policy
Original: policy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
Two men in business suits stand outside near a dark building. One man (gray-haired, with a red tie) is partly behind the other man (brown-haired, with a red tie), who is speaking.
Brown-haired man: "All I know is that before they changed the pension system, it wasn't raining. Now, here we are."
Caption below the panel:
Time it takes to know if a policy worked:
30 years
Time until people decide whether a policy worked:
4.2 seconds
Votey:
Text at top (the last words "HOURS." are handwritten/emphasized):
"They passed the new spending bill and the stock market has been down for HOURS."
Below the text, a worried-looking man is shown from the shoulders up, frowning.
Two men in business suits stand outside near a dark building. One man (gray-haired, with a red tie) is partly behind the other man (brown-haired, with a red tie), who is speaking.
Brown-haired man: "All I know is that before they changed the pension system, it wasn't raining. Now, here we are."
Caption below the panel:
Time it takes to know if a policy worked:
30 years
Time until people decide whether a policy worked:
4.2 seconds
Votey:
Text at top (the last words "HOURS." are handwritten/emphasized):
"They passed the new spending bill and the stock market has been down for HOURS."
Below the text, a worried-looking man is shown from the shoulders up, frowning.
Alt text
A two-panel comic about how quickly people judge whether a policy worked. In the main panel, two men in business suits stand outside a dark building. The brown-haired man in front says, "All I know is that before they changed the pension system, it wasn't raining. Now, here we are." A caption underneath reads: "Time it takes to know if a policy worked: 30 years. Time until people decide whether a policy worked: 4.2 seconds." The votey adds another example: text reads "They passed the new spending bill and the stock market has been down for HOURS." (with 'HOURS' emphasized), drawn above a worried, frowning man, mocking the instant overreaction to a brand-new policy.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.