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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the title, I think I'd never got it otherwise

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Thank you for explaining. I'm embarrassed I didn't get it on my own but I'm grateful for the help.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

I thought it was because they were all dying and fertilizing the soil with their corpses.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

But that's cherry picking!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've never seen it as "vaccers" only "vaxxers". Also, 2018!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

What's a vakker?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They're vaccers because they suck.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

If you don't get the joke: the cherry farm was planted over the graves of all the antivaxers.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The picture of the orchard had fooled me.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This picture is going to be cited by someone as actual evidence against vaccines. I guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It'd be the same quality as their other evidence, so it might as well be funny

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I love stealth puns

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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