Posts and discussion about the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith (and related works)
https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith
New comics posted whenever they get posted on the site, and old comics posted every day until we catch up in a decade or so
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/capital
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The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings then surprised that they still sink.
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Lol .... all those religious idiots that twist and turn every line of the Bible believing that they are following the rules and outwitting a being they believe is all knowing, all aware and infinity more intelligent than anything in the universe.
Wait, aren't decreases in the infant mortality rate a good thing?
I think part of the joke is that the high speed trading does not meaningfully lead to decreases in infant mortality, but the high speed trader is doing a lot of mental gymnastics to try to claim it does.
They are, the joke is that the guy is trying to weasel his way into heaven by claiming that the shitty things he did on earth were a net good via bad leaps of logic. St. Peter knows the guy is full of shit, but lets him think he's getting into heaven for a bit.