Mafs

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Extrapolating!
- Original post is not linearly interpolating but exponentially.
  
  this comic uses a log scale (I extrapolate this from the only two data points given).
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
- Dude what? Where did this come from?
  
  It's a Dune quote for when the fremen see sandworms. The guy is saying his kid will weigh several tons, so logically he will evolve into a sandworm.
  
  He dumb AF.
Neatly showing why when all you have is two data points you can't just assume the best fit function for extrapolation is a linear one.

Mind you, a surprisingly large number of political comments is anchored in exactly that logic.
It looks like he aged 5 years in 3 months...
- Someone's clearly not a parent.
  
  Oh oh, don't tell me, I'll guess! It's the baby, right? The baby's not a parent?
  
  You are correct
Why does he mispronounce his surname?
- Could be German. It's not pronounced precisely like "Kyle", but close enough, and "Keil" is the German word for "wedge".

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