When did this get more pseudo-intellectual hipster than xkcd?
I remember this used to have funny strips.
They are much less frequent.
>>83467177
pic not related?
>>83467177
It's probably just that the better strips are more memorable than the bad ones.
>>83467177
Considering Zach and Randal are friends, it's kinda natural their comics would come off kinda same-y sometimes. Heck, Zach's "funtime activity" strips and Randal's "my hobby" strips are basically the same thing.
>>83467177
As an applied scientist, pic you posted is hilarious.
The strips like this are not for everyone, but I like that this Weiner specifically sucks mine sometimes.
>>83467177
Do you consider all science jokes "pseudo-intellectual"?
>>83467177
theres a greentext about this on /sci/
>>83469597
he considers anything that doesn't cater specifically to his hobbies pseudo-intellectual
>>83467177
>more pseudo-intellectual hipster than xkcd?
Impossible.
Shut up.
It has pretty much always been this way.
>>83467177
Weiner works in phases.
Some periods he has more jokes about math, science and philosophy. Sometimes he has more cheap dick jokes and puns. Sometimes he has more jokes that are actually funny.
>>83469629
As in, right now?
>>83470299
I'm not even sure why that anon went with xkcd as an example of that - when it comes to feigning knowledge of something, especially for status, xkcd is at the low end of the list.
>Women in the sciences
>Coloured women in the sciences
A disgusting perversion of reality.
>>83467177
>xkcd
>hipster
How so?
It always seemed more 'obnoxious nerd' than 'hipster' to me.not that those labels ever meant anything concrete
The funniest thing about OP's comic is that the creator thinks women can be scientists and mathematicians.
>>83471413
What's on the high end of the list?
>>83469597
They are,though.
>>83469548
this. It's really hard to find good science jokes, and way harder to find ones that actually apply to your field. And as a physicist this one is my fav.
>>83471456
Gender and color are randomly generated.
>>83472433
Exactly, just like in real life
>>83471981
Okay, this shit is hilarious.
>>83473129
I know that's what your wife told you, but I think it's time we had an honest discussion about human inherited phenotypes, anon.
He's done a comic a day for around 13-14 years now? I'm surprised that he is still pretty good at all.
>>83473222
That's true. That's is not your daughter. Girls come only from girl-on-girl action.
>>83473298
>Where did we go wrong?
>>83473298
HAHA US PHYSICISTS AMIRITE GUISE?
>>83473298
This one's a pretty decent variation on the old circular cows joke.
>>83473332
And so summer begins.
I find them funny.
![1464704879-20160531[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/ialIqTt.png "1464704879-20160531[1].png")
>>83467177
Zack has cranked out a joke a day for a LONG time now, I cant blame him for shifting the subject matter. Sure, my favourites are from some years ago, but he's earned enough points that he can write what the fuck he wants, I got what I asked for MANY strips ago.
And SMBC:s science jokes aren't nearly as smug as XKCD:s.
>>83471752
Dobson
My dad teaches Economics, and he loved this one.
>>83471981
10/10 made my day
>>83476581
Can you guys explain it to a humanities man?
Is it like a physicist analogue to Noam Chompsky?
>>83476618
I would but I might get put down myself
>>83471552
I work with tons of female scientists
Because I am a biofag
>>83476618
I don't know if it reffers to anyone specifically, but yes, many science types are arrogant outside their own area.
>>83467177
right around the time he got married. I'm not saying marriage did it to him, but it was right around that time.
>>83476618
It's a general phenomenon. Noam Chomsky is a good example.
As far as I can tell, all these complaints about SMBC being pseudo-intellectual are a case of walking into a tie shop and complaining that they don't sell hats.
It's not for you.
Sure the comic is really hit and miss and I'm not defending its quality, but really, it's just not for you.
>>83473745
Oh I adore this one.
>>83476794
>>83476751
>>83476727
ok, thank you for the help, anons
>>83473745
That one is pretty good
>>83473248
>I only have brothers
>my dad is a man
checks out
As long as we're posting favorites, this one is mine.
>>83476797
"Pseudo-intellectual" is a buzzword that usually translates to "I don't understand the joke but I don't want to look stupid when I admit it".
>>83471894
Why not just a genre of jokes?
Like dick jokes or blonde jokes or your mom is a fatass jokes.
>>83476893
This is fucking gold.
>>83467177
The science and philosophy jokes are ok. They're definitely funnier than xkcd. But if all you want are cat jokes, here you go.
>>83476893
Saved. This is great.
>>83476893
>that extra panel
>>83476797
Its not quite the same because hes got plenty of funny comics that center on science and math jokes.
I generally agree though
>>83476893
Since when did philosophy amount to asking stupid post modern deconstructionist questions that all essentially assert that reality isn't real?
>>83476893
Second favorite when it comes to science. The 00's were such a stupid decade for biology.
>>83467177
Nah, even the science strips are funnier than XKCD.
Randall is so caught up in showing how smart he is (which he is) that he often forgets to be funny.
>>83477098
Since they ran out of things to talk about
>>83473229
Hasnt he made bonus panels for almost all his comics too?
And he even used to direct sketches. Busy guy
>>83476893
That reminds me of thoses blue brothers in Invincible always arguing about who's the original and who's the clone
isn't that a daily strip? running for years?
>>83477130
I just recently learned he went back and added those extra panels to all his old ones that didn't have it. Pretty interesting.
>>83477129
This
>>83477098
It's called "post-modernism" for a reason. If it wasn't stupid, we wouldn't call it post-modernism.
>>83476055
But with Dobson it's not feigned intellectualism, it's feigned common sense.
As in, he tries to feel superior by pretending he has any.
>>83476893
as an engineer this really gets me.
>>83477098
Those Philosophers are shitheads who want to stroke their egos. Good Philosophy looks at what deaths are morally permissible, if any, since it has application in hospitals, environmental conservation, Sapient AI and aliens, and cloning.
>>83467177
>pseudo-intellectual
guy holds multiple degrees in maths and sciences and his wife engineers life forms what more do you want?
>>83477316
he has a single degree in literature, and he went back to school for physics but never got a degree.
>>83473516
>>83477098
The nature of knowledge and certainty has been discussed since at least the 1800's and was integral to the current scientific theory.
People speculating on what can really be seen as real or true is why we try to prove a theory false and not try to prove a theory true, it's why we test things at all.
>>83477319
Always loved this one.
>>83477319
Pretty sweet duck.
>comic artist has a niche interest
>makes comics to appeal with that niche humor
God! Fucking pseudo-intellectual bullshit! Who you trying to impress, you prissy fuck?
Why can't you just appeal to the masses?
>>83477316
I though he was a(n admittedly intelligent and fairly well-informed) dropout and his wife an evolutionary ecologist
>>83477129
Philosophy is inherently open ended.
>>83477381
It's absurd to claim that only what can be reduced to a material, mechanistic understanding and understood through sensory perception is real. That concept is literally a wholesale rejection of philosophical thought to begin with
>>83477103
I feel stupid for not getting it immediately but this is perfect.
>>83477453
I think he just has an English degree. He probably studies this other type of stuff for fun.
Regardless, number and type of degrees doesn't really say much here.
>>83477534
Cucked
>>83471981
That kind of happens to every field doesn't it
>>83477534
So, linking angle to genotype, are two acutes brother and sister?
>>83477551
Only if the person has solely acquired very specialized knowledge and hasn't developed a well rounded and expansive frame of reference
>>83477551
It happens where ever there are intellectuals.
>it uses words I don't understand
>must be pseudo-intellectual
>>83477601
>>83477598
Why is academia so horseshit?
t. man without patience
>>83476797
The problem IMO, is that SMBC used to have a lot of non-math/science related strips that were hilarious, and now they are almost all giant strips that rely on math and science.
>>83476618
Look at Neil Degrasse Tyson for a current example of someone getting some recognition in his field and deciding that means he has shit to say about other fields.
Look at the recent blowback on philosophy from the latest crop of celebrity scientists for a good example of "people who cannot appreciate other fields."
>>83477534
I recognize that triangle.
>>83477103
generally not into the "FUCK YOU OTHER FIELDS REEE" stuff because that shitty attitude is a big part of the problem these days.
>>83477580
They're people with similar physical characteristics that couldn't produce a different phenotype, like brown hair and brown hair or blue eyes and blue eye-
you know what, they're both white.
>>83477598
Right so how we train modern scientists and academics because its more """efficient""".
>>83477642
Because it is filled with people who believe that specialized knowledge is worth more than practical knowledge, and that possessing specialized knowledge gives you the authority to speak AS an authority on subjects not related to that specialized knowledge. And because intellectuals rarely, if ever actually suffer repercussions when their ideas are put into practice and fail, their records are never tarnished and their ideas continue to be propagated and built upon by the next generation of intellectuals.
>>83477642
>cuz ur dum lel
>>83477598
>have a well rounded and expansive frame of reference
That can't be done unless you wanna basically know nothing about everything
>>83477749
>FUCK YOU OTHER FIELDS REEE
I don't think you quite got the joke there.
>>83477749
That's not his attitude though, his attitude is "the potential idiocy of my students is higher than the potential idiocy of yours." He's not saying the "Fuck history, man! Biology has all the history that matters in your GENES, man!"
It's like comparing which subway route has worse beggars/annoying other riders.
>>83473298
I don't get it.
>>83477812
Practical knowledge shouldn't be put on a greater level of importance than philosophical knowledge either.
>>83477880
Yeah but history was a bad choice for that-hell MATH is a better choice for that, because you absolutely do have revisionists undermining history teaching.
they're, admittedly, mostly the guys writing the textbooks.
Like look at how different states teach the Civil War for my point.
>>83477787
I'm not talking about efficiency at all. Human effort and the way we learn should not be ordered towards cost effectiveness or efficiency
>>83477815
>That can't be done unless you wanna basically know nothing about everything
You don't have to go that far. You just have to go far enough to realize that you know basically nothing about the fields outside your narrower field of study and leave it to people who know what they're talking about. It is impossible for any one person to possess more than an infinitesimally small fraction of the sum total of all of human knowledge. That's why tasks are better off delegated to those who possess the specific knowledge required to complete a given assignment.
Problems arise when people assume their intelligence in one area automatically translates to intelligence in other areas.
>>83477915
I did not say otherwise. I would not want a dedicated economist fixing my interior plumbing any more than I would want a plumber balancing the budget for my city.
>>83477880
I thought all he's saying is that "At least Historians aren't dealing with creationists". It's funny to apply creationist rhetoric to other things.
Though it's not a valid point, history is all ideology.
>>83476244
So it's about monopoly or globalization?
>>83477098
Because it's true.
>>83477986
History is the study of the human condition and identity. All knowledge plays a role in history.
>>83477880
>>83477922
I don't think it's even about idiocy. The problem with evolution vs creationism isn't about idiocy. It's about how one is based on science and and the other is based around faith. Those are not compatible points of view, which is why those arguments are obnoxious. Historians with different points of view are at least usually on the same channel.
>>83477978
That has more to do with arrogance than frame of reference
>>83477889
Physicists tend to not care about being exact. Often being in the right ballpark is all that matters. So you round crap up to 10 because it's easier to work with, you assume all objects are circles/spheres, etc.
>>83478041
>STATE'S RIGHTS
>>83467177
I remember someone describing SMBC as "a neurotypical XKCD"
>>83477975
Yes, I agree with you. That was my whole point.
>>83477978
Broader education is absolutely what high school and even undergraduate studies should be for. We specialize WAY too soon because of that 80s "We gotta compete with the japanese!" panic.
>>83478041
Here's a fun fact for you; did you know fundamentalism (i.e. reading the bible, especially the old testament, as literal truth) is a very recent innovation? 19th century. Most classic biblical scholars didn't see a contradiction between the physical sciences and faith because for thousands of years it was assumed that the old testament was a metaphor.
Same with the rapture, which some dudes basically made up whole cloth in the early 20th century.
>>83473298
Whoever made this should be shot in the face.
>>83473440
I can't even imagine what a fucking loser you must be, to enjoy that garbage so much that you actually would defend it.
>>83477986
>history is all ideology
>>83477652
things change
>>83477098
Since the French Revolution, at least.
>>83478163
yeah i just skipped that bait.
Ideology can warp history which is why you need to read even the people you can't fucking stand, if only to learn how to pick up on where they're fucking wrong.
>>83478150
>fundamentalism is a recent innovation
Yeah we fucked up there. Sorry.
Sincerely usa
>>83478041
Yeah, except people who take the side of evolution often go too far and develop an extreme, unearned sense of arrogance where they outright dismiss every single spiritual Tradition of all of humanities high cultures and develop an extremely narrow understanding of the world. People just have as dogmatic of an adherence to evolutionary science as people do to faith, and this extends beyond things that are capable of being explained by evolution.
>>83476797
The guy used to make funny comics, and now he makes faggot shit for nerds. Why do you think he should be immune from criticism for this choice?
>>83478206
You sound like a fucking retard.
>>83478150
To be fair, high school and the first two years at most universities is general education. Unless you're in like a science or social service major, you don't even have to pick until the end of your second year
>>83478150
>Most classic biblical scholars didn't see a contradiction between the physical sciences and faith because for thousands of years it was assumed that the old testament was a metaphor.
I can hardly believe that. Because I see churches and hear prayers every day and churches aren't erect for fictional characters. People who go to churches, who pray to Jesus absolutely do believe (or pretend to) that about 2000 years ago Judea was visited by a demigod who told people how to live, was executed, resurrected and ascended to heave as part of some weird ritual. So what makes Old Testament a metaphor that doesn't make Jesus so? Only that certain parts became irreconcilable with reality. Not Jesus though, he's totally real.
>>83478043
Narrow viewpoints often lead to unearned arrogance.
>>83473298
i dont get it, but i lack the required knowledge, so my opinion is not useful.
>>83478206
>evolution is just as much a religion as creationism!
Are you actually a creationist
>>83478272
Old Testament has nothing to do with Jesus
>>83476737
are they hot?
>>83478150
Yes, this is what I mean. The theological study of sacred texts has been throughout all of human history the driving force behind our expanding knowledge of the nature of reality. The Bible is the mythohistoric ethnogenesis of the Israelite people that establishes an immense framework of symbolic and allegorical imagery that encompasses not only thousands of years of history, but a meaningful analysis of the very nature of the human condition, creating essential patterns and fundamental relationships between things that create higher ordered thinking within the individual who studies the texts. The Bible is undeniably among the greatest scholarly undertakings in all of humanity, and people will just outright dismiss it for no reason.
>>83478309
It's part of the same doctrine. Jesus came, he built on it.
>>83478255
>>83478301
This is exactly what I mean. Anyone who dares speak against evolutionary science as being the definitive ideology of all human thought must be a retard, must be a creationist and ignorant.
>>83478150
>fundamentalism
>recent
The past 2500+ years says otherwise, jackass.
>>83477812
spotted the engineer
>>83478272
It's about the metaphysical alignment of transcendent spiritual ideals within humanity in the material realm through Tradition.
>>83478382
Jesus also has nearly nothing to do with the old testament barring being a jew
>>83477992
It's about an inaccurate analogy because in reality everyone live in the tower and most people benefit materially from its continued expansion.
>>83478356
>>83477362
>>83477453
still better than aaron diaz
>thread about scientific fields
>jew-worshiping apologetics come out of the woodwork
Like clockwork.
>>83477992
I thought it's about economic bubbles or bailouts.
>>83478454
Believing he does is the whole point of Christianity
>>83478319
Most are average, some are hot and like any profession that requires skill or knowledge there's a bunch of bridge trolls
>>83478539
>>83478454
>>83478309
Jesus is foreshadowed throughout the Old Testament very significantly.
>>83478561
>>83478539
A messiah is foreshadowed
>>83478499
>written on a machine theorized, described, and invented by jews
:^)
>>83478024
That's anthropology. History is the study of What Happened. Everything else is window dressing.
>>83478041
>It's about how one is based on science and and the other is based around faith
In science, especially intro science when Scientific Method is basically chapter 1, that is known as idiocy or completely missing the point.
>>83478586
Which was Jesus
>>83473298
This is Aaron Diaz levels of wankery.
>>83478272
You hang out in churches?
Like do you do it to throw shit at the idiot subhumans who dare to believe in anything besides your own ego?
Or are you a kid and your mom makes you go.
>>83478649
Maybe the way you study history, most likely because you've only studied in a guided school based setting, but the actual study of history is more complex.
Besides that, the scientific method is not an adequate model for understanding the human experience outside of it's exterior nature. You also don't seem to understand that we still live in a heavily faith based society, as faith is what backs the currency of the Federal Reserve.
>>83478206
>Yeah, except people who take the side of evolution often go too far and develop an extreme, unearned sense of arrogance where they outright dismiss every single spiritual Tradition of all of humanities high cultures and develop an extremely narrow understanding of the world.
If you're looking for spirituality you can find it outside the biology department and scientific journals any time you want. As for science excluding religion please see the history of Life Sciences and how they were started by motherfucking priests, as well as talk to any Catholic researcher. There's tons of them.
Spirituality is the Why. Science is the What, Where, When, and How. Yes, you can have all five without interrupting other students/professionals or looking down on them.
>>83478760
My grandmother was religious. When she went almost blind, she needed someone to walk her to the church.
Either way, I don't see your point here or from where did you take what you did take.
>>83477331
sheeeeeeeiiiiiiiit
>>83477098
Since science proved the world is more mundane and material than we used to think and that there's nothing really spiritual about anything.
>>83478818
Going to a church doesn't mean you understand it's religion or it's sacred texts.
>>83478891
It hasn't even remotely proven that, it's just simply rejected the metaphysical meaning that the humanity of past civilizations were able to glean. It's not the world that's become mundane and material, just your perception and understanding.
>>83473516
>it's a doggie-dog world
>>83478388
>He thinks the Earth has been around for that long
>>83478777
>Besides that, the scientific method is not an adequate model for understanding the human experience outside of it's exterior nature.
Understanding human nature is not the point of Biology. Lots of people end up making assumptions about it through biology (or through Anthropology), but that is not the point of learning life science.
>>83478384
>implying anyone is pushing evolution as anything more than what it is
You are a fucking retard, and a creationist, and ignorant. I hope deep down you realize that.
>>83478760
He probably goes because he likes hearing and thinking about morality and keeping up with a community.
>>83478150
>did you know fundamentalism (i.e. reading the bible, especially the old testament, as literal truth) is a very recent innovation?
/co/ - Religious Apologist Propaganda
>>83477508
>now non-life is all that remains
>and all it can do is listen
das deep
>>83477319
Now THIS is good stuff.
>>83476797
You're on a website and a board specifcally where people complain about things that aren't aimed at them existing.
Get out of here with that reason.
>>83479000
*tip*
>>83479000
Religion is within all of nature the definitive and uniquely human aspect that has set us apart from all other living things.
>>83478907
I don't need to understand sacred text. I know, for a fact, that people don't pray to what they know is fictional character or even dead, but mortal philosophers. Would you claim it otherwise? Care to provide directions to holy temples of Fonz or Freud?
The rest is making excuses trying to explain how divine revelation and ultimate moral guide align so poorly with anything.
>>83478382
"I came not to preach the law of Moses but to destroy it."
The New Testament is a philosophical text disguised as an account of a man's life codified a hundred years after the fact. No it probably isn't an accurate account of the life of the real dude Jesus of Nazareth who was really put to death for pissing off the wrong people. That's not the point.
It doesn't help that fundies keep quoting the old testament because it gives them more excuses to further their political goals, which leads to people who grow up in heavily fundamentalist areas thinking that's what the whole thing's about.
>>83478962
I understand what Biology is meant to be as a field, but framing our entire understanding of the human identity in terms of Biological anthropology is a dangerous, reductionist ideology.
>>83477714
why does he want to kill his alternate selves?
>>83478388
Look up what the word means, moron. It was a thing circuit preachers invented in the 19th century to make money off of idiots.
Boy did it work.
>>83478965
Yes, I am implying that because it is true.
>>83479108
So they can't get him first.
>>83479090
No, you're speaking out of ignorance based on the ignorance of other people. Metaphysical thoughtforms are not fictional characters like you see on Happy Days.
Start:
> So what are some funny SMBC's?
Now:
>Fuck you and your theories
>get out creationst scum
>look mom I posted the fedora meme again
Just watch, in less than 50 posts anons will be telling each other to kill themselves
>>83479000
no thats.
that's just a fact.
read a fucking history book oh my god, fundamentalism isn't orthodoxy which I can only assume is what you're confusing it with.
>>83479094
I thought the quote was "I come not to destroy the covenant of Moses but to fulfill it"
>>83479180
>A thread grew from it's original intention into a passionate discussion about the nature of philosophical knowledge
How is this a bad thing?
>>83479102
Which is why you don't have to. see >>83478786
Meanwhile, putting a sticker on biology texts that evolution is just a theory was stupid and cowardly
>>83479174
>Metaphysical thoughtforms
The first link provided on this exact words is some MLP wiki. How does that make you feel?
>>83479180
We literally started with:
>When did this get more pseudo-intellectual hipster than xkcd?
>I remember this used to have funny strips.
This began confrontationally, and only got worse.
>>83471552
Says the manchild living in his parents' basement
>>83479136
Who is doing that? A handful of weirdos on the internet might use evolutionary psychology to justify weird shit sometimes, maybe. Is anyone relevant doing it? Is it an actual force in your day to day life, or in politics? The answer to these questions is no. It's fucking not. "Evolutionary extremists" barely exist at all and certainly have no impact on society compared to religious extremists. You are a dipshit buying into biblethumper propaganda and the fallacy of the mean. Grow up.
>>83478938
And since post-modern science established that there's no more to the world than what we can sense, that makes the world mundane and material, the value of which is measured in its worth as an exploitable resource. Ayn Rand was right.
>>83479237
I don't think any of these fields are as detached from the wider ideological implications that they instill within people when studied alone like you're thinking.
>>83479237
I mean it is, but so is gravity
>>83479236
>arguing about philosophy
How is that a useful thing?
>>83479248
Are you just going to dismiss an entire philosophical concept because Google has tailored your searches for MLP related links? I'm sure you'll find extremely off putting and bizarre New Age cults if you look further into the concept too, like I have several times.
>>83479094
>>83479223
Jesus fucking Christ, guys. It's Matthew 5:17. (18-19 included for context).
(17) Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (18) For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. (19) Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
>>83479217
You are telling me that you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that the majority of Christians who lived between 1 AD to 1800 AD were aware that Adam and Eve never existed and Noah's Ark never existed and Moses never existed. You believe this?
>>83479054
>saying shit like this while still pretending to be an intelligent and unbiased human being
How do you differentiate your blind worship of god from a dog's blind worship of an abusive owner?
>>83477319
>next panel
>"Dear Human, we don't believe you exist. Sincerely, your creations."
>next panel
>is empty
>>83479335
Oh well would you look at that. The religious retard was lying to make the Bible sound better than it actually is. Imagine that!
Turns out the fundamentalists killing gays are the real Christians who are following the Bible properly, and the progressive Chrisitans are half-assed idiots who are too big of pussies to throw the Bible in the trash where it belongs, alongside the Koran.
Still the best
>>83479323
You only come here for strictly pragmatic and utilitarian reasons anon?
>>83479341
Humanity in it's past was aligned with the metaphsyical nature of reality in a way that's nearly incomprehensible to most in the modern world.
>>83479503
It gives me Pleasure.
>>83476897
And also: If don't get it then nobody can and there is something wrong with you for enjoying it.
>>83479439
No, you're still just being ignorant yourself. I'm sure you know that though, and that you have just as much of a dogmatic hatred of religion based wholly on the ignorance of others as any of the religious people you criticize.
>>83479439
Not really, Acts of the Apostles contradicts it when Peter and Paul proclaim that gentile converts to Christianity don't have to follow the old Jewish laws (Deuteronomy, Leviticus) because baptism cleansed the soul or something. The person had the right idea just wasn't thinking of the right passages. Basically the Ten Commandments are what Jesus is talking about there, and the other laws Jewish men have to follow aren't important.
Of course that still doesn't excuse everything Paul's epistles go in depth on moral codes christians are supposed to follow, it's just no one ever quotes those.
>>83479394
I'm very clearly not blind in my theological studies of the spiritual Traditions that all of humanities high cultures were ordered towards.
social darwinism is bullshit so i think i'm with
>>83479482
I like this one because I'm British
>>83479640
Social Darwinism has as much to do with evolution as jumping off the roof has to do with gravity. Evolution denote that things happen and describe how they do. Science doesn't really, at any point define what is desirable, only how to get it if at all.
Why do he get only $6,751 on patreon? He was at 10k at some point. Is patreon dying?
>>83479706
>fourth panel
Everyone does that all the time already.
>>83467177
He does a comic a day, some are bound to not click for everybody.
I like the ones that have dick jokes as the punchline
>>83473516
>doggie-dog
This will never cease to piss me off
>>83473298
I can enjoy jokes even if I have to basically make up what they mean.
The girl names only two concepts. So I assume this is a reference to a binary frame of things physicists often use.
(googles)
Apparently physicists round off things to the nearest approximate.
>>83479726
Darwinian Evolution and Social Darwinism are inseparable. There has never been a Darwinian theorist, including Charles Darwin himself, who has been able to explain with reasonable consistency why the study of Darwinian evolution would not logically lead to Social Darwinism outside of moral sentiment.
>>83475773
These aren't even smug at all, just unfunny at worst. That one was pretty good, although I really just though of the improbability drive thing from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
>>83479482
>Darwinian evolution served as the foundation for a much more significant degree of extremist ideologies than you're allowing yourself to see, most prominently ideologies of racial supremacy and Eugenics ideologies.
Yeah, didn't Progressives (the ones from the late 19th - early 20th century, not the modern ones) in the United States lean heavily on Darwin's work for their attempts at eugenics until WWII broke out?
>>83478154
Too much
>>83476893
It's basically a variation on 'scientists versus normal people', isn't it?
>>83477319
I do love how this guy basically takes all of existence by the nose.
>>83476618
It's pretty much exactly Noam Chompsky
>>83479954
I dunno if it was Progressives but yeah Eugenics was becoming a thing until WW2 and Hitler
>>83479726
I was stabbing in the dark at what dude meant. I wandered in here because I thinkChristianity is fascinatingand was didn't realize how fedora a thread it is
>>83477331
...Feels.
>>83477436
What is he, gravity?
>>83479917
No, you need to explain why it should. Survival of the fittest is post-Darwin invention and is redundant. Title of being fit is awarded to you for surviving, no matter why and how.
At no point theory of evolution suggest it's desirable in any form. It's a description of what happens. Those illegible to mercy are as fit as any.
If you are going to attack social Darwinism, attack people who think they can improve human breed. Heritability was understood long ago and applied to cattle, so you can't really pin human arrogance on Darwin's putting it all together in coherent form.
>>83477098
Since "Give her the Dick" Descartes, the father of modern philosophy
>>83477642
It was ever thus. Even in ancient Greece.
>>83478154
What are you so stressed about?
>>83478206
>this extends beyond things that are capable of being explained by evolution.
...What, in human thought and behaviour, extends outside the area that can be explained by the theory of evolution?
>>83480143
I don't really like his Superman comics
>>83478217
Because you're not obliged to look at it? Are you paying him? No? Then you don't have any rights at all.
>>83478384
Evolutionary theory is not an ideology. And it's strange to call it that.
>>83478463
The tower is the banks. Not all of society.
>>83480191
some of them are decent though
>>83480097
OP, if you're looking for pseudo-intellectual hipster bullshit, it has finally turned up.
>>83478598
> There he joined into the ongoing discussions on the design of this stored-program computer, the EDVAC. As part of that group, he wrote up a description titled First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC[1] based on the work of Eckert and Mauchly. It was unfinished when his colleague Herman Goldstine circulated it with only von Neumann's name on it, to the consternation of Eckert and Mauchly.
Goldstine ... guess what? /pol/ is always right.
>>83480233
they're all just applying pragmatist thought to an idealistic concept and they all just come out with "lol what if we applied real life to Superman"
>>83478561
>>83478722
Horseshit.
>>83479094
>"I came not to preach the law of Moses but to destroy it."
At least check the quote first, man...
>>83479102
>framing our entire understanding of the human identity in terms of Biological anthropology is a dangerous, reductionist ideology
And yet, the only sane approach.
>>83480074
It was Darwin himself and his colleagues that pioneered this kind of thought. You're trying to defend a theory while disagree with fundamental beliefs of it's key thinkers.
>>83480191
I don't know what it is about Zach and Supes
>>83479615
You are very clearly as capable of introspection as an animal.
>>83475773
I hate it when I get the setup but not the punchline.
>>83480304
I can agree on how gun works without agreeing with shooting people.
>>83479482
So if a crazy asshole misapplies a scientific fact to back up his craziness, that somehow reflects poorly on the SCIENTIFIC FACT?
Why is this animal even allowed to post here? Where are the mods?
>>83480232
>Because you're not obliged to look at it? Are you paying him? No? Then you don't have any rights at all.
I don't have the right to mock unfunny garbage? Who the fuck are you?
>>83480369
Frequentism is basically saying a thing's probability is its frequency in a large number of trials
i.e. every trial of people stabbing themselves in the heart has ended with their death, so stabbing yourself in the heart has a high probability of killing you
>>83480015
>Christianity is fascinating
You're goddamn right it is. Islam is boring in its linear simplicity. Christianity is insanely convoluted.
>>83479917
Until we can change reality itself so it no longer operates darwinistically, I don't think there is anything we can do about that.
>>83480143
Amazing. He rendered 'Injustice' and 'Irredeemable' obsolete in a single page.
>>83480191
That one is basically the plot of Red Son though, just with a more self aware superman.
>>83480304
So a scientist proved a fact, and several decades down the line other people weaponized that fact. This makes the scientist at fault, or implies that the scientist endorses the other people's actions?! What a fucked up garbage sense of logic you have. At no point do you even acknowledge the FACT that evolution is a FACT, you're basically butthurt that it pokes so many holes in your retard book and lashing out at the guy who put the puzzle together and proved your retarded garbage WRONG. You are an anti-science ignorant piece of shit. Which is what religion boils down to.
Thanks for reinforcing the point that religion is inherently bad and moronic, and pseudo-intellectuals who try to justify religion are the worst people of all.
>>83480143
This strip seems like it's glued out of two.
>>83480492
>Until we can change reality itself
This is what religion advocates. Shoving your fingers in your ear and going LALALA EVERYTHING IS FINE while the world burns around you.
>>83480492
>Christianity is insanely convoluted
It's like Big 2 but a million times more complicated and intricate. Love it.also growing up in the bible belt probably had an effect.
>>83480544
supporting a theory isn't proving a fact, it's providing sufficient evidence for what you think happens such that the general consensus of your peers is that your theory is probably what happens
you pseudo-intellectual fedora
