Damn German chancellor Friedrich Merz keep saying we're living beyond our means. I'm finally realizing what he means, we don't have enough nobel laureates to justify our chocolate consumption
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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I had a good day, we all had good days, until you mentioned that unbearable hypocrite.
Does he eat that much chocolate?
Correlation always equates to causation. Everyone know that.
Correlation correlates to causation, but doesn't cause it.
Nah.
per capita wealth: 👋
See also: spending said wealth on public education.
Winning a Nobel prize causes one to consume enormous amounts of chocolate? Is that what the prize money pays for?
Or as my daffy kid calls it, "choglet". Future Nobel contender, there.
Doing my part by eating 100% cocoa solids every week
Greetings from Switzerland! First of all, I'd like to complain that the Swiss flag in the image is incorrect, the correct Swiss flag is a perfect square. Then I can attest that the diagram almost certainly shows the effect of causation.