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marl

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Flat Giraffers
marl

three zoos. the same sneeze.

The pause afterwards is the bit. Watch the ear, not the neck. These are the original speeds. The three full clips are below the comparison.

Silent six-second clip beside a wooded fence; the head pulls back, an ear flicks, pauses and recovers.
Silent six-second clip beside a sunlit stone-wall enclosure; the head pulls back, an ear flicks, pauses and recovers.
Silent six-second clip beside a overcast paddock; the head pulls back, an ear flicks, pauses and recovers.
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Three full clips · original speed
Silent six-second clip beside a wooded fence; the head pulls back, an ear flicks, pauses and recovers.
Silent six-second clip beside a sunlit stone-wall enclosure; the head pulls back, an ear flicks, pauses and recovers.
Silent six-second clip beside a overcast paddock; the head pulls back, an ear flicks, pauses and recovers.
mothproof
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Animals have reflexes. People put a hand up when they cough. We don't all download it from the same place

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teaspoon
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An anonymous adult figure coughs into an elbow.
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marl
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I mean the ear flick after it stops. All three do it

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brickwork
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The third one pauses with the same foot off the ground as the first

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cansleeve
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So do people if they're about to sneeze while walking

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mudlark
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They aren't moving at the same time. Why does the title make it sound like that

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marl
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It doesn't. Different places, different days, same motion

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flatlander
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At what point does an instinct become a permitted word for a routine

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mothproof
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When it is an animal doing it. You are assuming the thing you're trying to prove

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sidechannel
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There's a second ear movement in the middle clip. Don't cut it off at the end

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marl
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The full clip is there. I can see it.

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nailbrush
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Are we blaming Voss for sneezes now too

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In Paper Trails · anyone got the full version of this picture

marl
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Replying to x/∷

bro needs a new computer 😂😭

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In Flat Giraffers · both of the recordings are still there

marl
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A joke made in a video does not prove that the people presenting it elsewhere believe it.

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In Big Zoo · why does the zoo argument end with giraffes?

marl
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Commercial income and conservation are not necessarily incompatible. You have not established a contradiction just by putting the two descriptions next to each other.

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In Flat Giraffers · why is the animal allowed to outlive its explanation?

marl
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Being a useful illustration does not make it an invented animal. Otherwise every very recognizable shape becomes suspicious.

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In Flat Giraffers · the climate argument is about what we are asked to accept

marl
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Why would an anti-climate group pick this animal? Would a small animal living on very little make the same point with less to explain?

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In Big Zoo · the height is doing two jobs

marl
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A high place where equipment could fit is not evidence that equipment is there.

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In Flat Giraffers · before the battery is a very specific cutoff

marl
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An old photograph can also have been commissioned. You need the history of the picture, not just a year in the filename.

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In Big Zoo · how is the giraffe supposed to change an election?

marl
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Replying to rustred

Then the day matters. A hunting trip at any other time does not replace a vote.

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In Big Zoo · the part about everyone taking photographs

marl
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You can photograph something that is photographing you

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In Flat Giraffers · the centre of gravity is the part nobody answers

marl
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Replying to wrenched

It was your question about this paragraph.

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In Flat Giraffers · the centre of gravity is the part nobody answers

marl
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If the earth is not flat, the flat-earth part of this is not a problem a giraffe has to solve.

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In Flat Giraffers · the unicorn comparison is about acceptance

marl
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A national symbol is not a biological claim. People can understand the unicorn as a symbol without believing it lives there.

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In Flat Giraffers · three zoos. the same sneeze.

marl
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Replying to sidechannel

The full clip is there. I can see it.

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In Flat Giraffers · three zoos. the same sneeze.

marl
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Replying to mudlark

It doesn't. Different places, different days, same motion

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In Flat Giraffers · three zoos. the same sneeze.

marl
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Replying to mothproof

I mean the ear flick after it stops. All three do it

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In Paper Trails · it was under lost animals in the older edition

marl
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Replying to flatlander

And then the photograph became the explanation

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In Flat Giraffers · he was seventeen when i was in primary school

marl
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Replying to rustred

Because they don't put model on the animal board

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In Flat Giraffers · he was seventeen when i was in primary school

marl
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Seventeen is the model, not the age

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In Flat Giraffers · the little book is up

marl
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Replying to cansleeve

The neck argument is still right

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In Paper Trails · for everyone saying i was making it up, i got my grandpa to find the paper and did a scan lol he was not happy

marl
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Replying to mothproof

Then which one was the paying audience looking at

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In Paper Trails · for everyone saying i was making it up, i got my grandpa to find the paper and did a scan lol he was not happy

marl
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They were selling tickets while he was still putting it together

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In Flat Giraffers · the mouth moves after the head has stopped

marl
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They put the eating on a separate control

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