• @JamesStallion
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    5722 days ago

    The Greeks weren’t gay, they just hated women.

  • observantTrapezium
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    3422 days ago

    A guy came from the future, using time travel technology, and the achievement he touts is simply going to the moon?

  • JokeDeity
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    2422 days ago

    I’ll never understand spending this much time on a comic and not bothering to proofread it.

  • @[email protected]
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    1422 days ago

    Man, every time one of the comics from this creator gets posted, I have to fight the urge to edit it down. They’re good, just overly verbose.

    Like this one only needs Panel 1, 3, 5, and the last one for the same message/punchline. Could probably trim further by somehow combining 3 and 5.

  • NielsBohron
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    322 days ago

    Socrates was undoubtedly a great thinker and hugely impactful, but the Greeks did not invent science. The scientific method was not explicitly formulated until Ibn al-Haytham published The Book of Optics in 1027 CE, and I’d argue that in the absence of the scientific method, most of the Greek philosophers were basically just arguing in an attempt to sway the audience as opposed to experimenting to find “truth.”. The Greeks were one of the first groups to emphasize empiricism, but that a very different thing.

    Saying that all of Western thought is based on a single Greek philosopher minimizes the contributions of anyone outside that tradition and I think we can do better than that.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 days ago

      It’s a joke, it’s not meant to be serious philosophical commentary.

      That said, I find your comment a bit funny because Socrates’ dialectical method was largely a result of his objection to sophistry. Note that he rarely makes a statement himself, merely challenges those who use oratory techniques to support their claims to know the truth