THIS IS IMPORTANT." Then: "SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET." The word WRONG is underlined. Hand-drawn xkcd-style grid of twelve mock journal pages under the heading "TYPES OF CLIMATE SCIENCE PAPER". Titles: "Here's a bad thing about climate change you hadn't even even thought about"; "We have modeled all future human behaviour with a single equation"; "Maybe we could block the sun?"; "Man, clouds are really complicated"; "Only veganism will save us"; "We have inferred historical temperatures from some… Stick-figure style comic of a tall, precarious stack of uneven gray blocks. A bracket over the top reads "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE". One thin block at the bottom holds up everything. An arrow points to it with the text "A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2003". A half-lit moon on a black background. Pale pink typewriter-style text reads: "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." - Randall Munroe Screenshot from the 1980s Transformers cartoon: Optimus Prime, a giant red and blue robot, raises a fist under a stormy sky above two construction workers in yellow hard hats. Yellow subtitle text reads: "Tariffs not only impose immense economic costs but also fail to achieve their primary policy aims and foster political dysfunction along the way." Black-and-white photo of a serious middle-aged man with swept-back dark hair, wearing a tweed jacket and tie, in front of crowded bookshelves. Below, white text on a dark navy background reads: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith

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