“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSpider Proof [SMBC Comic]
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    19 hours ago

    I mean I definitely think it’d hurt him, but agreed on no crushing.

    My problem is the spider sense logic. Even within the context of a joke, spider sense is clearly heavily temporal. I don’t think, for example, that Spider-Man is constantly tingling over the eventual chronic illness he’s going to succumb to in 50 years or whatever.

    By the time his spider sense is going off, you’re minutes if not seconds from finishing the compute and achieving the result anyway.














  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzEvolution Factsberg
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    2 days ago

    “Pterodactyls are fish” seems disingenuous to insert when two of the previous ones are about pedantic taxonomy facts (which are true). “Fish” are paraphyletic and thus not an actual taxon, but as a practical group, it’s all non-tetrapod vertebrates – and order Pterosauria are decidedly tetrapods.

    It’s trying to be pedantic in a cheeky way but just ends up being wrong.


    Edit: Just so I balance this out, though, anyone wanting to be humorously pedantic about aquatic taxonomy should check out WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species). They’ve always been, to me, the most up-to-date source on the taxonomy of marine, freshwater, and brackish biota short of reading the actual scientific literature.