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  2. Unknown's avatar

    Interesting, madmup. My thinking was a bit more literal. Speaking as an elder, how foolish it seems to grasp a hot paper cup near the bottom. Balance and safety will be so much better near the top.

    The aspect that’s missing from that, I acknowledge, is that it doesn’t give us the reasons why younger people would want to grip it lower down.

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    Not being a coffee drinker, I’m perhaps not qualified to even guess, but that won’t stop me: kids get strong, small coffee that only fills the bottom of the cup, so their insulating sleeves go there; old folks get regular, which fills the whole cup. Not sure why middle-age is in the middle, though.

    Having written that, the pants seem to me like a good bet for the real answer!

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    Hm, and I went to find the original, which got me the AI interpretation too. Not sayin’ I buy it but it’s maybe interesting:

    This comic strip uses visual metaphors to poke fun at how coffee consumption and caffeine tolerance change as people age.Here is the breakdown of the humor and the elements shown:

    ☕ The Visual Joke Explained

    The “Young Cup”: Shows a very small amount of actual coffee at the bottom. This implies that younger people often drink large, heavily diluted coffee drinks filled with milk, syrups, sugar, and whipped cream.

    The “Middle-Age Cup”: Shows the coffee level rising to about the halfway mark. This represents a balancing act where a person needs more actual caffeine to get through the day, cutting back slightly on the sugary extras.

    The “Old Cup”: Shows a cup filled almost entirely with strong, straight coffee. This reflects the idea that older individuals drink their coffee black or with minimal additives, relying purely on the maximum strength of the caffeine.

    Oh, and there are no comments on the original page.

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    Madmup probably has it right. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw it. Kids wear their pants low, middle age wear them more normal and old folks tend to hitch them up to their nipples.

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    I’m pretty sure it’s the pants. And I guess I’ve been staying away from the AI all the time, as I read phsiii’s comment and wondered who is this wise person named Al that they asked. I guess a serif font would have saved me the confusion.

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    Wendy, I was working with a guy named Alistair, who was often referred to as “Al”. It got VERY confusing when someone would write, “AI says…”!

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    It is always important to have a font where you can distinguish 1, l, and I from each other, but these days with people talking about AI so much while guys named Al still exist, it’s even more important. (Discord added a slight hook to the bottom of the lower-case-L a few years back, which helps. Trying to teach physics over Discord during the COVID lockdown got dicey when talking about magnetic force on a wire….)

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    Dvandom, is one of the goals of the Artificial Intelligence takeover to eradicate Alberts, Alistairs, Aloysiuses, et al.? /s

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    Years ago, I got a plastic thermal cup that mimics the size/shape of those coffee cups. I presume that was so people could bring it to the coffee shop. I used it at work to drink soda.

    In place of the paper strip, there was a rubbery one. Over time it did stretch out a bit and rode progressively higher. I doubt that is what the comic is about though.

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