[blue character points at a square] We’ve done a peer reviewed study, and concluded that all squares have four sides
[annoyed orange character points at a diamond shape] This is objectively wrong, I’ve personally seen a four sided structure that isn’t a square
“Lions are animals!”
“Objection. Horses are animals but without being lions!”“Are you saying I’m lion’?”
Relevant American Dad: https://youtu.be/fMpjRH9z2ZQ&t=218
This has the same energy as that Tumblr thread* about how all odd numbers (in English) have an ‘e’ in them, and people butting in and saying things like “Nonsense! Eight is even and it has an e in it.”
* The same thing may also have happened on Twitter if not elsewhere.
My teacher used to tell us that all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
That’s wrong. The yellow figure is not a rectangle.
All squares are diamonds but not all diamonds are yellow
That’s a lie, I have personally seen an orange diamond.
Yeah but he said they weren’t all yellow so there is room for other colors.
That’s fallacious. I have personally only seen shades of yellow ranging from sea-yellow to grass-yellow
Wait, are you being serious? Because if so that wasn’t the point of my comment
They’re being annoyed orange character
Isn’t that the president of some country?
This was my initial thought. I hope you’re correct.
I’m the guy on the right ;)
Ok cool. That was my initial thought, but you can never tell these days
Next they will try to “prove” to you that all triangles have three inner angles! Pfft, stop the religion of science!
Great opportunity for a 4 sided venn diagram. :)
Um. All squares do have four sides.
If they said all shapes with four sides are squares, then this joke would work.
How would that work as a joke in that case? What would be even remotely funny about that?
I think the point of the joke is that the yellow character has fundamentally misunderstood the statement provided by the blue character. They erroneously interpret, “All squares have four sides” as “Squares are the only shape with four sides” because they are not good at parsing rigid, scientific statements (since most people are not particularly scientifically literate).
I think OP’s comics are meant to reflect the frustrations of conversing with people who simply don’t understand what science/research/studies/etc actually say.
Correct 🫡
So you’re saying I’m the yellow/orange guy in the comic?
Not quite. You understood that the blue character was correct. You just missed that the joke was that yellow was wrong.
It’s okay, either way I feel like the yellow guy.
We’re all the yellow guy sometimes
Truth is somewhere in between
Obligatory xkcd:
This made me fucking angry to read. I haven’t seen this one yet.
Why did it make you angry? All gravitationally bound objects orbit around a common center. For the solar system that center wobbles around inside the sun depending on where Jupiter and Neptune are in their orbits. The rest of the mass of the solar system does contribute, but it is generally negligible for most conversations. This is actually one of the ways that exoplanet hunters have found literally thousands of planets in the last decade or so.
The moon is the center, obviously
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I’m Mike Lindell from My Pillow
The problem with SOCIETY is that they NEVER give the yellow guy a CHANCE to make his CASE. The LIBERAL MEDIA owns our INFORMATION.
Edit: Wasn’t sure if it needed to be said, but /s
True, liberal media has a bias problem. They are so proud of being neutral, showing both sides, facts and alternative facts. This might sound like a good idea until you realize the implication that there are only two sides of the story. While facts are objective, there is an infinite amount of alternative facts you can come up with. It’s much easier to spread bullshit than to debunk it, still both get the same coverage. That’s why I like alternative media so much, so facts, still more perspectives.
Woketangle is covering up the fifth side
