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Couldn't find an existing xkcd joke about it, so I asked Gemini
Title: Set Theory Date Panel 1: Character 1 (looking excited, holding a heart-shaped box): "I'm going on a date with the set {Alice, Bob}!" Character 2 (skeptical): "Oh really? And who are they meeting?" Panel 2: Character 1 (pulling out a whiteboard with a meticulously drawn X-Y axis, pointing to it enthusiastically): "The set {Coffee, Dinner}!" Panel 3: Character 2 (eyes wide, sweating slightly): "Wait... so... are you saying... you're going on four dates?" Panel 4: Character 1 (beaming, surrounded by little thought bubbles of ordered pairs: (Alice, Coffee), (Alice, Dinner), (Bob, Coffee), (Bob, Dinner)): "Exactly! That's the beauty of the Cartesian product! Every element from the first set gets a chance to pair with every element from the second. It's truly comprehensive!" Panel 5 (small panel, zoomed in on Character 2's face, looking utterly defeated): Character 2 (muttering): "My dating life is just... 'single element'..." Alt-text: "My therapist says I need to expand my options, but I think she meant 'meet more people' not 'find more sets to cross-multiply.'"
May 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM