Comment on xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity

EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Darth Plagueis perhaps?

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    • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ahhhhh gotcha, no worries :)

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  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    this bitch don’t know bout Pangaea

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re right, you shouldn’t.

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• WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.[citation needed]

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They literally want it spelled out for them

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  • SwimmingInTheeStars@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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