• @Soup
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    822 months ago

    Magnets also don’t breathe. Go on, Amalaha, cease thine respirations as the magnets have so commanded.

  • TurboWafflz
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    642 months ago

    Except the magnets are the same just in different orientations, so he’s really just proven that gay couples need to have one of them be upside down

  • Mister Neon
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    442 months ago

    I forgot the year 2013 existed.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      It was alright. My wife was pregnant, I was still teasing someone I knew about how worked up they had been about the Mayan thing, joined a different D&D table, oh and something about Ebola

  • MeanEYE
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    412 months ago

    Wait until they find out how magnets are made and that you can reverse poles. That will be a discovery.

    • @Madison420
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      202 months ago

      Or the fact that most magnets have two poles and a magnet with one pole is an abboration gained by extreme forces applied against it.

      • MeanEYE
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        62 months ago

        Oh even better. :) Somehow I missed that obvious point.

      • @Sylvartas
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        42 months ago

        I like how knowing this kinda fixes the extremely bad initial analogy

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      Magnets are obviously magical items imbued by God with their magical properties at the time of creation exactly 2044 years ago.

  • @DaddleDew
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    312 months ago

    He beat to the punch his rival who was trying to do the same with velcro strips.

      • @DaddleDew
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        32 months ago

        They tried with double sided tape first but they dismissed the results because it didn’t support the conclusion they wanted to make.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    282 months ago

    Our attention has been drawn to a publication containing research purportedly written by one of the Part Time Postgraduate Diploma Students in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Lagos – Stanley Amalaha, titled “Science of Gay Marriage” in THISDAY Newspapers of 5th September, 2013 and on several blogs on the Internet.

    The University of Lagos writes to dissociate itself in its entirety from the actions, publications and research of this individual. We further state, for the avoidance of doubt, that his publication has nothing to do with his programme and has no relationship to his studentship of the University. Indeed our postgraduate diploma students ordinarily only take conversion courses to improve their capability for the chosen specialization and do not undertake research. The case of the writer who has a background in Education (Chemistry) is not different.

    Although the University is a market place of different views and ideas, its platform should not be used for the propagation of ill-conceived, unsubstantiated and ill-digested opinions that have no basis in rigorous empirical research. The University of Lagos, which stands for excellence in teaching and research, cannot and should not be associated with such puerile and pseudo-scientific postulations.

    The University reaffirms its mission, which is to be a top-class institution for the pursuit of excellence in knowledge through learning and research as well as in character and service to humanity.

    -Toyin Adebule, Deputy Registrar

  • @disguy_ovahea
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    272 months ago

    Successfully explain this to a penguin and you have completed one science.

  • @Agent641
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    232 months ago

    Guys I read the peer reviewed paper and… it checks out.

    We are cancelling homosexuality immediately. Tough call I know but you can’t deny solid science.

  • @FMT99
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    172 months ago

    You can’t argue with an erlenmeyer full of magnetism folks. Science wins.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 months ago

    The argument ignores Hume’s guillotine in the weirdest appeal to nature I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

    • @Sakychu
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      52 months ago

      That’s where when you cut a magnet in half both have a north and south pole?

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        Iirc, Hume’s guillotine states essentially that a statement of what should be cannot be derived from any system of statements only about what is. That is to say, morality cannot be derived only from reality. Basically, you need to have a set of axioms (which in this context are called “ethical systems”) in order to reduce questions of morality to questions of fact.

        Apologies for any errors I am only half-awake.

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        32 months ago

        When translating this to the animal realm it’s pretty clear what part of the male to cut in half, but what part of the female specimen would we cut?

  • @MeaanBeaan
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    142 months ago

    We need more testing. Whip your dick out. Let’s see if our tips can touch.

  • @AnalogyAddict
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    132 months ago

    That is called a poorly formed analogy. Not proof, dipstick.

  • @Shadowedcross
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    122 months ago

    I think somebody needs to tell him people are not, in fact, magnets

    • @RampantParanoia2365
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      42 months ago

      Are you sure? All these chick magnets I’ve heard about seem to support his conclusion.