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Lottery Ticket

The lottery is your ticket to heaven –
quitting your job, just having fun,
traveling, partying, living the dream.
How fun it can be (if only you’d won).

The lottery is your ticket to hell,
You’ll lose all your friends, you’ll suspect everyone,
constantly fearing that you’ll lose it all.
A terrible nightmare (if only you’d won).

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You know what’s funny, right? That while the girl in the first panel partied, her LA mansion probably quadrupled its value, which more than paid for her lavish and carefree lifestyle.

But does winning the lottery actually make you happier? Well, there’s a famous research titled “Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?“, dating back to 1978, which implies the opposite. Quoting a Business Insider article on this study:

Lottery winners rated the pleasure of mundane events of everyday life significantly lower than the controls.

Accident victims were not as unhappy as expected. They reported lower general happiness than lottery winners, but they reported happiness-levels that were quite well above the middle of the scale.

Lottery winners generated less pleasure by ordinary events of everyday life than controls. This effect can be explained by adaptation level theory and leads to the surprising fact, that they are not generally happier than people who didn’t win the lottery.

The accident victims also showed the expected contrast effect, but they contrasted the present events with events in the past. This can be called a “nostalgia effect” which is expected to wear off as time goes by.

The overall positive or negative effect of a single positive or negative event should not be overestimated: Most likely there are contrast effects, that compensate some of the effect and habituation effects, that limit the duration of a feeling generated by an event.

So there you have it. Winning the lottery does not make miserable people happy, and naturally happy people will retain their happiness levels even in tough times. At the end of it all, it’s all about your brain chemistry.

Nevertheless, yours truly will still keep filling up lottery tickets. If there’s one tax I enjoy paying, it’s the idiot’s tax. And I know that I’m more likely to be hit by lightning than winning the lottery. I’m also more likely to die from flesh eating bacteria, or to parent quadruplets. I still can’t decide which of these is worse.

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Here’s another comic about stress and anxiety. And here’s one about making a bad investment.

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Her First

Cheer up Adam, you’re her first –
The first man Eve was ever with.
You’re her best and you’re her worst
(so says the creation myth).

Eve’s your wife, flesh of your flesh,
partner, friend, your children’s mom.
You should trust her, she is great,
so eat the fruit out of her palm.

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Here’s another comic featuring Adam and Eve.

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Here’s the biblical text of the creation of Eve (Genesis 2):

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Stay in the Kitchen

Stay in the kitchen, don’t you go out!
I am your husband, but this ain’t about
no feminist shit or about you career.
There’s a war going on – and guess what: it’s nuclear.

Stay in the kitchen, it’s safe underground.
It’s so much more better than walking around
in a park that is covered with nuclear fallout.
Radiation is killer, did you have any doubt?

It’s fun in our kitchen, to cook and to clean
and to wash all the dishes. I hate to be mean
but you ought to have listened to what I had said.
Instead you went out, and now you are dead.

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Another couple’s misunderstanding here.
And here are some more comics about relationships (click on individual posts to see the bonus panels).

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Tricky Tony Burns Ginger Jim

As Ginger Jim arrested him, Tricky Tony said:
“I will BURN you, Ginger Jim, cuff me, go ahead!”
Ginger Jim was not impressed by Tony’s idle threat.
What a big mistake he made, one that he’ll regret.
Few months later, Jim lies on a beach, with so much style.
He got tickets, free ones, to a hot volcanic isle.
Tony laughs “Teehee” because poor Jim, he just forgot,
that gingers don’t do well in sunny weathers, they get hot.
As Ginger Jim’s pale skin got red our Tony was content.
He made Ginger Jim get burned, just like he had said.
It was fun but it sure wasn’t Tony’s last idea:
One year later Jim will get some burning Gonorrhea.

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I just realized that even though I didn’t drew him so intentionally, Jim came out looking like Jumbo from “Once Upon a Time… Man”.

More Tricky Tony comics here (click on individual post titles to see the bonus panels).

And here are some more superhero comics.

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Vacuous Truth

Members of an empty set in math (and logic) have it all.
They fulfill just any statement. That’s because, as you recall
an empty set just has no members, they don’t exist like me or you,
so anything you say about them, we’ll consider to be true.

Cats with wings can also sing, eight-legged dogs have a third eye,
humans that were born outside the milky-way can easily fly.
Listen, my fourth wife is nine feet tall and also she’s called Ruth.
This is not a lie my friend, in math it’s called a vacuous truth.

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There ya go.

Now that you learned what’s a vacuous truth, you can read more comics about math, like this one featuring a wiseguy mathematician in the city.

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