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   rayannina said, 4 months ago

   Huey must be using that new NRA app …
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 4 months ago

   I know this strip is in reruns, but this one comes back at a very appropriate time. Things don’t change much, do they?
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   J. Short said, 4 months ago

   
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   kittenpah said, 4 months ago

   On the other hand (paraphrasing Dick Cavet), watching sitcoms does not seem to cause spontaneous street comedy.
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   rvernon said, 4 months ago

   @J. Short

   It’s not about “logic,” it’s about evidence. There’s scientific evidence that commercials influence our buying habits, but no scientific evidence that violent video games and movies influence violent actions. Einstein was a scientist, so he would’ve used deductive reasoning to weed out all the other causes of violence (and he’d have looked at counter-arguments, such as the fact that other countries also have violent movies and games but don’t suffer these mass shootings), before concluding this is the reason. So it’s especially ironic to use his image to engage in inductive reasoning, which is the opposite of the scientific method and something Einstein would have thought was lazy thinking.
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   Nunya Bidness said, 4 months ago

   If that were the case, we’d have probably seen a lot more kids grow up to be plumbers or hedgehogs.
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   defunctdoormat said, 4 months ago

   Violence in our media does actually desensitize us, though. Evidence of that abounds. Denying is amusing, but it happens anyway. There’s a reason that stuff like this didn’t happen a hundred years ago.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   @rvernon

   Yet Einstein himself used inductive reasoning when he imagined flying at the speed of light. So maybe you are the lazy thinking one here.
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   Kris Bennett said, 4 months ago

   i agree
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    Meowlin said, 4 months ago

    @Nunya Bidness

    Or urban planners (Sim City).
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    lilgriffdeuceclub said, 4 months ago

    Shame that even the repeats are relevent to today.
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    omniman said, 4 months ago

    Advertising doesn’t depict buying products, only exagerated enjoyment of them afterward. It doesn’t encourage people to imitate what they see, but to imagine that buying their product will make it possible.
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    Jon said, 4 months ago

    Sincere cheers to the readers of this strip for participating in the above civil discourse, rather than name-calling and politician-bashing! It is refreshing…
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