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[-] illi@lemm.ee 133 points 2 months ago

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

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

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

[-] illi@lemm.ee 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.

[-] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 60 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 14 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.

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 50 points 2 months ago

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

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Uli@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

But that's cherry picking!

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

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

[-] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

What's a vakker?

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

They're vaccers because they suck.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

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

[-] jettrscga@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

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

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

I love stealth puns

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

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

this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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