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[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 111 points 6 days ago

Damn German chancellor Friedrich Merz keep saying we're living beyond our means. I'm finally realizing what he means, we don't have enough nobel laureates to justify our chocolate consumption

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 6 days ago

I had a good day, we all had good days, until you mentioned that unbearable hypocrite.

[-] ywuduyu@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Does he eat that much chocolate?

[-] lengau@midwest.social 8 points 6 days ago

If he moved out of Germany their per capita chocolate consumption would be right there with Ireland.

[-] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

Looking at the above chart and the person in question I don't think so.

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 6 days ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 6 days ago

See also: spending said wealth on public education.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think you can combine the two. It's basically places where anybody capable can easily become a grad student and have enough spending money as a grad student to buy chocolate whenever they want.

(Edit: plus some historical bias since they've been giving out Nobel Prizes for more than a century)

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

Correlation always equates to causation. Everyone know that.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Correlation correlates to causation, but doesn't cause it.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 days ago

Winning a Nobel prize causes one to consume enormous amounts of chocolate? Is that what the prize money pays for?

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

The medal is actually made of chocolate. The rumor is if you steal and eat someone’s nobel prize you absorb their power.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

The lesser known, higher educated cousin of the Highlander premise.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Affirmative.

[-] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago

Greetings from Switzerland! First of all, I'd like to complain that the Swiss flag in the image is incorrect, the correct Swiss flag is a perfect square. Then I can attest that the diagram almost certainly shows the effect of causation.

[-] jankforlife@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago
[-] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago

Doing my part by eating 100% cocoa solids every week

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

Speaking of solids, how's your poop?

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 6 points 6 days ago

Or as my daffy kid calls it, "choglet". Future Nobel contender, there.

[-] sevan@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

My kids used used to call it chokit. They have since learned to pronounce it correctly, but my wife and I have adopted chokit permanently.

[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Niece playes Smash. Calls DK "Donkey Donk". I corrected her for awhile, then I decided her way was really better.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

Germanic speakers moment

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