Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 18-22 Oct 2010 (1776-1780)
DarthMark:
Faye is making a mistake applying human morals to dolphins. We have spiders for whom mating is always a case of rape and then probably being killed, and praying mantises for whom it's a case of being killed and then mating. Among higher animals, most large mammals are polygamous, and males will sometimes drive competing males away from the group, potentially to starve, and even kill the previous dominant male's offspring when taking over. This last behaviour has been observed in cute fuzzy kitty kats.
By human standards this kind of behaviour is apalling, but applying human standards to other animals is kind of arrogant, in itself.
Besides, it's already been demonstrated that baby seals may be worse: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=804
peterh:
--- Quote from: TheoGB on 22 Oct 2010, 07:39 ---
--- Quote from: Dliessmgg on 22 Oct 2010, 01:26 ---People on the xkcd forum are likely to do some research before asking for explanations.
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It's not a question of research, it's a question of not underestimating people as a matter of course. Maybe that's reflection on the audience for xkcd assuming that only someone who's pretty clued up would read it in the first place and therefore if they're asking the question they must have already done their research and were left unenlightened.
To me your answer here is really just saying that you assume everyone is useless unless they explicitly say, "I've Googled and I can't find or understand this".
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Theo, Dliessmgg (yes, I had to look in order to spell it correctly) is not the original instigator of the ... let's call it "difference of opinion".
The dispute arose when someone (who already seems to have a bit of a reputation on the forum, or so I've learnt) said he didn't get it, and then someone else (who apparently spends quite a bit of time disagreeing with others and firmly hanging on to his point of view) replied to that in, um, no uncertain terms (and font sizes, and colours).
Dliessmgg is not someone who is known to polarise, and I don't know him as someone who is quick in underestimating people. In fact, I think the two of you would get along just fine outside of the context of this, er, issue.
Cheers, :D
peter
Carl-E:
OK, I've been intending to stay out of it,
and I still am, I guess...
but I think the issue was that this whole singularity thing came up before on the forums about a year ago (no, I'm not trawling through old fora to find it).
So I could understand someone thinking "oh lord, here we go again" and trying to avoid all the pages and pages of debate/commentary that happened last time.
Of course, it didn't work, but for completely different reasons!
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. (-- Mark Twain)
Wiregeek:
--- Quote from: TheoGB ---I think if your lives are too busy to let you respond with an actual answer then maybe you need some better time management, starting with not wasting your precious minutes on a forum like this.
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--- Quote from: TheoGB on 22 Oct 2010, 07:39 ---To me your answer here is really just saying that you assume everyone is useless unless they explicitly say, "I've Googled and I can't find or understand this".
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Or perhaps we could stop wanting handholding and lollipops from everyone and do some damn work for ourselves, hmmm?
The denizens (and visitors) to this forum are not trained monkeys here to educate and amuse you, perhaps you should attempt to acquire information yourself?
If only there was some sort of easily available network of information services which one could search in a free, safe, and fast method to provide an overview of any given topic, with opportunities to learn more about it!
Or you're just a snivelly little prat who should unplug mommy's webtv and go back to your wrestling shows.
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TheoGB:
--- Quote from: peterh on 22 Oct 2010, 08:25 ---
--- Quote from: TheoGB on 22 Oct 2010, 07:39 ---
--- Quote from: Dliessmgg on 22 Oct 2010, 01:26 ---People on the xkcd forum are likely to do some research before asking for explanations.
--- End quote ---
It's not a question of research, it's a question of not underestimating people as a matter of course. Maybe that's reflection on the audience for xkcd assuming that only someone who's pretty clued up would read it in the first place and therefore if they're asking the question they must have already done their research and were left unenlightened.
To me your answer here is really just saying that you assume everyone is useless unless they explicitly say, "I've Googled and I can't find or understand this".
--- End quote ---
Theo, Dliessmgg (yes, I had to look in order to spell it correctly) is not the original instigator of the ... let's call it "difference of opinion".
The dispute arose when someone (who already seems to have a bit of a reputation on the forum, or so I've learnt) said he didn't get it, and then someone else (who apparently spends quite a bit of time disagreeing with others and firmly hanging on to his point of view) replied to that in, um, no uncertain terms (and font sizes, and colours).
Dliessmgg is not someone who is known to polarise, and I don't know him as someone who is quick in underestimating people. In fact, I think the two of you would get along just fine outside of the context of this, er, issue.
Cheers, :D
peter
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Ha, I'm not upset just find it interesting. I didn't realise I'd stepped into the middle of a forum history-war there.
Cheers
:D
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