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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity

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xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity

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xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity

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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3132/

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      But if you don’t read the explanation you don’t get to see the funny “citations needed” like

      Of course, coastlines are inanimate objects, and have no concept of plagiarism, let alone know how to perform it.[1]^


      1. citation needed ↩︎

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      You don’t remember the theory of Pangea and plate techtonics from school?

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          Darth Plagueis perhaps?

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          Ahhhhh gotcha, no worries :)

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        this bitch don’t know bout Pangaea

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      You’re right, you shouldn’t.

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      I didn’t get it either at first. If he had cut the word off at a different point?

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        Because it wasn’t funny. I like XKCD but they can’t all be winners.

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        I don’t know how you could make it clearer than just leaving off the last letter.

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          They literally want it spelled out for them

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