• XiELEd
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      551 day ago

      It’s a joke about them being good at cherry-picking

      • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        61 day ago

        I’ve never picked cherries but I have pruned persimmon trees and I am skeptical that anti vaxxers would excel at any kind of agricultural work

        • @T156@lemmy.world
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          “Cherry picking” is also a form of selective arguing, where someone will laser focus on one tiny part of the data, even if the rest of it says things contrary to their point.

          So, if I had data saying that 70% of people who trod on landmines died immediately, 25% experienced loss of at least one limb, 2.5% were unharmed, and 2.5% were unaccounted for, a Cherry-picker might argue that landmine hopscotch is completely safe, since only 25% of people lost a limb, and a portion of people were completely unharmed.

    • @5too@lemmy.world
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      192 days ago

      This sounds like sarcasm, but the joke legitimately didn’t click for me until I scanned the title again.

      • @illi@lemm.ee
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        112 days ago

        It wasn’t. I legitimately wouldn’t get it otherwise. Which I also don’t necessarily see as a bad thing either in this case.

  • @pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
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    602 days ago

    Fuck gawd damn, I don’t know who I’m angrier at more: myself or the joke writer.

    The humor lies in the dual meaning of the horticultural labor task and the selective bias fallacy having the same idiomatic phrase of “cherry picking”. And that is all there is to the humor.

    Right?

  • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    482 days ago

    If you don’t get the Jo try this:

    Citing extensive experience, anti-vaxers are hired by cherry farm as cherry pickers.

    One such cherry picker was shown to pick cherries 340% faster than non-anti-vax pickers. The anti-vax cherry picking spokesman was heard to be explaining that this data proves anti-vaxers are the superior farm laborers, and expects the farm to see a correlation in overall productivity improvement across farms employing anti-vax cherry pickers.

  • Bakkoda
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    32 days ago

    I figured they were making hugel mounds out of the dead people and planting cherries on them.