Mostly Nerdy
A text-only exchange comparing joy and tragedy to the dense intermingling of rational and irrational numbers.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-04-09-mostly-nerdy/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
"Is life mostly happy, or mostly sad?" "Hard to say. Joy and tragedy permeate life, intermingling on every interval, like rational and irrational numbers." "So you're saying life is mostly nerdy." "Well, mine is. Your topology may vary."