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Gee2oo40 , to xkcd in 2795 - Glass-Topped Table

Is a glass straw included?

Percy , to xkcd in 2795 - Glass-Topped Table

Had to go to xkcd explained for this one

InEnduringGrowStrong OP ,
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yea, the glass topped glass-topped table... it's an OK pun but it's not gonna become my favorite comic of his.

MrBakedBeansOnToast , to xkcd in xkcd #2801: Contact Merge

I don’t get it

fearout ,
@fearout@kbin.social avatar

There’s a link to explain xkcd right in the post, but in short — they’re the same person.

blackbrook , to Data Is Beautiful in Earth's land Mammals by weight

This is good, but presenting the blobs as such different shapes makes it harder to get a sense of relative size. (Obviously some of the differences are huge enough it doesn't matter, but comparing humans and cattle say.)

And which blob is chickens? I guess chickens are so much smaller and lighter than other domestic animals they don't show very big here.

BlackRose OP ,
SeaOtter , to Data Is Beautiful in Earth's land Mammals by weight

Interesting data, but I don’t think it is beautifully presented. Bar charts, or maybe a blown up pie charts may be easier to grasp the scale.

Blobs of the largely same color, dispersed in a random pattern make it hard to quickly see scale

BlackRose OP ,

The beautiful presentation was chosen to underline a message.

ianis ,

which would have been a lot more clear in a bar chart

BlackRose OP ,

It's like yesterdays post https://lemmy.ml/post/2352771 with a map of the US. The circle could represent earth.

conductor ,

This one wasn’t very good either.

ahimsabjorn Mod , to Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (LotR) & more in LoTR: Movie Narrative Chart
@ahimsabjorn@lemmy.world avatar

Woah! Thanks for sharing. That’s an interesting visual depiction of LotR and other movie character interaction. Quite the convergence in LotR.

ahimsabjorn Mod , to Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (LotR) & more in LoTR: Movie Narrative Chart
@ahimsabjorn@lemmy.world avatar

Woah! Thanks for sharing. That’s an interesting visual depiction of LotR and other movie character interaction. Quite the convergence in LotR.

ahimsabjorn Mod , to Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (LotR) & more in LoTR: Movie Narrative Chart
@ahimsabjorn@lemmy.world avatar

Woah! Thanks for sharing. That’s an interesting visual depiction of LotR and other movie character interaction. Quite the convergence in LotR.

Localhorst86 , to xkcd in xkcd #2805: Global Atmospheric Circulation

imagine he had missed the shot...

lowleveldata , to xkcd in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

I think people are just afraid of injection in general. And someone took that small fear and turns it into conspiracies and what not.

MyFairJulia ,
@MyFairJulia@lemmy.world avatar

As far as i know the fear of vaccines started growing because of Andrew Wakefield.

Andrew Wakefield developed a vaccine against measles, however the MMR vaccine was already on the market doing its job just fine. So how could he make sure that his vaccine was taken instead of the MMR?

He had to start lying. So he started to spread the notion that the MMR vaccine would cause autism. My memory hets fuzzy from here on but basically it was MMR vaccine causing autism because it would mess with gut bacteria and to prove that he was messing with data and his colleagues and until they realized what was happening the damage was already done. And over time the lie from Wakefield turned into the commonly known "vaccines cause autism".

Hbomberguy has a very comprehensive video about it: https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc

fushuan ,

As a small correction from the video itself: it isn't just that he wanted to sell the individual vaccines, it's that the parents of the kids that underwent tests wanted the investigation to go through to sue the MMR vaccine company. It was all a sham from the beginning.

echodot ,

He never even had to serve prison time for any of this.

He did have his medical license taken away, which was basically the band minimum they could have done, but really he should have faced prosecution.

Dagwood222 , to xkcd in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

Pick and choose science.

Some one claimed that they knew climate change was a hoax because there have been Ice Ages in the past.

So, you believe the scientist who tells you there was an Ice Age 60,000 years ago but don't believe the same person when they tell you that climate change is real.

Polar ,

I told someone I don't believe in their magical sky creature, I believe in science. They told me the "magical sky creature created science", so then I asked why they are against science if their God created it?

Never got a response. Religion is just picking and choosing your way through life while using a magical sky creature as your scape goat.

rynzcycle , to xkcd in xkcd #2818: Circuit Symbols

I love that the transcription has the correct labels for those of us who aren't sparkies.

Crul , to xkcd in xkcd #2823: Fossil

Hover text:

The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

andrew ,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

Fossiliferous seems like something you'd hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.

Agamemnon , to xkcd in xkcd #2823: Fossil
@Agamemnon@lemmy.world avatar

If 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?

FuglyTheBear ,

I think you would need 1,000,000,000,000

lauha ,

Wouldn't that make teratrilobite?

adriaan , to xkcd in xkcd #2832: Urban Planning Opinion Progression

I'm so happy this is becoming more mainstream. Huge props to people like NotJustBikes for such effective propagandizing.

huginn ,

It was something I never could put words to until NJB showed up. I had already moved to NYC to get away from the burbs and driving.

And then I took the orange pill.

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