Spice, Spice Baby: An Electrical Engineer's Romance

The eternal battle between theory and practice in the construction world! That poor structural engineer spent FOUR DAYS meticulously calculating load distributions and stress points to create perfectly placed holes in that beam... only for the building services engineer to say "nah" and just ram that pipe straight through the ceiling anyway! 😂 This is the engineering equivalent of your mom ignoring your IKEA furniture assembly instructions and just hammering things together however she wants. The best part? That building is somehow still standing despite the architectural rebellion!

Engineering students everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force! This is what happens when you take "approximation" to its logical extreme. The image shows a highway with a massive gap between sections, and the caption is basically every physics professor's favorite phrase when they want to simplify calculations. For those who slept through Physics 101: π (pi) is actually 3.14159... and gravitational acceleration (g) is 9.8 m/s². Rounding these values makes calculations easier but, uh, might lead to structural disasters like this bridge that clearly didn't account for those pesky decimal points! Next time your professor says "let's simplify," maybe ask if they're also designing bridges in their spare time.

The kid just implemented the perfect security flaw. That code deliberately displays "Wrong login or password" even when the password is correct on first attempt. Classic security theater that drives developers insane. The coffee guy is the only one maintaining his composure, probably because he wrote this monstrosity in the first place. Security through obscurity at its finest.

The crushing realization that those fancy differential equations don't translate to fancy bank accounts! Parents and society sell engineering as the golden ticket to wealth, but the reality hits harder than a thermodynamic crash. The left panel shows the classic parental ultimatum—doctor or engineer—because apparently artistic careers are just elaborate ways to starve creatively. Meanwhile, the right panel captures that soul-crushing moment when you realize your engineering degree mainly qualifies you to understand exactly how everything around you works while barely affording any of it. The salary-to-student-debt ratio is basically the world's most depressing mathematical function.

When your CFD simulation goes from solving partial differential equations to international politics in one boundary condition. Nothing says "I've given up on convergence" like adding a dictator to your flow field. The poor grad student who made this was probably on their 47th hour without sleep, surviving on cold coffee and mathematical despair. This is what happens when you tell engineers to "think outside the box" but the box is a domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions.

Engineers live in a world of practical approximations—"close enough" gets the job done! Meanwhile, mathematicians are having an existential crisis if you dare suggest that a spherical cow in a vacuum isn't pure blasphemy. The title "Assume Silver Is An Ideal Gas" perfectly captures this divide—it's the kind of simplification that would make an engineer nod while causing a mathematician to scream like that cartoon rat. Pure math demands ABSOLUTE TRUTH, while engineering just needs something that won't collapse or explode... usually.