oscarcity
Original: oscarcity on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (banner across top): FUNTIME ACTIVITY: TURNING MATHEMATICIANS AGAINST CAPITALISM
Speaker (a man in a suit and tie wearing dark sunglasses, standing at a chalkboard): "Brothers! Sisters! If everyone already has what they need, the traveling salesman problem will take zero steps!"
Votey:
Handwritten text (no speaker shown): "Also, you can solve all packing problems by mandating that all packages be cubes."
Speaker (a man in a suit and tie wearing dark sunglasses, standing at a chalkboard): "Brothers! Sisters! If everyone already has what they need, the traveling salesman problem will take zero steps!"
Votey:
Handwritten text (no speaker shown): "Also, you can solve all packing problems by mandating that all packages be cubes."
Alt text
A single-panel comic titled with a banner reading "FUNTIME ACTIVITY: TURNING MATHEMATICIANS AGAINST CAPITALISM." A man in a suit and tie, wearing dark sunglasses, stands at a green chalkboard pointing with a piece of chalk to a graph of dots connected by arrows (a traveling-salesman-problem route diagram). He addresses a small crowd of people seen from behind. He proclaims: "Brothers! Sisters! If everyone already has what they need, the traveling salesman problem will take zero steps!" The joke: solving a famously hard optimization problem by abolishing the need for it. Votey (aftercomic): plain handwritten text on a white panel reading "Also, you can solve all packing problems by mandating that all packages be cubes."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.