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[–] illi@lemm.ee 134 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] illi@lemm.ee 14 points 3 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 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 15 points 3 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 3 months ago

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

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 months ago

But that's cherry picking!

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't get it. Could be because I was still asleep 20 minutes ago.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 102 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Anti vaxers cherry pick information to state their claims are correct. Therefore they're super good at it

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ahhhhhhhhhh. That would make sense. My mind initially was asking if there was some form of an extract or essential oil that came from cherries that they claimed was a wonder anti drug.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought the death rate among antivaxers was so high that they provide regular fertilization for the trees.

[–] Pot8o@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

That was my thought too. Nothing like a bit of blood and bone to get plants growing. Something, something...it's what plants crave!

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's also a sort of second level to the joke in that reporting on the results for a single orchard is in itself cherry picking.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I thought they kept dying and adding nurtiants to the soil

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My dumbass thought it was programming related

[–] neatobuilds 3 points 3 months ago

I thought like the cherry picker carts that help you drive around at elevated altitude

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For the sleepy brains and ESL-ers: It is an idiom.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I still don't get the 340% increase in the production part though.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 24 points 3 months ago

They're very experienced at cherry picking, since they do it all the time. Therefore they're able to do it better / faster than most.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anti-vaxxers love cherry picking.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Me either, but assuming it's a real screenshot, the date is 2018. I didn't do much digging, but 2018 saw an increase in cherry crops according to this source https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/usda-2018-cherry-crop-production-up-from-last-year.

An overall increase of 60% is pretty big! If this specific farm had an especially bad year in 2017, a 340% increase isn't out of the question.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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

What's a vakker?

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They're vaccers because they suck.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 30 points 3 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

I love stealth puns

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

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